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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James Merritt
... and sung two millennia ago by a man whose name we do not know, but whose life we will never forget. This is a story of a man born blind. From the time human hands pulled him from his mother's womb, he entered into a world where the velvet cover of darkness had been pulled over the light of the sun. But all of that changed in an instant when he met a man named Jesus. When he met the S-O-N he saw the S-U-N. When he met the Lord he saw the light. In fact ...
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James Merritt
... safe, you must ask three questions: I. Are You A Saved Sheep? Jesus here is talking about people that he calls "My sheep." The doctrine of eternal security is only for God's true sheep. Not everyone who says, "B-a-a-a!" is a sheep. Not everyone who is covered with white wool is a sheep. In Mt. 7:15 Jesus talked about false prophets "…who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves." Now if you want to ask whether or not you are a true sheep, give yourself a threefold test. First ...
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James Merritt
... Demand God's call is always a command, it is never a request, and God told Jonah to go to "Nineveh, that great city." Now Nineveh was a great city. It was great in its stature, being the capitol of Assyria. One of the kings built a palace there that covered five acres, had seventy-one rooms with hallways 180 ft. long and 40 ft. wide. It was great in its size. It was enclosed within eight miles of walls with fifteen gates, and had a population of 175,000 people. But it was also great in its sin. God said ...
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James Merritt
... . Indeed, as we look back at the kind of journey that she had to take, no doctor would have allowed her possibly to have left her home. From Nazareth to Bethlehem was a ninety mile journey. Because of Mary's pregnancy, the most they would have covered would have been ten miles a day, so it was probably a nine to ten day trip. Making that ninety mile journey would be like walking almost half way through Pennsylvania from north to south, over the hill surrounding Allentown to the north, east to the Delaware ...
2130. No Excuses
Luke 9:57-62
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James Merritt
... in a small car with a big mouth."2 Billy Sunday once said: "An excuse is just the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie." I heard about a husband who made two terrible mistakes in one day. He forgot his wife's birthday. Then he tried to cover his oversight without thoroughly thinking through the consequences of his excuse. He said, "Honey, I just want you to know I didn't forget your birthday, I just didn't get you anything." There is an interesting event recorded in the 9th chapter of Luke that teaches us ...
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James Merritt
... the sidewalks. He and some friends were going to a restaurant, and he passed by the front of a department store that was closed, and up in the doorway of that store was an old drunk. He had passed out, the sand had blown up around him, he was covered with newspapers and just lying there in his own filth. This preacher said, "I couldn't believe it. People just walked past this man without even looking at him. Nobody would go over to him, nobody helped him. They were just so cruel, so callous. I just couldn't ...
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James Merritt
... false?" the answer is found in John 7:24, "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." In other words, you shall not judge a tree by its leaves, but you shall judge a tree by its fruit. You shall not judge a book by its cover, but you shall judge a book by its contents. You shall not judge a president by what he says, but you shall judge a president by what he does. You shall not judge a president by his conversation, but you shall judge a president by his character. The Bible ...
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James Merritt
... and try to help it regain its strength. She took it in the house, tried feeding it some of her food, but it wouldn't eat. She patted it, cuddled it, held it, talked to it, and finally wrapped it in a small blanket and even placed it beneath the covers of her bed to sleep beside her all through the night. She kept feeling it to make sure it was okay. Early the next morning, the animal was no better. She decided to take it to an emergency animal clinic nearby. She handed the weakened animal to the doctor on ...
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James Merritt
... back to this matter of gossip. We have seen how Solomon condemns the tongue that starts gossip, but he also praises the tongue that stops gossip. "A talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter." (Prov. 11:13) "He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates the best of friends." (Prov. 17:9) The tongue should be used as a gossip-stopper, not a gossip-starter. Teach your children four questions to ask anyone who wants to come to them with ...
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James Merritt
... also represents wasted treasures. It's a tragic picture that is painted in Proverbs 24:30-31: "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; and there it was all overgrown with thorns; its surface was covered with nettles; its stone wall was broken down." With the sluggard, what could and should have been a beautiful clean home, will look like a dump. What should look like a nice car, will be a rundown jalopy. But worst of all, the sluggard represents wasted ...
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James Merritt
... those seeking a place where they could preach and practice the gospel freely, and that those great pilgrims and puritans who came over, first on the Mayflower, and then other ships, were especially prepared for America. c. She Was Supernaturally Prosperous "The hills were covered with its shadow, and the mighty cedars with its boughs. She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river." (vv. 10-11) Israel became so productive, so powerful and so prosperous that the Queen of Sheba, when she ...
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James Merritt
... the most remarkably fascinating true stories I have ever heard. It is from World War II about a B-29 that took off from the Island of Guam for Kokura, Japan on a bombing mission. When it got to its primary target, it circled above a gigantic cloud that covered that target for half an hour, then three quarters of an hour, and then fifty-five minutes until the gas supply began to dwindle to a dangerous point. They did not want to pass up the primary target, but they had no choice. So with one more look back ...
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James Merritt
... . So I want to give you three reasons why Jesus is the hope of a godly family. I. Only the Lord Can Begin a Godly Family It is not coincidental that Psalm 127 and 128 are together. For they actually form a two-part exposition on the family; and they cover the four major stages through which a family passes. It is like watching the different time sequences of a family from beginning to end. Stage one: We see the family in its early years from marriage to the birth of the first child. (Ps. 127:1-2) Stage two ...
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James Merritt
... . Satan's method is deception. Satan's mission is destruction. He wants to deceive us so that he might divide us and, therefore, destroy us. You see Satan cannot defeat a united church because there is no place where he can attack the body. Every plank is covered. Every side is protected. Even the gates of hell cannot prevail against a church united in the Lord Jesus Christ. But, one by one, divided against each other, any of us and all of us can be picked off by his fiery darts. Asallust once said, "By ...
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James Merritt
... to forgive you, you must allow God to cleanse you. I believe that God does not forgive without cleansing. Let me tell you the difference between God and us when it comes to sin. When God sees sin, He wants to cleanse it. When we see sin, we want to cover it. When God forgives sin, He wants to cleanse sin. Imagine a little boy dressed up in his Sunday clothes to go to church. When his mother is not looking he goes outside and rolls around in the mud. He comes in, his mother scolds him, threatens to spank him ...
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James Merritt
... . She brought with her 4,000 pounds of luggage that included two outfits for every occasion. There was a mourning outfit in case someone died; 40 pints of plasma in case she needed her own blood. She even had white kid-leather toilet seat covers. She brought along her own hair dresser, two valets, and a host of other attendants. She had bodyguards, a trumpet fanfare everywhere she went; flashing jewelry, the finest clothes money can buy. The estimation was her trip cost $20 million. Contrast that with how ...
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James Merritt
... never told lies when I was your age." His little boy said, "How old were you when you started?" Your kids will walk your walk a lot quicker than they will talk your talk. Someone has well said: "The footsteps a boy follows are the ones his father thought he covered up." I read about a young man who had just reached the age of 21. His dad gave him a big birthday party and a new car; sat him down and said, "Now that you are a man, you'll be earning your own living and going your own way ...
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James Merritt
... we also need to avoid the other extreme of being obsessed with the devil. I'm always wary of Christians who see a demon under every rock and a devil behind every tree. I heard about a woman that went to a church picnic and the ladies were having a covered dish luncheon. When she walked in one of these super spiritual ladies walked up to her and said, "What did you bring to eat?" She said, "Deviled eggs." Well, immediately this woman flung her hands up high and said, "I bind every one of them in the name of ...
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James Merritt
... frustrated group in America. About 75% of pastors go through a period of stress so great that they consider quitting the ministry, and 35 to 40% actually do. Incidents of mental breakdown are so high that insurance companies charge about 4% extra to cover church staff members compared to employees in other professions.4 Our society, both inside the home and outside the home is filled with stress inducers. For example, one guarantee to stress me out are these recorded messages that businesses use to direct ...
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James Merritt
... want to experience God's forgiveness, but they do not want to repent. I heard about a little boy that was dressed for church in his Sunday best. While his mother was getting dressed he went out to the backyard. A few minutes later he came back into the house covered in mud. Well, as you could have guessed, his mother was fit to be tied. She had told him not to go into the mud, but he did anyway, and not only would they be late to church, but his best suit of clothes was now ruined. The little boy ...
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James Merritt
... don't read a warning label on something. There are warning labels that will alert you to inhaling fumes at the gas station, opening hot radiators, drinking diet soft drinks, smoking cigarettes, wearing seatbelts, and even letting small children play with plastic bags that cover the clothes from the dry cleaners. These warnings are all designed to make us aware of potential dangers that could bring us great harm. But when is the last time you saw a warning label on a dollar bill, or a stock certificate, or ...
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James Merritt
... that you need to be saved? You're too good to need to be saved." The little girl looked at her mother and said, "Mother, you can't see my heart." Well, God can and he sees those times when you are angry and boiling on the inside though you cover it up on the outside. Then he goes on to say, "…And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!' shall be in danger of the council." (v.22b) Now the word "raca" is a word that doesn't really have an equivalent English translation. But the best scholars say that it ...
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James Merritt
... , that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.'" (1:1-2) Now the command seems simple enough. Jonah was to go to Nineveh. It was indeed a great city. It was the capitol of Assyria. The king's palace there covered five acres, had 71 rooms with hallways 180 ft. long and 40 ft. wide. It was a huge city. It was enclosed within eight miles of walls, with fifteen gates and had a population of 175,000 people. But primarily it was a wicked city. The Living Bible translates ...
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James Merritt
... found four of my pigeons in his pocket and I don't think the birds flew in there and committed suicide." The fact of the matter is, you can hide a crime, but you cannot hide sin. Why do you think so many crimes are committed at night under the cover of darkness? Because men are hoping they can hide their sin. Has it ever occurred to you that so often we will buy a dress or a new suit that is dark because it "won't show dirt?" Now it may be practical to do that, but you know that ...
2150. Power in the Pulpit
Philippians 3:1-11
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James Merritt
... , and a quicker rate of recovery from illness. Finally, church attendance and religious belief is a major cause of strength and recovery from the damage that is caused by alcoholism, drug addiction, and marital breakdown.7 US News and World Report had a cover story not long ago with a picture of a church and this headline: "The Faith Factor: Can Churches Cure America's Social Ills?" In that article they asked and answered this very interesting question: "What is the surest guarantee that an African-American ...
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