Tag Archives: Obey

First Principles: Though You Used To Be Slaves to Sin, You Have Come To Obey From Your Heart the Pattern of Teaching That Has Now Claimed Your Allegiance

Posted on March 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.” – Romans 6:17 (NIV)

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Thought For the Day: Yesterday We Obeyed Kings and Bent Our Necks Before Emperors. But Today We Kneel Only To Truth, Follow Only Beauty, and Obey Only Love

Posted on January 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” – Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931)

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First Principles: How Could A State Be Governed, Or Protected In Its Foreign Relations If Every Individual Remained Free To Obey Or Not Obey the Law According To His Private Opinion

Posted on December 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.” – Thomas Hobbes

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Living On the Double-Edge

Posted on September 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Living On the Double-Edgeby Michael DoyleIt’s one of the most intriguing dancesThis life under the God of second chancesRock solid beliefs guide my wayAs I live my best each and every dayKept alive by the library, we liveFrom this, I … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Therefore Go and Make Disciples of All Nations, Baptizing Them In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and Teaching Them To Obey Everything I Have Commanded You

Posted on April 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, To Obey His Will, To Be Grateful For His Benefits, and Humbly To Implore His Protection and Favors

Posted on March 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” – George Washington

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First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God

Posted on February 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.” – George Washington (1789)

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First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, To Obey His Will, Be Grateful For His Benefits, and Humbly Implore His Protection and Favor

Posted on November 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“(I)t is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor…” – George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789 … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Every Actual State Is Corrupt. Good Men Must Not Obey Laws Too Well

Posted on May 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

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First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, To Obey His Will, To Be Grateful For His Benefits, and Humbly Implore His Protection and Favors

Posted on April 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

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