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In Humility Walked
In Humility Walkedby Michael DoyleThe gap between us and eternityIs spanned through the Holy TrinityUnified and whole to dispel hostilityThe transition is made in our theologyThe anchor has been set in placeThe spiritual transformation we embraceMust be guarded against spiritual … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor, Begin, Character Development, Christ, Conformity, Eternity, Gap, God, Grace, Grave, Harmonized, Heaven, Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, Hostility, Humility, Inspiration, King's Ransom, Kingdom, Life For Death, Manipulation, Mankind, Pace, Place, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Sin, Sinner, Span, Spiritual Transformation, Theology, Transformation, Transition, Unity, Walk
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First Principles: It Is By Grace You Have Been Saved, Through Faith – and This Is Not From Yourselves, It Is the Gift of God – Not By Works, So That No One Can Boast
” For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” – Ephesians 2:8-9
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Tagged Boast, Ephesians 2:8-9, Faith, First Principles, Gift of God, Grace, Saved, Self, Works
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Unity In God’s Family
Unity In God’s Familyby Michael DoyleLife proves the truth of God’s reliabilityAs God gets us through our adversitiesWe stand grateful as we become more wiseLearning to love the world through His eyesWe were once living in transgression and sinCraving the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Adversities, Battles, Bits and Pieces, Blessings, Blindness, Brilliance, Brokenness, Christ, Craziness, Definition, Degrees, Dependent, Deserve, Embrace, Eternity, Faith, Freedom and Liberty, Gentle Traces, Gift, God, God's Family, Godly Ways, Grace, Grateful, Guide, His Eyes, Hope, Humanity, Influence, Justice, Kindness, Knees, Knnes, Learn, Life, Living, Living Grace, Lord's Cross, Loss, Lost Sight, Love, Loving Grace, Media, Mercy, Paths, Penitent Souls, Played, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Punches, Reliability, Repentance, Sacrifice, Saved, Serve, Sin, Spiral, Sway, The World, Truth, Unity, Wise, Words, Wounded Souls, Wrath, Wrath of God
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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
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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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First Principles: It Is By Grace You Have Been Saved, Through Faith – and This Is Not From Yourselves, It Is the Gift of God Not By Works, So That No One Can Boast
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast.” – Ephesians 2:8-9
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Tagged Boast, Ephesians 2:8-9, Faith, First Principles, Gift, God, Grace, Saved, Works, You, Yourselves
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In Beginning To Chill Hostility
In Beginning To Chill Hostilityby Michael DoyleIn truth, Christ came to save us allBringing us peace, as we might recallChrist has already graced us as He’s doneIn the name of the Father, the Spirit, and the SonIn this world, hanging … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Align, Argument, Attention, Begin, Better Day, Bind, Blowback, Bread, Capture, Case Study, Chill, Christ, Christians, Civility, Confidence, Controversy, Conversation, Corruption, Critical Thinking, Derivations, Echo Chambers, Embrace, Eternal Liberty, Fall Short, Father, Golgotha, Good Repute, Grace, Guided By God, Hands of Providence, Holiness, Hostility, Humility, Impure, Incendiary, Insensibility, Intention, Know, Life's Purposes, Lip Service, Morality, Our Times, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preach, Pretend, Public Square, Reach, Reasoned Dispute, Rules of Engagement, Seem, Son, Spirit, Spoken, Struggle, Study, Surface, True, Truly Woken, Truth, Understand, Words, World
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Venomously Bitten
Venomously Bittenby Michael DoyleOn this roller coaster of loveIt’s sometimes hard to keep track ofWho’s the saint, and who is sinningToo many complications can set things spinningThrowing in the towel isn’t how it’s doneNot if you’re fighting for your golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Affinity, Bitten, Chapters, Complication, Contrary, Cultivate, Deception, Done, Embrace, Empathy, Fight, Forgive, Garden, Gossip, Grace, Habits of Excellence, Integrity, Lives, Love, Mistakes, Other Side, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Roller Coaster, Sad, Saint, Scenes, Sinning, Spin, Stability, Throwing In the Towel, Time, Track, Understanding, Vemonous, Venomously Bitten, Words, Written
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Through the Son
Through the Sonby Michael DoyleThere’s something in my attitudeIt’s heard in my love and gratitudeOn my knees, I am prayingOn my lips, I am sayingHallelujah, for all my healingThere is grace in all I’m feelingHere in all my daysI keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Belong, Dark and Light, Days, Death to Life, Deliver, Divine, Done, Feel, Gift, Glory, Grace, Gratitude, Greater Things, Hallelujah, Heal, Heard, Heart, Jesus, King, Knees, Lift Up, Lips, Living, My Love, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pray, Rewrote, Right, Say, Signs, Sing, Song, Soul, Story, Through Jesus, Through The Son, Wonder, Wonders, Words
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In the End (We Die Alone)
In the End (We Die Alone)by Michael DoyleHarsh words are toldSometimes quietly, sometimes boldThere are a million ways to live your yearsBut it’s best when you free your fearsAnte up to stay in the gameWhatever happened or who is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Above Ground, Ante Up, Balk, Best Ability, Best Card, Better, Beyond Our Capability, Blame, Bluff, Bold, Breath, Chin Held High, Chin Up, Desolate Mile, End, Face, Fake, Fears, Forgiving, Found, Friend, Getting Yourself Together, Grace, Hard, Harsh Words, Head Above Water, Hurt, Impartiality, In the End, Joker's Bluff, Keep On Living, Life, Life Is Life, Live, Live Your Years, Living, Loneliness, Loud, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Push Comes To Shove, Quite Enough, Rusted Glass, Smile, Stability, Surprise, Talk Your Walk, Thanks, Told, Troubles, We Die Alone
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About Trees
About Treesby Michael DoyleDriving through the forestIt can be a bit like a testTo know that they pleaseAs you examine all the treesFrom saplings up to the heightsA million reasons offer delightSome live through the centuriesAll offer their sweet legaciesBranched … Continue reading
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Tagged About Trees, All of Life, Biology, Branched Out, Breath, Call Us Out, Centuries, Define, Delight, Drive, Dvinity, Ecology, Embrace, Examine, Forest, Generations, God's Creations, Grace, Hearts, Heights, Illusion, Indiana, Infinity, Kentucky, Legacies, Life, Live, Living Memory, Living Spaces, Love, Lucky, Mankind, Million Reasons, Niche, Numberless, Offer, Old Growth Patches, Please, Poetry and Poems, Realign, Relationship, Restorative, Root Systems, Saplings, Space, Spirituality, Stars, Start, Test, Timeless Regeneration, Travelers, Trees, Woodlands, Worship
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