Dictionary: Face
Synonyms: countenance, physiognomy, profile, features, expression, facial expression, look, appearance, air, manner, bearing, guise, cast, aspect, impression, grimace, scowl, wry face, wince, frown, glower, smirk, pout, moue, side, flank, vertical, surface, plane, facet, wall, elevation, dial, display, (outward) appearance, nature, image, front, show, act, false front, facade, exterior, mask, masquerade, pretence, charade, pose, illusion, smokescreen, veneer, camouflage, respect, honour, esteem, regard, admiration, approbation, acclaim, approval, favour, appreciation, popularity, estimation, veneration, awe, reverence, deference, recognition, prestige, standing, status, dignity, glory, kudos, cachet, effrontery, audacity, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, look out on, front on to, look towards, be facing, have/afford/command a view of, look over/across, open out over, look on to, overlook, give on to, give over, be opposite (to), accept, come to accept, become reconciled to, reconcile oneself to, reach an acceptance (of), get used to, become accustomed to, adjust to, accommodate oneself to, acclimatize oneself to, be confronted by, be faced with, encounter, experience, come into contact with, run into, come across, meet, come up against, be forced to contend with, beset, worry, distress, cause trouble to, trouble, bother, confront, burden, brave, face up to, meet head-on, dare, defy, oppose, resist, withstand, cover, clad, skin, overlay, dress, pave, put a facing on, laminate, inlay, plate, coat, line
Antonyms: dodge, fear, back, give way, back down, dodge, avoid, throw in the towel, withdraw, cave in, retreat, succumb to, lay down one's arms, throw in the sponge, defer, submit, escape, bashfulness, shun, evade, elude
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1851. The Call of Elisha
1 Kings 19:19-21
Understanding Series
Iain W. Provan
... the anointing of the former—Elisha will arrange the anointing of the latter (2 Kgs. 9:1–13). We are entitled to ask whether Elijah has really adjusted himself to God’s plans at all. His seeming lack of enthusiasm for going along with God stands in sharp contrast to Elisha’s enthusiasm for going along with Elijah. The prophetic mantle having been cast over his shoulders (and thus put to considerably more use than in v. 13), he immediately leaves his normal employment to follow his new mentor (v. 20 ...
Understanding Series
Iain W. Provan
... from heaven to consume his captains (vv. 10 and 12; cf. 1 Kgs. 18:38). The third captain accords Elijah the respect he is due as a prophet of the LORD and escapes with his life. Ahaziah meets with Elijah as he had wanted, but it changes nothing. The oracle stands as first spoken by the angel (vv. 3–4, 6, 16); the king dies (v. 17). 1:17–18 / The manner of Ahaziah’s end is unexpected. He has died, we assume, in his bed. There has been no revolution; the house has not been destroyed “in the days of ...
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... they had a symbolic center that covered them with an aura defining them as the people of God. So it is not surprising that Israel occurs twice in verses 16–17, and the God of Israel twice in verses 21–22. In verse 16, Israel stands for all the returned exiles in their religious and lay groupings. As in 2:1–2, continuity with preexilic Israel had taken an exilic detour. Historically the returnees comprised only three tribes—Judah, Benjamin, and Levi—but for the narrator they were the essential ...
1854. The Passover
Ezra 6:19-22
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... they had a symbolic center that covered them with an aura defining them as the people of God. So it is not surprising that Israel occurs twice in verses 16–17, and the God of Israel twice in verses 21–22. In verse 16, Israel stands for all the returned exiles in their religious and lay groupings. As in 2:1–2, continuity with preexilic Israel had taken an exilic detour. Historically the returnees comprised only three tribes—Judah, Benjamin, and Levi—but for the narrator they were the essential ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... to the Root of Jesse facilitates a further transition to a different agenda, namely the restoring of the remnant of Yahweh’s people to its land. As Yahweh raised a banner to summon the nations to punish (5:26), so now the Davidic shoot draws the remnant back, standing as a banner to summon the nations to help their victims go home. They will rally to him or “seek” him. The promise is ironic, for “seeking” was Judah’s problem on the way to its being reduced to a remnant (8:19; 9:13). They will be ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... (Exod. 2:23). One might compare and contrast the similar divinely-inspired imaginative account of the Assyrian army’s advance on Jerusalem in 10:27b–32. In the drama, poet and hearers stand between what has happened (vv. 1–8) and what will happen (v. 9). We cannot infer whether author and hearers literally stand at that point, or stand before anything has happened (as 16:13–14 does), or even after the whole has taken place (as the setting in Isaiah as a whole would presuppose). It might seem that ...
1857. How Well Do You Listen?
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
Sermon
King Duncan
... rushed by them. As one of them brushed the Duck Lady, he watched her head jerk ever so slightly. Then she fell back into her schizophrenic state. As she wandered across the street and disappeared into a crowd, he once again heard the quacking sound. Standing motionless on that street corner, he wondered to himself what might have happened if he could have held on to her just a little longer--perhaps just a minute or two more. Then, maybe, the deliverance would not have been temporary. Just maybe, something ...
1858. His Final Words
John 18:1-19:42
Sermon
King Duncan
... are feeling this pain, I love you and I will always love you. So be brave, my son.” The operation takes place, and the child is strapped to a makeshift operation table. As the surgeon’s knife falls, the son screams with pain. He looks to his father who stands near the door to seek comfort from the one whom he has trusted and loved since birth. The father looks at his son in terrible pain, but there is nothing he can do. He turns his head from seeing the suffering of his son. Imagine the loneliness that ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... order that we may also share in his glory.” It is a terrible thing to live in fear. Gwendolyn Mitchell Diaz in her book, Sticking Up For Who I Am, says that when she was young she and her Dad lived in a mobile home nestled in an oak stand at one end of a very large horse pasture that rolled its way down to a shady lake. There could not have been a more beautiful setting. However, what was an idyllic location during the daylight hours could become very lonely and isolated once the sun went down. When her ...
Sermon
April Yamasaki
... high. From the expression on Jesus' face, I can almost hear his words, "Lazarus, come out!" In this wonderful painting by the seventeenth-century Dutch master, the central figure is Jesus. All of the other figures in the painting are smaller and rounder. Jesus alone stands tall. The light in the painting draws my eye toward his upraised arm, as if it's the light of Jesus drawing Lazarus out of the tomb. Rembrandt might have called his painting The Raising of Lazarus, but the focus is all on Jesus. The ...
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Steven E. Albertin
... session. There they sit like two lovebirds, usually holding hands and sneaking loving glances at one another. "Why do you want to get married?" Why, what a dumb question for the pastor to ask. They love each other! They love each other passionately. They can't stand to be separated from one another. They can't keep their hands off each other. "Do you know what you are getting yourself into?" What is wrong with this guy? They thought that he was in the business of marrying people. He should be glad that ...
1862. Light Living
John 1:(1-9) 10-18
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... the light of the world. There he was fully exposed yet completely protected. He was fully revealed yet free from unnecessary punishment. He stood hip-deep in garbage, yet cleaner than he had ever felt... In that moment he saw something of what it means to stand in the presence of Jesus Christ, who is full of truth, but also full of grace.[1] My friends, Jesus, the fleshy word, shouts and shines in the darkness, and though the darkness is very real and human, and absolutely essential in order to reveal the ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... of color in our congregation, why not go out, find them, invite them, and welcome them? Any educator will tell you that children learn by doing, not by listening. Friends let us experience our faith first and then we will discover what we really believe. P stands for participatory. There is no way that Peter could have hauled in all those fish by himself. He needed the other men in his boat to help him — and even then with all of them pulling with all their might — they barely managed to capture all ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... your mind’s eye this beautiful event taking place? It is a most moving scene. After all the hard work, all the sacrifice, all of the earnest prayers, now they had their own city and they had their sacred book . . . and tears flowed down their faces. Now Nehemiah stands to speak to them, and he tells them not to mourn but to rejoice, for this is the Lord’s day and rebuilding the city was the Lord’s doing, and Nehemiah reminded them that the joy of the Lord is their strength. What a great day that was ...
Sermon
R. Robert Cueni
... end of the steel bar. Unfortunately, they have had no experience with the reality of even the remaining weight. One of the young men reclined on the bench, pushed his arms upward. With great effort, he managed to roll the bar with its heavy steel weights from the stand that had been holding it. He lowered it to his chest and discovered he didn’t have the strength to push it back up. The weight was crushing his chest. His friend struggled to give assistance, but the bar was too heavy for both of them. The ...
1866. Tell Someone Else, My Brothers
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... scene was the same. And the young man began as he had the day before, "Brothers, do you know what I am going to say?" When they all nodded their heads in the affirmative, he said, "Since you already know, there is no point in my saying it. Let's stand for the benediction. Pax vobiscum." The monitor was livid with anger. Once again he went to the young brother and literally roared at him, "I am tired of your chicanery. Tomorrow I am going to give you a third chance. If you don’t come through, I am going to ...
Sermon
Robert C. Cochran
... the Holy Spirit look like? Who did Jesus send to us as we await the second coming? Jesus says that the Father will send an advocate for us in his absence. The Greek word that our version translates as “advocate” is paraklatos, paraclete. Literally, a paraclete is “one who stands alongside.” The divine paraclete is here to defend us when no one else will, to teach us what we don’t know, and to help us do what we need to do. In addition, the Spirit is here to build us up when our morale is low and ...
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King Duncan
... to start a conversation with me. I don’t want this to be like: ‘Who me?’ ‘Yes you.’ ‘Let go?’ ‘Yes!’ ‘Now?’ ‘Yes, now!’ “If you want to start a conversation with me I will peel your fingers off the bar if I have to.” (4) While you’re standing at the exit door is not the time to ask questions. One of the inspiring things about the story of Joseph and Mary and their young son is that, when God gave them the news that Mary would give birth to the Messiah, neither one started a ...
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King Duncan
... I thought all scientists were rather arrogant in all that they know.” The physicist said, “No, oh no. You may have met one here and there, but the great scientists are all very humble people because they stand every morning before the mystery of all they do not know. And if anyone should be that humble, it would be the minister who every morning stands before the mystery of the Creator and Sustainer and Redeemer of the world.” (4) If anyone should be humble, it would be those of us who every morning ...
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King Duncan
... separates a super-fan from a fan? Super-fans are people who will do some pretty extreme things to express their enthusiasm. They’ll stand in line for hours to buy tickets to a major concert. They’ll paint their face in the team’s colors for the ... outside the gates of the stadium. On game days, this Ali climbed up into the crane’s bucket and watched the games from high above the stands. (2) Now there’s a super-fan. Maybe someone in this room today is a super fan or at least is married to a super fan ...
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Dean Feldmeyer
... whole world was laughing with him. So pure was his laughter, so innocent and perfect was it that I felt it warm my heart. I felt my eyes beginning to tear as I stood there, bathed in his wonderful, innocent joy. And not just me — others, adults all, were standing around, watching and listening, too. And one by one, they, too began to smile and even to laugh a little as they became infected with his joy. Had one of you happened by in that moment and noticed the tear in the corner of my eye and commented on ...
1872. Poison or Pain?
Mark 15:23
Illustration
Adam Hamilton
... were ways of speaking of poisons that were thought to expedite death or deaden the pain. If this is the case, then someone showing compassion to Jesus on the cross was offering him this drink. Because we know that most of Jesus' male disciples either had fled or were standing off at a distance and that women were standing near the cross, it is likely that this offer of wine was made by one or more women. Yet notice that Jesus, upon tasting the wine mixed with gall, refused to drink it. In this case, Jesus ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Shoppers now must look through the window to spot items they want and then ring a bell to be served through a small hatch in the door. “I have lost business,” Singh said, “but I cannot say how much. I am a man of principles, and I stand by my decision.” (5) I sympathize with some of Mr. Singh’s principles. However, stores were created to serve customers. Right? Mr. Singh would rather have an empty but orderly store than a thriving but messy store. It will be interesting to see how long he stays ...
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Lori Wagner
... you. You can get run over by a thousand shadows of a thousand trucks, and not one hair on your head is hurt. Now if you stand in the middle of the highway, you don’t get run over by the shadow. You get run over by the truck. But at Calvary, Jesus took ... s account, literally means to “waver,” to “vacillate in two different directions,” “to hesitate,” “to have a sense of standing in two places at the same time.” Just as though the mountain shook beneath their feet, their sense of everything ...
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Lori Wagner
... and body to heal wounds and to keep the skin supple and ward off dryness. Ever get static in your hair –the kind that makes your hair stand up? A bit of oil will tame that right down. That’s the beauty of all of those popular oils women and men use in their hair ... do not forget the Lord who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall worship and stand in awe of the Lord your God, and you shall worship Him and swear by His name only.” Again, Jesus girds himself up, ...
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