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A Sufficiency of Friends

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A Sufficiency of Friends

A Sufficiency of Friends

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Look at that picture. It’s funny, and for me, it’s almost entirely true. I like having maybe one close friend/girlfriend and then one other friend besides that. It makes my life simple. As a rule, I am an introvert and not that adept at understanding my own feelings and navigating relationships…

The Madness of Crowds: Give Us Barabbas

The Madness of Crowds: Give Us Barabbas

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes In a prayer with me last night, a little kid requested, “God, please make bad people into good people so that they can be our friends.”

Go Set a Watchman: Speaking Up in the Face of Evil

Go Set a Watchman: Speaking Up in the Face of Evil

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes You must never upset anyone. You must avoid confrontation at all costs. You must be quiet in the face of an intolerant minority, that they not be offended. Instead of acting like men and being strong, you most nobly ponder, “What is a man? Is there a difference even between men and women? It seems messy and hard to tell.”

The Lord’s Supper: Sunday, or Any Day?

The Lord’s Supper: Sunday, or Any Day?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 6 minutes This post seeks to view two different sides of a common debate over whether or not the Lord’s Supper can be taken on Sunday only, or rather at any time. I will probably add to it significantly in the coming months, but for now I present this very spartan framework.

Is Giving on Sunday Commanded of Christians?

Is Giving on Sunday Commanded of Christians?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes Many people have probably grown up hearing, “And that concludes the Lord’s Supper. Now we are give back of ourselves financially, as we are commanded to do upon the first day of the week.”

Is that correct?

A Timeline of Giving in the New Testament

A Timeline of Giving in the New Testament

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 5 minutes This post features a timeline that assesses how giving looked and progressed in the New Testament church. I hope you found it as helpful as I did.

The 7 Stages of All Great Nations: End-Stage Guilt

The 7 Stages of All Great Nations: End-Stage Guilt

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 10 minutes Kings and nations share one thing in common: they rise to power, and then they die. In this post I examine the 7 stages of all great nations, the deadliness of decadence and the self-loathing it leads to, as well as what Christians need to do.

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The Consistent Ethics of Auschwitz: Creating Purpose for Your Life

The Consistent Ethics of Auschwitz: Creating Purpose for Your Life

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutes Far from being contemptuous of ethics, the perpetrators acted in strict conformity with an ethic which held that, however difficult and unpleasant the task might have been, mass extermination of the Jews and Gypsies was entirely justified.

Resolving Conflicts, a Rough Draft of Good Ideas

Resolving Conflicts, a Rough Draft of Good Ideas

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 8 minutes Many of the following ideas are sourced from “How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide” as well as the Bible.

Marriage Has to Be About More Than Happiness

Marriage Has to Be About More Than Happiness

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes If marriage is just based on happiness (s/he makes me happy/money is good/what a hottie), it’s easily threatened.

What About Your Terrible Future

What About Your Terrible Future

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes On atheism, there are not actually various possible futures. That is to say, there is actually only one future that is ever possible. And there is little difference between you and a rock.

In Their Greed They Will Exploit You with False Words

In Their Greed They Will Exploit You with False Words

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes People will always find ways to extract money from others by telling them what they’d like to hear. For many, the “health, wealth, and happiness” message is very appealing.

Improving Your Relationship with God

Improving Your Relationship with God

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 7 minutes Imagine being married and not really knowing your spouse at all—in fact, imagine if the only thing you knew about your spouse was what others told you about them. Would that be healthy?

Three Looks at the Trinity

Three Looks at the Trinity

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 5 minutes Three different thoughts on the Trinity and God, from three different angles.

An Area I Need to Work On: My Dope Addiction

An Area I Need to Work On: My Dope Addiction

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes The sweet, addicting dopamine drip of performative moralizing is a hard habit to kick, and one that I need to work on. Here’s why.

How to Change the World

How to Change the World

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute Although “bringing people to Christ” sounds great, it is much better and more challenging to bring Christ (in us) to people.

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Assault vs Leadership

Assault vs Leadership

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.

Love and Respect

Love and Respect

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes “I just want to be loved and valued. I want to be number one in his life. Unconditional love…that’s what I want.” We understand this. She needs his love. She needs love when she’s firing on all cylinders, and she needs it even more when she’s worn down—the kids are going full-barbarian, the water heater’s out, and the stir-fry dinner just got complicated by a lack of rice. “I need…

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General Advice on Picking a Quality Mate

General Advice on Picking a Quality Mate

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Some advice I was given on picking a mate.

The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Truth dies in darkness; hope dies in silence.

An Invulnerable Christian Man

An Invulnerable Christian Man

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes One of my friends told me how she was concerned that I wasn’t vulnerable. We listened to Brene Brown’s “The Power of Vulnerability” together so that I could understand her better.

Communicating with Christians

Communicating with Christians

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Communication is the lifeblood of relationships. Do you know what a “phatic” communication is?

Little Children and Sin—A Knowledge of Good and Evil

Little Children and Sin—A Knowledge of Good and Evil

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes Are little kids born sinful?

The Unstoppable Freight Train of Sin

The Unstoppable Freight Train of Sin

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s always BNSF.

Odd, Lost Bible Text Found: “No one knows the day or the hour in 2020.”

Odd, Lost Bible Text Found: “No one knows the day or the hour in 2020.”

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutes Researchers in Israel have found missing Biblical texts in an ancient manuscript collection, as well as carved into walls. While working in old caves near Gallilee, archaeologists were shocked to discover key parts of passages that they’d not seen before

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