The Joseph Option

09/03/2024

23/02/2024

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21/02/2024

Sometimes your children just need you to enter into their pain with them and hear that you still love them.

19/02/2024

“To be a liturgist, one must have died, be dead, and be constantly dying to this world. The eschatological liturgy that will save the world comes to the world from without, because nothing within this dead world can give the Body of Christ its life.”

The Liturgical Cosmos by David Fagerberg

15/02/2024

The Bible is clear that Christians are expected to fast… but why? What does it actually do for us?

“Dada, why do you use weights?” my daughter asked me one morning as I was working out in the garage. I paused for a moment and said, “this is going to sound weird, but in order to get stronger, you have to be willing to make yourself weaker.” 

14/02/2024

“Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.”
‭‭Joel‬ ‭2‬:‭12‬-‭13‬ ‭NRSV

08/02/2024

If I am a Christian, am I actually expected to fast? If so, why?

Lent is upon us. With Ash Wednesday coming next week, (happy Valentine’s Day) I thought it would be helpful to reflect on why Christians practice fasting. To do this, let’s go back to the beginning. 

31/01/2024

What is one thing your father did well raising you? Have you thanked him for that? Let us know!

29/01/2024

“Hear, my child, your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teaching;”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭1‬:‭8‬

A guide is one who has sufficient knowledge and experience to lead another down a given path. If you are a father, then you are the de facto guide in the lives of your children. This can be a harrowing thought. Here are a few tips for doing this well. 

28/01/2024

Beauty is the apex of an invisible pyramid of virtues. Beauty is at the summit of obedience. Beauty is grounded in obedience to natural and divine law. Beauty is a flower on a stock of living habits, habits which cannot be seen, but which are necessary for beauty to exist. Beauty is not as free as the fire; it comes from obedience to limits laid down by God. And beauty can be more permanent than the flying spark of pleasure, soon to extinguish. Something is beautiful when it is true, and good: untruth can never be beautiful, and wickedness can never be beautiful.

-David Fagerberg