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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201. John 2:1-11
John 2:1-11
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Leonard Sweet
... mid-section of the US and even sank its icy claws into the citrus crops in Florida. That meant layers of warm winter clothing were necessary just to survive. Layers help us in two ways. First, they block cold air from penetrating to our skin. Second, they keep skin-warmed air trapped next to our body, which is the real source of the warmth. Not the layers, but the heat from our bodies keeps us warm. Layers help us create natural insulation, our own personal environment, encircling and protecting us from a ...
202. Don't Give Me that Bible Stuff
Luke 4:14-21
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William G. Carter
... was from India, and said, "I've never gone to a Christian worship service. I would like to go." Clarence took him to Rehoboth Baptist Church,and it is reported that "the presence of his dark skin miraculously chilled the hot, humid southern Georgia atmosphere." It didn't matter that he was from India. He had dark skin, not a redneck —and so he did not fit in. After worship, the pastor drove out to Jordan's farm and said, "You can't come with somebody like that. It causes disunity in our church." Jordan ...
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King Duncan
... Janielle’s son from a former relationship. Jarek didn’t know who his father was. He didn’t really have a daddy. Jarek’s skin was much darker than Andy’s, so people could tell he was not Andy’s boy. Jarek seemed to know that. Out of his ... drew were of God’s face. Many of the children drew faces that looked like their own in terms of hair color, eye color and skin color. And, this, of course, makes sense. But Coles was reminded of another way of imagining the face of God: He thought back to his ...
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Leonard Sweet
... we smear on our face, or rub through our hair, or massage into our “love handles” or cheese thighs is really going to defy the space-time continuum and strip away everything wrinkled, grey, or saggy. We all KNOW that if that super-secret skin serum being hawked on that late-night infomercial could really do what it claims, its manufacturers wouldn’t have to be advertising it on a late-night infomercial. But. And every cosmetic manufacturer in the world loves, depends, exists on this “but.” BUT we ...
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Schuyler Rhodes
... breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.— Ezekiel 37:4-6 Prophesy to these bones ... breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord. — Ezekiel 37:4-6 It seems easy enough ...
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David J. Kalas
... human beings are relentlessly physical creatures. When we are confronted with a physical need or problem or pain, therefore, it's hard for us to think about much else. Satan knew this about us. Skeptical and unimpressed by Job's initial faithfulness, Satan curtly challenged God, "Skin for skin! All that people have they will give to save their lives. But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face" (Job 2:4-5). Job did not sink to Satan's expectation, but ...
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Leonard Sweet
... of steps that create the biggest changes if that step is into your “adjacent possible.” How is a lobster able to grow bigger when its shell is so hard? How do crustaceans grow? In order to get bigger crustaceans must periodically shed their “skin,” their carapace, their exterior shell that keeps them together, that keeps them safe. Unfortunately for the crabs off the Chesapeake Bay, this results in the annual frenzy of “soft shell crab” season. It is also the only way Maine lobsters ever get to ...
208. Wrong!
Acts 2:1-13
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Leonard Sweet
... How many of you were taught that you were always to put butter on a burn? It was the reigning right-thing-to-do for generations. Until it was finally determined to be the single most wrong thing you could do for burned skin. The oil in butter seals in the heat generated by the injured skin, and keeps the burned flesh still burning. Now we all know the “right” thing to do is to immerse a burn in cold, but not ice, water. Buttering a burn is just plain wrong. Medical errors result in an annual death rate ...
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David E. Leininger
... today as "Hansen's Disease," for he is not barred from any contacts or activities because of his condition. He has face-to-face access to his king. The word here translated as "leprosy" is actually a generic term that describes a large number of skin disorders. So saying, the suffering and stigma were bad enough for the mighty Naaman to be desperate for help - any help. No giggles there. We sympathize. But how ironic: the apparently powerful so powerless. Another irony. A major role is about to be played by ...
210. When God Is Gone
Job 23:1-9, 16-17
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David E. Leininger
... mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised" (Job 1:21). Cheer up, Job, things could be worse ... and, sure enough, things got worse - Job is struck down by a hideous skin disease. In utter misery, Mrs. Job advises, "Curse God and die" (2:9). Not Job. He kept the faith. He was miserable ... but faithful. Meanwhile, our hero's friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, hear about the horror story Job is living through, and just as you and ...
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Robert J. Elder
... puts freshly squeezed grape juice into an old container with a tight lid. Winemakers will tell us that the juice will ferment into wine and wreck the old container, whether it's an old bottle or an old wineskin. Put new wine in old skins and you'll lose both wine and skins. The elasticity of new wineskins is right for new wine. Times come when the old is no longer sufficient, when the rotten no longer holds together. While this may sound as though we are referencing a story that celebrates what is new at ...
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Kristin Borsgard Wee
... for one day each week, we can stop running, stop responding to the bells and sirens of our world, stop seeing the dust balls, the bills, and the weeds, just for one day. On this one glorious day, we can take the time to feel the wind against our skin, listen to the birds singing, and appreciate a new unity with the world around us. No one will praise us for doing this, of course, but we will certainly feel more alive. Apparently, even God feels more alive on the sabbath! In Exodus 31:17 it says that God ...
213. Dividing Walls
Ephesians 2:11-22
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Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe
... as if God keeps tearing down the walls, and we keep building them up again. The dividing walls of hostility have been broken down, and all people are now welcomed into the household of God — all people, not just special ones. All people, not light-skinned or dark-skinned. All people, not comfortable or poor. Breaking down the dividing walls is no easy task. These dividing walls don't get built in a day by goose-stepping armies but through a much more gradual process on a daily basis. The idols usually don ...
214. Job Is for Real
Job 1:1, 2:1-10
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Donna Schaper
... has been enormously disfigured by an abusive husband. Her face is cockeyed, one eye is half shut, and the lips are bruised and engorged. The nose on the woman's face is sideways. Her skin is pockmarked. First, we see the photo. Then we see William's rendition of Scarface. In William's rendition she is beautiful. Like a model. Her skin is firm, her face is not distorted. She is gorgeous. Williams tells us that when she looks at this woman, this is who she sees. The Garrison Institute, 37 miles from here on ...
215. God Begins Anew
Jeremiah 31:31-34
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Robert A. Hausman
... walk through life, we always go astray; we cannot direct our own steps (10:23). Jeremiah asks, "Can Ethiopians change their skin or leopards their spots?" (13:23). This same human perversity is addressed by Paul in the second lesson for today, Romans ... need to step on others to climb higher. If we know God has broken the back of death, we do not need to save our skins through detachment, denial, or violence. We do not need to be afraid of that which is different, the other, the alien, the stranger. Instead, ...
216. Keep the Pressure Out
Acts 2:38; Mt 28:19-20
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Brett Blair
... . Inside they're not alone. When their lights are turned on and you look through the tiny, thick plate-glass windows, what do you see? Fish! These fish cope with extreme pressure in an entirely different way. First, they don't build thick skins; they remain supple and free. Second, they compensate for the outside pressure by equalizing pressure inside themselves - where we have a lot of air pockets inside us that equalizes the pressure of our atmosphere, fish have less air pockets and more water within ...
217. Four Talents
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Nathan Castens
... have mastered a science," said the first, "by which I can take but a bone of some creature and create the flesh that goes with it." "I," said the second, "know how to grow that creature's skin and hair if there is flesh on its bones." The third said, "I am able to create its limbs if I have flesh, the skin, and the hair." "And I," concluded the fourth, "know how to give life to that creature if its form is complete." Thereupon the brothers went into the jungle to find a bone so they could demonstrate their ...
218. Thank God for Pain
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Dorothy Clarke Wilson
... blood showed. Still he felt nothing...He supposed, like other workers with leprosy, he had always half expected it...In the beginning probably not a day had gone by without the automatic searching of his body for the telltale patch, the numbed area of skin." All that night the great orthopedic surgeon tried to imagine his new life as a leper, an outcast, his medical staff's confidence in their immunity shattered by his disaster. And the forced separation from his family. As night receded, he yielded to hope ...
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King Duncan
... was so great, she performed surgery in her bathroom until the building was completed. One operation involved the amputation of a common laborer’s leg. Complications arose, and skin grafts were needed. A few days later, another doctor asked Chestnut why she was limping. “Oh, it’s nothing,” was her terse reply. Finally, a nurse revealed that the skin graft for the patient, a coolie at the bottom of Chinese society, came from Dr. Chestnut’s own leg, taken with only local anesthetic. Sadly, during the ...
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Arley K. Fadness
... clotheless dilemma. He beats and cuts himself with sharp rocks until blood flows, clots, and flows again. Blue bruises dot his skin like a leopard's spots. He lives in the cemetery. Imagined or real zombies are his friends. Gerasene citizens try to ... with open windows all around where a Vodou ceremony was in progress. Three drummers were beating upon mahogany drums made with goat skins stretched over the top. The Mamba (priestess) welcomed us as we were ushered to front row seats. For two hours the Mamba ...
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Scott Bryte
... who remembered to say, "Thank you"? Here's the difference. All ten lepers were healed as they were walking away from Jesus. Nine of them kept walking. But one of them found that he couldn't leave. His life had changed. Jesus gave him his life back. Jesus restored his skin and probably also his job, his family, and his place in the world. He had to go back to Jesus. He had to return and give thanks. He just had to. He couldn't keep away. That's what faith is. Faith is being unable to stay away from Jesus ...
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King Duncan
... .” Grandpa didn’t want him to be afraid, and said to him, “Don’t worry, you’ll be all right. You know God loves you.” The little boy answered down the steps, “I know God loves me, I just need something with skin on it.” We look into the manger and we see God comes to us with skin, the word made flesh. (3) That is why Christmas brings out the best in us. The New Testament teaches us that the very nature of God is love. In the glow of Christmas, we know ourselves to be loved and we are led ...
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King Duncan
... of them. He had ridden with the great chiefs Nana and Geronimo.” L’Amour concludes, “I had him all to myself for three months and got a lot of material for books I wrote later: Hondo, Shalako, and The Skyliners.” (3) That’s passion. Would you be willing to skin 925 cattle, some of them dead for some time, in order to glean a few good facts? That’s why Louis L’Amour was at the top of his profession. What is it that you have a passion for? Pastor and author Rick Warren says one time he typed the ...
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Leonard Sweet
... was not a judgment. But his physical disabilities were calculated as an indictment. Illness and infirmity were read as signs of God’s judgment. In the first century any type of skin disease was grouped into the general category of “leprosy” — and as a “leper,” anyone suffering from a skin ailment was deemed ritually, socially, and personally “unclean.” Yet “Dives” let Lazarus reside at the gateway to his home. At that location Lazarus not only was an unpleasant “first impression.” He ...
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Leonard Sweet
... his reputation and not getting a public “black eye,” that finally moved him to deal with her favorably. The Unjust Judge’s mercy, the Unjust Judge’s justice, is based on saving his own skin. God’s mercy, God’s justice, is based upon saving the world to the point of putting skin in. It is not the persistent pestering of the “noisy wheel” widow that makes her the protagonist in this parable. It is rather her faithfulness, despite being continually rejected and always powerless and potentially ...
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