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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Leonard Sweet
... Maybe it’s a holdover from the old American adage of “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.” We’ll use some “self-help” suggestions offered by others only as long as we get to pick and choose what kind of help we’ll consider acceptable, only as long as we are still ultimately in charge of the direction and duration that the “help” we seek takes. “Self help” books, whether they are focused on helping us learn to navigate the tax code, or the web, or an emotional “web” brought ...
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
... of its affection is the Lord Jesus Christ, the one alto­gether lovely. We behold his face, Jesus’ face, as in a glass, and are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. But the result is permanent.4 Have you accepted this love that God offers? The offer is free, but it has come with a price. The price paid is the death of Jesus on the cross for your eternal redemption. Reach out today and ...
2453. The Call of Holiness
Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)
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Derl G. Keefer
... life to its fullest. Holiness is the fulfillment of fullest! It is not done in our own strength but in God's strength. Holiness unto the Lord truly becomes our watchword and song. IV. A Call To Holiness Is A Call To Service After we accept grace, forgiveness, and cleansing, we are ready to truly serve in God's name. God is not recruiting people to service. When they are spiritually ready God is ready to challenge them to serve as disciples. There are definite similarities between humanitarian effort and ...
Sermon
Stephen P. McCutchan
... structures tell us the time is not right to heal the shameful divisions of Chris­tians in this land. Too often, instead of searching for a language that transcends such barriers, we name a language that is comfort­able for us and then demand that others accept our language as the universal language. How should Christians respond? We come to celebrate, as did those first Christians, well aware that we do not know the actual dimensions of our role and the direction that we are to go. Yet, we come in faith ...
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Chrysanne Timm
... ­one who has been a victim of abuse. How does one reconcile God's command that the Israelites kill every living creature they encounter as they enter into the prom­ised land? (Joshua 6:21). Many people of deep faith find it a real challenge to accept this kind of destruction as God's will. As a pastor, I have had many talks with parishioners, neigh­bors, and community members who somewhere along the way in life have found fault with God. Some of these people are exceed­ingly bright — their reasoning ...
Sermon
Chrysanne Timm
... that he and his family often truly begin to mourn. There has been grief work going on since the moment the words of the diagnosis fell upon the ears of those in the physician's office, but the stage of grief that Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross calls "acceptance" is the stage when there's nothing left to do but keep watch and mourn. From the moment God called Jeremiah to be a prophet to Judah, Jeremiah began to accompany an entire people diagnosed with a serious disorder. No sooner had God pledged to put the ...
2457. Put on Some Clothes
Colossians 3:1-17
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Leonard Sweet
... gift. The peace of Christ, born in a manger, lived out in the world, preached to the people, sacrificed on the cross, resurrected by God’s power. The Prince of Peace’s promise of peace is the Christmas gift we have all been given. We have only to accept it and live it. If you’ve ever sang in a choir you know “harmony” doesn’t come easily. Harmony doesn’t come naturally to human voices. For a choir to find its voice, to find a sweet spot of harmonious sound, it takes hours and hours of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... was uncertain about his future. Everyone in this room can relate to him, regardless of your age or station in life. For teenagers, it might be the uncertainty of moving to a new school. Will the students there accept me? For those getting near to the end of high school, it might be, “Will I get accepted at the college of my choice?” And for those getting ready to enter the work force, “What kind of job can I possibly get in today’s economy?” It doesn’t get any easier in adulthood. “What if ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... a religion of virtues, but it is a religion of grace. You become a good person because you are loved. You are not loved because you are good.” There is hope for weak persons like you and me. There was even hope for Pontius Pilate if he was willing to accept it. But he did not. Friend, do not make that same mistake. Accept the grace of God today. *The Rev. Dr. Leslie Holmes, http://day1.org/1060-quitting_aint_an_option.
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Leonard Sweet
... , even Gentiles. Jesus reached out to include all persons because he himself received and recognized God’s pleasure, God’s love, as a gift of grace. We do not receive God’s love and pleasure as any earned bonus. God’s pleasure in us, God’s acceptance of us, God’s grace towards us, is always and forever an unexpected, unattainable, unearned gift. God wants the divine pleasure in us to multiply into joy — into a life filled with the joy of salvation and thankfulness for the gift of grace. It’s ...
2461. Give It Up
Romans 9:30--10:21
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... Sometimes “giving it up” means risking everything you have, “giving it all up” for something outside of yourself. For the first century faithful and for the twenty-first century faithful, “giving it up” means both “giving up” a life of safety and social acceptance, and “giving up” individual behaviors and bad moves that work against a life lived in, with and under Christ. Lent isn’t about giving up soufflé or steaks. Lent is a time when we acknowledge both with our lips and our lives ...
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Leonard Sweet
... the second verse: Christ did not carry the cross to rebirth humanity as hunchbacks. Christ did not die on the cross so we could lead miserable, sorrowing lives. Jesus might have been forced to carry his own crucifixion cross to Golgotha, but he did not accept that weight as a gravitational down-pull upon all of his earthly life. The last “Via Dolorosa” (Way of Suffering) mile Jesus walked did not negate all the Via Pax (Way of Peace), Via Gaudium (Way of Joy) missionary miles he strode during his life ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... The “prodigal son’s” petition for an “early inheritance” wasn’t like a kid begging for a car before going off to college. That youngest son’s request was an offensive, slap-in-the-face, “I-wish-you-were-dead” disregard of all that was accepted, expected, and respected. He was supposed to stay on the family property, raise his own family, and help bring in the crops and “run the family business.” He was supposed to honor his father through his life and work. The youngest son’s demand ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... that he had not only entered the houses of uncircumcised Gentiles, but he had actually eaten with them. “Tell us, Peter,” they cried, “that it’s not so!” But it was so. So, starting from the beginning, Peter explained how he had come to this position of accepting Gentiles. “I was in the city of Joppa praying,” he said, “and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. I looked into [this sheet ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ’s deal with the first question: “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Note, first of all, that the lawyer’s question stressed doing something. “What shall I DO to inherit eternal life?” What good action could he take to insure that God would accept him? It is evident that he had no concept of the part that God’s love and grace played in the process of salvation. He simply wanted to know if there was some act he could perform that would guarantee that he would be ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . She tells a moving story about how she and Terry met after he had been arrested. She said, “I took Terry’s hands, hands that one day might carry a football for the Chicago Bears, and tried to put my hands around them. Then I asked the Lord to accept those hands, and use them for his glory. Then Terry prayed his own prayer something like this: ‘Help me, not to be using my hands for bad things but good things for people like old folks and little children, people I like to help. Make my hands stronger ...
2467. Unity and Hope
Romans 14:1--15:13
Sermon
Timothy J. Smith
... eye to eye with during the year. When we are able to do this we are one step closer to peace on earth. “Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God,” Paul penned. Paul knew the importance of welcoming and accepting others into the fellowship. May each one of us make an extra effort to welcome people to our church this month. As Paul read the scriptures and prayed he concluded that Jesus came to this earth for all people. That all people be united in Christ was ...
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Timothy J. Smith
... we are to “live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly.” Elsewhere Paul teaches, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God — what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:2). It is easy to fall into the trap of “worldly passions,” and forget that Jesus calls us to “live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly.” We do not follow the ways of the world as much as we live ...
2469. Let Them Eat Cake
2 Timothy 1:1-2:13
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Leonard Sweet
... death in his resurrection as the true Messiah. This is what Paul proudly proclaims to Timothy as “my gospel.” Underlying Paul’s declaration is the threat offered by those who are preaching a different message, an alternative “gospel” that is more acceptable to some. That teaching, revealed in 2:18 as a claim that for true believers “the resurrection has already taken place,” does not embrace the reality of a faithful life. The “good news” of the gospel, Paul insists, is married together ...
2470. 2 Timothy 2:8-15
2 Timothy 1:1-2:13
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... death in his resurrection as the true Messiah. This is what Paul proudly proclaims to Timothy as “my gospel.” Underlying Paul’s declaration is the threat offered by those who are preaching a different message, an alternative “gospel” that is more acceptable to some. That teaching, revealed in 2:18 as a claim that for true believers “the resurrection has already taken place,” does not embrace the reality of a faithful life. The “good news” of the gospel, Paul insists, is married together ...
2471. A Man of God
Matthew 1:18-25
Sermon
King Duncan
... they didn’t have the benefit of paternity testing, so there wasn’t any way to know for sure, but there was enough to give his friend an out, if he wanted it. He weighed the pros and cons and decided to ask his girlfriend to marry him. She accepted, and they got married. Shortly after, she gave birth to a daughter who quickly became and is, to this day the apple of his friend’s eye. At the time, the thought of getting married and becoming a parent was the farthest thing from this young man’s mind ...
2472. Really!
Luke 20:27-40
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... down and interacting with us humans — the assertion of Docetism — than to proclaim that God so cared about us that God emptied the divine being to truly take on the frailty of human form to redeem forever our human nature. Unless we accept that extreme radical love from the divine, a love that offered the utmost of personal sacrifice for another, the resurrection is, indeed, a silly proposition. Old heresies never die. They just get new lobbyists and better sound bites. “Docetism” was theologically ...
2473. Hill Climbing
Psalm 121:1-8
Sermon
King Duncan
... a knapsack on her back and three small children in tow. She lived in horrible conditions in a refugee camp in Laos for four long years until her family was brought here by a church refugee resettlement program. When her sister died, Santieri and her husband accepted responsibility for her sister’s children and her aging mother. Nine people under the roof of a small house designed for half that many. Santieri and her husband have worked two jobs each for the last 15 years to make ends meet and to provide ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.” “Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.’”(Gen. 4: 3-7) Here it is Cain’s opportunity to repent. His opportunity to overcome sin and to restore his relationship with God. How ...
2475. Around the Family Table
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Sermon
King Duncan
... the family together, back to the table, because it’s around the table that the family enjoys not just food for the body but food for the soul. Around the table they come together as a community who care for and love one another and accept one another’s differences. When they’re no longer gathering around the table, they’re all just lone individuals fighting for their individual rights and seeking individual power and forgetting the needs of others. But around the table, they’re a family, and they ...
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