I like that as well. A couple concerns I have, though:

First, even though "key-pair away" is colored, which would normally catch the eye more, it has less contrast than "is only a," which will tend to reverse the emphasis.

I think keeping both lines in the solid purple keeps the main focus on "FREEDOM" and secondary focus on "key-pair away." If I really want to ensure that is the case, I can make "is only a" a bit smaller, or less bold, but still in the same font family.

Second, this is going to be printed on a shirt, and gradients don't always print well. I know solid colors will print cleanly, so I will probably stay with that on the keys and the accents to the side of the middle line.

Ok, I think I am liking this version best.

Some folks liked the horizontal, rather than angled, keys. They bugged me more and more as I looked at them, though.

I also felt like having the drop-shadow on "is only a key-pair away" was a bit too busy, and removing it makes "FREEDOM" pop even more, which is what I am going for.

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#Bitcoin #Nostr

I dunno. The more I look at the horizontal keys, the more they bug me. lol

You like the keys horizontal, rather than angled with the text, too?

Another alternative. We'll call this one "C."

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#Bitcoin #Nostr

Ok #Bitcoin and #Nostr friends. Which do you like better?

A.

B.

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Love and God's law are not antithetical.

They are synonymous.

> And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. - 2 John 1:6

The first table of God's moral law:

> "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment." - Matthew 22:33-38 (Jesus quoting Deuteronomy 6:5)

What does that look like?

> And God spoke all these words, saying, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. "You shall have no other gods before me.

> "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

> "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

> "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." - Exodus 20:1-11

The second table of God's moral law:

> And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." - Matthew 22:39-40

And what does that look like?

> "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

> "You shall not murder.

> "You shall not commit adultery.

> "You shall not steal.

> "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

> "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's." - Exodus 20:12-17

Still the best client on iOS in my opinion.

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That's not a bad interpretation from the NLT,. I still prefer more direct translations, rather than dynamic equivalent, though.

Ephesians 3:6 NKJV — "...that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel..."

To expand on this a bit, one of the particular passages used for why Christians "must" support the current state masquerading as "Israel" is Genesis 12:2-3, in which God says to Abram, before his name was changed to Abraham:

> "I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Therefore they see a danger in cursing Israel, since they are presumably Abraham's descendants, who inherit the promises made to him, and those who curse them will themselves be cursed.

This, of course, ignores two important principles:

1. Inclusion in God's covenant with Abraham has ALWAYS been on the basis of sharing the same faith Abraham had, and not by birthright. Consider Ishmael and Esau as pointed out by Paul in Romans 9 and consider Christ's words to the Pharisees and Sadducees in Matthew 3:8-9:

> "Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones."

While there is definitely a generational inheritance aspect to the covenant of God, it is NOT an automatic and universal inheritance that disregards faith, and especially since messiah has come, it is not without submission to and faith in Jesus Christ.

2. Those unfaithful who were descended from Abraham by blood were specifically called by Christ "children of your father, the devil" in contrast to their claim of being children of Abraham.

We see this very plainly in Jesus' teaching in John 8. Here he says to "those Jews who believed him" (verse 31):

> "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Shortly thereafter, in verse 39, some unbelieving Jews answered him saying, “Abraham is our father," as though that should be the end of the matter. What is Jesus answer to this? He tells them they are no children of Abraham, and they prove it by their actions.

> "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this."

He goes farther, telling them who their true father is in verse 44:

> "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do."

So, the Jews who reject Christ, like the ones who put him to death, have no rightful claim to be called "children of Abraham," or heirs of the promises made to him. Rather, they are children of the devil, according to Christ himself, whom are later called "the synagogue of Satan" in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9.

True Israel, God's covenant people, is synonymous with the Christian church, firmly holding to the teaching of the Apostles and the Prophets, and none other. The rest are no sons of Abraham whatsoever, but are of their father, the devil.

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I think dispensationalism became so popular in evangelicalism here in the states predominantly because the issue of the day was the authority, inspiration, and inerrancy of Scripture, which the dispensationals, to their credit, fought vehemently to defend, and therefore other aspects of their teaching were more readily and uncritically accepted by those who wanted to defend a high view of Scripture.

That screenshot is the least helpful definition of dispensationalism I have ever seen. EVERY Christian believes that God's self-revelation has a historical progression consisting in several stages. The difference is how self-contained and disjointed the dispensationals consider those stages to be, to the point that they treat them almost like plan A, plan B, plan C, and so on, with God progressing to the next plan when the one before it supposedly failed.

Dispensationalism, that's why.

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Dispensationalism is a way of interpreting the Bible that sees (among other things) the promises God made to Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, and 17 as properly belonging only to the Jews as an ethnic people, and therefore they are seen as God's true covenant people, while the New Testament Church is seen as an historical parenthesis. God will therefore eventually take up fulfilling his promises to his true covenant people, the Jews, once he is finished with his plan for the Church.

This teaching is directly contradictory to the teaching of the Apostles, who expressly applied the promises made to Abraham to the New Testament Church. See Acts 2:39 as a repetition of God's promise in Genesis 17:7-8, but expanded to include "all who are far off," that is Gentiles who would come to faith in the Messiah. Likewise, Paul tells the church in Rome that they are children of Abraham by sharing in the same faith that Abraham had in Romans 4, especially verses 9-17.

Paul repeats this teaching even more explicitly in Galatians 3:5-9, where he says:

> "Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith--just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"? Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith."

The final nail in the coffin of the Dispensationalist's improper hermeneutic, in my opinion, is found in Romans 9, though. There Paul describes the nature of the relation of the Gentiles who are coming to faith in Jesus to those Jews who apostatize by rejecting him. The description is that of an olive tree, where the natural branches that reject Christ are cut off, while the wild branches (Gentiles) are grafted in. Into what? Into "Israel," as he calls it in verse 26. Gentiles who come to faith are grafted into Israel, God's covenant people, and Jews who reject Jesus are cut off. They no longer have any claim on the promises made to Abraham and no right to call themselves God's people whatsoever. In order to regain that claim, they must come to faith in the promised messiah, Jesus Christ.

Beat me to it.

I am using a curriculum I have been working on with a good friend of mine: nostr:npub1s9djlxxr2qu4696xmph4paj3zxek8w73vvdj8q2tludvfusjjldqzkrp5v

The plan is to have that curriculum available for churches, just like the My First Bitcoin curriculum is available.

We're starting with a 4 week curriculum that follows this basic outline:

Week 1: God is the true owner of all things, and we are merely stewards.

Week 2: Money itself is not necessarily evil, but God ordained its use in society for our good and his glory.

Week 3: Money, like virtually every other part of our lives, has been corrupted by sin, especially in the current form of fiat money.

Week 4: Only sound money that cannot be corrupted, specifically Bitcoin, can set us back on a path to glorifying God through faithful stewardship of money.

Has a seminary class learning Biblical Hebrew a bit earlier today.

Hebrew done for the day. Aced my vocab quiz, too. 💪

Next up some study time, then Westminster Standards, and ending the day with Theology 5: Apologetics and Ethics.

Then teaching my church's youth group about why God ordained money. And yes, we will be talking about #Bitcoin in the coming weeks.

Busy day.

#Reformed #Christian #catholic

Been there... a couple times. Once in my first car, a Ford Aspire, when I was about 18, and a second time when I was 22 or so in a Kia Sportage.

Strangely enough, the Aspire survived the hit, but the Sportage did not.

"And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us, we will not fear, for God has willed his truth to triumph through us. The prince of darkness grim, we tremble not for him; his rage we can endure, for lo! his doom is sure; one little word shall fell him."

Sang this hymn on Sunday and it hit a bit different after the events of the last week.

#Christian #Reformed #catholic

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." - Tertullian

He's one of the most powerful apologetic voices in the conservative Christian wing of polotical discourse, particularly to young people.

I don't think there's any coming back from that... Praying for his family and that they catch the evil piece of scum who pulled the trigger.

"The happy truth is that those who dispute the absolute lordship of God check their arguments at the door when they enter their closets to pray. The sad truth is that those who defend a doctrine of divine sovereignty often complain when things do not go their own way, forgetting that their grumbling is against God." - Chad Van Dixhoorn in 'Confessing the Faith'

#Reformed #catholic #Christian #theology

https://nostr.band/ will give you that info when you look up an npub, I believe.

Is https://zaplife.lol/ what you are looking for?

Demand is -100.

The whole bluetooth mesh thing is interesting, but limited use-case. I think that's why the geohash feature was added. But then, that comes with a spam issue, and no real way to mitigate it.

Looked to me like YakBak uploade them to Primal's blossom server. I would definitely prefer to see that updated to the user's preferred media server.

Spread between what? The price I paid and some imaginary authoritative price at that exact moment?

A few clients have them built-in, now. Amethyst's recent update added them, for instance. They can be found by tapping on the "radio signal" icon to the left of the notification bell at the bottom of the screen.

Honestly, if Coinbase is cheapest, and you aren't tempted by the shitcoins, then that's great for you.

I would prefer to support Jack over Brian, even if it means I pay a marginally higher fee, but there are also other Bitcoin-only options, such as nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en . Their fees might be more competitive.

I use Strike because of one simple feature that no one else has, so far as I know: I can pay for things with my fiat balance and the receiver gets sats. So, when I buy soap from my man nostr:npub1zzmxvr9sw49lhzfx236aweurt8h5tmzjw7x3gfsazlgd8j64ql0sexw5wy, and I know he'd rather have sats, but I'd rather spend fiat, I just move some USD over to Strike and pay him from there. Win/win.

You can send anyone sats directly from your fiat balance, without having to "buy" Bitcoin first, including yourself. Theoretically, this breaks the probabilistic link between your name and those sats. Strike has no idea who you are sending those sats to when you spend from your fiat balance via lightning. You could be paying a merchant, sending fiat to a friend, or sending it to yourself.

If you send it from Strike as fiat, and receive it on the other end as sats, you've effectively converted fiat to sats without it showing as a "purchase" in any exchange's books.

He became a B-casher and once supported CW's claim to be Satoshi. Lost all credibility among Bitcoiners by supporting big blocks and CW.

#Amethyst 's new relay settings are even more robust than before. Yes, there's a lot there, but its extremely powerful!

No. Nor should you. You run a node almost entirely for your own benefit.

And actually use it.

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You can't put a price on quality time with your people. Even denominated in #Bitcoin, it's priceless.

"vibe freeze"?

Enrolling in seminary for the fall. About time I finish my M. Div.

#Reformed #Presbyterian #catholic

Wait, you're releasing a free ebook about your experience developing on Nostr? Why not also put it on Alexandria?