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First Principles: The Give of Every Good and Perfect Gift Has Called Upon Us To Mimic God’s Giving, By Grace, Through Faith, and This Is Not of Ourselves
“The giver of every good and perfect gift has called upon us to mimic Gods giving, by grace, through faith, and this is not of ourselves.” – St. Nicholas of Myra
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Tagged Faith, First Principles, Gift, Giver, God's Giving, Good, Grace, Mimic, Perfect, St. Nicholas of Myra
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Of Love and Faith
Of Love and Faithby Michael DoyleI bet my life on what I believeSpeaking the truth, I won’t deceivePumping the brakes to live another dayIt’s love’s world, I won’t get in the wayEvery moment that we keep it steadyWe still know … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Brakes, Cross, Deceive, God, Good, Love and Faith, Love's World, Minute, Moment, Poetry and Poems, Ready, Seaons, Seven, Steady, Teach, Truth, Understood
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Welcome To Our Church of Glory
Welcome To Our Church of Gloryby Michael DoyleThe rock of agesIs spread across the pagesWe hear it in the harmonyWe see it in the world’s beautyIt’s for this, I singAll the glory to my kingJesus gives us all for our … Continue reading
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Tagged Cause, Church of Glory, Daily Shown, Faithfulness, Focus, Freedom Story, Generation, Glory, God of Jacob, Good, Harmony, Hear, Hearts, His Love, Jesus, King, Known, Love To Live, Needed, Pages, Pleaded, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Rock of Ages, See, Sing, Smiles, The World's Beauty, Through Prayer, Time, True, Understood, Veneration, Welcome, Worship
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First Principles: Rid Yourselves of All Malice and All Deceit, Hypocrisy, Envy, and Slander of Every Kind. Like Newborn Babies, Crave Pure Spiritual Milk
“Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.” – Peter … Continue reading
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Tagged Deceit, Envy, First Principles, Good, Grow, Malice, Newborn Babies, Peter 2:1-2 (NIV), Rid, Salvation, Self, Slander, Spiritual Milk, Taste, The Lord
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Thought For the Day: The Christian Does Not Think God Will Love Us Because We Are Good, But That God Will Make Us Good Because He Loves Us
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, Christian, God, Good, Love, Think, Thought For the Day
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Moments Like John Muir
Moments Like John Muirby Michael DoyleSometimes, the city’s too many facesIt makes me dream of faraway placesWhere my heart can fade into the nightTraces of beauty replace blinding lightTimes in the wilderness are best for meSometimes, it’s a matter of … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Best Moments, Blinding Light, Body and Soul, Bouquet, Build, City, Clarity, Cool Streams, Country, Dirt Paths, Doorway, Dream, Face, Faraway Places, Forest, Glens, Good, Good Tidings, Heal, Heart, Hidden Country, Jagged Edge, John Muir, Moments, Mountain Peaks, Mountains, Necessity, Night, Passing Days, Peace, Pines, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Restore, Return, Sanctuary, Scent, Seek, Shaken, Sincerity, Stay, Strife, Stroll, Times, Trace, Unmistaken, Wilderness, Wildflowers, Wilds, Woods
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A Memory of Losses
A Memory of Lossesby Michael DoyleEven a cursory read of the Hadith findsIt is enjoined to treat others kindTo never kill unless it is necessaryThe death of even one requires a necessityTo save even one is to save all of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2977 Innocents, 9/11, A Memory of Losses, Alienation, Broken, Changed, Creator, Death, Degradation, Deliver, Died, Enjoined, Fade Away, God, Godly Path, Good, Hadith, Heaven, Heresy, Humanity, Kill, Killers, Kind, Knowledge, Life, Lingering Traces, Losses, Memoreis, Mercy, Necessary, Necessity, One, Poetry and Poems, Read, Rearranged, Save, Scancitty, September Day, Shameful Deeds, Slaughtered, Time, Understood, Wisdom
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Please Enjoy Your Labor Day Holiday!!
Please enjoy our Labor Day!! Today is a day to celebrate a little the blessings given to us from our labor and the labor of others. Why not take a moment and thank those who work so hard for us … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Allow, Celebrate, Equal Chance, Equal Oppotunity, Equity, Everybody, Focus, Getting Rich, Good, Gratitude, Harm, Humblest Man, Labor, Labor Day, Law, Life, Popose, Reject Equity, Thankfulness, Thought For the Day, War On Capital
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Thought For the Day: The Best Index To A Person’s Character Is (a) How He Treats People Who Can’t Do Him Any Good, and (b) How He Treats People Who Can’t Fight Back
“The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.” – Abigail Van Buren (August 1980)
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Tagged Abigail Van Buren, Best Index, Character, Fight Back, Good, People, Thought For the Day, Treat
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Furthering Conformance To the Cross
Furthering Conformance To the Crossby Michael DoyleWith an amazing sense of unearned graceThe foot of the Cross can be embracedAn essence of sin drives our theologyAs we acknowledge the truth of you and meConforming ourselves to the Bible’s mirrorIt’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Amazing, Attrittion, Better Place, Bible's Mirror, Blame, Blessed Lives, Brokenness, Buffet, Capacity For Good, Challenge, Conformance, Cross, Dark Momentum, Edging God Out, Ego, Embrace, Ephesians, Error, Faith, Father's Name, Fear, Foot of the Cross, Free, Gentile and Jew, Globalization, Gluttony, God, Godlessness, Good, Grace, Here To There, History, Holy, Jesus, Life, Love, Manutrition, Midst, Modernization, Nation, Necessity, Pluralization, Poetry and Poems, Post-Modernist Nation, Relations, Secularization, Self-Examination, Shifting Communication, Sin, Spiritual, Spirituality, Strive, Theology, Thought, Truth, Understood, Unearned Grace, Unknown
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