“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
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Thought For the Day: Success Is No Accident. It Is Hard Work, Perseverance, Learning, Studying, Sacrifice, and Most of All, Love Of What You Are Doing Or Learning To Do
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First Principles: There Is But One Answer To Terrorism, and It is Best Delivered With A Winchester Rifle
“There is but one answer to terrorism, and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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To Listen To the Cross
To Listen To the Cross
by Michael Doyle
To pay the price of brutality,
He did it with compassion.
Going through Hell for humanity,
It was not a statement of fashion.
It was a call for action,
To be lived for fully with satisfaction.
That we have given our best service,
In living out God's steady purpose.
Our worship is not a ritual,
Nor is it meant to be habitual.
We have, since our start
Walked this walk by our hearts.
One by one, we answered the call.
Unwilling to live up to Eden's fall.
But instead to flourish in the kingdom,
We do this with interest and then some.
This isn't a Sunday-only confession
Walked out in ceremonial procession.
We take up our crosses to share the spirit
To the passersby and all who will hear it.
(c) October 21, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Brutality, Compassion, Fashion Statement, Hell, Humanity, Listen, Poetry and Poems, Price, The Cross
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Thought For the Day: Whoever Controls the Media Controls the Mind
“Whoever controls the media controls the mind.” – Jim Morrison
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First Principles: Strong Hearts and Helpful Hands Are Needed, and Fortunately, We Have Them In Every Part of Our Beloved Country
“Strong Hearts and Helpful Hands Are Needed, and, Fortunately, We Have Them In Every Part of Our Beloved Country” – William McKinley
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In the Acts of Stephen
In the Acts of Stephen
by Michael Doyle
More than the words of a church service,
Each of us is here to live out our purpose.
There are the moments that we are inspired
To move beyond exhaustion and tiredness.
There comes a time when something must be done,
And we are kept alive by the Father and the Son.
Stephen became a martyr bearing his witness,
Upholding his faith despite persistent harshness.
The weight of life is as hard as it is real.
Truth holds the profound beauty of the dead.
Preservation has always been part of the story.
Though it is painful, it is part of the glory.
Prayer best leads the spiritual journey.
And if we are faithful to our very destiny.
The early church was set out in holy Acts.
It is a witnessed testimony to the spiritual facts.
Growth comes to the Christian community,
And this brought conflict to the Christian family.
Leaders must be chosen from those with a good reputation.
This isn't trivial but an exacting point of limitation.
Lies often form the basis of accusations.
This was the case against Stephen in full explanation.
It is not blasphemy to end the concealment
And to speak plainly how Christ came as the Bible's fulfillment.
Integrity demands the dropping of all pretense.
Only what is true deserves our defense.
Jesus, standing to the right of God, stood in full authority,
And He did so to honor Stephen's wounded dignity.
Recognizing that frailty of mankind
As Stephen was stoned, he forgave his attackers for being blind.
Falsely accused of blasphemy, and not given any forgiveness,
Stephen asked God that fallen humanity be so forgiven.
It is given that to be Christian leads to persecution.
This is beyond any honest efforts at disputation.
Persecution has continued through our modern day.
Our best answer is to quietly and earnestly pray.
(c) October 21, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Bible, Blasphemy, Book of Acts, Christianity, Church Service, Faith, God, Jesus, Poetry and Poems, Stephen, The Father and the Son, Weight of Life
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Thought For the Day: The Truth Is That If Israel Were To Put Down Its Arms, There Would Be No More Israel. If the Arabs Were To Put Down Their Arms, There Would Be No More War
“The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms, there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms, there would be no more war.” – Benjamin Netanyahu
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First Principles: God Forbid That the Day Should Ever Come When, In the American Mind, the Thought of Man As A Consumer Shall Submerge the Old American Thought of Man As A Creature of God
“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.” – Benjamin Harrison
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One More Battle
One More Battle
by Michael Doyle
Even legends grow tired
When age creeps in, and winter is cold.
The will is no longer strong or fired
Despite song sung in the days of old.
The price on one's grayed head
Must be collected, alive or dead
If it is worth anything at all.
The winter's chill drops in from the Fall.
One more battle in which we may die,
The balladeers sing as sure as they lie.
They want to say it is for nobility,
But it's nothing more than the test of capability.
If Robin dies, where does he go?
The sun will shine, and winds will blow.
In the end, who will know?
All secrets are held deep inside the shadows.
The mountain passages begin again.
It's the payment made for fresh sins.
The tears of many flow and fall
Before the Raven's last caw.
One more battle in which we may die,
The balladeers sing as sure as they lie.
They want to say it is for nobility,
But it's nothing more than the test of capability.
So much of the savagery
Was born from the camps of poverty.
The mists of time reshape our history.
It paints its legends in faith and mystery.
Under earth, we bury our dead.
But they never vanish from our heads.
The widows and orphans pray to be forgiven,
But it won't happen in the age that we live in.
One more battle in which we may die,
The balladeers sing as sure as they lie.
They want to say it is for nobility,
But it's nothing more than the test of capability.
(c) October 20, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Architecture Aims At Eternity
“Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth…. Architecture aims at Eternity.” – Christopher Wren
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