Following Jesus ✝️𓅦𓅦𓅦
Self-professed followers of Jesus the Messiah on Nostr. Protestants, Roman Catholics and Orthodox welcome. (No LDS or JWs)
Part 4: Judgment as Purification, Not Final Defeat
This is part 4 and the final part of our series. Judgment in Scripture is real and severe, but never final defeat. Its purpose is purification, not endless torment. The fire burns away what cannot last, so that reconciliation and restoration may come.
How I Built a Decentralized CMS with Nostr + GitHub Actions
This article walks through how I built a fully decentralized blog using Nostr as the backend CMS, GitHub Actions for automation, and GitHub Pages for free global hosting. No servers, no logins — just sovereign publishing on open protocols.
Solzhenitsyn Would Have Loved Bitcoin
Inspired by a comment from @HODL, this article explores why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Soviet dissident, truth-teller, and moral philosopher — would have seen Bitcoin not as a mere technology, but as a stand against coercion, deception, and spiritual decay. Bitcoin reflects the same principles he lived and wrote by: personal responsibility, incorruptible memory, and resistance through truth. This is not about price — it's about proof of alignment.
Something Is Alive Here @ Bitcoin 2025
At Bitcoin 2025 and on Nostr, I’ve rediscovered what decentralization really means — not just as a technical design, but as a lived experience of freedom. This article reflects on how alive and tangible that freedom feels: owning your identity, zapping freely, publishing without permission, and building outside institutional control. It’s not about hype — it’s about sovereignty, trust, and conviction. For the first time in a long time, freedom doesn’t feel like a slogan. It feels real. It feels alive.
Freedom Means Honoring People — Even When We Disagree
In an age of polarization, this reflection explores what true freedom looks like: not agreement at all costs, but the capacity to honor people — even when we profoundly disagree. From Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden to Ross Ulbricht and Donald Trump, the piece wrestles with moral complexity, hypocrisy, and the double-edged sword of modern power. It closes with a hopeful look at Bitcoin — a system built on neutrality and permissionlessness — as a model for principled freedom that transcends party lines and culture wars.
Memorial Day Reflections → Walking into Bitcoin 2025
As Memorial Day invites sober reflection on freedom and sacrifice, I pause to honor what was given — and consider what I’m building toward. This week I head to Bitcoin 2025 not just as a Bitcoiner, but as someone seeking to live with conviction. This is a call to remember the cost of liberty and to build systems rooted in truth, transparency, and work that lasts.
Why I Left Web3 for Proof of Work – Part 5: Building Again
Building after leaving Web3
First Test Article
First Test Article
An Open Letter to Speaker Cameron Sexton: Why Tennessee Must Lead on Digital Privacy
As the nation's #1 state for federalism, Tennessee has both the opportunity and obligation to resist federal overreach by enshrining the right to financial privacy in the digital age—the same privacy Americans once had with physical cash.
Free Article 1 (Nov. 13, 2025): Real Work vs. Fake Work in a World That Runs on Optics
A personal look at the difference between “doing things that look like work” and doing work that actually moves the needle — in income, integrity, and long-term freedom.
"Christ's outstretched hands haven’t stopped working" Wednesday of Trinity 21 2025
On that cross, the Law is fulfilled. The Sabbath is completed. The Lord of the Sabbath rests His head in death to give eternal rest to the weary. His hands are destroyed so that yours might be restored. His life is taken so that yours might be saved. That’s the pattern of the Gospel: He takes the harm so that you receive the good. He suffers so that you are healed. He is broken so that you are made whole.
On the importance of usefulness
Why everyone and everything is useless, but it didn't have to be that way.
Musical Imagination I
Enriching the Literary Imagination Through Music
Musical Imagination II
Listener Types
Even Our Heroes Fail
We also can be used by God even after failure
"The resurrection banquet has already begun!" Wednesday of Trinity 20 2025
This is where the kingdom begins to break in. And this is where your repayment begins — not in money or reward, but in resurrection, in mercy, in joy that never ends. So when Jesus says, “Invite the poor,” He’s not just telling you what to do. He’s telling you who you are. You are the poor. You are the blind. You are the one who can’t repay. And still, He invites you.
"To be a beggar before God is to be blessed with the kingdom of heaven" — All Saints' Day 2025
To be a saint is to be a beggar before God. But to be a beggar before God is to be blessed with the kingdom of heaven. Because God fills what is empty. He lifts what has fallen. He gives what we could never buy.“Blessed are the poor in spirit,” Jesus says, “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” He doesn’t say, “will be.” He says, “is.” Right now. This kingdom already belongs to those who know they’ve got nothing.
