mattlinser

husband • father • lover of Jesus

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

To you who boast tomorrow’s gain
Tell me what is your life
A mist that vanishes at dawn
All glory be to Christ!

[Desiring God @desiringGod]

“The word of God must enter the mind and heart to bring life, health, and fruit. As long as it stays external to us, whether in print or digital form, it can do us no good.”

Andrew Davis makes a case for enjoying Scripture memory in the age of smartphones. https://t.co/i784L2a3eU

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Algorithms and the Affections

John Piper (Nov. 2025): “If you had thought that your essence of humanness in the image of God was your reasoning capacity, over an ape or a porpoise, you’re in trouble. Because, guess what? ChatGPT is smarter than you are and more creative than you are in expressing things in language that is good. It can write prayers better than you can, and it can reason through hard problems better than you can. Therefore, there are people who are going to forsake the faith because they thought to be a human in the image of God was to be a reasoning person over against the animals, and they discovered a machine can do it better than they can. Crisis of faith. This to me is no crisis because of my Christian Hedonism. I do not think that my reasoning capacities are my essence. I think the soul’s capacity to delight in God is my essence. The soul’s capacity to enjoy God. No machine will ever enjoy, period. It will have the language of enjoyment. You can tell it to write a poem of enjoyment and it will use the language. That machine is not enjoying *her*. It’s not. It never will. Only human beings created in the image of God can enjoy God. Therefore, enjoyment matters. I mean, affections are who we are ultimately. The end of history, the end of creation, is not going to be merely rational creatures thinking rightly about God, little computers. It’s going to be people who are so perceptive spiritually of the glories of God that they are full of affections that are appropriate for those glories and can give expression to them. That’s what eternity will be.”

Source: Sovereign Grace Churches, Pastors Conference PreCon (November 2025)

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“They are exalted a little while, and then are gone.” Job 24:24

So, so brief the praise of man.

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

@TonyReinke Book title?

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

@JoshuaBarzon Matt from Cedar Falls. Community Ministry Pastor at Candeo Church. Heard about you through Tony Reinke’s X account.

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

Chesterton: “The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.”

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

@MilledgeTim @hortonelijah13 That's not a @MountainDew Tim!

[Kevin DeYoung @RevKevDeYoung]

"It’s important to state the matter provocatively because our world screams at us that the only authentic way to live—is for you to be you."

In this episode of The Crossway Podcast, Kevin offers counter-cultural perspectives about our view of selfhood.

https://t.co/JqVFqoaSxd

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

Six things J. I. Packer says each Christian should tell themselves daily:

1. I am a child of God.
2. God is my Father.
3. Heaven is my home.
4. Every day is one day nearer.
5. My Savior is my brother.
6. Every Christian is my brother too.

Read more: https://t.co/Qd2Yf5wiO1

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

Terrifying. 😂😑😬

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Spiritual disciplines are not how you earn God’s love. They are how you enjoy it.

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Piper: “The devil only has two weapons: pain and pleasure. He will either hurt you so bad you hate God or give you so much pleasure you don’t need God. And the solution to both is the same. God is more precious than what I lose. God is more precious than what I gain.”

[Cam Harless @camharless]

every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet

46. Joe Biden

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

Satan's checklist to quench your love for others

✅ Isolate from fellowship
✅ Assure your struggle is special
✅ Increase social media intake
🔲 Reduce Bible reading
🔲 Crowd out prayer
🔲 Stir skepticism about others
🔲 Cancel over disagreement
🔲 Forget God's love toward you

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.” Psalm 24:1

It’s all his.

Everything we “have” is on loan from him for his purposes.

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

@luree2000 Dude, you're in CF now??

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

John Owen: “There is no inconsistency between spiritual joy in Christ and godly sorrow for sin.”

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

yes!! Congrats @mckenzie_snook

[Josh Snook @JoshSnook21]

Congratulations @mckenzie_snook for grabbing your 500th career rebound!!

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Guard us, Lord, from being Christians who love to learn but hate to change.

[mattlinser @mattlinser_]

Dear Christian! do you not begin to see that waiting is not one among a number of Christian virtues, to be thought of from time to time, but that it expresses that disposition which lies at the very root of the Christian life?
-Andrew Murray