Ep 116 - The Sunday Scaries: Why The Sabbath Deserves to Be Honored with Daniel Fitzpatrick

Today, James interviews Daniel Fitzpatrick about his book 'Restoring the Lord's Day: How Reclaiming Sunday Can Revive Our Human Nature'. We discuss the importance of the 4th Commandment and the need to reclaim Sunday as a day of rest and worship. Daniel shares his personal experience of feeling anxious on Sundays and how he discovered the connection between this anxiety and the sin of sloth. They explore the deeper meaning of the Sabbath and its role in our participation in God's contemplative joy. The conversation also touches on the perversion of leisure in sports and the transformative power of living in the Lord's Day throughout the week. Celebrating the Sabbath allows us to experience authentic freedom. Finally, we dive into practical steps men can take TODAY to restore the Sabbath to its rightful place.

Takeaways

• The Fourth Commandment to remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy is not just a spiritual obligation, but also essential for our human nature.
• Anxiety on Sundays may be a sign of the sin of sloth, which is not laziness but a lack of proper rest and attentiveness to God.
• Reclaiming Sunday as a day of rest and worship can have a transformative effect on our lives, allowing us to live in the Lord's Day throughout the week.
• Men can reclaim the Sabbath by dedicating Sunday as a day of prayer and being intentional about spending time with God and their children.
• God is always at work and invites us to join Him in the eternal now.

Food for Thought

1. "Sunday is a day of celebration, it's this day of mass, this wonderful gift of the liturgy, but it's also the day when I'm the most stressed throughout the week."
2. "We tend to be, as a culture, extremely busy, and we think of sloth as just a kind of laziness or inactivity."
3. "God is God, right? He didn't actually need a day of rest, but he added this for us."
4. "The day of rest is this moment in which God creates a space where we can experience a share in the contemplative joy for which we're made."
5. "We're really like expanding, like we never want to be outside of the joy of game day, right? We always want to be there experiencing this delight."

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Resource Mentioned

1. Buy the book here
2. "The Comfort Crisis" by Michael Easter
3. "A River Runs Through It" movie