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First Principles: We Were Therefore Buried With Him Through Baptism Into Death In Order That, Just As Christ Was Raised From the Dead Through the Glory of the Father, We Too May Live A New Life
“We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” – Romans 6:4
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Tagged Baptism, Buried With Him, Christ, Death, First Principles, Glory of the Father, Live, New Life, Raised From the Dead, Romans 6:4 (NIV), We
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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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Like the Only Bible Read
Like the Only Bible Readby Michael DoyleLet’s live lives like the only Bible readWalking witnesses of Jesus raised from the deadEaster and Christmas hold nothing over immersionOur faithful testimony given in baptismIt symbolizes our public proclamationAnd is not a simple … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Act, Baptism, Bible, Christianity, Christmas, Core, Denunciation, Easter, Faith, Faithful Testimony, Foundation, God, God's Love, Immersion, Individual Choice, Jesus, Losing Hand, New, Old Self, Only, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Public Proclamation, Purge, Raised From the Dead, Read, Sinful Ways, Speak, Symbolize, True Living, Truth, Voice, Walk, Witnesses
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Conversion Then Immersion: Faith Required
Conversion Then Immersion: Faith Requiredby Michael DoyleIt is said firmly, and I believe itBaptism is not a matter of take it or leave itImmersion, conversion: Faith is requiredTo take on the Holy Spirit, it’s acquiredIt’s a living truth for this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acquire, Authority, Baptism, Conversion, Discipleship, Eternal Word, Faith, Generation, Great Commission, Holy Spirit, Immersion, Living Truth, Matthew, Omission, Path, Poetry and Poems, Principles, Required, Trust, Understood, Veneration
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Trauma and Perspective
Trauma and Perspectiveby Michael DoyleIt’s a public testimony of faith in baptismWe embrace our faith with optimismAs we join hands in this great conversationWalking every step toward our destinationDoing the hard work going on in the insideThe core of this … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Authentic, Baptism, Care, Conversation, Core, Destination, Events, Faith, Fate, Feel, Grace, Hands, Hard Work, Hid, Inside, Memories, Moment, Moments, Optimism, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Public Testimony, Real, Reflective, Regret, Secrets, Step, Story Straight, Trauma, Vulnerable, Wear
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Dependence
Dependenceby Michael DoyleWhen the days are darkestThat’s when we need your lightKeeping hope alive when we’re saddestYou bring morning to our nightKeeping hope there and aliveYou are the source by which we surviveWalking beside us in our humanityAnd loving us … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Baptism, Believe, Celebration, Conceive, Darkest, Days, Depend, Dependence, Destination, Forgiven, Given, God, Hope, Humanity, Journey, Light, Morning, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Saddest, Survive, Vanity
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Pretender or Contender
Pretender or Contenderby Michael DoyleDrawing on song lyrics in my dayMakes life special in its own wayThe singer is my daughter, and she’s on fireAs legends are made to grow and conspireA life led in three-part inspirationWe all know the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Appetites, Baptism, Best, Bread, Breakthrough, Capable, Connection, Conspire, Contemplation, Contender, Continuity, Daughter, End, Fire, Friend, Hunger, Immersion, Jesus, Legends, Perspiration, Poetry and Poems, Pretender, Raised Awareness, Regret, Resistance, Satan, Singer, Song Lyrics, Special, Spirit, Stone, Striking Foot, Strong Feeling, Susceptible, Temper, Temptation, Tempter, Test, Three Part Inspiration, Tired, Ultimate Truth
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How Far Is Too Far
How Far Is Too Farby Michael DoyleHow far is too farYou need to take itAll the wayFollowing that starYou cannot fake itEven for a dayNo longer givingThe wages of lip serviceBut giving everythingLife in its forgivingIs to live a life … Continue reading
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Tagged All the Way, Baptism, Bringing All, Cross, Everything, Fake It, Follow, Forgiving, Giving, How Far, Immersion, Lessons, Life of Service, Lip Service, Over Our Heads, Poetry and Poems, Satan's Loss, Star, Take It, Too Far, Victory, Woodsheds
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Dropping the Stones
Dropping the Stones of Judgmentby Michael DoyleDemonstrating the Bible in our livingLet it be seen by what we’re givingBaptism as immersion brings its witnessIn how it serves to model our fitnessTo stand anew in our public affirmationIt’s a way of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirmation, Baptism, Bible, Devotion, Drop, Embrace, Eyesight, Humility, Immersion, Insight, Language of Hate, Loving, Ministry, Model, One Another, Poetry and Poems, Salvation, Service, Stones, Surface, Theology, Witness
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Comfort Zone Christianity
Comfort Zone Christianityby Michael DoyleIt’s always seemed to lightlyHow we fail to take things rightlyIn our comfort zone ChristianityFailing to take on things needed by you and meTo the best of our capacityWe take up baptism in accountabilityRepentance to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Angels, Awaken, Baptism, Beginning, Born, Capacity, Chaff, Christianity, Comfort, Comfort Zone, Conversion, Fail, God, Holy Devotion, Immersion, Light, Morn, Never Endind, Poetry and Poems, Repentance, Reverent, Right, Robes, Sacrament, Sacred, Service, Sing, Spoke, The Lord, Walks Among Us, Ways of the World, Weeding Away, Words, Yoke
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