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
Showing all results
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... union. It was biblical. Here they were with me. Could I pray for them to get pregnant? After all, I was a “spiritual” man. They could see it! I prayed. I prayed fervently. And they believed. Each Sunday she came to worship wearing maternity dresses, proving her faith to God, to me, and to the church. But the pregnancy did not happen. For whatever reason, they remained childless. In a short while, they disappeared from our community. Someone who knew them well said that they were now worshiping with ...
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... was accosted by reporters, and told the world: “Anna is my granddaughter Anastasia!” Suddenly Anna began to change. She blossomed as a person. She took hold of her life. The suicide threats were gone. She washed herself and combed her hair. She looked after herself and dressed in style. She stood up straight in a crowd, and she carried herself with dignity when she walked. One line in the play carried the heart of the story. How did Anna climb from the pit of her insane asylum and walk again in the land ...
Sermon
John B. Jamison
... people who were sick, some with scars, as well as crooked arms and legs from breaks that were not tended to properly. I imagine people in rags, some so thin I’m sure they haven’t had a decent meal for weeks. I see those who are clean and dressed, but their eyes and posture tell me they are hurting so badly that I believe they see this trip to see Jesus as the one, last effort before they give up entirely. I imagine children running around, many in tatters, many without a bath, not understanding why they ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... daily by depressing sights, harassed by panhandlers, street people, the mentally ill, “you learn to walk past dozens of people without ever looking at any of them.” Of course, if all the people she encountered on her way to work were well dressed, clean, respectable looking people -- people like us -- then they might be more easily seen. It's tough to see certain people. Jesus enters the temple with his disciples. And we're here this morning, in the church, as disciples of Jesus, following him ...
2130. Never Satisfied
John 14:8-17, (25-27)
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... pretending to read a book on my Kindle, but I couldn’t help overhearing a conversation going on at the table, one with higher stools, across the aisle from me. Two women were seated there, across from each other. Both were youngish ― mid-twenties, say ― and beautifully dressed and quaffed. They had nametags on their lapels, identifying them as employees of one of the stores in the mall. So taken was I by what I observed going on at their table, I later wrote a poem about it. I called it: LUCKY HER She ...
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... is to come. The People of the Town and Country The people of the town and surrounding countryside were overcome with curiosity and make their way out to the seaside. There they discovered Jesus and, sitting at his feet, the man from the cemetery now fully dressed and perfectly sane. Again, the ones who had seen it, presumably, the swineherds and some others who happened to be in attendance attest to what they saw, how the afflicted man was healed by Jesus. And, in response, all the people from the city and ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... characters in a non-threatening, relaxed, unchallenged way. Our emotions become plugged in, and our defenses go down. We can process, introspect, re-evaluate, and immerse ourselves in a differing environment without threat of reprisal. It’s as though we are “trying on dress or suit” where no one else can see. Fiction, like looking at a series of photos or images, engage us without our “walls.” When we listen to a news report or read an article about a real occurrence, the people mentioned do not ...
Eulogy
Richard E. Zajac
... there need for pain medication. It’s been shown that laughing a hundred times a day is the cardiovascular equivalent of 10 minutes of rowing. Dr. Patch Adams, whom Robin Williams made famous in a movie by that name, does his hospital rounds dressed in a clown costume and other outrageous attire with the intention of provoking laughter amidst his patients because, as he saw it, laughter did therapeutic wonders. Lee Martin did therapeutic wonders. Lee Martin relieved a lot of pain. Lee Martin provided us ...
2134. For Someone Who Led A Magnificent Life
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 · 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 · 2 Corinthians 4:6-11 · Luke 24:13-35
Eulogy
Richard E. Zajac
... . Bill asked her where his bedroom happened to be and went right to it. Upon entering the room, Bill pulled the kid out of bed and threw him onto the floor. (A more memorable wake up call I’m sure he’d never had.) Bill says to him: “Get dressed, you’re going to school!” When he got the kid to school, he parked his car in the farthest extremity of the parking lot so he could parade him past several classroom windows, driving home the point to anyone who saw them that they’d better perish the ...
2135. What’s In a Word?
Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
Do you know what I mean when I use the term “bathrobe biblical”? I’m talking about the way we dress the kids for the Christmas pageant at church — old bathrobes become robes for Joseph, Grandpa’s cane becomes a shepherd’s crook, and a cigar box gets decorated with gold-painted macaroni so the kings have a treasure to bring. If you remember cigar boxes, you’re dating yourself. The ...
2136. The Chasm
Luke 16:19-31
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... us what we need to know. This person, whether wealthy, well-off, or simply upper middle class, has a pretty good life! No lack for the best food. Today, that may mean he buys organic or has a daily meal delivery service. He eats three healthy meals per day and dresses fashionably and well. I think we can all imagine what kind of salary that takes. He lives in a pretty large house with its own gated property. He’s doing well. Now, lying near the gate (outside of it of course) is a “poor man named Lazarus ...
2137. Lord, Excuse Me
Matt. 22:1-14; Luke 14:15-24
Illustration
Philip W. McLarty
Luke tells the same parable in a simpler, less militant way. (Luke 14:16-24) According to Luke, the host invited three friends, but each was predisposed. One had just bought some land, another five yoke of oxen, and another had just gotten married. Given the particulars, each had a reasonable excuse. Years ago, a friend of mine put this together in a song and sang it to the tune of "The Beverly Hillbillies." It went like this: "I cannot come to the banquet, excuse me, I pray, I've just bought a field, I ...
Showing 2126 to 2137 of 2137all results