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Thought For the Day: We Never Feel Christ To Be A Reality, Until We Feel Him To Be A Necessity
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In God’s Liberty and Love
In God's Liberty and Love
by Michael Doyle
Watching after the Lord of all,
His ways I model and always recall.
Lesson after lesson, I will learn,
In all things that I must discern.
Grace and peace pave the way,
In all that I do, and all that I say.
These act as spiritual guardrails
To save our souls from Hell.
We've lived through a generation of deism,
And this has led to spiritual pessimism.
The Gospel's convictions remove reasons to resent
That our God is a God who is always present.
Paul made it clear about the radical alteration
That God brings change to every generation,
Shocking us and focusing our core
Into the belief in love and spiritually more.
We must remove stumbling blocks for one another,
Living God's love for our sisters and brothers.
Righteousness, peace, and joy edify us as we comport
To the ways of God that bring spiritual comfort.
Living in liberty does not mean we are to do.
Christ's reflection should be revealed in you.
Freedom to do isn't a mandate to actually do.
In all we do, we must keep God's love in me and you.
We are to keep moving beyond self to think of others.
We are to live for the good of all of our brothers.
Where we sit changes the shade of our experience.
We are to think about this and give others deference.
We should care about what God cares,
Allowing others their differences to be fair.
In keeping the doctrines blessed by the above,
We learn that greater than liberty is love.
Love calls us to a higher standard of life,
Doing what is loving and not bringing strife.
Managed tension brings us beyond the mechanical,
Being overly stressed can make us maniacal.
Liberty is the path and is instrumental,
But it is in living love by being intentional
That church and indeed life is a garden of seasons,
With a multitude of choices and its own reasons.
The right to do should be chosen by our limits,
And in all we do, we are guided by the Holy Spirit.
To bring this to a navigated sense of clarity,
Life should be lived with love over our liberty.
(c) October 12, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: People Demand Freedom of Speech As A Compensation For the Freedom of Thought Which They Seldom Use
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – Soren Kierkegaard
First Principles: Accept the One Whose Faith Is Weak, Without Quarreling Over Disputable Matters
“Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.” – Romans 14:1 NIV
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Ed Gein’s Mind
Ed Gein's Mind
by Michael Doyle
This time of year, with all of its chills
Has taught us, along with all the thrills
That the worst monster is the human one.
Among the animals, we are who kill for fun.
Post-World War II saw a rising tide of deviance.
One in which serial killing grew in prevalence.
Some want answers to be made with excessive haste.
Serial killing is blamed on wanton industrial waste.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all.
This American Murderland is an environmental catastrophe.
But there really isn't all that much remaining mystery.
Meta-analysis finds among the killers a common thread.
Impulse and aggression increased and were caused by lead.
Pins pushed into patterns obsessively lead to lunacy.
The truth becomes a conspiracy of meaning to you and me.
Smelter smoke lingers until it enters the bloodstream.
From there, it poisons the fetus of motherhood's dreams.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all.
American society stands above in its haughty evaluation.
Hate, greed, and indifference each know their devastation.
The forces loosened in the name of simple corporate greed
Did not know the price that would be paid for their seed.
The unspoken anguish screams out its need for declarative
Uncertain as we are in the search for a meaningful narrative.
Scratching at answers that reek of open wound correlation,
We wonder at just what all of this means for a weary nation.
Running straight at what passes for a crazy wall,
Violence begets violence, our narrative recalls.
The confluence of brokenness since we saw Eden fall,
There is still so much unknown in the horror of it all
(c) October 11, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: No One Should Fear To Undertake Any Task In the Name of Our Saviour, If It Is Just and If the Intention Is Purely For His Holy Service
“No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice. He lacks nothing that is in the power of men to give Him. Oh, what a gracious Lord, who desires that people should perform for Him those things for which He holds Himself responsible! Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express their most devoted gratitude to Him.” – Christopher Columbus
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First Principles: It Should Be Our Endeavor To Cultivate the Peace and Friendship of Every Nation
““It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation.” – Thomas Jefferson (1787)
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Listen
Listen
by Michael Doyle
Every new day is a cause to rejoice.
We gratefully raise our loving voice,
Singing our love songs through the length
Of our days with our fullest strength.
Faith is kept in all of our days.
It's a bond working both ways.
The river runs until it overflows.
These are the ways we are to know.
Listen and you will hear it.
We are closer now to the Holy Spirit.
Blessed by the power of His name.
His love removes our blame.
As we give our praise in return
For the love and laws that we learn.
We find He loves us as we deserve.
In return, we live as we serve.
We raise our voices in celebration
As we are reminded in fascination,
Jesus takes us from where we are
And guides our lives like the North Star.
Listen and you will hear it.
We are closer now to the Holy Spirit.
Blessed by the power of His name.
His love heals our shame.
(c) October 10, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: It Will Not Be Denied That Power Is Of An Encroaching Nature and That It Ought To Be Effectually Restrained From Passing the Limits Assigned To It
| “It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison (1788) |
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Thought For the Day: Music Is A Higher Revelation Than All Wisdom and Philosophy. Music Is the Electrical Soil In Which the Spirit Lives, Thinks and Invents
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 