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Disciples By Grace
Disciples By Graceby Michael DoyleJesus allows us to questionAccepting this without hesitationThough He was given all authorityHe charges His disciples authenticallyTo go and spread the good newsWhile allowing differing viewsThere was room for strategies and doubtWhile spreading the good news … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ability, Accept, Allow, Authentic, Authority, Charge, Community, Complxity, Disciples, Done, Doubt, Earth, Eternity, Eyes, Forget, God's Power, God's Family, Good News, Gospel, Grace, Great Commission, Gspel, Heart, Hesitation, Hope, Humanity, Hurting Places, Impact, Jesus, Omission, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Promises, Question, Real, Regret, Ripple, Seen, Share, Simplicity, Sorrow, Souls, Strategy, Supernatural Hour, Surrender, Testimony, Today, Tomorrow, Universal Paths, Vision, Witness, Word, Worth, Zeal
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However Hard
However Hardby Michael DoyleHowever Hard the wind blewWe knew we’d make it throughHe who wears the victor’s crownWould never let us drownWith our strength of willWe depend on Him, and stillGod will allow to prevailOur faith is shown in our … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Busy Days, Community, Course, Crowd, Depend, Drown, Dust, Faith, God, God's Family, God's Gift, God's Ways, Good, Hands, Hard, Him, In the End, Make It Through, Matter, Mix, One Another, Poetry and Poem, Prevail, Shatter, Strength of Will, Strong, Tale, Understood, Victor's Crown, Ways
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In the Shoes of Humanity
In the Shoes of Humanityby Michael DoyleToo many are missing the vocabularyNecessary for living well in God’s familyThese things should be known and taughtFor God’s messages to be truly caughtThe time to win a fight is before it startsSetting the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Caught, Contemplation, Gentle Correction, God's Family, Heal, Humanity, Laws of Christ, Mindful, Poetry and Poems, Restore, Right Intention, Shoes, Soul Revealing, Taught, Vocabulary, Win
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Seen In Communion
Seen In Communionby Michael DoyleA plate of breadAnd juice of grapeBrings life to be spreadLike its spiritual landscapeWe come together for communionAs part of God’s familyCelebrating in this reunionThe blessing that brings us unityForgiveness in Christ is sharedThrough the burden … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Accept, Atonement, Blessing, Bow, Bread, Bread and Cup, Broken, Burden of the Cross, Cause To Pause, Celebrate, Christ, Come Together, Commitment, Communion, Confident, Correction, Destruction, Faithfulness, Fellowship, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Future, Gain, Gentle, Given, God, God's Family, Grape, Hell, His Ways, Hope, Inspection, Juice, Last, Life, Lord's Supper, Love, New Covenant, Now, Offered, Other Believers, Passover, Past, Plate, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Present, Recognize, Reflection, Remembrance, Remind Us, Resurrection, Reunion, Sacrifice, Satan, Seen, Shared, Sin of Man, Sinners, Slavation, Spiritual Eyes, Spiritual Lanscape, Spread, Story, Table, Three Days, Three Directions, Unity, Yoke
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Resolution Brings Harmony
Resolution Brings Harmonyby Michael DoyleTaking a look at the beatitudesTaking each moment given in gratitudeGod blesses the peacemakers as God’s familyNot avoiding or appearing overly sweetlyPeace at any given price is not peaceNor is it conflict’s sweet releaseIt is isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Avoid, Bleed, Block Prayer, Capability, Circumstances, Claim, Clever, Codependency, Compassion, Conflict, Connecting, Connection, Courage, Deal, Deep, Demand, Disconnection, Distance, Do, Failing, Fear, Forgive, God, God's Family, Godly, Gratitude, Guide, Harm, Harmony, Heart, Hesitate, Holy Spirit, Immediate, Insecurity, Intersect, Joined Together, Keep, Kindness, Layer, Life, Love, Moment, New Harmony, Offering, Openness, Peace, Peacemakers, Persevere, Plant Seeds, Poetry and Poems, Power, Prayer, Prevail, Price, Put Away, Reap, Resentment, Resolution, Right Timing, Say, Seed, Self-Discipline, Snare, Soul, Sow, Temple, The Real, Ungodly, Unresolved Conflict, Vulnerability, Working Things Out, World, Wounds
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On Becoming Truly Human
Based on 1 Corinthians 12: On Becoming Truly Humanby Michael Doyle On becoming human resplendentWe were never meant to be independentBut rather communal in the nature of our beingLiving in a communion of love with all we’re seeing Love is … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 12, Accept, As We Are, Becoming, Being, Body of Christ, Brink, Brother, Burden, Christ, Christian Life, Communal, Connected, Core, Dedication, Divine, Elocution, Focus, God's Family, God's Plan, Heart, Holy Trinity, Humble, Illustration, Independent, Keep Our Faith, Knowing, Living In Communion, Love, Love Grows, Many Members, Meant, Miles, Nature, New Life, One Another, One Body, Overflowing, Part, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quenching the Thirst, Remember, Resplendent, Right, Sacred, Santification, Satisfy, See, Seeing, Serves Us Well, Sister, Sufficiency, Sum, The Spirit, Think, Together, Transcendent, Trials, Truest Theology, Truly Human, Vine and Branches, Vineyard, Walk, We Believe, Whole, Wine, Working for Good
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Pick Up Stix
Pick Up Stixby Michael DoyleYou can pick up sticksYou can play a thousand licksBut you can’t save a soulWithout saving your ownYou can make up tricksThat mesmerize slickers and hicksBut when you walk the walk of JesusYou’re never aloneSaid the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brief, Dignity, Each of Us, Equality, From the Heart, God's Family, Irish Homily, Jesus, Knew, Lifting Up, Love For One Another, Make Up, Mesmerize, Never Alone, Pick Up Stix, Play Our Part, Poetry and Poems, President, Restores, Rock Star, Save A Soul, Save Your Own, Slickers and Hicks, Straits of Poverty, Thousand Licks, Tricks, Walk the Walk, What He Meant
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Righting My Wrong Direction
A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Fruit, Blessed, Bound, Call, Careful, Composite, Contemplation, Deep, Deep Sense, Deeper, Direction, Discipleship, Dwells, Errors, Fall, Family, Follow, Forgiven, Formality, Fullness, Given, God, God Is Good, God's Family, God's Light, God's Love, Good and Pure, Heed, Honor, Humanity, Know, Law, Live, Living, Lord, Marriage, Mindful, Mover, Notes, Opposite, Ourselves, Passionate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Relationship, Release, Return, Right, Right and Good, Seek, Sermon, Short, Sin, Sinfulness, Straight and True, Temptation, To Do Good, True, True Connection, Understood, Walk, Want, We, Worship, Wrong, Wrong Direction
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Walking In Our Blissfulness
Based in part on Psalm 111: Walking In Our Blissfulness by Michael Doyle Prayed by the number laid out My knowledge of God removes all doubt Staying in touch with God’s family Renewed and restored by our community Our heroes … Continue reading
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Tagged All Around, Bliss, Blissfulness, By Number, Community, Congregation, Courage, Crown, Days, Dedication, Doubt, Falls, Finding Our Way, Front Line, God, God's Family, Hearts, Heroes, His Presence, Holy, In Touch, Joy and Pain, Knowledge, Laid Out, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Psalms, Rage, Rain, Raising, Renew, Sacred Ground, Stillnees, Storms, Thankful, Thousand Places, True and Devoted, Trust, Walk Through Life, Walking, Worship, Yesterday and Tomorrow
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