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
Showing 1951 to 1975 of 4981 results
1951. Legacies of Power
Ephesians 1:15-23
Sermon
Mary S. Lautensleger
... ). Jesus doesn't say that we are to refrain from power but teaches both the disciples and us how to use power. He presents a new model for us all, the model of a servant. A buzzword we hear frequently today is empowerment, which is the act of giving power to another. We discuss groups that have felt relatively powerless, such as African Americans, Native Americans, Mexicans, and women. There are some who will say that we must never allow a small minority to achieve power over the great majority. Others, who ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... friend who went through a divorce. This woman’s father was a very strict fundamentalist pastor. When she moved out of her home and filed for divorce, her father refused to talk to her again. She was never welcome in his church and her family cut her off and acted as though she were dead. She herself had grown up in that kind of rigid legalistic faith and the divorce itself tore her apart, as divorce always does. She said she finally came to the conclusion at the end of it all that divorce was indeed a sin ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... sense at all. Here's a few that I've gathered: "If you bite the hand that feeds you, it won't taste as good as the food you were fed " "Keep in mind that regulations are like catsup - you either get none or a lot more than you want." "Act accordingly." "A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains!" "The fortune you seek is in another cookie." Help, I'm being held prisoner in a Chinese bakery. What you left behind is more mellow than wine. Suppose you can get what you want . . . Alas, the ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... Lawes was the body of Jesus Christ that came alive again at Sing Sing prison from 1921 to 1937. Then one evening the car in which she was riding went out of control, and she was killed. The next morning her husband didn't come to work, so the acting warden came in his place. In an instant, the whole prison knew something was wrong. When they heard the news that their beloved lady had died, everyone them wept. The following day her body was resting in a casket in her home, three-quarters of a mile from the ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... 20 bill on the outside of all those ones and carefully place the whole bundle in your wallet or purse. Third, you sit in the pew as the offering plate comes and pretend not to notice that it has started down your row. When it gets to you, you act surprised. Make a big deal about getting out your wallet or opening your purse while your neighbor holds the offering plate. Finally, you carefully pull out the $20 and the ones, fold the $20 over the ones so it looks like a whole stack of $20s and carefully place ...
1956. Earth, Wind and Fire
Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26-27, 16:1-15
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... Earth was filled with the Wind and Fire of heaven, thus the title. Let's look at the passage that describes that first Pentecost. Acts 2:1-21 (NRSV) [1] When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. [2] And suddenly from heaven ... of the Earth. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE BREATH AND WIND OF GOD. Scripture describes the Holy Spirit as Wind and Fire. Both here in Acts and in other places as well. From the very beginning, the Spirit of God has been described as a wind. In Genesis 1:1-2 ( ...
1957. I Doubt It
John 20:19-31, Act 4:32-37
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... comments on the reaction of the general masses of people. It was a little ditty that has stuck with me. "When in danger or in doubt, Run in circles, scream and shout." Doesn't that describe some people? Doesn't that describe how you feel (even if you don't act on it) when you find yourself in one of those situations that throws everything you hold dear out the window? And we've all felt like that, haven't we? That's what doubt does to us. It fills us with fear and uncertainty. Some of our doubt comes simply ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Wright. “You deserve this more than anyone else,” Johnson told Wright. (5) Do you think Johnson’s support of the Civil Rights Act made him popular back in Texas? Hardly. But Texas was not alone. We had dehumanizing Jim Crow laws on the books of many ... , she had gotten the idea that God expected her to be busy in the world in His behalf. And that’s the way she acted. One day she was cruising down Ocean Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach when a local policeman stopped the car of a young person in front ...
1959. Lent 4
1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 23:1-6, John 9:1-41, Ephesians 5:8-14
Bulletin Aid
Amy C. Schifrin
... give, O God, we discover what we truly need. Placing what you have entrusted to us back into your hands, we see your goodness sustaining us in every dimension of our lives. All: Give us hearts to love and hands to embrace, that every thought, word, and act that comes forth from us might be filled with your holy love. Amen. Eucharistic Prayer Leader: From the swirling chaos of the primeval waters you brought forth light. All: One thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see. Leader: From the mud of the ...
1960. Proper 18, Pentecost 16, Ordinary Time 23
Psalm 119:33-40, Ezekiel 33:7-11, Matthew 18:15-20, Romans 13:8-14
Bulletin Aid
Amy C. Schifrin
... , we ask you to give us life and to free us from the evil that causes us to hurt the ones you love. All: What is evil? What shape does it take in our sins? Leader: For every sinful act there is an outer dimension and an inner one. There is what our families, neighbors, and colleagues feel when we act inappropriately, and then there are the intentions, the motives, and the fears that lie deep in our hearts. All: God sees them all; God hears them all; and God desires to set us free from every manner of evil ...
1961. Our Children Watch Us Closely
John 6:8-9
Illustration
James W. Moore
... . The two boys helped their dad disguise the dog so the rightful owner could not claim him. The boys enjoyed the trickery and plotting. The boys thought it was great fun to take away the man's dog. Some years later, the minister realized that in that one deceitful act, he had taught his sons how to steal and turned them away from the Christ-like spirit of love and kindness and goodness and respect for others. And he said, regretfully: "it was a terrible mistake on my part. I was able to keep the dog, but I ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... the faithful, is not just some "literary work" — it is the very Word of God, and one must not mess with the Word of God. Act One opens with Judas beginning to worry about Jesus. He does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God as many others now seem ... friends and tells them where to find Jesus on Thursday night. A distant choir tells Judas, "Well done" as the curtain comes down. Act Two opens on Thursday night as Jesus hosts the Last Supper. He announces that Peter will deny him and another of the twelve ...
1963. The Serpent
John 3:14-21
Sermon
John Smylie
... Us, It depicts utter opposites — the serpent in the garden at the beginning of creation, and the serpent on the cross in an act of new creation. One seeks to manipulate and corrupt our human nature; the other, to free us and save our human nature. One ... washed away, we are asked to be part of the saving embrace of God to a still broken world. It would be easy for the saved and act as if we have no responsibility for the world today. Yet, to do so would be to dishonor our Lord's intention. If we are to ...
Sermon
John Smylie
... abandon us. He did not come down from the cross and save himself. He hung there in the flesh taking upon himself all the judgment that all our human efforts have deserved and he gave back life in his broken body and poured out blood. That is God's mighty act and nothing we do this week or this lifetime can add or detract from it. We in our pride think that either we are so devout and pious that we deserve Jesus' love or else, more commonly, we think that we are so bad that Jesus could never really accept ...
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... Simon the Pharisee's neglect of giving him water for his feet with the woman's washing his feet with tears and wiping them with her hair (Luke 7:44). On the last evening of his life, Jesus washes the disciples' feet (John 13:1-16). His act of abject humility actually cleanses their hearts of selfish ambition, kills their pride, and teaches them the lesson of love. Feet are very important and beautiful feet are a signal that one holds a high office. At the other end of the spectrum are ugly-feet sins ...
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... heart and he or she can imagine feeling Jesus in there. Children expect God to go to work when they say their prayers. No wonder the happiest Christians in every Christian fellowship are the youngest ones! This upside-down world we live in keeps pushing its children to act more like adults but here Jesus tells adults that they must come to see the world through the eyes of little children. What does that mean? When adults look at a dandelion patch, we see a bunch of weeds that threaten to take over our yard ...
Sermon
Patrick J. Rooney
... the throne of God offering his own blood in an eternal sacrifice to the Father for our salvation. The author of the book of Hebrews understood so well that coming to know who this Jesus was and what he had done for us could best be experienced in the act of worship itself. In this worship, there is the limitation of neither time nor place. Time and again he speaks of Jesus as eternal. Over and over he addresses the role of Jesus who intercedes for us without ceasing. As we enter into worship, in a place and ...
1968. Make a 119 Call
Romans 14:1--15:13
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... in Iraq. *Finally the Dallas Cowboys will play the New York Jets just across the Hudson River in full view of where the Twin Towers fell. Whatever game you see it is a good day to hold hands with your loved ones as you enjoy the simple act of being together and watch a football game. There is only one way to get through the horror of an event like 911: day by day. “Twelve Step” recovery programs, like Alcoholics Anonymous or Gamblers Anonymous, all emphasize that recovery is a day-by-day, sometimes even ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... Christ's work would not be completed before he left the world, he prepared the apostles for their future work in furthering the kingdom that he initiated. When Jesus sent the apostles forward to finish the task, they had all the assistance they needed. As the Acts of the Apostles (2:1-11) says in describing the Pentecost story, Jesus fulfilled his earlier promise and sent the Holy Spirit. It was the Spirit of God, who dispelled doubt and fear in the hearts and minds of those first disciples. The Spirit was ...
Sermon
Ken Lentz
... but we cannot make it happen. Perhaps it is only the vision of the kingdom that is coming that keeps us from absolute despair. We don't know how biblically literate Peter was (he points out that Jesus is the descendant of the line of David in his Acts 2 Pentecost sermon), but he must have known about the hope foretold by the prophets. It might have taken some time, but he must have caught on at some point and realized that the resurrection and ascension of Jesus was a glimpse into the glory of the future ...
1971. Having a Good Name
Proverbs 1:20-33
Sermon
Donna Schaper
... of us take the time to train. We bop along. Instead of self-definition, the inner work of outer self-presentation, we fuzz along. Two problems plague most people I know, including me. One is short term. It is the inability to get destiny or destination in place and to act from and toward it. The other is fuzzy goals. Because I don't know exactly what I want from today or tomorrow or you or me or us or them, I often behave non-strategically. I bop along. I buzz along in a fuzzy framework of creeds, stories ...
1972. The Place beyond Revenge
Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22
Sermon
Donna Schaper
... system of our nation.My ministry is an editor of a liturgical resource (Celebration) published by the National Catholic Reporter. As the impact of 9/11 sank in, I found myself processing the event through my liturgical lens. More than just an act pf violent destruction, the attacks on the World Trade center, the Pentagon and, presumably, the White House were brilliantly conceived assaults on American identity and the illusion of pre-eminence in the world. The most visible symbols ... were struck, not just ...
1973. How To Cope in a Crisis
Illustration
Brett Blair
Rules for crisis management: Hope for the best, bur prepare for the worst Look first, then act When you do act, act aggressively Seek help Delegate Don't get locked on a detail No matter how bad things get, be truthful When others lose their head don't lose yours Most "troubles" will resolve themselves Remember failure means progress Look for the silver lining.
1974. Pay the Penalty
Illustration
... the prefix ex, which means "out of" or "from." Expiation means to remove something. In biblical theology it has to do with taking away or removing guilt by means of paying a ransom or offering an atonement. It means to pay the penalty for something. Thus, the act of expiation removes the problem by paying for it in some way, in order to satisfy some demand. Christ's expiation of our sin means that He paid the penalty for it and removed it from consideration against us. On the other hand, propitiation has to ...
1975. Faith: Do You Believe?
Illustration
... papers and wrote a letter to the tightrope walker, saying, "Tightrope, I don't believe you can do it, but I'm willing to make you an offer. For a very substantial sum of money, besides all your transportation fees, I would like to challenge you to do your act over Niagara Falls." Now, Tightrope wrote back, "Sir, although I've never been to America and seen the Falls, I'd love to come." Well, after a lot of promotion and setting the whole thing up, many people came to see the event. Tightrope was to start on ...
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