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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John A. Stroman
... out mathematically that if the United Methodists continue to lose members at the present rate, the last Methodist will leave the face of the earth in the year 2037. This is a very sobering thought. The Dilemma Of Decline To borrow a line from Dickens, these are, for the mainline Protestants, the "worst of times." The mainline churches in the early times of this century were used to vitality, growth, and widespread influence and popularity. Currently, they are experiencing severe decline. Martin Marty tells ...
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John A. Stroman
... we become impatient with others. But the Spirit always seems to upset our logical schemes and best laid plans. What audacity on our part to tell the Spirit where to work, what people, sect or group to become involved with, or to draw the lines circumscribing the Spirit's activity. In Jesus' day there were those, the very followers of Jesus, who built their walls of partition and exclusiveness. But on the day of Pentecost, with a startling crash the walls of exclusiveness came tumbling down. Stewart points ...
2103. Two-and-a-Half Cheers For Hypocrites
Matthew 6:1-2, Matthew 6:5-6, Matthew 6:16
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Thomas Long
... they laugh at jokes they don't find funny. In short, hypocrites wear masks, pretending to be who they are not. Religious hypocrites are, of course, the worst of the breed -- and the most inviting targets. In The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce joined a long line of those who have skewered churchly hypocrisy when he defined a Christian as "one who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin" and a member of the clergy as one "who undertakes the management of our ...
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Thomas Long
... , provides it with what it needs truly to be the church: worship, mission, and forgiveness. Without his presence, there is cowering fear. In his presence there is open praise, bold mission, and healed community. Theologian Karl Barth once remarked that to say the old line from the creed, "I believe in the Holy Catholic Church" does not mean that we believe in the church. It means rather to believe that God is present and at work in the church, that "in this assembly, the work of the Holy Spirit takes ...
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Thomas Long
... to see him -- this tiny man swallowed by the always-taller crowd; this lilliputian tax collector lost in a sea of NBA centers; this diminutive bureaucrat flexing himself up on his tiptoes, craning his neck in vain as he tries to find a decent sight line, finally lifting his skirts and shinnying immodestly up the nearest sycamore tree. Or again, it is one thing to read Jesus' parable of the lost sheep, but quite another to experience it in the theater of the absurd. In the *Sermon emphasis John 18:28 ...
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Thomas Long
... workers and how much she had felt that she was truly serving God then. So, after hearing the sermon that morning, she had decided to dedicate her life to working with underprivileged children. There was a long silence on the minister's end of the line. "Now look," he finally said, "I was just preaching."3 Words, words, words. Sermon words, words of the call of God ... and the wall came tumbling down. When the wall fell down between Jesus and the woman, she seems startled -- perhaps even frightened. There's ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... that this was something new, the latest form of entertainment, a way to pass the time, or some new diversion. There were many traveling preachers, magicians and exorcists who traveled up and down the highways and byways. Jesus was not just another in a long line of wise counselors. No, there was something else different about him. One thing was that magnetic personality which drew other people to him. He looked at people the way no one ever had. He communicated his concern for them. They wanted to be close ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... have been! Jesus knew, as everyone else knew, what it meant for him to enter Jerusalem like this. The old kings had always come into the city to begin their rule in this way, riding on a donkey. It was a lowly animal signifying peace. The people would line the road waving palm branches and calling out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" Jesus knew what he was doing. He knew what it meant. He knew what those people in Jerusalem would think when they saw him ...
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Lee Griess
... row. They rowed hard in what was left of the night, but when the sun came up, they were dismayed to discover that they were in exactly the same spot where they had started. For in their drunken state they had forgotten to untie the mooring line and raise the anchor. We cannot live with our hopes and dreams, our aspirations and goals for life tied to the material possessions of this world and yet claim to be citizens of heaven. We cannot live dividing our priorities between serving ourselves and serving God ...
2110. Professor Of Paradox
Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35
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Roger G. Talbott
... out of the bowl, washed it off and held another gold nugget in his hand. This went on for a long time: the old man stirring and stirring and every once in awhile, excitedly retrieving gold nuggets from the bowl. Finally, when he had a half-dozen gold nuggets lined up next to him, the old man stopped stirring, washed out the bowl at the pump, picked up the nuggets and then went on his way. As you can imagine, no sooner had the strange old man disappeared over the horizon than the people of the village seized ...
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Roger G. Talbott
... 1 Frost's neighbor was not entirely wrong, however. It is important for all of us to be clear about where we leave off and other people begin. The first step in making things right with someone who has trespassed against us is to find out where the line between us really is. If we were talking about real property, we could hire a surveyor. In human relationships, we have to make our own survey of where our boundaries are. That is difficult for some of us. Some people were raised in environments where their ...
2112. Adam And Jesus See Temptation
Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25, Luke 4:1-13
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David Belgum
... for a piece of legislation, but it cannot pass because two factions have certain objections and propose amendments. Well, let's be realistic; maybe some of their ideas are useful. We need to be humble about our proposals and open-minded. Where do we draw the line and why? The key is in our text: "if you will fall down and worship me." Martyrs of all ages have willingly laid down their lives rather than turn their backs on their God and God's clearly expressed will for their lives. "Begone, Satan! for ...
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David Belgum
... so much in common, had they reached such an impasse of bad relations? By the time of Jesus, not only should a Jewish man certainly not speak to a Samaritan woman, but very likely not to any other Samaritan as well. Jesus was definitely out of line here. Being a teacher of religion he should have known that these hill country folks were unclean pagans. Not only did it happen then, but it always happens. My group is better than your group. Back a century ago, when this church was organized, there were two ...
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John R. Bodo
... like shouting, "Help! I am snowed under!"? Of course, no one intends to disparage your willingness to assume responsibility in any good cause in the community, let alone in the church. Service is the very watchword of the Christian life. Service beyond the line of duty has been the hallmark of Christians throughout the centuries. There is always so much more good work than there are workers to do it! Any leader of any organization working for human betterment, religious or secular, will surely say a loud ...
2115. Hailing The King Of Chaos
Job 12:13-22· Matthew 27:32-44
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Wallace H. Kirby
... by the columnist, Anthony Lewis. Uniformed government soldiers, arriving in a village, round up the men and women. If the commander feels that those villagers are not firmly supportive of the government efforts to destroy subversion, then they are recognized as subversive, and are lined up and shot to death. The soldiers do not waste bullets on children. They pick them up by the feet and smash their heads against a wall. Or they tie ropes around their necks and pull them until the children are strangled to ...
2116. A Love Feast
John 13:1-17, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Bulletin Aid
Frank Ramirez
... Lord, we gather together to partake of this life-giving bread, broken in your name in memory of your body which was broken for our salvation. Let it be the means by which the body of Christ in our day is drawn closer together, across congregational and denominational lines, as we seek to give one witness to the saving grace which is meant for all humanity. These things we pray in memory of your Son and our savior's sacrifice. Amen. Read 1 Corinthians 11:25-26: In the same way he took the cup also, after ...
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John N. Brittain
Exodus 33:12-23; Matthew 22:15-22 Without wanting to be either flippant or blasphemous, I don't think it out of line to say that there is something a little odd about the story where Moses gets to see the back side of God. This is Moses, the one who went up the mountain and brought down the tablets of the law; the one at whose uplifted rod the waters of the ...
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John N. Brittain
... the question, "What was his motivation for responsibility?" In our modern world we focus so much on "romantic love" that it is virtually impossible to read this story without assuming that Boaz fell head over heels in love with the ravishingly beautiful Ruth! This line of thought would never have occurred to the biblical community, just as it would not occur to many persons in the world today. The basis for marriage was not primarily romantic love, but the integrity of the community and the larger good of ...
2119. The Assumption Of Discipline
Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24
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John N. Brittain
... of his day. They are no longer relevant for us, these Christians argue. All that is relevant for us is the spiritual change that Jesus works in my heart. In a C. S. Lewis discussion group we have seen how that great British Christian thinker approached this line of thought. "We value Shakespeare for the glory of his language and his knowledge of the human heart ..." Lewis wrote in an essay dealing with the doctrine of Christ's return to earth ("The World's Last Night") "not for his belief in witches or the ...
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John N. Brittain
... was the inspiration for the famous hymn text, "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me." Paul was neither the first nor the last to understand the desert wanderings as an essential part of the life of faith. The third century theologian Origen was struck by the opening line of Numbers 33: "These are the stages by which the Israelites went out of the land of Egypt." He assumed that a deeper meaning of this scripture was to explicate the "stages" of life for everyone who leaves the familiar but binding life of Egypt and ...
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Alex Gondola
... , we're all equally needy. Charlemagne, Mother Teresa, you and me. None of us will ever be "good enough" to force entrance into the presence of God. I'm reminded of the definition of "nervous" I once heard. Do you know what "nervous" is? "Nervous" is standing in line at the Pearly Gates behind Mother Teresa, and hearing Saint Peter say to Mother Teresa, "I'm sorry, dear, you haven't done enough!" A good story! But with a truth. As we come to the Lord's Table, we're all sinners in need of salvation, beggars ...
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Alex Gondola
... And Senseless Acts Of Beauty. Have you seen it? A random act of kindness would be something like driving back from Logan Airport, stopping at the toll booth to the Sumner Tunnel, paying your two-dollar toll, and then paying for the next five drivers behind you in line. Can you imagine the looks on the faces of the next five drivers when they are told to "Have a nice day, the toll is already paid!" What Jesus is proposing has that kind of spirit, but goes even further -- for what Jesus is calling for is more ...
Bulletin Aid
Rolland R. Reece
... disregard the discordant voices within us, that we might speak to you from our hearts. This is a matter of faith. Grant us courage to meet the test. We come to you, we admit, because there is no other place to go. We have arrived at the end of the line. The whole world has become silent, waiting for what is to happen next. We pray, of course, that it will be peace. There is no one within the world community wise enough, powerful enough to lead us to this great hope. We are the victims of our pride and our ...
Bulletin Aid
Derl G. Keefer
... the process of leaving the past behind, that kind of uniting does not happen overnight. Some days you will feel downright selfish, maybe even threatened -- as if you might just lose your very self if you have to share one more thing. (I personally draw the line at toothbrushes.) But don't give up, for the reward for all the leaving behind and uniting is discovering the joy of becoming one. This is not just a sexual oneness, though it includes that. It's not an emotional oneness, though at times you will ...
2125. God Knows!
2 Samuel 11:1-27
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Robert R. Kopp
... . That's what it means to be known as completely Christian. I was playing in a tennis doubles tournament many years ago in Kansas City. At a crucial moment in a closely contested match, I hit an ace right down the middle. It was perfect -- right on the line with out-of-sight-out-of-reach pace. Immediately, the guy closest to the net yelled, "Out!" "Out?" I yelled back. But quickly, composing myself, conscious of congregants on adjacent courts and in the stands, I just bit my lip as my mind did a blue-flame ...
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