Batch Batchelder
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Batch Batchelder
Mighty Fortress, although this world is filled with threats to faith and opposition to your good purposes, I pray "your kingdom come." Destroy the work of the devil everywhere, topple every force that revolts against you, and frustrate every conspiracy against your Word. Amen.
In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the
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Lord, You have shown favor before —
You have restored lands and people, forgiven sin, withdrawn Your fury.
But now our hearts are bitter, defiant,
and our leaders mirror our rebellion.
You have done everything we requested;
You have given a “king” so many demanded.
And we have not walked in reverence and awe.
We have not
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This Framework Fixes ANY Chaotic Meeting
Value-Simplicity and Lead
4Cs: Collect, Choose, Create, Commit
1. Collect:
What challenges / topics we want to talk about in this meeting (dump of thoughts, clearing of the mind clutter)
a. Our ELT attempts to do this asynchronously via Slack in advance of the Weekly Tactical meeting
2. Choose:
What will we focus on right now?
a. We in real time in the meeting choose / prioritize what to address
b. I think we could use a parking lot more/more effectively
3. Create:
Generate interesting ideas for the priority/focus topic(s)
4. Commit:
a. We have decided to do X
b. Here’s how, and
c. Here’s who…
Prayer of Justice and Wholeness
Living God,
You alone are sovereign — eternal, almighty, and overflowing with goodness and truth.
Your justice is love in action:
creative in forming life,
protective in defending it,
corrective in humbling pride,
and restorative in healing what sin and oppression have broken.
Teach us to live within that rhythm —
to abide in
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"Good habits stockpile ease. Bad habits postpone pain."
3-2-1: How to save a relationship, the key to being open-minded, and a simple guide to self-care
When Sarah’s barrenness stretched into laughter and disbelief,
God’s promise ripened in her old age — life from the impossible.
And when Pharaoh’s daughter lifted a crying child from the Nile,
a deliverer was adopted, and the enslaved would one day walk free.
When Rebekah’s womb lay silent for twenty years,
Isaac’s prayer pierced heaven, and nations
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2025.10.05 Miraculous Provision and Adoption
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky