Tag Archives: Acts

Thought For the Day: A Disciple Is One Who Thinks, Feels and Acts Like Jesus Christ. It is Being Conformed To the Image of Christ

Posted on April 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God’s No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.” – Rick Warren

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What Our God Does

Posted on June 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

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 →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | 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 | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Need Acts of Restoration, Not Only For Polluted Waters and Degraded Lands, But Also For Our Relationship To the World

Posted on November 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Acknowledge, Acts, Braiding Sweetgrass, Degraded Lands, Earth's Beings, Polluted Waters, Relationship, Respect, Restoration, Restore Honor, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Shame, Thought For the Day, Walk, Way We Live, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: In A Series of Acts of Kindness There Is, At Last, One Which Makes the Heart Run Over

Posted on October 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Acts, Drop By Drop, Fill, Form, Friendship, Heart, James Boswell, Kindness, Precise Moment, Run Over, Series, Tell, Thought For the Day, Vessel | Leave a comment

First Principles: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the Lord!

Posted on July 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens. Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him for His excellent greatness. Praise Him with the sound of the horn; Praise Him with the harp and lyre. Praise … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Acts, Cymbals, Dance, Everything That Has Breath, First Principles, Flute, Greatness, Hallelujah, Harp, Heavens, Horn, Lord, Lyre, Praise God, Psalm 150, Sanctuary, Sound, Strings, Tambourine | Leave a comment

First Principles: There Is A Certain Enthusiasm In Liberty, That Makes Human Nature Rise Above Itself, In Acts of Bravery and Heroism

Posted on September 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” -Hamilton (1775)

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First Principles: There Is A Certain Enthusiasm In Liberty; That Makes Human Nature Rise Above Itself, In Acts of Bravery and Heroism

Posted on November 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” – Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775

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First Principles: It Does Me No Injury For My Neighbor To Say There Are Twenty Gods, Or No God. It Neither Picks My Pocket Nor Breaks My Leg.

Posted on May 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Acts, Breaks My Leg, First Principles, Government, Injurious To Others, Legitimate Powers, Neighbor, No God, No Injury, Notes On the State of Virginia (1785), Picks My Pocket, Thomas Jefferson, Twenty Gods | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: When the Master Governs, the People Are Hardly Aware That He (She) Exists

Posted on February 13, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he [she] exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised. If you don’t trust the people, you … Continue reading →

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Life Worth Living

Posted on December 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life Worth Livingby Michael DoyleI’ve never been one given to chanceDetermined to rise above my circumstancesAs a child of God driven by destinyTaking this challenge as my legacyHeaven holds all of my best treasureGod first, then family, is my measureA … Continue reading →

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