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Shalom Charis
Shalom Charisby Michael DoyleJarred by the fires that burnBroken hearted as we learnThe sorrow of this seasonWe extend our love beyond reasonCalled to be holy through graceWe keep our eyes on God’s faceA spiritual gift is shown with careGod’s love … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abounding, Abundant, Bible, Broken Hearted, Burn, Called, Care, Christianity, Community, Completeness, Darkest Hour, Devastation, Done, Embrace, Faith, Fires, Fix, Forgiven, God, God's Face, God's Family, God's Ways, Good News, Grace, Hang Tough, Head, Heart, His Will, Holy, Holy Conversation, Jarred, Jesus, Learn, Love, Marked By God, Overlfowing, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Priority, Reveal, Serenity, Shalom Charis, Shape, Share, Sorrow, Spiritual Gift, Talk, Unashamed, Unmerited Favor, Walk, World's Strife
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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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The One Who Won’t Go Away
The One Who Won’t Go Awayby Michael DoyleIn the air is a feeling of anticipationAs we joyfully prepare our contributionChristmas is coming as if we’re dreamingSoul shine fills us as if it’s beamingGod is with us as we happily prepare … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Advent, Air, Angels, Anticipation, Baby In A Manger, Beam, Belief, Bell, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, Blessings, Born, Buden, Changing the World, Chase the World, Christ, Christmas, Christmas Morn, Church, Compare, Contentment, Contribution, Cope, Discourage, Dream, Eternity, Faith, Free, Glory To God Alone, Go Away, God, God's Holy Ways, Good News, Goodness, Great Comission, Grow, Heart, Hearts, Hope, Impact, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Know, Light, Living, Love, Loving Ways, Majesty, Mankind, Merry Christmas, Million Views, Mistaken, Odd, One, Outside World, Peace, Pleasing, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prayers, Prepare, Read, Reason For This Season, Redefine, Regisgry, Relief, Savior, Second-Guessing, Shifting Sands, Shown, Sight, Simple Beginnings, Socials, Soul Shine, Strife, Stumble, Sunday, Taken For Granted, Time, Transformation, Trust, Understood, Walk, Wedding, Wings, Wonderful Life, Words, Worship, Worth, Yesterday
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Just Learning My Faith’s Ways
Just Learning My Faith’s Waysby Michael DoyleJust learning, I managed my doubtsFinding out what God’s all aboutThere was so much to take inWhen I was looking to escape my sinsOf all the miracles, like the virgin birthIt challenges most for … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All About, Bible, Challenges, Christian Nation, Christianity, Disciples, Doubt, Faith, God, Incarnation, Jesus, Learn, Life's Tests, Margins, Miracle, Miracles Out of Nowhere, Pharisees, Poetry and Poems, Progress, Received, Reliable and Reachable, Ressurection, Risk, Sadducees, Sins, Take In, Trust, Undertake, Virgin Birth, Ways, Worth
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A Broken Family Finds Healing
A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze
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Thanksgiving Pause
Thanksgiving Pauseby Michael DoyleFighting on until backed into the ropeWe do what we can even as losing hopeI look around and see some about to shatterIt makes me wonder if our prayers matterSome irrationally have lost the will to thinkWhile … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Account, Adopt, Bible, Born Again, Childish Ways, Christian Ways, Christianity, Drink, Fighting, Find, Genuine Freedom, Grace Sets Things Right, Grew, Irrational, Jesus, Living, Losing Hope, Matter, Maturity, Mirror, New, Not New, Outlive, Passion, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Positive Light, Prayer, Prayers, Rop, Shatter, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Together, Think, Will, Wonder, Worldly Perspective
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Comfortable In the Discomforts of the Heart
Comfortable In the Discomforts of the Heartby Michael DoylePast all the great and well-known speakersIs the preacher in comfortable sneakersHe’s giving a shout-out about RevelationAs he provides a succinct explanationA life lived in a would-you-rather gameThe choice was made to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bible, Christianity, Comfortable, Discomfort, Faith, God, Heart, Jesus, Poetry and Poems, Preach, Revelation, Truth
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Overcoming the Adversary
Overcoming the Adversaryby Michael DoyleI’m glad to say that I believeIn God’s promise, not a devil who deceivesLife’s storms come, but I have strengthEnough to last the day’s lengthWith the Bible as my swordI rest on the strength of the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adversary, Belief, Believe, Believer, Belssing, Bible, Christ's Blood, Circumstances, Confidence, Contrary, Darkness, Day, Deceive, Devil, Doubt, Fear, Glad, God of Second Chances, God's Promise, Going, Grow, Guess, Harshness, His Light, History, Holy Spirit, Joy, King, Legacy, Life, Lord, Name, Overcome, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Show, Storm, Strength, Sword
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First Principles: I Know Your Deeds, That You Are Neither Cold Nor Hot. I Wish You Were Either One Or the Other!
“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!” – Revelation 3:15 (NIV) — The Laodicean church was told that nothing escapes Jesus’s attention. Lukewarm faith has stern consequences. … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Attention, Bible, Christian Faith, Christianity, Church, Cold, Committed Faith, Consequence, Contemporary Society, Danger, Deeds, Deep Involvement, Engagement, Evil, First Principles, Godly Matters, Going Through the Motions, Harmony, Hot, Indifference, Jesus, Laodicean Church, lukewarm, Lukewarm Faith, Neutrality, One Or the other, Real Faith, Revelation, Revelation 3:15 (NIV), Status Quo, Wish, Worthless
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Surrender and Devotion
Surrender and Devotionby Michael DoyleEvery one of usMove from death to lifeWe know that it’s more than a fussAs we move toward peace from strifeOur values push us toward unityLiving in the free land of libertyThis is the struggle for … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Audience of One, Bible, Blind Spots, Calamity, Catalyic, Centerstage, Church, Circumstance, Community, Completion, Conversation, Courage, Dead, Death to Life, Deed, Dispute, Ears, Faith, False Glory, False Pride, False Teaching, Fear, Fuss, God, Going, Harmony, Hear, Heart, Hollow, Holy Spirit, Humanity, Indwelling, Jesus, Know, Liberty, Love, Outspoken, Overreaching, Peace From Strife, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Repetition, Revelation, Scriptures, Seven Stars, Shallow, Social Reputation, Start, Struggle, Surrender and Devotion, Table, The Book, True Repentance, Unity, Values, Way Forward, World's Brokenness, Worship
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 