Mark Simons

Pastor - JLBC Burkburnett

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@edstetzer I raised my hand and said, “Sir, I’m appalled if you were persecuted and would fight for your right to be here but how can you say we worship together with the obvious theology differences we have. He replied, you’re a Baptist aren’t you?”

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@edstetzer US Army Chaplain School - 1991… lectured by a Chaplain instructor who was LTC rank and LDS faith on how he had been persecuted in the military and that he/they were Christian just like the rest of us and we ought to worship together…

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A solar farm just opened where a beef farm used to be.

This is a real sentence about a real place. In Lincolnshire, near Glentworth, on land that grew British food for six hundred years. 1,214 hectares of grazing pasture and cropland, the size of Heathrow Airport, now under panels for the next forty years.

It is called Tillbridge Solar. It was approved in October 2025. The locals were against it. The local council was overruled by central government. The farmer who used to graze cattle on that land will not be grazing cattle on that land in your lifetime.

Down the road, Springwell Solar got the nod the same month. 1,280 hectares. The largest in the country. Same story. Beef and arable, gone.

This is happening everywhere. CPRE found that 59% of England's biggest solar farms are on productive farmland. In one Lincolnshire district, 7% of the land is now solar panels. Three solar farms, Sutton Bridge, Goosehall, and Black Peak, are built entirely on the highest grade of agricultural land we have.

Now here is the part nobody mentions at the dinner party.

The roofs of the warehouses on the A1 are empty. The supermarket distribution centres are empty. The Amazon sheds, the MoD car parks, the industrial estates outside every town in England, all empty. CPRE's own numbers show that putting panels on the roofs we already have would meet the entire 2035 solar target on its own.

The panels are not going on the roofs.

The panels are going on Lincolnshire because leasing one field from one farmer is easy, and leasing a thousand roofs from a thousand owners is hard. The shortcut is the pasture.

You will not be told to stop eating beef.

You will simply find that the farm that produced it is now a power station, and the beef in the supermarket has come from Kansas, and it costs more, and the cow is no longer in the field, because the field is no longer a field.

Cover the roofs. Leave the pasture.

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

Wow. 8-1. Even liberal justices siding against this infringement of freedom of speech and religion.

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

Daniel Gafford plays for the Dallas Mavericks. He’s asked what the words on his shirt mean: “Faith isn’t for the weak.”

Gafford says he’s not going to answer because he doesn’t want to get kicked off his team like Jaden Ivey.

The NBA is sick.

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Os Guinness:

"People quote Abraham Lincoln, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

They forget he’s quoting Theodore Parker in the 19th century, who was quoting of all people, John Wycliffe in the 13th century.

And Wycliffe is saying, when we put the Bible in the hands of ordinary people, then you have a chance of government, of the people, by the people, for the people, because the Bible will be the foundation for self-government and self-rule."

https://t.co/Z9BrjxWf47

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

When the crescent meets the hammer https://t.co/QZWLZUeGyn

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Genocide of Christians is happening in Nigeria:

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@MikeCosper Richard Land (ERLC) was on his old show on Comedy Central days… my first thought was “Oh No!” But Land held is own and actually made Colbert laugh (and not at him but with him).

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

Where is the media

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@LloydLegalist My thought is it’s more 1970’s, and in some cases the 60’s.

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@lukedsimmons Outside the church… 3 yrs as an Army officer, mostly how to do it wrong, but rightly from an elementary school principal I worked for as a behavioral counselor in a rural public elementary school for 9 yrs between pastorates. She was a master leader.

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

Fantastic to watch this. Nothing like The Masters.

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@LloydLegalist Enchanted Land

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@LloydLegalist The Sandlot
Schindler’s List
Tombstone

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@MikeCosper Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly… W. Churchill.

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@thescottbarber I went to a legal appointment with a family member. My FM said to the attorney (a believer), my pastor said…” He stopped her and commented, “you go to him for spiritual advice, you come to get legal advice from me.”

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@lukedsimmons When I was a young pastor, I had a member who was very unhappy with me. Bypassing the long and sorted details it came to a head one Sunday morning after the service. I told him he was unhappy but God had not called me anywhere else. He left, I was happy…

[Mark Simons @simmark57]

@LloydLegalist South eastern New Mexico = oil & natural gas + alfalfa + roasted green chili