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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Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... weakened body. In the final round of the wrestling match, bruised, bloodied and battered, Jesus went down. It looked like He had been pinned. It looked like He'd never get up again. He was body slammed onto the cross. He was Airplane Spun into the air. Then when all semblance of life had drained from His body, He was thrown into a borrowed tomb. The opposition cheered. Even the unwitting pawns of the opposition cheered inwardly. They thought it was all over but then three days later, the stone was rolled ...
2052. A Long Flight
Luke 18:1-8
Illustration
Staff
... in an early Wright flyer called the Vin Fiz after a soft drink company that sponsored the trip. On September 17, 1911 he left Sheephead Bay at Brooklyn NY and arrived in California on December 10, 1911, 84 days later. Rodgers actual time in the air was 3 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes. The airplane was forced down by weather and mechanical failure more than 30 times resulting in "light crashes" and some real crashes that required major repairs. When Rodgers landed in Long Beach the only original parts on ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... . The border guards would search the wagon before letting his cross. They were sure that he was smuggling something, but they could never find it. Each day the pattern would be repeated, the wagon would be searched, sometimes the straw would be tossed in the air, but they could find nothing. So, they had to let him cross. Years passed and Nasrudin got wealthier and wealthier. Finally, he decided that he had enough money. He announced his retirement and threw a party for the border guards. At the party, they ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... his greatest robbery after he was cut down and buried. He robbed death of its power when he rose again to new life. The Pharisee who fasted more than the Torah required, who tithed more than legal directives, who prayed with precision and a pious air, still trusted in his own impressive powers to get things done and do things right. That Pharisee couldn’t see beyond his human abilities to the divine possibilities that God had waiting. What do your prayers reveal about you? Most of us have two kinds ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... in, car we drive, the clothes we wear, even our political opinions. Studies show that people who move to the Southern part of the U. S. suddenly get more religious, on average, and more conservative in their politics. Why? Is it in the water or the air? No, it’s simply part of the cultural environment. We are all susceptible to the influence of other people, particularly a crowd of other people. Of course, some of us are more susceptible than others. Talk show host Larry King tells about a man who gambled ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... turned away from the woman and asked sternly, “Are the two men who committed this horrible crime in the courtroom today?” At that the two defendants raised their hands. The courtroom galley and even the judge snickered. Noticing the two arms in the air, the prosecutor intoned, “Your Honor, may the record show that the defendants raised their hands and have just confessed to the crime.” (4) The woman must have given a powerful testimony. Usually the truth doesn’t come that easily. Most people who ...
2057. Proper 13, Pentecost 11, Ordinary Time 18
Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21, Isaiah 55:1-5, Matthew 14:13-21, Romans 9:1-5
Bulletin Aid
Amy C. Schifrin
... the World Round 23) Leader: From the beginning of time the universe hummed with your love. You set the moon and stars in their courses. You brought forth the sun that shines upon us. You created this world and its inhabitants: reptiles, mammals, birds of the air, fish of the deep sea. Mercy upon mercy, grace upon grace, your beauty filled all things. All: You open wide your hand and satisfy the desire of every living creature. Leader: Sin and struggle, too, came into this world and so you called out from ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... Thanksgiving holiday weekend — the single busiest flying days of the year. The hope was that by opting for the more time consuming “pat-down” procedure, security checkpoints would become clogged to the point of being non-operational. Air traffic would be disastrously disrupted, and security forces would “give up” these embarrassing and invasive procedures. Right. The week before Thanksgiving a homeland security spokesman assured travelers that they all had complete freedom to choose whether they ...
We have learned to soar through the air like birds, to swim through the seas like fish, to soar through space like comets. Now it is high time we learned to walk the earth as the children of our God.
William Sloane Coffin
2060. When the Real World Rears Its Head
Matthew 11:1-19
Illustration
John Jamison
... everyone of how different it was back when Pastor Ludlan was there. Everyone grinned at each other. "There goes Phil again. He'll get tired in a minute and wind down." Everyone but Shelly that is. She was amazed. This was the "church." The bubble had been burst, and the air fizzled out all over the room. That was the night Shelly began to wonder. But there are three phases in christian growth: 1. There's the, "If Phil is the church I don't want anything to do with it." 2. There's the, "That's just Phil and ...
2061. When God Doesn’t Fix Us
Matthew 11:2-12
Illustration
Larry Broding
Christmas is coming soon. The lights, the sounds, the smells of the holidays are in the air. No matter where we go, we are reminded of holiday cheer. In fact, many of us rely on this atmosphere to bring us out of our doldrums. We expect people, places, or events to create the mood that Christmas brings. Human nature tempts us to lean on others to bolster ...
2062. It Is Easy for You
Matthew 1:23
Illustration
Bill Bouknight
... six-year-old son how to shoot a basketball. They were out in the backyard. The father shot a couple of times, saying, "Do it just like that, son; it's real easy." The little boy tried very hard but he couldn't get the ball ten feet into the air. The little fellow got more and more frustrated. Finally, after hearing his father talk about how easy it was for the tenth time, the boy said, "It's easy for you up there. You don't know how hard it is from down here." You and I can never say ...
2063. Dream Power
Matthew 2:13-18
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... even the most rudimentary or remedial brain stem. Yet we really don’t understand why we sleep or what sleep is for. All we really know about sleep is that if deprived of it for just ten days, we’re dead. That’s right — dead. Three minutes without air. Three days without water. Ten days without sleep. These are the physical limits of life. Sleep isn’t just a big shut-down, a turn off, The Great Reboot. Sleep has degrees of depth. Sometimes we are all but comatose. Other times we are right on the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... survived. Later, when they were being moved behind the lines, it was brutally cold. Many of the soldiers rode in the troop trucks and suffered the loss of toes and fingers due to frostbite. Greenfield’s friend chose to walk. When darkness fell, they came under air attack. The lights on the trucks made them easy targets. His friend survived because he was walking behind. At this point in the story, Kirk Greenfield says his friend looks at him with tears in his eyes and says, “People wonder why I love the ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... one’s “honor” sometimes led those who felt shamed by imperfect behavior to commit ritual suicide or hari-kiri. Death became the only way to “save face” and restore honor. But there is an even worse dishonoring of honor that curdles in the air of its occurrence: “Honor Killing.” In October 2009 in Arizona a father raced his Jeep across a parking lot and plowed into his twenty year old daughter and another woman. While her companion survived, the daughter was killed. This was an “honor killing ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... one’s “honor” sometimes led those who felt shamed by imperfect behavior to commit ritual suicide or hari-kiri. Death became the only way to “save face” and restore honor. But there is an even worse dishonoring of honor that curdles in the air of its occurrence: “Honor Killing.” In October 2009 in Arizona a father raced his Jeep across a parking lot and plowed into his twenty year old daughter and another woman. While her companion survived, the daughter was killed. This was an “honor killing ...
2067. Rock Solid
Matthew 7:24-29
Sermon
King Duncan
... people who live by that Word. Dr. Wesley Shotwell tells a wonderful story about a U.S. Naval Academy graduate named Charles Plumb. Plumb was a jetfighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, Plumb’s plane was shot down by a surface‑to‑air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured, and then spent six years in a Communist prison. He survived that ordeal, and then began to lecture about lessons he learned from that experience. One day, Plumb and his wife were sitting ...
2068. Transfigured: Who Changed?
Matthew 17:1-9
Illustration
Laurel A. Dykstra
... , 'What a kind and homey room this is.' Transfigured. "So I wonder: In Matthew's story of the mountain, was it Jesus who changed or was it that John, James, and Peter could now see the face of God shining in the man they knew? Did the thin air and the elevated perspective contribute to their clarity of vision? When they came down from the mountaintop, did they take their new capacity to see into the low places and crowded city streets? Can we? And when we see the face of God shining through those who are ...
2069. Glimpses of God
Matthew 17:1-13
Illustration
John Bedingfield
... be a better guitar player. The intricate way that he played made me want to learn his style and to try to make a guitar sound that way myself. But the first time I heard B.B. King play guitar, one simple note at a time, hung out in the air, sighing breathlessly or screaming in pain, it made my heart hurt – and it made me want to ease the pain that caused that sound. When I see the babies who are brought to the altar rail here, I have to smile at them. They make me want to hold them ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... fail. For a septic tank “germs” are good. We live in an increasingly “sealed” set of systems. How many of you work in a building where the windows do not open? We have to install carbon monoxide monitors in our homes because there is no way for fresh air to enter unless we intentionally invite it in by opening a door or window. A furnace malfunction can mean death. And as we seal out wind and weather we stamp out germs. I dare you to find a soap that is NOT marketed as “anti-bacterial.” We keep ...
2071. God Cries with Us
John 9:1-12
Illustration
Ken Griffin
C.S. Lewis wrote a story about how God suffers with us. C.S. Lewis was a medical aid in WWII during the air war over London, with the bombing raids and dogfights. A little girl, perhaps four or five years old, was brought into the makeshift first-aid station badly hurt, in the arms of her father who was crying with the daughter. The doctor on duty quickly knew the problem, he knew ...
2072. Passion Sunday: Surprising and Inevitable
Matthew 21:1-11
Illustration
Scott Hoezee
... in a surprising fashion. On the other hand, however, the conductor noted that in the long run, these surprises would themselves become part of a larger coherence. Once listeners heard the entire piece from start to finish, they would find in the music an air of inevitability; how could it ever have been written any differently? Surprising and inevitable. Palm Sunday and the events of Holy Week are both surprising and inevitable. The truth is that we are not completely sure what to make of Palm Sunday. After ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to learn, but we could not live one day on the earth if the laws of nature were suspended even for a moment. God has created us and placed us in a wonderful, lawful universe. We should celebrate that truth every day of our lives. That’s why we have air to breathe and food to eat. That is why we are able to drive our cars along highways. That is why the sun comes up each morning and sets in the evening. Many of the tragedies that occur in life are a simple consequence of the natural order. Someone is ...
2074. Matthew 14:13-21
Matthew 14:13-21
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... orders” the crowd to “recline” on the grass. The verb used here specifically describes the reclining posture taken during formal meals or banquets. In other words, Jesus’ directive reveals to the crowd that they are about to share in an open air banquet. For Matthew’s readers such language recalls both the promised messianic banquet (26:29) and, of course, the eucharistic meal Jesus will establish. The same verbs are used by all four gospel writers to describe Jesus’ next actions, verbs which ...
2075. God Works with People
Matthew 14:13-21
Illustration
Leonard Mann
... and get his work done without the participation of his people, but he rarely does, if ever. A story has long been told concerning a country preacher who came upon a member of his parish working in his newly-made garden alongside the road. With an air of great piousness, the preacher said, "Brother William, you ought to be very grateful to God for all the beautiful tomatoes and potatoes and beans the Lord will give you in your garden this year." Glancing up and down along neat rows of planted vegetables ...
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