Matt Stephens

Christian | Former Competitive Bodybuilder | Network Engineer | @UofAlabama Alum | Matthew 5:3-11

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There are organizations that sell “sermons” to pastors and there are organizations churches belong to that require pastors to use these “sermons”.

These “sermons” are created with one goal in mind:

To make the audience feel good, so they keep coming back to donate money.

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They’re delusional.

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JUST IN: Verizon CEO says the company’s new AI customer service agents scored "1,280 basis points" higher on customer satisfaction than humans.

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“Anything I get that is good is more than I deserve”

This is the proper perspective.

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Love hearing @BenSasse continue to bear witness to the standard of God’s law and the wonder of God’s grace.

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@not_our_guy 2020 Dale Partridge >>> 2026 Dale Partridge

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@ConceptualJames The gospel.

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@E511_Ministries @willspencer @haymes_joshua @MethodMinistry @Jeff_Palouse @PatriotsTLH Dude, you’re insufferable and couldn’t take a hint if it slapped you in the face a hundred times.

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@realmikolson He was great in Shrek!

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@MethodMinistry What a joke

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You’re telling me I could’ve been plasticmaxing harder with glass bottles this entire time?!

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Dr. Rhonda Patrick just dropped a 3-hour masterclass on the Huberman Lab podcast.

She shared 8 shocking truths about everyday things that are slowly making you sick:

1. Drinking water from glass bottles (has higher levels of microplastics than in plastic ones)

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Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.

C.S. Lewis

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You become like what you worship.

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Btw you’re not meant to worship Christ, you’re meant to become like Him.

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It’s not the openly wicked who are always the most dangerous people, but the morally certain who can no longer recognize mercy.

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Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.

C.S. Lewis

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“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle.”

Brennan Manning

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@willspencer Amen

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Why have so many conservative pundits gone off the rails in the last few years?

It’s too coincidental to not have been coordinated.

What’s the end game here?

My initial guess:

It’s Hegelian dialectic.

Problem > Reaction > Solution

Look at what the SPLC just got caught doing.

For years, the left has cried wolf about Nazis, far-right extremists, etc.

Now, they have actual evidence and they’ll use it to push their agenda going into the next election cycle.

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“Ad orientum” means “to the East”.

Where did this “tradition” come from?

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
Ezekiel 8:16

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Happy 5th anniversary to @OutrchCatholic, the LGBTQ Catholic ministry of @americamag, of which I'm happy to be a part. One highlight was our Sept. pilgrimage to Rome for the Jubilee, including a very warm Mass at a chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, and my first Mass "ad orientum."

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I’ve heard this somewhere before…

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Vivek: Jesus is A son of god but Jesus is not THE son of god. Jesus is A way to heaven but not THE way to heaven.

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Maybe, one day, Ryan will be stoic.

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Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

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