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What Our God Does
What Our God Doesby Michael DoyleLooking at what God has doneWe become baptized in the SonThe details have some meaningIn burying the wrong of our beingStepping into being taken into a new lifeWe take on the peace by putting away … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Ananias, Audacious Purpose, Baptized, Being, Blinding Light, Bumpy Path, Bury, Christian Zeal, Death, Details, Early Church, Enemy, Faith, Following God, Foundation, God Does, God's Intent, Hero, Instrument, Last Breath, Meaning, Mistaken, New Life, New Look, Odds, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Purposes, Radical Expression of Grace, Right, Righteousness of Ministry, saul, Saul Became Paul, Set Us Free, Son, Strife, The Book, Victory of Christ, Walk, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Follow Your Inner Moonlight; Don’t Hide the Madness
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” – Allen Ginsberg, poet (3 Jun 1926-1997)
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Follow, Hide, Inner, Madness, Moonlight, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Sacred Rights of Mankind Are Not To Be Rummage For, Among Old Parchments, Or Musty Records…They Are Written…By the Hand of the Divinity
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and … Continue reading
Joyful Contemplation
Joyful Contemplationby Michael DoyleLooking back on times I’ve hadI rejoice and find myself gladI’m certain of things I believeAnd I stand ready to receiveKnowing that God is wise and strongAnd I am often weak and often wrongI bless God’s name … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Certain, Contemplation, Days, Embrace, Glad, God, God's Name, Holy S;piirt, Joy, Joyful, Know, Looking Back, Mortal Limits, Place, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Receive, Rejoice, The Lord, Times, Weak and Often Wrong, Wise and Strong
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Thought For the Day: Baptism Is the Initial Step of A Faithful Heart
“Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.” – Max Lucado
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Tagged Baptism, Faithful, Heart, Initial Step, Max Lucado, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Whoever Believes and Is Baptized Will Be Saved, But Whoever Does Not Believe Will Be Condemned
“Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.” – Mark 16:16
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Tagged Baptized, Condemned, Does Not Believe, First Principles, Mark 16:16 (NIV), Saved, Whoever Believes
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Newport Aquarium
Newport Aquariumby Michael DoyleAs though a knight eager on his questI, as a father, find little need to restInstead, I eagerly undertake a two-hour driveGlad to teach my daughters and feel aliveThough I wish I could take them to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Learn, Aquarium, Beauty, Care, Cared, Challenges, Class, Daughters, Dimming, Diversity, Dreams, Drive, Endless Miles, Expereince, Father, Gentle Traces, Glass, History, Imagination, Knight, Learn, Lessons, Miles, Minds, Museums, newport, Newport Aquarium, Ocean, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Princess Smiles, Quest, Remember, Revealed, rhode-island, Served Their Love Well, Share, Shared, Shore, Smiles, Swimming, Tale, Taught Them Well, Together, Travel
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First Principles: We Have Salt In Our Blood, In Our Sweat, In Our Tears. We Are Tied To the Ocean.
“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in … Continue reading
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Tagged America's Cup Dinner, Biological Fact, Blood, First Principles, Going Back, John F. Kennedy, Ocean, Sail, Salt, Same Percentage, Sea, Sweat, Tears, Tied, Veins, Watch
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Thought For the Day: The Sea, Once It Casts Its Spell, Holds One In Its Net of Wonder Forever
“The sea once it casts its spell holds one in its net of wonder Forever.” –Jacques Cousteau
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 