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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King Duncan
... air, whirled round, dove into the sofa, and buried her head under the cushion." If you have ever been around a small child, you can see her doing just that. Christmas is an exciting time. A cartoon in The New Yorker magazine a couple of years back showed God sitting majestically on a heavenly throne, with the stars twinkling all around. The planet earth is visible in the distance. The Almighty is looking at the earth and says, "Don’t you make me have to come down there." But coming down here is exactly ...
2252. Get Rid of the Junk
Jeremiah 16:1--17:18
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King Duncan
... Evans tells about a crack that appeared in his bedroom wall. Evans hired a contractor to fix it. The man plastered over the crack and repainted the wall, and it looked as good as new. But within a week, the crack was back. The contractor came back out, replastered, and repainted. A few days later the crack had returned. The same thing happened several more times with several different painting contractors. Then, finally, a contractor told Tony what was really going on. “You don’t have a problem with ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... Theresa says, He comes most often through those who are suffering, the poorest of the poor, those disenfranchised by the world. She tells the story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to her home where he could die in love and peace. It took Mother Theresa and her sisters two hours to get the lice off the man and give him the bath he had not had in who knows how long. “I live like an animal in the streets ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... they would have to amputate the leg. Thankfully, that has not been the case and we are grateful. Being there with him brought back powerful memories of my mother. She died on Valentine’s Day, two years ago, at 89, and I miss her desperately. During the ... Pizza and the Detroit Tigers. As a boy of nine, he was put into an orphanage in Jackson, Michigan, and grew up there. That was back in the early ‘40s. He wanted to be a shortstop for the Detroit Tigers, a priest, and an architect. He didn’t become a ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... And who is going to do something about it? We are at war. Last year in Brooklyn, or Queens, New York, there was a terrible accident. A seventh-grade student died on a Friday afternoon in a pool accident. The following Monday when the class came back to school, as you can imagine, they were emotionally distraught. Some of the kids were crying. One of the children asked their teacher, Mrs. Rezario, “Do you think Johnny is in heaven?” And Mrs. Rezario said, “Of course he is. God loves every one of you ...
2256. God's Say-So
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
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Maxie Dunnam
... them to know there is a source of bread that will never be depleted. Like the widow of Zarephath, who kept going back to the barrel and finding flour there; like the Hebrews in their wilderness wandering, finding fresh manna every day, there is bread -- ... .” That’s God’s transforming “say-so” to you, and it is the powerful message you have for those to whom you minister. Go back to our Ebenezer hymn. One of the verses we sang goes: O to grace how great a debtor, Daily I’m constrained to be! Let ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... church bell in Czechoslovakia would be rung at noon. And when that day and time came bells that had been silent for forty-five years began to ring. It was electric. Everybody knew that something new had come. Dr. Vilem Schneeberger, one of the pastors, whom I had known back during my years as World Editor of The Upper Room, said that for the first time he was able to put signs out in front of his church in Prague. Do you know what he put on that sign? Just four words: “THE LAMB HAS WON! What a victory ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... him to Oxford on the train and put him in a hotel to rest. Then they dressed him in his preaching robe and brought him to the church in an automobile. The pulpit chair was carried out of the car; he was put in it and then carried back to the platform. He didn’t stand all during the service until time to preach. He preached almost thirty minutes – vigorously. Then, just as he asked the congregation for the closing prayer, he swooned, every ounce of energy having gone from him. Many of the congregation ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... and no random wanderings. His steps were ordered by the Lord; he lived under the tight constraints of divine providence. When his mentor and predecessor John the Baptist was first arrested and then relieved of his head, that was the signal for Jesus to move back home, to withdraw into Galilee. Verse 13, “When he heard that John had been handed over, he withdrew into Galilee.” What John faced, which was martyrdom, Jesus would face later on, but between now and then and between here and there was a lot of ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... lovable because he loves us.”15 Therefore, loving the enemy at two levels, practically and in prayer, always changes us by rooting us back in the kingdom of God, and if they respond to the grace coming their way, there is hope for them as well. And ... What are you going to do about it?’ Wade took a new baseball out of his pocket, autographed it, tossed it to the man, and went back to the field to his pre-game routine. The man never yelled at Boggs again; in fact, he became one of Wade's biggest fans at ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... help. Leo Tolstoy wrote, “Everybody thinks of changing the world, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”13 During the 1930's a woman came asking the great Gandhi to get her little boy to stop eating sugar; it was doing him harm. He gave a cryptic reply: "Please come back next week." The woman left puzzled but returned a week later. The Mahatma said to the young fellow, "Please don't eat sugar. It is not good for you." Then he joked with the boy for a while, gave him a hug, and sent him on his way. The ...
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Michael Milton
... and to protect the one away as well as the ones remaining behind. As I was reading this passage and thinking about how obedience brings protection, I thought that we ought to be praying, “Lord, keep Dad from sinning. Keep his heart focused on you, and so bring him back to us whole.” How then are we kept? What power can overcome all other powers? It is the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. Where shall we access His Spirit? In prayer through the Word. We must not treat the Word like a lucky rabbit’s foot ...
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Michael Milton
... village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them ...
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Michael Milton
... packed up and went to seminary. I gave up that job, that home, that beautiful community that I loved so much, but God gave back more than a hundredfold. He has given us freedom, beautiful family members in the body of Christ. He has also given us trials that ... is bad and holds it. He is a true contrarian investor. He doesn’t follow the crowd. He leaves them and goes to the back of the line where the investing is good. Peter and the disciples need to learn about contrarian investing and how it works with ...
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Mark Trotter
... I should take responsibility for looking after them? I've had it. You can take your 'exodus' and finish it yourself. I'm going back to the ranch." I remember Senator Alan Simpson said once, "Up in Wyoming we have more cattle than people. We like it that way ... to myself, 'Are you kidding. He is a real downer.'" Then the man said, "Maybe we could get together for lunch when we get back to the city, that is, if you have the time?" Wakefield again thought to himself, "No one wants to have lunch with this guy, ...
2266. The Restaurant in Downtown Jericho
Matt 3:1-17
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John Jamison
... was waiting for. He started talking, and shouting, and waving his arms, and every time someone would try to laugh at him and go back to their coconut cream pie, he would walk right over and slam a fist on their table, or just stand and stare at the ... out with him, and followed him straight to the river. From there on it was history. More and more people came, and more and more went back home to tell their friends they had better go, too. By the time they got there, the crowds were huge. At one point in his ...
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King Duncan
... to our community--we might have to change some of our present habits. And we do not like to change. I heard about a fellow back in the days when radio was the dominant medium who bought a radio, tuned it to WSM in Nashville, home of the Grand Ole Opry ... ahead. So, where do we begin? Let’s begin with the end in mind. That’s what Stephen Covey encouraged us to do a few years back with his best-selling book, THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. When we get to the end of our life, will we do so with ...
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R. Robert Cueni
... ," the once-angry and now-grieving father lamented. "But we didn't want her to be minister. All we wanted was for her to be a Presbyterian!"1 One just never knows when one of the kids might take the Christian faith so seriously she might turn her back on the wishes of the family and become a minister. As an aside, let me say how much the church needs this story repeated. We have a significant shortage of people taking their faith seriously enough to hear God's call to ministry. We need people to turn their ...
Sermon
Bill Mosley
... Moses the power to part the waters of the Red Sea and the Israelites crossed dry shod. Pharaoh of course wasn't going to let a little thing like the Red Sea stop him, so he sent his chariots after them, and that's when the waters came back together, drowning the army. The Israelites celebrate, then plunge into the Wilderness of Shur. They find water at Marah, but it is bitter. God shows Moses how to sweeten the water. Then at Elim they find twelve springs of water and palm trees. Between Elim and Sinai lies ...
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Arley K. Fadness
... itself, it had lost its predatory skills and forgotten its natural enemies. Within twelve hours its keepers had lured the hungry bird back into captivity with little more than a dead mouse.2 In similar fashion, the Israelites, unused to the rigors of the wilderness, ... whose very title promises to deal with the question of meaning in life, it must burn under their fingernails."5 Like children in the back seat on a family trip, we ask, "Are we there yet? I'm hungry, I'm thirsty. When are we going to stop? I' ...
2271. Abraham Believed God
Romans 4:1-5, 13-17
Sermon
Richard W. Ferris
... congregation: "The only thing that will save us is for us to offer a special litany of rain. Therefore, I ask that you go back to your homes, fast during the week, and believe that the rains will come. Then return next Sunday for the litany of rain." The ... the world to die for our sins. We believe in the promise of Jesus, and we put our faith in that promise. And yet we still hold back when it comes to putting that faith to the test in our day-to-day living. We don't always want to do what we know God ...
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William G. Carter
... phase. A lifelong Jew, he got serious about God, even thinking about becoming a Christian. He wrote some new songs, hired a back-up group of gospel singers, and went on tour. One of the songs said, "You gotta serve somebody. You gotta serve somebody. It ... of justice and new beginnings. There are a lot of times when it would be easier to do our own thing. To play it safe. To back away. To retreat in comfort. Then we come to church and remember that we are bound to Jesus Christ. Not only that, he has bound ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... such things as, `I don't know if you can get this in, but every summer at the lake, Dad would swim clear across the lake and back again, until he was eighty-two years old. It's nothing much, but it would be nice if you could mention it.'" He got that into one ... dies, and then her two sons die. Naomi is left with her two daughters-in-law, grieving. Naomi says it is time for her to go back home. Her daughters-in-law say that they will go with her. She says, "There is no obligation for you to do this. You may ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... expected them to work hard. If you sat down in practice, you were punished. You had to run laps. If you drank water in practice, or in a game, you had to run laps. If you made a error, or fumbled, you had to run laps. Olson was a defensive back on that team. In one of the first games of the year, the other team's end got behind him, caught a pass for a touchdown. What made it worse was, it was the touchdown that won the game. Olson was humiliated. But that got worse, too. Because the next ...
2275. Called to Freedom
Matthew 11:25-30
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... . He called the diet to meet at Worms for the purpose of trying Martin Luther for heresy. Frederick provided an armed guard for Luther, and a cart. It was the first time that Luther would ride anywhere. He walked everywhere else, including to Rome and back once. Now he rode through all the small towns of Saxony, Thuringia, and Franconia on his way to Heidelberg, across the Rhine, over to Worms. Everywhere he went, the crowds gathered and cheered him. The emperor was Charles V, the grandson of Ferdinand and ...
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