Mark Lilly

Reformed Christian | Husband | Dad | Copywriter in the personal protection market 🛡 ⚔️

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@YourCalvinist Psalm 103... first sermon since the death of his wife. Encouraging for everyone who has suffered grief/loss.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

This single juror said, “No. I’m not letting this woman get off with a fake insanity plea. She is not insane. No.” They argued with him. They thought he was arrogant. They showed him their credentials and expected him to say yes, but he wouldn’t. He just kept saying no.

This is our culture: crazy people who will not listen to no and who demand that the rest of us affirm their craziness. It is a crisis of accountability.

For years and years, parents have accepted excuses from their children instead of telling them no and holding them accountable for their actions. For years, pastors have failed to practice discipline, especially as it relates to women. If they ever got up the guts to say no and the women screamed, they would immediately back down.

Part of reclaiming a sane culture is telling people no. No, you don’t get to do whatever you want. No, you don’t get to escape the consequences. No, you don’t get your way just because you scream louder. No. We need much more no in our culture.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

We are being destroyed by agreeable men.

It's easy to like an agreeable man, at least at first. He presents himself as polite, reasonable, and warm. He avoids friction. He avoids awkward or uncomfortable topics. He smiles and nods wherever he can. A conversation with him at a backyard BBQ or in the church foyer can make for a pleasant time.

And those pleasant times can keep on rolling, unless you disturb what the agreeable man mistakes for peace. That is something he will not tolerate. In many cases, he'll simply avoid anything disagreeable. He would truly rather be in the room with a repugnant man who plays along with his desire for agreeableness than with a virtuous man who won't. Tolerance and avoidance are the twin pillars of his modus operandi. False peace is his idol.

But when the agreeable man's idol is touched, and he is forced to confront friction he can no longer avoid, the façade quickly evaporates. He lashes out. What follows is usually an irrational, emotional warpath. And because violating the shallow rules of decorum is, in his mind, the greatest sin, he must lie. He must misrepresent. He must spin the story lest the bystanders see him for what he really is. His goal is to preserve the appearance of reasonableness while shutting down and driving away those with reasonable objections that inevitably create discomfort.

He is an enemy of the reformer, who must press the issue and do so forthrightly. He is a friend of the smiling subversive who quietly corrodes institutions under the camouflage of false peace.

He is a destroyer.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@ChaelSonnen That was years ago.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@neiltyson Owned by a frozen meat company's social media manager.

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@ThomasEWoods

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@pauljmcwhorter @wadestotts You just conceded the main point and introduced a red herring. Maybe start the war/missions discussion separate from the reverence for the true Jesus discussion...

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@pauljmcwhorter @wadestotts They revere a Jesus who is not the Son of God (by your own admission), and therefore not the true Jesus. So, they do not revere the Jesus of Christianity. Not sure why you brought "hate" into the discussion.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@wadestotts This was the last piece of the puzzle. Hope they finally understand what's happening.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@nsxanders She had one job.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@markdtooley @MissionaryJC3 @WilliamWolfe Ratified by states with blasphemy laws on the books.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@markdtooley @MissionaryJC3 @WilliamWolfe Doesn't matter. You said "everybody." And prison comes down to whether they act on their ideas, just like Nazis, doesn't it?

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@markdtooley @WilliamWolfe Wild how you just speculate on behalf of entire groups, in different directions, as long as it props up your view.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@markdtooley @WilliamWolfe Child predators would love and benefit from being banned. Is that how we determine what to ban?

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@markdtooley @WilliamWolfe Would it have been a good thing if they had the ability to ban them?

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@markdtooley @WilliamWolfe What is a parade doing?

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@WilliamWolfe @markdtooley And Nazis, too, apparently. Our society should publicly celebrate everything in order to give people the chance to see the evil up close and reject it.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@GovAndyBeshear This is begging the question. You assume it's "best" for the state to start raising people's kids even earlier than they already do.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@teslacoilduh @JamesHuddl18635 @frenlylion @JoelWebbon That response is simply question begging. You're importing a definition into the text that you were trying to prove by citing the text.

[Mark Lilly @MarkLillyWrites]

@teslacoilduh @JamesHuddl18635 @frenlylion @JoelWebbon It's really not creative. You said, "people go down into and come up out of the water" as evidence of immersion, and cited a passage that says both men did that. It's my position that they walked down to some water and walked back up when done.