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
Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... show the way. Where do the people of God go wrong? We don't trust God completely when God wants us to do new things, to employ new strategies to discomfit our enemies. Why are plans blown and why do objectives fail? We don't trust God completely. In our image-conscious society, we dare not appear too foolish or ridiculous for the things of God lest we are ridiculed and rebuked by the larger society. That's why Paul said when all was said and done that he was a fool for Christ's sake. He didn't care what ...
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... . God created all that is, which means that God brought his/her creative energy to fruition by creating material substances which form the foundation of the universe. In creating humankind, God gave to man God's very own breath and made him in God's very own image. God's first act of creation was to give us something we could have life on and life through. We have life on earth and life through Christ and we would have had neither had God not given. We cannot understand the primordial workings of God in ...
2103. Shake It Off!
Matthew 10:1-42
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... and dysentery. The experience of Paul is instructive for us, for we too must learn to shake off the serpents which have fastened themselves on us and threaten us harm. We must shake them off and go on with our lives and the Lord's work. The image of the serpent is important here because it is quiet and cunning, deadly and dangerous. They fasten on our minds and spirits, and threaten to drain the last vestiges of life from us. This serpent for Paul was a real live reptile, but more importantly becomes a ...
2104. Playing By A Different Set Of Rules
Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43
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Larry Goodpaster
... Jesus, the wheat and the weeds sown looked the same in the beginning. In the process you exert negative energy which could be going to positive ends much more productively. And finally, as the end note of the parable sounds, judgment belongs to God. At the final harvest (Matthew’s image of the judgment), God has the final say: in God’s time, in God’s way! So, then, what are we to do? If we take this parable with these notes, are we simply to sit back and do nothing? If this is all we have to go on ...
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Larry Goodpaster
... s word is “steadfast love.” What a wonderful word the Hebrews had in hesed! This was that great Old Testament term used frequently to describe God’s love for the chosen people, and the expected response of those people for God. The images began to fill my thoughts: loyalty, devotion, neverending, faithfulness and holding on. All the dictionaries I consulted used a variety of terms in defining “mercy,” although there was one which was consistently present: compassion. Now I was able to begin to put ...
2106. The Interview
Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42
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Larry Goodpaster
... continue his mission and ministry. Do you remember what they said about Jesus?” “Well, one of the comments I remember,” she was searching for all those pictures and words locked away in her mind, “was that he went about doing good. I’ve always liked that image.” “Precisely!” the director’s shout startled her and caused her to jump a bit in her chair. “He went about doing good, and that’s what we expect of our harvest-laborers. To be more specific, as I am sure you would like for me to ...
Sermon
Keith Hammer
... lesson of Cain is lifted up in both positive and negative ways to keep reminding us that as children of God and followers of our Lord Jesus we are called to love and care for one another. Perhaps you have never made the connection, but the image of the watchman in our first lesson today is another occasion on which God reminded his people that they were responsible for one another. In this case the responsibility is given to the prophet Ezekiel. Ezekiel lived in a time when the people were flaunting their ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... American way of life always call the presence of God into question. Are these other gods from the East stronger than Yahweh? Should we accommodate the New Age spirituality? Hadn't God promised us an eternal dynasty when those pilgrims sailed the ocean under the images of crossing the Red Sea into a new Israel? While not in formal exile or slavery, we white Protestants will resemble a large ethnic group certainly cut off from its cultural surroundings. To many sitting here at the brink of the new century the ...
Sermon
Thomas Peterson
... set to work in the world. Let Jesus touch your tongue, and you will speak more clearly than you ever did before about God’s meaning in the world. Others will then look upon us and see God’s purposes in the world. Look upon the many images surrounding us this hour and see in them the presence of Jesus -- friends, giving, participation. Hear the many voices and words spoken which bless us with knowledge of God. Through his loving presence we know that God is at work in our lives, bringing us to salvation ...
2110. Saved By Grace
Exodus 32:1-33:6
Sermon
Walter Kimbrough
... the action of the people as well as the leadership of Aaron while Moses was on Mount Sinai. However, the fact remains that God had already declared that we were not to have any other gods before the one true God. Further, we were not to make any graven images. Israel was guilty of sin. The sin of Israel angered God to the extent that he was ready to destroy the whole nation. It was God’s intention to destroy Israel that caused grace to come alive. The salvation of Israel was the direct result of Moses ...
Eulogy
Joe Barone
... about his suffering, too. He’s saying that he has wondered why he has to suffer, and he has decided his suffering is a completion of Christ’s suffering. Paul struggled, too. Paul wondered why things happen as they do. “He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation,” Paul says of Jesus, “for in him all things were created, in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... American media proclaim? Certainly, the younger generations among us are guilty of such behavioral patterns. However, even those of you more set in you ways have been susceptible to such influences. Are not your values, your way of doing retirement, or your image of the good life shaped by the American cultural agenda - the "American dream" (No matter if that dream has been exploiting the poor in our nation and throughout the world)? We really are like that Jewish crowd wich followed Jesus. How often, like ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... his presence in the world and in our lives today. Accept our worship, O God, for we have come to offer thee our adoration, our devotion and our lives. We recognize thee as the source of life, the creator of the universe who has created in us thine own image. We know thou hast called us to be thy people, thy children, brothers and sisters in the family of God. And so we join in worship, service and fellowship together. Bless us as we seek to be thy church. We offer thee our thanksgiving, O God, for all thy ...
2114. Wedding: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Isaiah 54:1-17, John 17:20-26
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Craig Erickson
... from different religious traditions. Nonetheless, they have been called to Holy Matrimony by the one Spirit that our respective churches share in common. For this reason, their marriage is a gift of the Spirit to the church, for it will stand as a bold image of our deeper unity in Christ, a unity that transcends the painful divisions within the body of Christ. They join an ever-growing number of interfaith marriages that are serving in subtle, but very real, ways to dissolve and heal our differences. Christ ...
Sermon
Robert Beringer
... spotlight, and not to become successful or famous or powerful or idolized. Our calling is to be authentic servants who genuinely give of themselves without concern over who gets the glory. For many of us, that term servant may conjure up an image somewhere between an African slave named Kunta Kinte straight out of Roots, and those thousands of migrant workers who, at harvest time, populate the farmlands and orchards of America. In my mind is a rather pathetic person, bent over, crushed in spirit, lacking ...
Sermon
Robert Beringer
... as he was dying who cried out, "Light! More light!" The world has often echoed that same cry, and that is why God sent Jesus Christ to lead us out of darkness into the marvelous light of God. If you think about it, light is a very helpful image when it comes to understanding our place in Christ's mission. Light is often a way of expressing what it means to come to a new understanding of something. We suddenly exclaim, "At last I see the light." Sometimes we parents would prefer it if our children remained ...
2117. Forgiving the Bully
Matthew 5:38-42, Matthew 5:43-48
Sermon
John Jamison
... Les would give me a reason. Les took another step toward me and I took another step back. I looked at the audience and smiled a smile that was supposed to say "I'm not worried," you know, to look cool. But the look in my eyes apparently blew the image and everyone laughed. Big old Les took another step toward me and I took another step back. And I tripped over the fire hydrant and fell backwards, rolling down the ditch next to the road, and landed in the mud. It was hilarious. At least that's what they all ...
Sermon
John Jamison
... of my jackets and wrapped it around my waist, leaving my hands free for my walking stick and my lunch. As we came near the river, the sides of the road were cluttered with wagons and chariots people had hurriedly parked and left, giving the whole thing the image of the suburbs on garage sale Saturday. I made my way through the crowds toward the river. Most folks I didn't know. They were from all over Judea, and from the villages up and down the river valley. I did recognize several from Jerusalem. That's ...
Sermon
Theodore F. Schneider
... of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold (Luke 19:8b-9)." There is the announcement that salvation has come to this publican's house. The definitive declaration that follows is rooted in the shepherd images of Ezekiel: "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10)." Knowing their thoughts, Jesus claims the moment. He presents a parable reinforcing the events of Zacchaeus' house, and he places them into the context of what will be ...
Sermon
Theodore F. Schneider
... chief tax collector and a wealthy man, oppressed seems less appropriate still. Nonetheless, both describe him well. Prominent and wealthy, he is nonetheless an outcast. As a tax collector he is stereotyped and assumed to be dishonest, whether he is or not. He is captive to the image if not the behavior. Though he is a son of Abraham, he is unable to enter with other Jewish men into the inner courts of the temple for prayer. As a tax collector, a publican, he must stand afar off in the outermost Court of the ...
Sermon
Theodore F. Schneider
... as interested followers and sympathizers to the gospel. Again the question was for the purpose of posturing, not for gathering information. They asked, "Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar or not?" Again Jesus dodges their attack. "Show me a coin. Whose image is on it?" "Caesar's," they answer. "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." In spite of themselves, they were impressed! Always the issue was entrapment. Had he said that taxes ought not ...
Sermon
Theodore F. Schneider
... with God's intervention, the powers of evil will rage until they are finally defeated and the righteous of God are vindicated. There were, of course, many variations on the basic theme. This "apocalyptic" style sought to bring eternal realities into earthly images that could be comprehended in this eschatological drama of the "last things." While prophetic in tone, it was written to encourage the faithful in its day. In the case of today's gospel, virtually all Jesus had predicted has already been fulfilled ...
Eulogy
Paul Hegele
... Homer. We have Saint Paul's promise that our time apart will not be permanent, that heaven will be a reunion with those we love. And until then we are not totally separated from Homer, for we each carry him with us. We are stamped by his influence. His image is on us. He lives in us in the values we shared with him and the memories we made together. Like a piano concerto by Chopin lives on after the composer dies, Homer's smile and warmth, cantankerousness and generosity, live on in us, for they have helped ...
2124. For a Cancer Victim
2 Timothy 3:10--4:8
Eulogy
James W. Robinson
... prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:14) The Christian life, Saint Paul was saying, is like a race, and no race is easy. And like any race, the Christian life has a goal, and it has a prize. It strikes me that these images apply in a special way to Mary. What is the goal of the race the Christian runs? The goal is perfection. Jesus said, "You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Matthew 5:48) If any mere mortal was ever perfect, it was Paul. But Paul ...
Sermon
Helen Keller
... -at-home trip abroad by visiting the foreign quarters. Always my eyes are open wide to all the sights of both happiness and misery so that I may probe deep and add to my understanding of how people work and live. My heart is full of the images of people and things. My eye passes lightly over no single trifle; it strives to touch and hold closely each thing its gaze rests upon. Some sights are pleasant, filling the heart with happiness; but some are miserably pathetic. To these latter I do not shut my eyes ...
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