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Sufficiency
Sufficiencyby Michael DoyleGod’s grace is filled with sufficiencyIt eases us from lives of deficiencyWe walk this world, but not aloneStep by step, we come to atoneWithin God’s sacred familyWe learn God’s word is not a homilyBut a walk we live … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor, Atone, Believer, Bible, Blind, Book of Romans, Centrality, Christ, Christianity, Community, Courageous Question, Deficiency, Faith, Follow, God, God's Grace, Good News, Homily, Humility, Identity, Jesus, Life Claiming, Paul, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Right, Sacred Family, Servant, Sight, Sinner, Sufficiency, Walk, Wrong Road
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Thought For the Day: Where Is God? Where Can I Find Him?” We Don’t Realize That’s Like A Fish Swimming Frantically Through the Ocean In Search of the Ocean
“Where is God? Where can I find him?” we ask. We don’t realize that’s like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean” – Ted Dekker
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Tagged Find, Fish, God, Ocean, Realize, Swim, Ted Dekker, Thought For the Day, Where
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First Principles: For In the Gospel the Righteousness of God Is Revealed – A Righteousness That Is By Faith From First To Last, Just As It Is Written. The Righteous Will Live By Faith
“For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed–a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” – Romans 1:17 (NIV)
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Tagged Faith, First Principles, First To Last, God, Gospel, Live, Revealed, Righteousness, Romans 1:17 (NIV), Written
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A Desire For Positive Impact
A Desire for Positive Impactby Michael DoyleThis an age that embraces the apocalypse constantlyIt is hard to find anyone left who feels empathyFor those who want to live a life to its fullest measureIt is as though we have forgotten … Continue reading
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Tagged Achievement, Age, Apocalypse, Beacon of Light, Calamity, Challenges, Connection, Demise, Desire, Doing, Empahty, Fulfillment, Goethe, Imagination, Kernels of Wisdom, Life, Measure, New Experences, Nurture, Poetry and Poems, Positive Impact, Potential, Rage Against the Night, Satisfication, Thinking, Treasure, True Action, Vanity
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhorrence, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, First Principles, Industry, Injustice, John Adams, Minds
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Thought For the Day: Children Require Guidance and Sympathy Far More Than Instruction
“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.” – Anne Sullivan
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Tagged Anne Sullivan, Children, Guidance, Instruction, Sympathy, Thought For the Day
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Born Into This World
Born Into This Worldby Michael DoyleWe are born into this wounded worldIn which we see the need for improvementIt often feels as if we’re hurledBecoming ourselves is our greatest accomplishmentGrasping for the bits and pieces we can findThat which which … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplishment, Beauty of Tomorrow, Becoming Ourselves, Behind, Bits and Pieces, Blind Faith, Books On Shelves, Born, Coming Years, Crowd, Culture, Dare, Desperate, Discontent, Discover, Drowning Surface, Ears, Eccentric Opinions, Essential, Eyes Above, Fallacies, Feel, Find, Fools, Gambit, Grasp, Grievous, Harshest Critics, Humble Beginnings, Hurled, Improvement, Into This World, Love, Ourselves, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sorrow, Stumble, The Best, Vulturess, Wartmth, Whisper, World's Embrace, Wounded, Written Script
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First Principles: An Equal Dispensation of Protection, Rights, Privileges, and Advantages, Is What Every Part Is Entitled To, and Ought To Enjoy
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantages, Benjamin Franklin, Enjoy, Equal Dispnsation, First Principles, Law, Nation, Part, Policy, Privileges, Protection, Rights
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Thought For the Day: To Be Yourself In A World That Is Constantly Trying To Make You Something Else Is the Greatest Accomplishment
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Accomplishment, Constant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Something Else, Thought For the Day, World, Yourself
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Walking In Step
Walking In Stepby Michael DoyleLife’s paths can lead us to darknessWrong choices can bring us harshnessBut our God’s love is goodIt is how we live and it’s understoodThat saying yes to God is often forgottenPreferring to live an easy life … Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Chose, Darkness, Easy Life, Forgotten, God Provides, God's Love, Harshness, Misbegotten, Path, Poetry and Poems, Stride, Walking In Step
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