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Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

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Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesAmericans exist in a nation of failed families. A nation which sacrifices the unborn for convenience. It’s a nation of shattered homes, and of nuclear families ripped asunder, where they even existed in the first place. A nation where commitment and lifelong together-goals are scorned and derided as superstitious relics of a bygone era.

Roller Coasters and Life

Roller Coasters and Life

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI love roller coasters and have a particular fondness for ones made by the Swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard. Through the ups and downs of the run, I’m able to have fun because much thought went into the design, and I know I’m going to be safe in the end. The ups and downs of life are also much easier for me knowing that I’m following a design made by…

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Social Contagions, Big Tech, & Corrective Action

Social Contagions, Big Tech, & Corrective Action

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBig tech suppresses certain ideas through social mechanisms and disallowing certain interactions. You’ve seen the playbook, which includes things like removing dislikes from ideas they support, prohibiting sharing of certain information entirely, banning heterodox thinkers who seem most open and might attract others, posting “fact-checks” which are factual though not truthful (and in some cases which are purely fallacious), and promoting certain concepts while disallowing others. 

Raising a Daughter in a Bizarre World

Raising a Daughter in a Bizarre World

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThanks to the events of the recent past, many people have been putting a huge emphasis on avoiding people who seem ill. They want to avoid contagion, so unless they’re healthcare workers, they don’t spend all day around sick people.

Ancient Writings: Has Christianity Changed Views on Baptism Over Time?

Ancient Writings: Has Christianity Changed Views on Baptism Over Time?

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Reading Time: 14 minutesAlthough I’d known the various views on immersion that churches today tend to hold, I was curious about what Christians closer to the time of Jesus thought. In this post I explore a number of their early writings, and then offer my own conclusions.

Improving Your Relationship with God

Improving Your Relationship with God

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 7 minutesImagine 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

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

Pressing Out Blood

Pressing Out Blood

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes I don’t realize how serious my sins are, and there’s probably a reason for that.

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Inexorable Depression, Death, God’s Plan, and Unfathomable Power: A Tale of Life

Inexorable Depression, Death, God’s Plan, and Unfathomable Power: A Tale of Life

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 9 minutesThe answer to the pop quiz is “depression,” you lunatics! That was basically a free 100, so if you failed, you should probably be bearsprayed.

Refusing to Abandon People: As Soon as Zion Travailed, She Brought Forth Her Sons

Refusing to Abandon People: As Soon as Zion Travailed, She Brought Forth Her Sons

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you ever been hurt or disgusted by someone? Have you wanted to leave them to drown in their own, willful mistakes?

Be steadfast in an age of impermanence.

In Your Moment of Despair, Here’s Why I Know You’re Important

In Your Moment of Despair, Here’s Why I Know You’re Important

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Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you ever felt beaten down? Felt like the non-stop waves of defeat and distress have just crushed out hope? Maybe you’ve staggered on because the only other option is not even tenable, but you feel as if hope has been crushed out by unyielding despair.

Feeling Frantic Desperation in a Perilous Era

Feeling Frantic Desperation in a Perilous Era

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Reading Time: 2 minutesYou’ve wanted someone that you could hold tight, to feel less alone, to just breathe a sigh of relief with, or you’ve wanted someone to hold you, to say to you, “Don’t worry, WE’VE got this. It’s going to be alright.”

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Abandoned and Without Hope

Abandoned and Without Hope

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEver been kicked when you’re down?  My friend Slade went through an utterly hellish time, but I was so encouraged by how he took it—his words to me were so helpful that I had to share: “Our ever faithful God has His love over us. Especially when we are feeling ‘kicked.’ His love is still right here.” There is no way that I could have said it better, but I…

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Losing a Loved One and Letting Go

Losing a Loved One and Letting Go

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Featured photo by Sarah Lefor Art and Illustration.

The Safest Road

The Safest Road

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Reading Time: < 1 minute“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts…” —C.S. Lewis Ultimately, Hell is just a state where we severe ourselves from our Creator. As a Christian, I think it’s why we need one another. Through Paul, God warned of how dangerous it is to give up hanging out with our Christian family. He warned us not to…

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Until Dawn Do Us Part

Until Dawn Do Us Part

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteUntil-dawn-do-us-part relationships make until-death-do-us-part ones so very hard. They exchange temporary happiness for permanent burdens. Years of memories that could have been shared instead become moribund recollections of “might have beens.” A wife of noble character who can find?She is worth far more than rubies. Proverbs 31:10 I can’t imagine myself finding a ruby and chucking it away. People die with integrity or despair, and the history of companionship goes…

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1 Healthy Question: If God Created the Universe, Who Created God?

1 Healthy Question: If God Created the Universe, Who Created God?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 13 minutesA timeless question that brilliant people have answered. Bonus discussion on actual infinites within spacetime.

Don’t Use People As Bandages to be Discarded

Don’t Use People As Bandages to be Discarded

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’d been hurt, so I “needed” to bandage those wounds. And with this person, I’d found my bandage, but as a mere tool. Something to be taken off and discarded at a later date. And that’s what I did.

Exchanges with a Former Commander (And Have You Found Zeus?)

Exchanges with a Former Commander (And Have You Found Zeus?)

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Reading Time: 14 minutesThis post covers a wide range of important topics. It details discussions that I had with a man who was once my commander. Enjoy. Introduction: They Called Us Nerds, Gary. Nerds. Every so often, a fellow nerd pops up and wants to discuss science and philosophy with me and my heavens am I thirsty for such discussion. Once, a former commander exchanged invigorating emails with me about God, science, free…

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What is Worship? An Inductive Study of Every Use of the Word Proskuneo.

What is Worship? An Inductive Study of Every Use of the Word Proskuneo.

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 13 minutesIn this post: ➤Introduction: The Use of “Worship” We are searching for the truth of the word and meaning of what Jesus said in: Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. “But an hour is…

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Abraham and Worship

Abraham and Worship

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 6 minutesIn this post: Learning about Worship I was talking with a man today about the term “worship.” He had determined that “New Testament worship” must be a set number of physical actions that one must complete at a certain time of week, and one must be careful to do so correctly. It seemed quite persuasive. Here’s what he said: “Many Bible passages make it clear that not everything that we…

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Hope in Divorce

Hope in Divorce

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDivorce can be the hardest thing on a Christian. I’ve seen people who have tried so hard, and yet the marriage didn’t work out. You can’t force someone to freely love you, nor to honor their commitments. And from what I’ve seen, divorce can make Christians feel like they’re second-class—you know, they have “that thing” in their past. One gal mentioned to me, “It’s just so hard, because God hasn’t…

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Can God make a rock so heavy that He can’t lift it?

Can God make a rock so heavy that He can’t lift it?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesCan God make a rock so heavy that He can’t move it? No doubt you’ve heard this, and it raises certain paradoxes of omnipotence that are tough to consider, and perhaps frustrate you. Let’s start with this: does God’s being all-powerful mean that God can act contrary to His own moral nature—are there moral impossibilities for God? Specifically, could God, for example, make another God (an idol, let’s say) and…

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