I’ve created and published a Nostr #Bible devotional app. It’s live but needs some tweaking. Let me know what works and sent please. I’ll work on it when I have time. Much love. #ToChristAlone

The Reformed Bible

An interactive Reformed Christian Bible app featuring scripture reading, Reformer quotes, commentary, and a 365-day reading plan.

Go be dangerous today. Comfortable men are predictable. Predictable men are controllable. Controllable men build nothing worth remembering. You were not put here to be managed. You were put here to be faithful. And faithful men have always terrified the people running things. GM. 🤙

Wait…Walt Disney was a Freemason?

Weighted dips. Add them to your arsenal. Today, I went 4 sets @90lbs for 6-8 reps.

The system rewards going along. Conviction is the thing that draws fire. Nobody asks why you obeyed. They only ask why you didn’t.

Gm Nostr

Most people define love as having their emotions reflected back to them. They want validation. Not care. Affirmation. Not correction. Love properly deployed performs a social function no one else will. It tells you what you need to hear. Not what makes you comfortable.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Good morning. This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it. The Heidelberg Catechism opens with the most important question you will ever answer. What is your only comfort in life and in death? That I am not my own, but belong body and soul, in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood. Read that again. You are not your own. You were bought. The price was not negotiated. It was blood. The blood of the eternal Son of God, poured out willingly for rebels who deserved wrath. That is not sentiment. That is the ground you stand on this morning. Paul writes to the Corinthians with the same force. You were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. The logic is airtight. Ownership determines obligation. If Christ purchased you, then your Sunday morning belongs to him. Your voice belongs to him. Your attention belongs to him. This is not guilt. This is glory. The God who made the universe wants your worship. Not because he needs it. Because he is worthy of it. And because the act of worship is where your soul finds what it was made for. Go to church this morning. Sing like you mean it. Sit under the preaching of the Word. Let the truth of what Christ accomplished wash over you again. You need it more than you think. He is risen. He is worthy. Worship him today.

What did I miss in 3-4 days since being gone?

One of the best things about Nostr is that I can disappear, get away and come right back

Gm Nostr. Father/Son time

Gm Nostr The world is unstable. The people making decisions are demonstrably reckless. The best thing you can do is make your household hard to disrupt and easy to sustain. Stay ready.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Think through this. Share this. Create this. Someone has the time. And someone will reap this harvest. I’m just creating thought experiments. Picture this. A teacher publishes a full semester of physics lessons as long form articles on Nostr. Tagged by subject. Tagged by level. Available on every relay that carries the content. A parent in Montana discovers it. Her daughter works through the material over three months. The parent zaps the teacher directly. Lightning. Instant. Permissionless. Value moved from learner to educator with zero institutions in the middle. The teacher builds reputation the same way everyone on Nostr builds reputation. Proof of work. Students who learn well and parents who see results send zaps. Teachers who produce nothing of value receive nothing. The market does what the school board was supposed to do but never actually did. Curriculum lives on relays. Censorship resistant. A lesson on Austrian economics or sound money or constitutional history or theology stays published for as long as relays carry it. No content moderator. No terms of service review. No algorithm deciding your children should learn approved narratives instead of useful ones. Student progress becomes a portfolio of cryptographic receipts. A teacher signs an event that says this student completed this course and demonstrated competence. That signature lives on Nostr permanently. Verifiable by anyone. Over time a collection of those signed completions from reputable teachers carries more weight than a diploma from an institution that graduated kids who still struggle to read. Structure comes from Nostr lists. A teacher publishes a sequence. Start here. Then this. Then this. Parents and students follow the path like a curriculum map. Communities on Nostr function as classrooms. A cohort of students and a teacher gather around a shared subject. Discussion happens in the open. Questions get answered where everyone benefits from the answer. And Bitcoin funds the entire operation. No bank can freeze your homeschool budget because you chose the wrong curriculum. No state can defund a teacher because the lesson plan made someone in an office uncomfortable. You stack sats. You deploy them toward your children’s education. Nobody gets a vote except you and the teacher you chose. The brilliant part is what this does to geography. A master teacher in Buenos Aires can teach your kid calculus and receive payment in seconds. A theologian in rural Tennessee can publish a course that reaches families in Europe. The talent pool becomes global overnight. Quality rises because competition is open and payment follows performance. There are real challenges. Quality control in a permissionless system takes time. Reputation has to mature organically. Early adopters would carry the burden of curation. Mainstream credential recognition is a friction point for families who still interface with legacy institutions. Video and heavy media still need external hosting because relays handle text better than large files. Discoverability requires search and filtering tools that somebody has to build. All true. All solvable. And none of it is harder than the problem we already have, which is an entire generation processed through a compliance machine that teaches them what to think instead of how to think. The infrastructure is mostly here. Nostr handles publishing, identity, payments, and content organization already. What is missing is the education layer on top. The client that makes it feel like a school instead of a feed. The tagging system that lets a parent find exactly the right math course for an eight year old. The teacher dashboard that makes publishing curriculum as simple as writing a long form post. Someone is going to build this. Probably multiple someones. The protocol is ready. The payment rails exist. The families are already looking for the exit. The state spent 180 years building an education system that serves the state. The replacement will be built by parents and teachers who serve each other directly. Funded in sats. Published on relays. Verified by cryptography. Controlled by nobody. The extraction is already in progress.

The problem is simple. There is no cost to being a bad actor on Nostr. NPUBs are free. Sock puppets are free. Bots are free. Fake social proof is free. You can flood relays, manufacture reputation, scam new users, and disappear with zero economic consequence. The only friction is social and social friction on a pseudonymous protocol is nearly zero.

Anyone have trouble seeing received zaps in their rizful wallet @Rizful.com I’ve had zaps on some notes that aren’t appearing in the wallet. #asknostr

Your reputation on Nostr isn’t what you say about yourself.

Romans 13 is not a call to passivity. It is a theology of legitimate authority. Paul calls the magistrate God’s servant. The civil ruler holds a sacred charge whether he knows it or not. Christ was not a conqueror by Rome’s definition. He is still King of Kings. Every knee bends to Him including Caesar’s. Servant leadership is still leadership. He washed feet and then said follow my example. He commanded constantly. The dominion mandate in Genesis 1 was never revoked. The Christian man who builds nothing and leads no one is not modeling Christ’s humility. He is modeling Adam’s passivity. That is what broke the world. Lead your household first. Then your church. Then your community. The man who can govern and refuses will answer for that too.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ View quoted note →

Clarity is a courtesy extended to an audience that has demonstrated good faith. It is not owed to people who have already decided what you mean before you finish the sentence.