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Thought For the Day: How Are We Going To Get Rid of Racism? Stop Talking About It!
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First Principles: Between A Balanced Republic and A Democracy, the Difference Is Like That Between Order and Chaos
“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.” – John Marshall
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Strength of Samson
Strength of Samson
by Michael Doyle
God raised leaders in the Israeli nation,
And some marched through with imagination.
Now we find we are unchurched and need to learn.
All the Biblical truths need to be discerned.
Life and memory in their comparative
Require and need the declarative
Of all the goods that we need to conceive.
Let's walk forward with what we believe.
Hard times create a need for strength
As they run deep through the day's length.
Each of these we learn from is subject to temptation.
We must keep these lessons in our attention.
Being passive can lead t entitlement as we live.
These are life lessons that only life can give.
Delilah's story is a fable that is legendary,
Some loved her even as her plans were contrary.
I guess not every red flag warning is readily seen.
This is the fallibility of every human being.
Even a Nazarite is subject to deception,
And this must be attended to from conception.
The Lord gives us strengths for which we must care.
For Samson, the last thread was his hair.
We must beware of dysfunctions in every relationship.
To fail to do so is to be flawed in our worship.
Of the things we do for life and love,
We sometimes lose track of Heaven above.
We must keep God's lessons in contemplation,
And to live our lives with the right attention.
In walking life in its right and wrong,
We must be attentive to following God's glory.
We must protect our righteousness across the land.
Or else, like Samson, we'll be delivered into wrong hands.
God is always just one cry away,
And God will answer to what we pray.
So Samson recognized the errors of his ways,
And in doing so lived a righteous end to his days.
From Samson, we learn the necessity of grace
And that we must readily believe and embrace,
All of the potential that God has given
Is for the asking because we are forgiven.
We make our mistakes, sometimes with deficiency,
Overly confident as we fail to our eccentricity.
We are better off learning from our failed sin.
It would be better if we paid attention again and again.
Rock bottom is the wrong place to start,
To know and follow God with all our hearts.
It is in the Lord's full sovereignty
That we become aware of God's given opportunity.
Like Samson, Jesus died with His last breath
Accomplishing something for humanity with His death.
Our greatest strength is found in God's way.
We must remember this grace throughout our days.
(c) May 31, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: God Uses the Flawed, the Failures, and the Imperfect To Accomplish His Perfect Will
“God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.— Elizabeth George
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First Principles: What More Shall I Say? I Do Not Have Time To Tell About Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah…Who Through Faith Conquered Kingdoms, Administered Justice, and Gained What Was Promised
“And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword, whose weakness was turned to strength.” – Hebrews 11:32-34
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Living Life (In His Embrace)
Living Life (In His Embrace)
by Michael Doyle
Dancing out of regret,
It helps me to forget
All the troubles I've seen
In the life of this human being.
God's love sets me free,
Bringing me positivity.
In all my living days,
It's why I offer praise.
The blood of Christ is shed for me.
His understanding is given in empathy.
His broken body was suffered on the cross.
Everything has been given at His loss.
I love to profess the purity of love,
Searching for peace from up above.
I wear the garments of praise
Throughout all my living days.
His love works through me,
Like an orphan given empathy.
I have found my place,
Loving living life in His embrace.
The blood of Christ is shed for me.
His understanding is given in empathy.
His broken body was suffered on the cross.
Everything has been given at His loss.
(c) May 30, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: If You Want To Know Who Controls You, Look At Who You Are Not Allowed To Criticize
“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.” – Voltaire
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First Principles: Knowledge Will Forever Govern Ignorance; and A People Who Mean To Be Their Own Governors Must Arm Themselves With the Power Knowledge Gives
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” – James Madison
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The Armor of Truth
The Armor of Truth
by Michael Doyle
In a juxtaposition of faith and mind,
The children of tomorrow aren't left behind.
They were to gather in the cellar where
In prayer and response, the master would steer.
A reverence is given to free speech and thought.
These will provide the illumination sought.
Everyone who accepts the fearless initiation
Need not drone on in faithless repetition.
If you care to gather as children of light,
Our discussion will shine what is right.
The search for truth can lead to blasphemy.
That is the liar's path of broken theology.
The pursuit of real truth will set you free,
As you join as one in your identity.
This is not death but blessed dignity.
The search for truth brings thee to thee.
To express this quite simply and plainly,
Sometimes truth arrives quite painfully.
It can be rough, like a slap in the face,
When you realize you've accepted false grace.
Never be within striking distance of your enemy.
This then is a rock-solid bit of theology.
But what if your worst enemy is inside?
In the mirror, you see the adversary behind your pride.
If you come together as children of light,
Our discussion will shine what is right.
The search for truth can lead to blasphemy.
That is the liar's path of broken theology.
The pursuit of real truth will set you free,
As you join as one in your identity.
This is not death but blessed dignity.
The search for truth brings us to our dignity.
The alignment is the only real priority.
That's a secret we can trace throughout history.
To believe otherwise is a matter of pretense.
True progress always has its sense of consequence.
Though a god might give us his protection,
There exists a demon seed that escapes detection.
The reality behind reality is the ultimate game.
The ones and zeroes establish the definitive frame.
If we come together as children of light,
Our discussion will bring us to what is right.
The search for truth can lead to blasphemy.
That is the liar's path of broken theology.
The pursuit of real truth will set you free,
As you join as one in your identity.
This is not death but blessed dignity.
The search for truth brings us to our community.
In this universe, there's a war going on.
If fought wrongly, all will soon be gone.
These are the puzzles we must determine
If we are to learn where it all begins.
Jesus's death on that rugged Calvary cross
Was just one more temporal sort of loss.
Soon, we'll find our way to shine in glory
And when sin is defeated, we'll end this story.
When we come together as children of the light,
Our discussion will bring us to what is right.
The search for truth can lead to blasphemy.
And that is the liar's path of broken theology.
We know that the pursuit of real truth will set us free,
As you and I join as one, informing our identity.
We will replace death with a blessed dignity.
The search for truth will free us as God's family.
(c) May 29, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: If You Make It A Habit Not To Blame Others, You Will Feel the Growth of the Ability To Love In Your Soul, and You Will See the Growth of Goodness In Your Life
“If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.” – Leo Tolstoy
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 