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First Principles: Clothe Yourselves With Tenderhearted Mercy, Kindness, Humility, Gentleness, and Patience
“Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so … Continue reading
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Tagged Chose, Clothe, Colossians 3:12, First Principles, Gentleness, God, Holy People, Humility, Kindness, Love, Mercy, Patience, Tenderhearted, You
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Nothing Better Than You, Lord
Nothing Better Than You, Lordby Michael DoyleEven as I walk through shadowThere’s something that I knowYour love will always surround meEven when I don’t deserve your sympathyWhen my life becomes ashesAnd my spirit tears with the thrashesThe fight and battle … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Ashes, Asunder, Blunder, Compare, Connection, Direction, Dread, Faith, Fight and Battle, God, Head, Heart, Know, Lord, Meaning, Nothing Better, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Questions, Shadow, Soar, Sympathy, Thrash, Wandered, Wondered, Word, World, Your Love
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A Penitent’s Tale Begins
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
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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
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Whatever Our Circumstances Now
Whatever Our Circumstances Nowby Michael DoyleThanks given in every circumstanceNo matter the truth of the happenstanceThere’s a joyful noise to raiseAs we join together in our praiseSing our song as we rejoice togetherRedeemed by His grace, life is betterLike prisoners … Continue reading
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Tagged Breath, Circumstances, Communion, Cup, Embrace, Faithful, Family, Forgiven, Free, God, Goodness, Grace, Happenstance, His Love, Joyful Noise, Liberty, Lord, Loved, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Race, Raise, Redeem, Rejoice, Reunion, Runners, Song, Surrender, Truth
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First Principles: I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God, Eternal Hostility Against Every Form of Tyranny Over the Mind of Man
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)
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Tagged Altar, Eternal Hostility, First Principles, Form, God, Mankind, Mind, Sworn, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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Layers of Emotion
Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Action, Admonition, Articulation, Aspire, Collective Scars, Complexity, Compulsive, Deceive, Decide, Desire, Devil, Discipline, Division, Drama, Dysfunction, Emotion, Emotional Atrophy, Emotions, Essence, Exaggeration, Explain, Express, Expression, Falsity, Feeling, Foothold, Gentle, God, Harmony, Healthy, Heart of the Matter, Hid, Humble, Impessive, Insensitivity, Inside, Inspiration, Invitation, Jesus, Know, Layer, Life's Test, Loaded Statements, Love, Manage, Motion, Ocean, Old Selves, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Rebuke, Receive, Remedy, Representation, Repress, Sensuality, Shatter, Spiritual, Strife, Thirst, Truth, Unity, View, Walking In God's Ways, Youth
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First Principles: Do You Not Know That Your Bodies Are Temples of the Holy Spirit, Who Is In You…?
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV), Bodies, Bought, First Principles, God, Holy Spirit, Honor God, Know, Own, Price, Received, Temple
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Interiorly Designed
Interiorly Designedby Michael DoyleThe things that come along to discern thisThat God places use where we can learn goodnessHow then can we make the most of it and embraceWhere God has put us in our time and spaceTo make the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrasive, Accord, Adversary, Advocate, Appeal, Approach, Arguments, Authority, Basis, Bind, Blind, Blindness, Bridge, Brink, Captive, Challenges, Change, Changing Conversation, Choose, Christ, Circumspection, Contemplation, Convince, Damascus, Dark of Night, Design, Destination, Destruction, Discern, Embrace, Every Single Thought, Face-To-Face, Fight, Find, Gentleness, God, Good, Goodness, Grace, Heart, Holy, Hour, Humility, Inside, Interior Design, Kindness, Ledge, Legacy, Lessons, Life Stealing, Light, Linking, Lives, Love's Power, Magnification, Mind, Obedient, Oblvious, Obvious, Outward, Path, Pattern, Paul, Peace, Persausive, Persecution, Pivot, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prcoess, Radical Difference, Resolution, Resolve, Reveal, Reverence, Right Intentions, Root, Saved, See, Share, Signification, Soul, Strongest Thoughts, Students, Tactful, Tension, The Bible, The Gospel, Think, Thrust, Time and Space, Traces, Truth, Wisdom, World
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Under the Potter’s Hands
Under the Potter’s Handsby Michael DoyleUnder the potter’s handsHe forms the clayWe talk, He understandsWe live yet another dayIn our time, we fold handsAcross the world, in many landsTalking to God quietlyRescued from myself politelyGod in His purpose and mercyCorrects … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Day, Burden, Clay, Daily History, Forgiven, God, Grace, Guidance, Hands, Hearts, Hurting, Keys, Kingdom, Lands, Law, Light, Live, Lives, Love, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Potter, Purpose, Rescue, Right, Talk, Time, Together, Understand, Wisdom, Words, World
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