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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Sermon
Robert Noblett
... do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself - that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness - that I myself am the enemy who must be loved - what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us ...
2452. The Un-Parade
Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... a clear sense of having contributed to what we feel is important. It is reported that Abraham Lincoln once attended a camp meeting led by a famous evangelist. During the services the evangelist said to his listeners: "All who want to go to heaven stand up." When Lincoln failed to stand up, the evangelist directed a question at him: "Do you want to go to hell, Mr. Lincoln?" The young Lincoln replied, "I want to go to Congress." He knew what he wanted, and it’s important that you and I know that too. Fourth ...
2453. Phoebe
Joel 2:28-32
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... easy to recognize Phoebe. She was Greek, probably a widow. Possibly it was a financial necessity which forced her to become an active businesswoman - somebody had to support the children. Like Lydia, she knew her way in a man’s world. She learned to stand toe to toe with her male competitors, but unlike George Sand, did not wear masculine attire, nor, like George Eliot, assume a man’s name. She did not choose to outwit her chauvinistic rivals by becoming one of them. She remained her feminine self and ...
2454. Onesimus
Isaiah 43:1-13
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... at the ceiling. There was a crude table and a smoking lamp where a young man was writing. An older man paced the floor, dictating - sometimes in a torrent of words, then silence. A rattling sound broke the stillness as the cell door opened. Standing in the lighted doorway was a youth, a cellmate, tall and muscular - obviously a slave. The older prisoner rushed forward, "My name is Paul, welcome ..." Silence, "And this is my friend, Timothy, he is just leaving." The guard thrust the newcomer into the cell ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... and the next, that comes only through him. But you know that to follow him will cost you. When you crown him King, you become his humble subject. He has the right to change your values, your vocation, your habits, your budget, your friends...everything. It's safer to just stand by the roadside and cheer. But he may never pass this way again. In your heart of hearts you know that if you resist his call today, you will regret it for as long as you live. Each time one of us is willing to publicly claim Him as ...
2456. Lazarus Rising
John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44
Sermon
... and there will now be a stench.” Jesus replied: Did I not say to you to have faith and that you will see the glory of God.” Then Jesus offered up a prayer “Father I thank you. You have heard me, already. I spoke for the sake of the people standing around that they might believe that you sent me.” John writes that Jesus now cried out with a loud voice: Lazarus come forth. Some scholars have pointed out that the next time John uses the Greek word to cry out, it is at the crucifixion, when the crowd is ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... God. We love God, too, because Jesus is the mediator between this awesome God and man. God is too great to be approachable. Who can stand in God’s holy presence? Who dares to look at God? Who has the right words to say to God? It is utterly impossible ... close to God. That is why man needs a mediator, a go-between God in Jesus. Jesus takes our petitions to the Father. Jesus stands as our Advocate when we appear for judgment. Jesus makes all things right between God and man. Jesus serves as our redeemer. He ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... . In the storms of life only the obedient man, built upon the rock of God’s will, will be able to remain steady and secure. According to our text, the Christian who does the will of God will go to heaven, and the one content with "Lord, Lord" does not stand a chance. To Hell You Go! The word-only Christian, Jesus says, will not go to heaven. "Not every one who says to me 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven." It is not because Christ wants to be mean and exclude anyone. No, it is the desire of ...
2459. Holy Tares!
Matthew 13:24-30
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... to join, as though they would be doing the church a favor by joining. This has resulted in a condition that often smells to high heaven. It is as someone once said, "The church is like Noah’s ark. If it were not for the storm outside, you could not stand the stench inside." This is not a pretty picture of the church, but you need to know it as it is lest you be disillusioned and disappointed. In the parable, Jesus taught that there are holy tares in the wheat. "Throw Out the Bums!" What are we to do with ...
2460. Jesus ... Who?
Matthew 16:13-20
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... a certain amount of awe, respect, and unworthiness. Recently there was carried in a Lutheran paper a picture of a group from Columbus, Georgia, who came to Plains to visit the Carters. In the middle of the picture was Jimmy Carter seated and a little boy was standing between his legs and Jimmy’s arms were around him. This boy happened to be the son of a Lutheran pastor in Columbus. Can you imagine how thrilled the boy and his father were? All the rest of his life, the boy will treasure that picture and ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... his order. "I’ll take bacon and eggs and toast and coffee." She mechanically took the menu. Then the bishop added: "and a few kind words." She disappeared, and shortly she returned with all the goodies. She placed each item on the table with great ease. Then, standing quite stiffly, she enjoined "Sir, will there be anything else?" With a smile on his face, the Bishop asked, "What about the few kind words?" At this point she bowed her head close to his ear and said, "If I were you, I wouldn’t eat them ...
2462. In the Spirit's Tether
Ephesians 4:17--5:21
Sermon
Allan J. Weenink
... so in the first century church. The greatest thing about the early Christians was certainly not their wealth. For the most part they were poor. They were not distinguished for their scholastic training. Most of them were unlettered. Nor were they known for their high social standing in the Roman world. Most of them belonged to the working class or were slaves. As Paul well says, "For look at your own calling as Christians, my brothers. You don’t see among you many of the wise nor many of the ruling class ...
Sermon
Allan J. Weenink
... , after what seemed an eternity, I reached the church expecting to find only a handful of people in that awful downpour. Certainly, no one would bring an infant out in weather like this. How wrong could one be! The church was filled to capacity with standing room only. There were candles on the pews and Coleman lanterns on the pulpit. A scene like this was beyond one’s wildest imagination. The eerie glow of candles and kerosene lamps, every available space taken, the steady staccato of rain on the sheet ...
2464. VIP
Luke 1:39-45
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... the ribbon on and play up the letters VIP.] That is very good, and it makes the chair even more special. I hope that you have noticed the letters that are written on the ribbon. What do they say? Do you know what the letters stand for? [Let them answer.] It stands for VERY IMPORTANT PERSON. That means that this chair is being saved for some VERY IMPORTANT PERSON. Some people are different from other people because we think that they are more important. They may have a very good voice or sing well or they ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... version of Francis the talking mule is the talking ass of Balaam. God told Balaam to go where he told him to go. But early in the morning Balaam saddled his ass and rode off with the princes of Moab. This angered God and he sent an angel to stand in front of the donkey. This forced the ass off the road. Every time the animal left the road Balaam would strike him. Finally the donkey grew weary and laid down under Balaam. Balaam struck the animal with a stick. Then, goes the story, the Lord opened the mouth ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... of the movie, A Man For All Seasons. This story of Sir Thomas More and his battle to maintain an oath he had taken to the church is one of the truly classic stories in the human legacy. In one of the most gripping moments of the movie, Sir Thomas stands defiantly before his adversaries and proclaims, "When a man takes an oath, he holds himself in his own hands like water, when he opens, all that he has and all that he is slips away." The more contact I have with people, the more certain I am of the validity ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... do anything then (or now in our world), and have a message like this, you’d better have something pretty good to back it up with. Upon what basis is Paul able to say these words? No need telling them the boat is a "good old boat" and will surely stand the storm, they can already see it is about to fall apart. He doesn’t tell them they have some pretty important people on board, so everything will be fine - everyone can see they are as scared as anybody. No use telling them the captain is very skilled, a ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... be a minority, your friends won’t always understand you, you may live life with thousands of acquaintances and friends, but when the going is hard, when the battle is rough, you will probably be able to count on the fingers of one hand those who will really stand by you. An elderly lady in Florida said, "When my sister died, the last person on earth who cared about me was gone. I don’t even have anybody to put in the blank space on my identification card in my wallet whom to notify in case of emergency ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... me accepted in Christ - now I see others in a new light. The story is told of a traveler in Africa who was watching a nun dressing the wounds of a leper. The sores were revolting, ugly, gruesome, repulsive, and stinking. As the traveler watched her, standing some distance away, he said: "I wouldn’t do that for ten thousand dollars!" Without even bothering to look up the nun replied, "Neither would I!" But what she would not do for money, she did willingly for love, for gratitude to one who had loved her ...
Sermon
Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... a race against time to make it. Anybody who can work, does, even if he can work only an hour or two. The pay for a day’s work was the average for that time. The men standing in the town square waiting for work was a similar scene to our union halls of today - very common in that part of the world. They would stand there with their equipment all day waiting for a job. The fact that some of them stood till five o’clock shows that they really wanted to work. These people always lived on the poverty line ...
2471. On Being a Tenant
Matthew 21:33-46
Sermon
Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... thieves climbing over the stone wall. Many of the vineyards that I saw had a wine-press located right on the spot. A tower was usually built with the stones that were picked up to clear the vineyard, and that tower served as a place for a watchman to stand and observe the grapes as they were ripening, as well as a place to live for those who worked in the vineyard. The behavior of the owner of this vineyard that Jesus talks about was also normal. In the time of our Lord, Palestine was a disturbed place, and ...
Sermon
Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... He often fell down exhausted, and rough men of the slums carried him gently back to his hut. "Kagawa himself wrote, ‘God dwells among the lowliest of men. He sits on the dustheap among the prison convicts. He stands with the juvenile delinquents. He is there with the beggars. He is among the sick, he stands with the unemployed. Therefore, let him who would meet God visit a prison cell before going to the temple. Before he goes to church, let him visit the hospital. Before he reads the Bible, let him help ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... drifting away from you. I assure you of that. God is there, and he is speaking through his Spirit. It is just that you aren’t listening! In George Bernard Shaw’s play, Saint Joan, Joan hears voices from God. The king is very annoyed about this, and as Joan stands before the king, he says: "Oh, your voices! Your voices! I am the king. Why don’t the voices come to me instead of you?" And Joan replies: "They do come, but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field at evening, listening for them ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... as Christian turned upon Christian, to kill and to maim, I can only look upon this moment with holy and unrestrained rejoicing. Little did I ever dream as I grew up as a Lutheran pastor’s son in the City of Chicago that some day I would stand in the pulpit of a cathedral of the Roman tradition. May I express my heartfelt gratitude to your beloved Bishop (Maurice Dingman), the pastors of this cathedral parish, and to all of you, my friends in Christ. Some years ago, a New Yorker carried a typical cartoon ...
Sermon Aid
T. A. Kantonen
... boasting is based on solid achievements and that he is "not in the least inferior" to anyone else. Whatever "thorn in the flesh" afflicts him, he uses it as a handle for getting a firmer grip on the grace of God. He is so sure of his stand that he dares to rebuke Peter, the acknowledged leader of the Christian community (Galatians 2:11-14). That he could not always control his temper is indicated by his abrupt dismissal of his colleague, Mark (Acts 15:38). But natural inclinations did not hold the reins in ...
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