My wife is nicer when I’m clean cut and clean shaven. 🤷‍♂️

I bought my Jade with sats in person, like a drug deal. Learned my lesson from Ledger.

This is the Way. nostr:note18x6e799dx8wn9czp5kenq4w4lxezl500v2s6dyczyxj8hm8uganskjgt8z

Spurgeon's Faith's Checkbook (October 21st)

God's Multiplication Table

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time — Isaiah 60:22

Works for the Lord often begin on a small scale, and they are none the worse for this. Feebleness educates faith, brings God near, and wins glory for His name. Prize promises of increase! Mustard seed is the smallest among seeds, and yet it becomes a tree-like plant, with branches which lodge the birds of Heaven. We may begin with one, and that "a little one," and yet it will "become a thousand." The Lord is great at the multiplication table. How often did He say to His lone servant, "I will multiply thee!" Trust in the Lord, ye ones and twos; for He will be in the midst of you if you are gathered in His name.

"A small one." What can be more despicable in the eyes of those who count heads and weigh forces! Yet this is the nucleus of a great nation. Only one star shines out at first in the evening, but soon the sky is crowded with countless lights.

Nor need we think the prospect of increase to be remote, for the promise is, "I Jehovah will hasten it in his time." There will be no premature haste, like that which we see at excited meetings; it will be all in due time; but yet there will be no delay. When the Lord hastens, His speed is glorious.

#faith #bible #christian

Good to have you here - someone created a #Reddit like #nostr app recently which you may appreciate, I think it's called oddbran or something like that - also we have a couple of music apps like wavlake, you may find some good accounts to follow through that

Just got this sinking feeling we'll need the security setup of a hitman to get through whats coming, because before this is all 'done and won' - we'll be treated like hitmen.

The mice will win - but the cats will eat well before they starve.

Upgrades needed.

A serving mindset needed.

The privacy dudes were right.

The Larp era is waning into the real tests of conviction and character.

I miss the simplicity of Astral, but it hasn't been updated since last spring. No client is perfect, but I don't believe Primal deserves all of the hate they get. Everything is open. They have clients for Android, iOS, and the web. They were funded by Bitcoin companies. As for trying to hard or being needy, I think they need to try harder! They have finding for a marketing budget and team. They need to market the hell out of their products and brand. This is how we reach the masses.

I miss the simplicity of Astral, but it hasn't been updated since last spring. No client is perfect, but I don't believe Primal deserves all of the hate they get. Everything is open. They have clients for Android, iOS, and the web. They were funded by Bitcoin companies. As for trying to hard or being needy, I think they need to try harder! They have finding for a marketing budget and team. They need to market the hell out of their products and brand. This is how we reach the masses.

Gm ☕️🤙

I’ve just come over from Reddit where a sub I used to frequent had a pretty bad day yesterday. The community points that Reddit had rolled out and with which many users were earning money as well as investing money into was abruptly cancelled. A huge sell off resulted and someone posted nostr as a possible alternative to those people affected. Interesting concept - thanks user rayfin on Reddit for introducing it to me

New article in the local paper by my pastor: Bible teaches peace is better.

"Do humans have an inherent right to self-defense, including the use of violence? What about Christ’s consistent ethic of non-violent resistance toward evil?

The Bible mostly assumes that people have the right to defend themselves. There are places, though, where this right becomes plain and is dealt with openly.

At the beginning of the Bible, God pronounces a death-penalty on murderers. Since humans are made in his image, to commit murder is to strike out at God and is rewarded with death. It would seem logical that, if human life is worth the payment of death after the fact, then defending that life from loss in the first place would also be appropriate.

When we get to the law of God, delivered by Moses, we find this becoming explicit, as that document allows for violence in defense of human life. It contains sophisticated procedures for deciding cases of homicide, whether they amount to murder or to something like what we would call manslaughter, and then between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. The possibility of killing an attacker in self-defense is in the latter category: not murder but manslaughter, and not considered worthy of capital punishment.

Later, there are many times the men of Israel are called upon to act as soldiers in defense of their families and communities against invaders.

It’s clear that violence may be used to defend human life from attack. There is no place where defending your own life is considered an exception to that idea.

In fact, coming to the Gospels of the New Testament, we see Jesus admitting at one point that he had the capacity to deliver himself by force from the hands of those who sought to kill him. As the son of God, he could summon a heavenly army to his defense if that had been what he was seeking. This amounts to confirmation of the appropriateness of self-defense, though he chose not to pursue that.

In fact, Jesus did consistently preach an ethic of peaceful non-compliance toward evil. He didn’t strictly take self-defense off the table for his followers (two swords among the 12 of them was “enough”) but he urged more peaceful means, like running away, to preserve their lives. I believe it’s still righteous to defend those weaker than oneself, as in a parent defending children from attack, or a man rescuing a woman from the evil actions of bad men.

When Jesus instructs his disciples to flee and not fight, or to turn the other cheek, he’s not suddenly overturning the justice of self-defense. He’s not taking away their right to defend themselves. But, rather, he’s urging them to set their rights aside, for the sake of something higher. In that case, it was the kingdom of God, with its Gospel message of mercy even toward those whose actions frankly deserve vengeance. He practiced what he preached, voluntarily giving up his life, and seeking forgiveness for his murderers.

If we practiced an ethic like that, it just might change the world. To do so, we have to decide that the legal, and even acceptable, use of our rights may not always serve the highest purposes. There may be a better way, as the prince of peace demonstrated."

Gordan Runyan is pastor of Tucumcari’s Immanuel Baptist Church and author of “Radical Moses: The Amazing Civil Freedom Built into Ancient Israel.” Contact him at:

reformnm@yahoo.com

#faith #bible #christian

I'll be totally honest, I don't have much to contribute here. I'm not a coder, a builder, or an entrepreneur. I'm certainly no leader.

I don't have a newsletter or service to shill. I don't have any unique insights into politics, economics, Bitcoin, or Nostr that hasn't already been repeated as nauseum.

I'm just a guy who stumbled into all of this and was made a better person through the process.

Nostr is for builders, it it's also lurkers to plug directly into the signal, to help us stay humble.

to the Cointelegraph intern that released the false ETF tweet yesterday.

You Suck!

My son is now mad at me because he wanted to flip his Bitcoin stack at $29,669 pump & I urged him not to hit the market sell and continue to HODL.

He is still remains mad at me from the $69k top where I urged him to HODL.

Dad just can’t catch a freaking break around here!

…GD! I’m now two years into a teenager telling me “I told you so!🤦🏻‍♂️