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Concerns For Perennial Truths
Concerns For Perennial Truthsby Michael DoyleAdmittedly, I grew up differently,Believing in my nation and God reverently.Strength of character and in spirit,Where the battle was righteous, I would bear it.I have watched as our ideals were beaten down,And somehow Marxism claimed … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle, Believe, Character, Christianity, Concern, Different, Dignity, God, Ideals, Jesus, Marsxism, Moral Order, Nation, Pbility, Perennial Truths, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Prosperity, Purpose, Recovery, Reverence, Righteous, Self-Government, Service, Sovereignty, Spirit, Strength, Technocracy
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Thought For the Day: Use Me, God. Show Me How To Take Who I Am, Who I Want To Be, and What I Can Do, and Use It For A Purpose Greater Than Myself
“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tagged God, Greater Than Self, Martin Luther King Jr., Purpose, Show Me, Thought For the Day, Use, Use Me, Want To Be, Who I Am
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Thought For the Day: A Disciple Is One Who Thinks, Feels and Acts Like Jesus Christ. It is Being Conformed To the Image of Christ
“A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God’s No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.” – Rick Warren
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Tagged Acts, Christ, Conform, Disciple, Feels, Image, Jesus Christ, Like Jesus, Lives, Purpose, Rick Warren, Romans 8:28-29, Thinks, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Love Your Life, Perfect Your Life, Beautify All Things In Your Life. Seek To Make Your Life Long and Its Purpose In the Service of Your People
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautify, Fear of Death, First Principles, Great Divide, Heart, Life, Love Your Life, Noble Death Song, Perfect, Purpose, Religion, Respect, Seek, Service of Your Peopl, Tecumseh, Trouble, View
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Avarice and Vice
Avarice and Viceby Michael DoyleIn this workaday world, we barely muddle throughWe worry about our own lives more than justice dueOur duty is more toward the good of our own familyThan to worry about every nuance of societyIf another man … Continue reading
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Tagged Avarice and Vice, Choice, Constructs, Define, Destruct, Duty, Family, Fate, Fathers Kingdom, Guilt and Innocence, Guilty Place, Hang, Hell On Earth, Justice, Lives, Love or Hate, Magnify, Mercy, Muddled Grace, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Price, Purpose, Refine, Reflect, Society, Surface, The Good, Truth, Veneer, Vise, Voice, Workaday World
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First Principles: Tyrants Accomplish Their Purposes Without Resistance, Is, By Disarming the People, and Making It An Offense To Keep Arms
“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.” – Justice Joseph Story
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Tagged Accomplish, Arms, Disarm, First Principles, Joseph Story, Offense, Ordinary Mode, Purpose, Resistance, The People, Tyrant
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The Story Told
The Story Toldby Michael DoyleThere’s a heart in HeavenWaiting to be knownHis presence is everywhereIn every morning shoneThe revival of His SonIs the power of death undoneYahweh showers us with loveAs His kingdom reigns aboveHis love reigns as it leadsEach … Continue reading
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Tagged Every Generation, Every Season, Everywhere, Faithful, Flaw, Following Jesus, Foundation, Heart, Heaven, Kingdom, Known, Lead, Love, Love of God, Mistake, Morning, Noble Deeds, Poetry and Poems, Power of Death, Presence, Purpose, Reason, Revival, Road, Rock of Ages, Serve, Son, Step, Strength, The Story Told, The Truth, Yahweh
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Sufficiency
Sufficiencyby Michael DoyleGod’s grace is filled with sufficiencyIt eases us from lives of deficiencyWe walk this world, but not aloneStep by step, we come to atoneWithin God’s sacred familyWe learn God’s word is not a homilyBut a walk we live … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor, Atone, Believer, Bible, Blind, Book of Romans, Centrality, Christ, Christianity, Community, Courageous Question, Deficiency, Faith, Follow, God, God's Grace, Good News, Homily, Humility, Identity, Jesus, Life Claiming, Paul, Poetry and Poems, Purpose, Right, Sacred Family, Servant, Sight, Sinner, Sufficiency, Walk, Wrong Road
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Heavenly Peace
Heavenly Peaceby Michael DoyleThis night of abounding silenceCame to conquer this world’s violenceHeavenly peace brought to calm sleepWhen the Lord came to love and keepThe Lord opened the Word to our pageBringing hope and peace to our ageWalking with us … Continue reading
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Tagged Conquir, Crucified, Darkness, Destined, Faithfully, Fated, God's Sake, Heaerts, Heavenly Peace, His Glory, His Story, Holy Spirit, Hope, Left, Love and Keep, Love and SErvice, Night, Our Age, Page, Part, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Purpose, Real, Reconciled, Redeeming Love, Rejoice, Silece, Sleep, Souls Shake, Step, The Lord, the Word, Tremble, Truth, Voice, Wait, Walking, World's Violence
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Thought For the Day: If A Man Loves the Labour of His Trade, Apart From Any Question of Success or Fame, the Gods Have Called Him
“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894) — Individuals deeply devoted to their professions without … Continue reading
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Tagged Achievement, Agency, Call, Calling, Consideration, Enjoy, Existence, Existential Responsibility, Fame, God, Gods, Gratitude, Heart, Income, Individuality, Intrinsic Motivation, Labor, Man, Mankind, Marker, Meaning, Motivation, Personal Satisfaction, Psychology, Purpose, Question, Recognition, Right Attitude, Significance, Society's Boundaries, Success, Thought For the Day, Trade, Transcend, True Value, Work
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