Following Jesus ✝️𓅦𓅦𓅦
Self-professed followers of Jesus the Messiah on Nostr. Protestants, Roman Catholics and Orthodox welcome. (No LDS or JWs)
Sunday Article (Sept. 28, 2025): A Prayer Across the Waters
Sunday in Honolulu — walking to Kawaiahaʻo Church, showing Pule no James Stanton to the Kahu from your iPhone, tasting locally grown Oʻahu chocolate, returning to the apartment, and saying goodbye late that night — a day of peace, love, and slow release.
Sabbath Article (Sept. 27, 2025): The Work of Letting Go
A true-to-life Sabbath reflection — clearing a father’s office, discarding a lifetime of papers, and discovering holiness in the labor of release.
Free Article 2 (Sept. 28, 2025): The Nearness of Heaven
A closing meditation on the thinness of the veil between worlds and the quiet assurance that love is gathered, not gone.
Free Article 1 (Sept. 28, 2025): Love at the Edge of Time
A reflection on how love transcends death — finding eternity not in escape from time, but in its fulfillment.
Free Article 2 (Sept. 15, 2025): Sovereignty in the Small Things
This article reflects on how small habits (like using cash, cooking at home, or controlling our keys) train us for larger acts of sovereignty. It argues that freedom is first practiced in the details of daily life.
Part 3: The Meaning of “Eternal” (Aionios)
Part 3 of the Victorious Gospel series examines the Greek word aionios, usually translated “eternal.” While sometimes pointing to God’s endless life, it often means “age-long.” This opens the way to see judgment as real but temporary, serving God’s larger purpose of universal reconciliation.
Free Article 2 (Sept. 27, 2025): The Vigil of Faith
A companion meditation on what faith looks like when words and strength run out — the sacred endurance of staying present.
Free Article 1 (Oct. 10, 2025): The Quiet Strength of Endurance
Endurance isn’t glamorous. It doesn’t trend, and it doesn’t shout. Yet it’s one of the most revolutionary virtues in a world obsessed with instant results. To endure is to refuse collapse — to hold faith quietly, while the world demands performance.
Free Article 2 (Oct. 10, 2025): Bitcoin, Loss, and Legacy
Loss has a strange way of teaching us permanence. Bitcoin becomes a mirror for that truth — a network that outlives its participants, just as love and conviction outlive the people who carry them. Legacy is proof-of-work written across generations.
Free Article 2 (Sept. 26): The Rebuilders: What Comes After Collapse
After every collapse, there come rebuilders — ordinary people who restore what matters by living honestly and simply. This piece honors those who rebuild not with slogans or wealth but with integrity. The new world, Andrew reminds us, begins wherever one life turns toward light.
Free Article 1 (Sept. 26, 2025): Hope After the Ashes
Hope is not optimism but defiance — the stubborn belief that even after the worst loss, life will rise again. Standing amid the ashes of grief, Andrew reflects on the kind of hope that outlasts death, systems, and despair — the quiet trust that nothing true is ever gone.
Free Article 2 (Sept. 25, 2025): When We Stop Resisting the Fall
Just as autumn glorifies its own decline, we too are called to fall with grace. This essay likens the fading of a life — and of civilizations themselves — to nature’s own rhythm of death and renewal. The fall, when received instead of resisted, becomes the beginning of rebirth.
Free Article 1 (Sept. 25, 2025): The Discipline of Release
Letting go isn’t an emotion — it’s a discipline of trust. In this reflection, Andrew writes from the threshold between clinging and release, realizing that the heart must open its hands for grace to flow. Every attachment that’s surrendered becomes a seed of new freedom.
Free Article 2 (Sept. 24, 2025): When the Light Fades from Familiar Places
From sterile corridors to shifting light on the floor, Andrew captures the tender stillness of decline — when everything noisy fades and only love remains. In the fading of strength and certainty, he finds a subtler, eternal brightness that asks nothing but presence.
Free Article 1 (Sept. 24, 2025): The Weight of What Remains
In the slow hush hospice care, grief begins before death. Andrew reflects on the strange holiness of waiting beside someone who is leaving this world — the way love deepens, sharpens, and surrenders as we realize we were never meant to hold on forever.
Free Article 2 (Oct. 6, 2025): Attention Is a Territory
Empires once conquered land; now they colonize attention. Treating attention as sacred property is the foundation of mental and spiritual independence.
Free Article 1 (Oct. 6, 2025): Algorithms Are Not Your Shepherds
Recommender systems promise wisdom yet deliver obedience. Sovereignty of mind begins with disentangling our desires from the prediction machines that claim to “know us.”
Free Article 1 (Oct. 7, 2025): Continuum and the End of the Feed
The infinite scroll was never neutral—it was an instrument of control disguised as convenience. This essay argues that the end of the feed is not nostalgia for the past but a rediscovery of authorship and rhythm.