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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Wayne Brouwer
... When he was finally old enough to enjoy time with the family, his son had learned to be too busy for him! Of course, the other side of the story is just as true. Maurice Boyd remembers the impact of one incident that sealed the impact of his father on his life ... say, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life!" Let's imagine that there are 365 new days thrown back onto the credits side of the ledger. What do we do with them? Each day in the year ahead 9,077 babies will be born; 2,740 young people will ...
Sermon
R. Robert Cueni
... waiting for her to ask, he immediately responded, "I have come to think of it this way. It is like being a small boy playing in the side yard with friends. Your mother calls you to say that it is time to go to the birthday party of another friend. Now you don't ... members of his extended family. Now he is going out of his way to be supportive of a stranger on the other side of the city. Dan usually feels anxious about driving through inner-city neighborhoods. Now he feels compelled to face this fear. People ...
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... were scared, some were captivated, and some even showed hints of a smile for the first time in ages. But others couldn't stop wailing. They were consumed by agony. What could he do for them? The next day the clown brought along some popcorn. When he came to the side of a crying child, he took a kernel of popcorn, placed it against the child's cheek, and soaked up the cascading tears with its fluff. Then he popped that kernel into his mouth and ate it. It was a stroke of genius. The only time some of those ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... . Another problem in going home again is that the hometown folks, whoever they are and wherever they are, always remember you for who you were and not for who you have become. They remember you as a growing boy or gangling girl, from either the right side or the wrong side of the tracks. They filter you through their old spectacles of past realities rather than seeing you in the present for who in truth you are. It's hard to go home again. Jesus discovered that it is hard to go home again when he returned ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... round. Everything revolves around money, sex, and power. So use them all to your advantage in this tough world, whether it's nine to five or five to nine. II. Woman: But now let Mary take the stage and let her represent the other side — the spiritual, the intellectual, the ethical side of things. What about Mary nine to five and five to nine? I have long felt that the Marthas of the world must resent the ensuing dialogue that takes place between the sisters and Jesus. I mean the Marthas who have had the ...
2081. The Happy Hypocrite
Matthew 6:1-4, 5-6, 16-18
Sermon
King Duncan
... worry on the way . . . And God was good to me everyday.” Was he a hypocrite? It depends who you ask. Biographer Ron Chernow wrote of Rockefeller: “What makes him problematic--and why he continues to inspire ambivalent reactions--is that his good side was every bit as good as his bad side was bad. Seldom has history produced such a contradictory figure.” (6) It’s best for us to not judge John D. Rockefeller--or anyone else, for that matter. Why not? It’s so we won’t be judged by the same standard ...
2082. What Did Jesus Do?
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Sermon
King Duncan
... There is a time-honored piece of humor concerning Jesus’ last meal with his disciples. As Jesus reclined at the table, so this story goes, he looked around at his disciples. There, on one side was Judas Iscariot, who, he well knew, would betray him to the authorities before the night was out. On the other side was Peter, the prince of the disciples, who, as Jesus well knew, would deny him three times before the cock crowed. And almost immediately opposite him was Thomas, who, on a crucial occasion, would ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... best assurance we have that Sunday’s coming. The Bible is very forthright in acknowledging life’s Fridays. But the Bible is equally clear that Friday is not God’s final word. And that brings us to today--Easter 2016. We are those who live on the other side of the resurrection. We are those who have the privilege of knowing that God is with us and that neither life nor death can separate us from God’s love. How is that being lived out in your life? So many people nowadays are filled with hopelessness ...
2084. Christmas
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John A. Robinson
... whole notion of a God who visits the earth in the person of His Son is as mythical as the prince in the fairy story. Suppose there is no realm “out there” from which the man from heaven arrives. Suppose the Christmas myth (the invasion of this side by the other side), as opposed to the Christmas history (the birth of the man, Jesus of Nazareth), has to go. Are we prepared for that? Or are we to cling here to this last vestige of the mythological or metaphysical world view as the only garb in which to ...
2085. They Needled Each Other
Humor Illustration
Michael P. Green
Two porcupines found themselves in a blizzard and tried to huddle together to keep warm. But because they were pricked by each other’s quills, they moved apart. Soon they were shivering again and had to lie side by side once more for their own survival. They needed each other, even though they needled each other! There are many “porcupine” Christians running around. They have their good points, but you can’t get near them because the bad points prick too hard.
2086. She Knows Her Eggs
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Michael P. Green
The guillemot is a small arctic sea bird that lives on the rocky cliffs of northern coastal regions. These birds flock together by the thousands in comparatively small areas. Because of the crowded conditions, hundreds of females lay their pear-shaped eggs side by side on a narrow ledge, in a long row. Since the eggs all look alike, it is incredible that a mother bird can identify those that belong to her. Yet studies show that she knows her own eggs so well that when even one is moved, she finds it and ...
2087. The Affairs of Men
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Michael P. Green
God rules in the affairs of men. Napoleon, at the height of his career, is reported to have given this cynical answer to someone who asked if God was on the side of France: “God is on the side that has the heaviest artillery.” Then came the Battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon lost both the battle and his empire. Years later, in exile on the island of St. Helena, chastened and humbled, Napoleon is reported to have quoted the words of Thomas a Kempis: “Man proposes; God disposes.” This ...
The world is like a drunken peasant. If you lift him into the saddle on one side, he will fall off on the other side. One can’t help him, no matter how one tries. He wants to be the devil’s.
Martin Luther
2089. Asa King of Judah
2 Chronicles 14:2-15
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... still belonged to them, because they have sought the LORD their God; they sought him and he has given them rest on every side (14:7, with darash twice and nuach). These verses, which are not taken from a source text, abound with typical Chronistic theological ... which is by now not unexpected in the Chronicler’s typical theology—is that the LORD gave them rest (nuach) on every side. 15:16–19 This subsection uses some source material from Kings again (1 Kgs. 15:13–16). Asa’s cultic reforms continued ...
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... . Luke 20:1–18). In Jesus’ case, he had gone on to speak in terms of Isaiah 8:14f. and Daniel 2:35, of the stone as destroying those who rejected it. Here Peter points to the other side of that coin by presenting the stone as the source of salvation. It is worth noticing that in 1 Peter 2:6f. he mentions both sides (cf. also Rom. 9:33; Eph. 2:20) and the connecting link in his thought there, as perhaps here between verses 11 and 12, is Isaiah 28:16, which appears to have been interpreted of the Messiah ...
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... contribution by choosing a verb that pictures the leaders’ part as though they had done him to death with their own hands. On the construction “whom you had killed,” see note on 4:10. 5:31 But God had raised the crucified Jesus to his own right side, or better, “by means of his right hand” (see disc. on 2:33), as Prince (translated “Author” in 3:15; see note on 11:20) and Savior of humanity. The verb can mean both “to raise,” in the literal sense, and “to exalt.” In that latter sense ...
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... . The usual procedure would require that two should guard the prisoner within the cell, chained to him one on each side (cf. v. 6, also Josephus, Antiquities 18.195–204), and that two should be outside guarding the doors (cf. v. ... Pet. 5:7; on the association of light with divine manifestations, see 9:3; Luke 2:9). Peter was awakened by the angel striking him on the side. The Greek could almost be rendered, “he kicked him in the ribs.” As he got up, the chains fell from his hands. He dressed and was ...
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... of the “island” on which the city was built. This island, however, was now joined to the mainland by a mole (built by Alexander the Great) and the subsequent accumulation of sand on either side of it. In verse 5 Luke mentions one of these sandy beaches. The former glory of Tyre was somewhat diminished, but it remained an important center of trade and industry. In honor of its past greatness, the Romans had declared it a free city within the province of Syria. 21: ...
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... 4, as the divine standard by which human conduct is tested and the attribute of God that led him to put humanity right with himself (see esp. Rom. 3:21ff.). History would show how far short Felix came of that standard, and the presence of Drusilla at his side was evidence that they both lacked the self-control of which Paul also spoke. Evidently what they heard brought conviction, for when Paul went on to speak of the judgment to come (see disc. on 1:10f.; cf. Rom. 1:18; Eph. 5:3), Felix became afraid and ...
2095. The God of All Comfort
2 Corinthians 1:1-11
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... –22). He was entrusted with important missions, such as those to Thessalonica (1 Thess. 3:2) and Corinth (1 Cor. 4:17). When Paul was setting out on his last journey to Jerusalem, Timothy was in the party (Acts 20:4), and he was at his side during his Roman imprisonment. Indeed, Paul drew special comfort from his presence and planned to send him on a mission to the Philippian church (Phil. 2:19–24). Paul calls Timothy our brother. There are two possible ways to interpret this expression. On the one hand ...
2096. Accusations
2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... than sorrow. Remarkably, Paul expresses his confidence in all of the Corinthians, even the ones who are currently defecting from him and siding with the opponents. Such is his confidence in the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of this congregation (cf. ... groups of opponents—the outsiders (cf. Sir. 45:18), who infiltrated Corinth possibly from Jerusalem, and the insiders, who sided with the offender mentioned in 2:1ff. If Korah and his followers can claim that Moses and Aaron are ...
2097. Paul Opposes Peter
Galatians 2:11-21
Understanding Series
L. Ann Jervis
... these men were Jews draws the Galatians’ attention to the investment in being respected by his kinsfolk held by Peter, the apostle to the Jews. The dynamics of hypocrisy and truth play loudly in these verses. Paul has no doubt but that he is on the side of truth. Paul charges that Peter’s change of behavior when the visitors from Jerusalem came was not “in line with the truth of the gospel” (v. 14). Until the arrival of the “men from James” the Jewish Peter had, on account of the gospel, lived ...
2098. One in Christ
Ephesians 2:11-22
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... entity. 2:16 Second, there is the aspect of reconciliation, which, for the apostle, has two foci: On the one side, the church effected a reconciliation between Jew and Gentile. The broken barrier—accomplished through the cross—and the creation of the ... , composed of diverse parts, but existing peacefully as one body (cf. 4:4; 1 Cor. 10:17; 12:13; Col. 3:15). The other side of Christ’s work is that he brought about reconciliation between humanity and God (to reconcile both of them—i.e., the two who ...
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... Prophecy” (Moule, p. 107). Stott reconciles the problem by stressing that “receiving” was for the purpose of “giving” and finds this principle illustrated in Peter’s sermon on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:33), when he states: “He has been raised to the right side of God and received from him the Holy Spirit, as his Father had promised; and what you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us” (pp. 158f.). 4:9 The author leaves the quotation and expands (parenthetically in NIV ...
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... point is to emphasize the decisive and complete way Christ’s death on the cross took care of humankind’s indebtedness to God. The negative aspect of Christ’s work on the cross is the cancellation of the bond of indebtedness; the positive side is Christ’s triumph over the evil powers. Here, on the cross, Christ disarmed the powers and authorities. Paul enlarges this conquest in imagery of a victorious general leading his captives home in a victory procession in which their defeat would be proclaimed ...
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