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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1. Table Manners
Luke 14:1-14
Sermon
Alex Gondola
... risen in me ... (God) called out to me from his own immense depths. (The Seven Story Mountain, Image Books, pp. 273-274) Thomas Merton sensed the wonder of God's invitation to communion and received it joyfully. So should we. Gratitude is part of good table manners. This morning, can we thank God in our hearts for the blessing of being invited to the Lord's Supper? A second parable in the fourteenth chapter of Luke is the Parable of Places at Table. This parable points out the danger of thinking too much ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... desperate act, despite the real risk of retaliation that it presented. Isn't that precisely the problem of being present? Isn't that the reason why more of us don't reach that state of "allthereness?" Isn't that why we are a people with such bad manners? We want to be truly present to each other but we tremble before the possible cost of such vulnerability, and we settle for something less exacting. As Baldrige puts it so pointedly, "It is important to know how to use your knife and fork properly, yes, but ...
3. Mind Your Manners
Luke 14:1, 7-14
Sermon
Will Willimon
... recognize the Risen Christ until he "was known to them in the breaking of bread" (24:35). What happens at the table is at the very heart of the Christian faith. So we had better pay attention to what goes on when we eat together. We had best mind our manners. What happens at the table? The table is where we find our place. One can learn a great deal about people by observing the way they eat. More than one Eliza Doolittle has been transformed into a queen by teaching her how to hold a fork, how to sit, how ...
4. Mind Your Manners
Luke 14:1-14
Illustration
Roger Van Harn
... The way we behaved toward other people showed our values. If we valued family, friends, and our relationship to others, we would act in ways that were respectful, courteous, mannerly. In the Gospel lesson for today, Jesus was the dinner guest in the house of a religious leader. The host and the guests were watching what went on. Jesus observed the manners that were being practiced there at the meal and he saw the values that were being played out. Jesus interrupted the party to do some teaching about values ...
5. Mind Your Manners
Matthew 7:7-12
Sermon
Robert R. Kopp
... her window and exclaims, "That's how it's done when you're old and rich." I hope that's a good segue to my number one pet peeve: boorish behavior. If there's anything I can't stand about myself as well as others it is a lack of manners. My director of the universe -- my wife -- refers to it as the absence of common courtesies. There's a lot of wisdom framed and hanging in my study which says, "No kindness shown no matter how small is ever wasted." Conversely, no unkindness shown no matter how small is ever ...
6. Table Manners
John 2:12-25
Sermon
Craig MacCreary
... ? When I encounter this scripture, I find myself wondering if my spiritual life has grown vapid. Is this when I have been most resistant to Jesus cleansing me by overturning the tables by which I calculate my life? Application One thing that has buffaloed me in life is table manners. It is not that if you sat next to me at a meal that you would have to endure a boatload of boorish behavior. However, you would find an anxious pres­ence as I tried to sort out which fork and spoon goes in what order. It seems ...
7. Good Communion Table Manners
Luke 14:1-14
Illustration
Alex Gondola
... " in that third story. Maybe not literally poor, crippled, lame, and blind, but spiritually poor, crippled, lame, and blind. Yet God graciously includes us as guests at God's Table. Good communion table manners include coming to the table without thinking too much of ourselves. And, finally, good communion table manners include coming without looking down on any other guest, for all of us are God's equally beloved guests. King George IV desired Communion and sent a servant to bring the Bishop of Winchester ...
8. Table Manners
Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:13-17
Sermon Aid
Richard A. Jensen
... passages, human beings take the initiative in moving toward Jesus. People in their need come to Jesus with a cry for help. And Jesus helped! He healed and exorcized and forgave. In 2:15-17 we have a brief story regarding Jesus' table manners. Table fellowship was a sacred matter in most of the ancient world. Table fellowship was the most intimate form of public fellowship imaginable. And here is Jesus transgressing boundaries again! He eats with tax collectors and sinners. He accepts Levi, a tax collector ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... always have the opportunity to say "No." We want to be able to deny hospitality to anyone, at any time, for any reason - but we don't necessarily want to do it to that person's face. In today's gospel text, we hear all about Jesus' bad manners. Seeing Zacchaeus clinging to the branches of that sycamore, Jesus calls out to him and simply invites himself over as a house guest! Zacchaeus may not really have intended to get directly involved with this Jesus. He had clambered up that tree only in order to get a ...
10. Good Manners
Luke 14:1,7-14
Illustration
Alex Gondola
Ethel Barrymore, the great stage and screen actress, was a stickler for good manners. She once invited a younger actress to a dinner party at her home. But the young lady never appeared. She didn't even bother to offer an excuse or make an apology. She just didn't show up. Several days later Ethel Barrymore and the young lady met by chance ...
11. Bedside Manners
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Barbara Brown Taylor
One of the cruelest things that religious people can do is to blame [a lingering illness] on a lack of faith. Barbara Taylor recalls a problem she encountered when she served as a chaplain at Georgia Baptist Hospital. A group of Christians decided that part of their healing ministry was to go to the local hospital and pray for people who had cancer. They would go into patients’ rooms, gather around the beds and pray that the patients would have enough faith to be healed. It did not have a healing effect. “ ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... THE WASHINGTON POST. "We got into a conversation as if he was a buddy," the homeowner said. "By the time he left, I put my arm on his shoulder and said, 'I'm sorry I didn't have more money."' We are impressed, aren't we, when people show good manners? And we are turned off by the person who is rude or inconsiderate. Walking into an office, a know-it-all salesman demanded to see the manager without delay. The secretary informed him, "I'm sorry, he is not here. Can I help you?" The salesman snapped: "I never ...
13. Loving Close-up
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... be rude reveals a lack of self-confidence and a woeful lack of appreciation for others. What person who has it together is going to show himself or herself out of control by being irritable or resentful? It just isn't good manners. Love expresses itself in good manners. Dostoevski, the novelist, tells about a woman evangelist, who with great Christian zeal, traveled through Russia telling about God's love. And yet that same woman could not stand to be in a room with another person. One man slurped his soup ...
14. Apostles of Christ
1 Corinthians 4:1-21
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... and the Spirit (2:4; 2:10, 12, 14)—all of which Paul’s critics repudiate through their involvement with worldly wisdom. Paul has already made clear that he stakes his life on the “power” of the “weakness of God” (1:25) and that he ministers in a manner consistent with God’s weakness (1:18–25; 2:1–5; 4:9–13). Here he takes that same position as he sets God’s peculiar power over against the word and the power that “some” in Corinth claim to possess. Verse 20 makes Paul’s position ...
Sermon
Harry N. Huxhold
... is as predictable as the noses on their faces. What is not so noticeable to those who want to flaunt power and majesty is the manner in which God repeatedly lifts up the lowly. In the prayer of Jesus we learn how God lifts up the lowly. Luther reminded us that ... temptations, and difficulties that the world poses for us, because God insulates us to the damage they can do to us through the manner in which he sanctifies us. Sent Jesus says to the Father that because God can and does sanctify us he sends us into ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... responsive to God, even after having his permanent home in such an environment. The inner struggle Lot suffered day after day meant that he was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men. He was worn down by being exposed day in, day out, to the vile manner of life of those who scorned the moral code and the law of God. Lot was repeatedly tormented in his righteous soul. The verb is active, not passive, and implies that Lot put himself on the rack. That he is feeling pain, so to speak, is heightened ...
17. Marriage
1 Corinthians 7:1-40
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... in simplest, most straightforward fashion, verse 36 seems to refer to the man who is engaged to a virgin; whereas verse 38 seems to refer to the father of the virgin, although the reference to the virgin (lit. “your virgin”) in verse 38 is an odd manner of referring to someone’s daughter. Verse 37 is ambiguous as to its subject. Problems arise when translations, like the NIV, attempt to make Paul’s words deal with a single subject, be that either the fiancé or the father of the virgin. Indeed, the ...
Bulletin Aid
Rolland R. Reece
... your truth is like a foundation stone that will support them all their days. Today we consider how we can aid those who are in such great need. Sometimes we like to dream how we might become a part of some gigantic force for good that would sweep away all manner of evil and enable thousands of people to take up their lives filled with unlimited hope and success. Please don't take from us the pursuit of our dreams, but enable us to see what we can do right here and now to meet the real needs of real people ...
19. Loving
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
Larry Powell
... its own eloquence. And there are times when love is eloquently "unspoken." It may be mama pulling the cover to your chin in the middle of a chilly night, a hot meal, quietly prepared, and proudly set on the table, the button sewed on your shirt in such an unassuming manner that you forgot it had been missing in the first place, a game of pitch in the yard, or just a lap to sit in as a little voice reads a lesson aloud. Love doesn't have to say anything. And without it, perhaps it is better not to speak ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the less our curses mean. Maybe it’s time for Christians to learn how to really curse and swear. After all, who says a curse or swear-word needs to be vulgar, or take the name of the Lord in vain? In the not too distant past minding one’s manners could become a full-time job. Language was decidedly less explicit, yet the ability to crush an enemy with a single phrase was honed to a fine point. For example, one of the sharpest cuts a Victorian gentleman could jab at another was to accuse him of being in ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the less our curses mean. Maybe it’s time for Christians to learn how to really curse and swear. After all, who says a curse or swear-word needs to be vulgar, or take the name of the Lord in vain? In the not too distant past minding one’s manners could become a full-time job. Language was decidedly less explicit, yet the ability to crush an enemy with a single phrase was honed to a fine point. For example, one of the sharpest cuts a Victorian gentleman could jab at another was to accuse him of being in ...
Sermon
David R. Cartwright
... Jesus' presence at the dinner. Once Jesus was there, Simon forgot about him and went on to other things. It was not so much what Simon did that was the problem, but what he did not do. He didn't even have the courtesy to observe basic good manners. But the woman, a sinner at that, is another matter all together. Far from observing the customary social protocols, she throws caution to the wind and gives it everything she has. It's as if she has completely forgotten that there is anyone else there but her and ...
23. Sayings of the Wise
Proverbs 22:17--24:22
Understanding Series
Roland E. Murphy
... term. Perhaps the one who eats will be the victim of too great an appetite, or perhaps the host is testing the dinner guest as to self-restraint. The topic reappears in verses 6–8, where verse 3a is repeated in verse 6b. The general topic of table manners appears also in Ptah-hotep, lines 119–144 (ANET, pp. 412–13) and Amenemope, chapter 23 (ANET, p. 424). See also Sirach 31:12–32:13. 23:4–5 This is an admonition concerning riches. The self-restraint called for in verses 1–3 is now applied ...
24. Expel the Immoral Brother!
1 Corinthians 5:1-13
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... Christ, humans are set free to eliminate corruption from their lives and to become the persons that God’s Spirit is empowering them to be. 5:8 Once more Paul extends the imagery of the Passover metaphor in order to call the Corinthians to a manner of living consistent with God’s will for their lives. He admonishes them and apparently all other Christians, Therefore let us keep the Festival. If Christ is the lamb and yeast is immorality, those celebrating Christ are to free themselves by the power of God ...
25. How Odd Of God
Luke 1:26-38
Sermon
John A. Stroman
... refusing to answer the false accusations of a judge. Like a man riding on the back of a donkey, whose coming was so common and so ordinary that the masses overlooked him. How odd of God to be so casual and so down-to-earth. God seldom acts in a manner we expect. God works through people and events that seem strange and unrelated to us, especially at Advent. It may appear odd to us that God would use the ordinary and the common, but if you know your Bible this would not surprise you. This is how God has ...
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