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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Louis H. Valbracht
... sentiments on tombstones. We’re going to volunteer to do some really worthwhile work for the church - perhaps next summer. But somehow we always get past the age or the convenient season when that can be done. In our day we’re confronted by a destructive sort of illusion. In this country in 1800, life expectancy was 35 years. Indeed, as late as 1890, one could only expect to live for 43 years. But now, with the help of an easier life and modern medicine, we can expect to live well over 65 years. Yes, we ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... over these 195 years. But I suspect that no one in this land ever today contemplates what a dangerous motto - WHAT A DANGEROUS MOTTO - that was, what terrifying implications it could have in the life of a nation. No one stops to appreciate what a rare and illusive commodity liberty is in the history of the human family, how that it was even presumptuous to use that motto on that bell. Those who ordered the bell in 1751, and those who rang it in 1776, and we who celebrate it in 1971, are actually doing ...
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Michael J. Anton
... for seeing in the wrenched face and hearing in the doleful groans of our Lord Jesus, God’s spleen vented against every last weed of rebellion growing in his harmonious garden. Lent is God’s way of stripping us bare of every lame excuse, every illusion, every delusion, every artificial and phony face we wear, and sobering us up to the realization that we are in constant revolt and rebellion against our Creator. In other words, Lent somberly and dramatically puts us in our place. Lent is realism at its ...
204. MAGICIAN, SORCERER
Micah 5:12; Acts 8:9
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Stephen Stewart
... , the magicians who perform it are, as a rule, the most outspoken skeptics on the subject of genuine magic. It is their business to mystify, and they know that their public is easily fooled. They achieve their effects by the skillful use of illusioned trickery. The first magicians of this type were probably those very priests who were supposed to perform genuine magic. To mystify and impress their followers they used tricks which were closely related to the modern magician’s stock in trade. Perhaps the ...
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Robert Allen
... thieves ... That’s why at this very moment the keys to your car are in your pocket or purse. We may not be theologically trained, but we are theologically conditioned. We may not read the Bible, but we have read human nature and we are under no illusions about the reality of sin in our world. Many of us were shocked with the news of nine-year-old Darlwin Carlisle being found in an abandoned house in Gary, Indiana. Apparently, she was found locked in the unheated attic of an abandoned house. Doctors said ...
Drama
William Grimbol
... sown by Christ ... an integrity that is synonymous with simplicity and obedience and love. Lent is a revolution, for within this penitential period we discover the purity and truth of our Selves ... our Selves freed of the flab of image and illusion ... our Selves stripped of the camouflage of worldly wisdom and societal standards of success ... our Selves finally free to pursue the simple decencies and acts of compassion and caring and sharing that give our lives the only satisfaction and integrity we ...
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Thomas D. Peterson
... the love of Christ and step forth from situations that would enslave us. As she turned loose of the spirit of slavery which had begun to claim her, so we, in Christ’s love, look deep into the deadends that prevent our forward motion. We find them to be illusions brought about by the slavery of self that had begun to imprison us. When the slavery of the soul is gone we are free from all that impedes us. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, good news indeed! In the most literal sense of the word the ...
208. Proper 23
Genesis 3:1-24, Mark 10:17-31, Hebrews 4:1-13
Bulletin Aid
Paul A. Laughlin
... Jesus toward wealth in the Synoptic Gospels and that seem particularly inimical to a thoroughgoing capitalism. The gist of all the sayings is that radical trust in God and God’s grace is called for in salvation, and that wealth encourages an illusion of self-sufficiency and earning that constitutes a formidable stumbling block to such trust. Call to Worship Leader: We are a proud people, and we love our independence and our self-sufficiency.\ People: WE ESPECIALLY LIKE TO MEASURE OUR SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN ...
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E. Jerry Walker
... to Herod." It was a clever move. Particularly when he knew that the priests knew that Herod was even then in Jerusalem to witness the Passover. The priests shouted their protest, but Pilate turned his back, disappeared into the cloisters of the fortress. He had no illusions that he was done with them, even after the mob had left, following the accused as he was taken away to appear before Herod Antipas. The tetrarch was no fool. He hardly could be expected to pass judgment in Jerusalem, even if the man were ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... whose Mind is beyond our knowing, but whose Spirit penetrates to the farthest reaches of the universe and searches out the inmost secrets of our hearts, you know us better than we know ourselves. From you no secrets are hid, and in your presence all illusions and pretensions are done away to come face to face with yourself, reality itself. We praise you, Holy Lord God, and in your holy temple, we make haste to confess our hardness of heart and pettiness of spirit. Presented with wonders beyond our imagining ...
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George Bass
... a measure of relief. Jesus’ body had not been stolen by his enemies or grave robbers; he indeed had risen from the grave, and that must have been almost incomprehensible to them. No one rises from the tomb after three days! The women held no vague illusions when they had approached Jesus’ tomb; they had been there on Calvary when he died. They knew that he was dead, and they knew there was no hope of ever seeing him alive in this world. For two nights their sleep must have been tormented by memories ...
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Ron Lavin
... can bring war instead of peace, professionalism without compassion will turn forgiveness into a gimmick." Jesus was compassionate. He entered into fellowship with people. They knew that he knew how they felt. That’s the task of the healing community. The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. The world needs wounded healers: Wounded healers - who suffer themselves; Wounded healers - who are willing to pay the price of entering ...
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Alton F. Wedel
... , and had made them his own people. He likened Judah to a faithless spouse who must surely be divorced. He predicted the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem because that temple had become the nation’s rabbit’s foot, a good luck charm, providing the illusion of security. They had used God and his covenant for self-delusion and believed that, with the temple on Mount Zion in their midst, with the smoke of sacrifices rising to the heavens, with the temple singers doing their own thing, and with the ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... lack orientation to spiritual reality. They are like men living in a cave, with their backs to the opening of the cave where there is sunlight, seeing only their own shadows cast on the back wall of the cave. Our Lord is concerned about our living in a world of illusion so that truth becomes a stranger to us. "I am the truth and the life," he says, "he who follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall see the light of life." Walking in darkness, we are ignorant of what life is all about. It becomes just a ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... no reason for existence. Believers in Christ would still be "in their sins," enslaved by the demonic powers of the old age, under which all creation groans, destined only to perish, of all men most to be pitied because they have staked everything on an illusion. But Pentecost is proof that Christ raises his church with him to proclaim the reality of his triumph. The fulfilled promise, the apostle goes on to tell his hearers, is "to you and to your children." The little group of 120 had received the promised ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... of his children is in question. For God is our Father. The second characteristic of fatherhood is faith and hope in the child to the very last. Even when the wonderful dreams that the father has dreamed for his son have turned out to be illusions, even nightmares, when the boy has brought sorrow and disgrace instead of joy and recognition, the father’s heart still keeps trusting and praying, still hoping for the best. The parental feeling is not a transitory and flickering emotion. It is strong and sturdy ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... we forget this great storm? Oh, we will remember it. We will talk about it. We might even, at some future time, take some pride in being alive during it. But will we remember the truth of it? Will we know that we are only human, and thus abandon our illusions of control and mastery of the world? Will we know that we are only a part of this world and its nature, and that we must make our peace with it on all fronts rather than attempt to enslave and dominate it? Likely we will not remember that way. Likely ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... out what the lasting price tags are for all of life. How are we going to handle honest questions such as, "Is this race worth winning?" "Is this activity worth the investment it demands?" "Does my performance open my eyes to some of my illusions about my own abilities - or those of the majority of my peers?" A seventeenth-century English writer wrote this telling line: "I have lost all and found myself." What the Christian life is about is the riddance of the superfluous intensities of life’s misdirected ...
219. Smart, Wise, and Foolish
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
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Gregory J. Johanson
... no guarantee of a life full of meaning. It is more realistic to trust a wisdom which faces life as it is, which is able to redeem failure, which sees no source too humble to learn from, and which sees beyond the obvious. The cross is the key. Mystery, yes. Illusion, no. Grace and peace be to all of you. Amen. The Rev. Donald C. Houts, Ph.D.
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Gregory J. Johanson
... to learn the deeper meanings of love and friendship in the concrete relationships that come your way. In any case, don’t make the mistake of thinking that all good things in life go with marriage and all things lacking go with being single. That is an illusion. It just isn’t so. God gives to singles some tremendous experiences in life, many of which have been denied me as a married person. Life, as created by God, is so full and radiant that everyone, single or married, should honestly be able to say ...
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William G. Carter
... hear the truth and to tolerate no teacher or preacher or politician who tells it. It is to avoid certain sections of town so as not to be disturbed by the conditions in which some have to live. It is to avoid any book or any speaker who shatters my illusions of innocence in this evil world. It is not to ask questions at work, at home, or at church because I prefer to let sleeping dogs lie. It is to persuade myself that problems in the schools, in the neighborhood, in society at large are really none of my ...
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... of autumn flowers ... where is there an end of the drifting wreckage ... the prayer of the bone on the beach ... There is no end.... We live these days in spiritual wastelands where people have become so tainted and corrupt by the horrors and illusions of this age that they have lost all hope in God ever changing the present human condition. They resign themselves to eternal pessimism and have lost all belief in things ever getting better. They are permanent residents of spiritual wastelands. They are so ...
223. Messies Anonymous
Philippians 3:1-11
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King Duncan
... we are engaging in the latest fad. Whether it is a sleek sports car or a massage at the neighborhood spa, there are some people who are desperately seeking happiness through sensual pleasure. There's nothing wrong with that as long as we recognize that it is an illusion. It is an escape. It is a substitute for real happiness ” the happiness of an experience of the indwelling Christ. There are many of us who will not be able to enjoy old age much less heaven. Our world is wrapped up in the pursuit of power ...
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King Duncan
... , if you love Jesus" bumper-sticker on his car, reached out to take her other hand. His wife withdrew it, saying with deep sadness, "Herbert, you are not a believer. Your cruelty and callousness throughout the forty years of our marriage tells me that your faith is an illusion." (4) Ouch, that hurts. There are some things in life you cannot fake. How do people know that we are Christians? By our love. Love is our primary witness to our faith in Jesus Christ. How sad it is that so many who bear Christ's name ...
225. Created For Freedom
Galatians 5:1-15
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King Duncan
... such as ours. Freedom is always relative. There is no such thing as absolute freedom. Every once in a while a group comes along proclaiming that they believe in freedom from all conventional mores. Free speech, freedom of expression, free love. It~s an illusion. Freedom is relative. There are times when your freedom impinges on mine. In a free society we are always caught in a balancing act between the freedoms of various groups. For example, some of our most progressive laws are those calling for universal ...
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