Batch Batchelder
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Batch Batchelder
Exodus Dust
God spoke creation into existence, then from Dust, with his hands (not his voice), God made us - animated earth…
To Dust we will return. We are limited.
The Serpent is cursed to eat Dust.
Dust became a plague of gnats.
Ash (the Dust of forced labor) became a plague of boils.
Moses and Aaron wielded the serpent (onto the ground/Dust) - God
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Edit yourself for approval and you become a minority shareholder in your own life.
The cost of being easy to live with is destroying the person who has to do the living.
The cost of being easy to live with is destroying the person who has to do the living.
fs.blog • Direction Over Distraction
January 11, 2026 Epiphany • Day 6
At Jesus’ baptism the moment is cross-shaped: horizontally, in Jesus humanity is reconciled to one another as the Jordan becomes a bridge to the nations; vertically, in Jesus humanity is reconciled to God as heaven opens and Father, Son, and Spirit are revealed.
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Excerpted from Exodus90 Program:
Jesus stands in the
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Opportunities and tests from God refine faith.
Temptations from the serpent distort desire.
God’s way is presence.
The serpent’s way is control.
God washes/wrings the Pharaoh out of Moses..
Moses is eighty.
Forty years in Pharaoh’s house.
Forty years in Midian.
Evil is not punished arbitrarily. It collapses under its
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Weekly Update–DRM, Men's Discipleship, Visitor Lunch
Are you continuing to do it mostly because it makes you feel interested and alive — or are you continuing to do it mostly because you know what to expect and you're hesitant to make a change?
January 9, 2026 Epiphany • Day 4
God’s ways and his time are not our own.
God advances covenant purpose through compromised people — not bypassing their fear, missteps, concealments, or flight, but working inside them without excusing them.
God’s rescue often consists less in changing circumstances and more in revealing provision that panic blinds us
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