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To Strive and Labor On
To Strive and Labor Onby Michael DoyleEvery day that we wake up aliveIt’s a new day for each of us to strive,To see what it is that we’re meant to do.The doing of which is up to me and you.Ours … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Make Sure That Nobody Pays Back Wrong For Wrong, But Always Strive To Do What Is Good For Each Other and For Everyone Else
““Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:15
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Tagged 1 Thessalonians 5:15, Each Others, Good, Make Sure, Strive, Thought For the Day, Wrong
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Coming To Faith
Coming To Faithby Michael DoyleJesus is known by His many names.These are revealed as we examine Biblical claims.We find it is with prayerful considerationThat there is power in every faithful iteration. In the shadow and light of His sacrifice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Assurance, Beauty, Believer's Constitution, Bible, Biblical Claims, Christ Fulfills the Law, Christianity, Coming To Faith, Confess, Connection, Daily Dwell, Dignity, Explanation, Faith, God, God's Light, Holy Call, Iteration, Jesus, Knowledge, Live Christ, Many Names, Near, Passing Day, Poetry and Poem, Power, Prayerful Consideration, Respond, Sacrifice and Resurrection, Salvation, Shadow and Light, Sin, Spiritual Marathon, Strive, Surpassing Love, The Book of Romans, Theological Leading Edge
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First Principles: The Credit Belongs To the Man Who Is Actually In the Arena, Whose Face Is Marred By Dust and Sweat and Blood…Who At Worst, If He Fails, At Least Fails While Daring Greatly
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Credit, Critic, Daring Greatly, Fails, First Principles, High Achievement, In the Arena, Strive, Theodore Roosevelt, Triumph, Worst
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First Principles: Strive To Be the Greatest Man In Your Country, and You May Be Disappointed. Strive To Be the Best and You May Succeed. He May well Win the Race That Runs By Himself
“Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.” -Benjamin Franklin (1747)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Country, Disappointed, First Principles, Greatest Man, Run, Self, Strive, Succeed, The Best, Win the Race
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A Broken Family Finds Healing
A Broken Family Finds Healingby Michael DoyleEmotions are relational in graceAs we love others in our embraceWe’re all dysfunctional as we striveIn God’s family, we will surviveEnriched by the joy that we shareIn every moment that we show we careLiturgical … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Advent, Belief, Bible, Broken Family, Broken Heart, Canaan, Care, Craziness, Deep Meaning, Descendants, Dysfuncational, Embrace, Emotions, Extraordinary, Faith, Family, Family Tree, Geneology, God, God's Call, God's Family, Grace, Greatest Story, Healing, History, Human Being, Importance, Impression, Intention, Jesus, Joy, Liturgical, Love, Nation, Ordinary, Pain, Passages, Path, Poetry and Poems, Proximity, Relational, Salvation, Set Apart, Strive, Survive, The Church, The Law, Theology, Times, Traces, Truth, Unfold, Vain, Wisdom, World's Breeze
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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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Through the Years
Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading
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Tagged Adapt, ADHD, Alive, Assurance, Beauty, Belong, Best, Blessing, Box of Cookies, Degrees, Drum, Gloom, God We Know, Godly, Gratitude, Guessing, Head On Collision, Hotel Room, Imagination, Indignation, Known, Learning, Lessons, Life Passes On, Love, Miss, Moonage Daydream, Movie Screen, Myself and Daughters, Overcome, Path of Life, Patience, Patient, Pensive, Please, Poetry and Poems, Princsses, Sensitive, Sharing Moments, Small Town, Smile, Sorrow and Silence, Stretch, Strive, Strong, Struggle, Suffering, Survive, Test, Think, Through the Years, Trapped, Turn Out Right, Walk, World, Wrong
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A Void of Emptiness
A Void of Emptinessby Michael DoyleApproaching the study of the edges of space Has only begun as technology sets the paceFor the time, it must be studied in deferenceAs it is a humbling, character-building experienceThe stars we watch are like … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Alone, Anguish, Approach, Bell Jars, Better Angels, Beyond, Bleak, Bond, Breathing, Burn, Character Building, Choose, Compelling, Conversations, Crash, Cruelty, Decontamination, Deference, Distant Stars, Ebb and Flow, Edge, Emptiness, Envy, Essence, Experience, Fail, Fear, Flow, Forest, Happiness, Heads, Hear, Heirs Apparent, Human Heart, Humbling, Hurt, Imagination, Intrude, Jealousy, Know, Learn, Loneliness, Love One Another, Made of Stone, Making Friends, Moments, Mortals, Moving Sea, Muddy Waters, Need, One Another, Others, Ourselves, Ovens, Overwhelming, Pangs, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Shore, So Much Love, Soul Revealing, Space, Stars, Strive, Study, Suffering, Sum, Swear, Taking Form, Technology, Transparent, Trees, Vanity, Voice, Void, Voyage, Watch, Watch Back, Waves, Wear, Wore, Worn
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First Principles: Strive To Be the Greatest Man In Your Country, and You May Be Disappointed. Strive To Be the Best and You May Succeed
“Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.” – Benjamin Franklin (1747)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Best, Country, Disappointed, First Principles, Greatest Man, Himself, Race, Run, Strive, Succeed, Win
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 