Tag Archives: Bible

Examining the Gifts of Love

Posted on January 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Examining the Gifts of Loveby Michael DoyleGod’s love brings tears to our eyesOpened wide, we look, and we recognizeThat all we live comes from God’s loveAs we keep our hearts fixed on God aboveAgape love is the primary emphasisThat takes … Continue reading →

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To Walk That Walk

Posted on January 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

To Walk That Walkby Michael DoyleAs a fractured soul in need of graceI know where I belong; I know my placeI walk my love as best that I canAs my heart keeps God’s commandsGod helps us to reach a better … Continue reading →

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Awareness of God

Posted on August 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Awareness of Godby Michael DoyleThe nearness of God depends on youThe distance felt depends on what you doWhat you think and how you keep it realEverywhere is the presence of God, if you can feelHe is the God of goodness … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Apostle Paul, Awareness, Bible, Circumstance, Conscience, Cross, Distance, Every Age, Faith, God, Gospel, Grace and Light, Holy Seal, Impact, Jesus, Kindness, Living Waters, Nearness, Poetry and Poems, Salvation, Shepherd, Spiritual Blindness, Trinity, Wisdom | Leave a comment

The Journey of Parenting

Posted on June 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Journey of Parentingby Michael DoyleSeeded with a lot of quietudeIs the truth of parenting’s magnitudeEvery day begun in earnest prayerTo take on all moments, hard or fairThe challenges sometimes come on hardAs we hold closely to each player’s cardsIt’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accountable, All Moments, Approach, Begin, Belief, Belong, Bible, Blessing, Bright Light, Cast Aside, Challenges, Coach, Consistency, Darkness, Discern, Encourage, Frame, Free Will, Full-Hearted, Godly Ways, Grief, Grow, Guessing, Hearts, Hold Closely, Holiness of Life, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Journey, Legacy, Living Days, Love, Magnitude, Miss, Modeled Example, Parenting, Plays, Poetry and Poems, Prcoess, Preach, Principles, Protection, Quietude, Reach, Road, Scripted Lessons, Scripture, Seeded, Shape, Shine, Stages of Life, Teaching, Teaching Right, Think, Truth, Values, Walk the Walk | Leave a comment

Steadfast Against the Culture

Posted on November 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Steadfast Against the Cultureby Michael DoyleThere are two kinds of believersThose committed to the Bible and deceiversSome are guided by the Holy Spirit to aspireAnd then there are the carnally minded led by desireThere are two types of ways to … Continue reading →

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In the Process of Confession

Posted on May 29, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

In the Process of Confessionby Michael DoyleKeeping reality and the Bible in contextIs a paradigm that constantly correctsTo keep truest meaning in its placeThroughout our lives, it’s a truth to embraceGod answers prayers in His timeTo do otherwise would be … Continue reading →

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Dropping the Stones

Posted on May 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

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 | Leave a comment

A Penitent’s Tale Begins

Posted on February 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

A Penitent’s Tale Beginsby Michael DoyleWhat do we do then when we awakeTo find our life has been a mistakeWhat then is life if we do not growExamined questions offer answers yet to knowThere is greatness in the sum of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Awake, Begin, Bible, Draw, Examined Questions, Exile, God, Grow, Jerusalem, Jewish Insurgency, Know, Legacy, Lessons, Lore, Mistake, Penitent, Poetry and Poems, Rabbis, Read, Righteous, Speak, Tale, True, Wailing Wall, World's Sin, Yiddish | Leave a comment

Line By Line

Posted on November 6, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Line By Lineby Michael DoyleScripture being God breathedIs to save us from being deceivedEvery word is for our trainingAs toward righteousness we are headingRead the Bible in our trustPaying attention as we mustThe names listed provide genealogyTracing back to God … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bible, Character, Deceive, Devine, Geneaology, God, Line By Line, Poetry and Poems, Righteousness, Scripture, Theology, Training, Word | Leave a comment

First Principles: If We Were To Remove the Bible From Public Schools We Would Be Wasting So Much Time Punishing Crimes and Taking So Little Pains To Prevent Them

Posted on August 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.” – Benjamin Rush

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Benjamin Rush, Bible, Crimes, First Principles, Little Pain, Prevent, Public Schools, Punish, Remove, Time, Waste, We | Leave a comment