web01.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:10:10 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast) - Episodes Tagged with “Social Media” https://thejeffcavinsshow.fireside.fm/tags/social%20media Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:00:00 -0400 In his weekly Catholic Bible study podcast, Jeff shares faith tips and scripture truths to help you live as a modern-day disciple of Jesus Christ. en-us episodic Jeff shares personal tips and scriptural truths to help you live as a modern-day disciple of Jesus Christ. Ascension In his weekly Catholic Bible study podcast, Jeff shares faith tips and scripture truths to help you live as a modern-day disciple of Jesus Christ. no Catholic, bible study, catholic bible study, catholicism, jeff cavins, Ascension Press, Ascension, faith, christianity, christian Ascension podcasts@ascensionpress.com Slow Faith https://thejeffcavinsshow.fireside.fm/135 6001e19f-4f67-4985-8067-eae08514145f Fri, 04 Oct 2019 15:00:00 -0400 Ascension full Ascension Growing in faith is difficult in our fast-paced, distraction-heavy lives. Jeff Cavins slows things down to help us focus on prayer and Jesus. 30:59 no Growing in faith is difficult in our fast-paced, distraction-heavy lives. Jeff Cavins slows things down to help us focus on prayer and Jesus. Snippet from the Show “The pace of a disciple is not hurried. As we look at the saints, we see people who spent a lot of time with Jesus.” Ways We Can Slow Down Our Lives * Prayer * Read the Bible and learn about the Story of Salvation * Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church * Take some time to relax and sit in the presence of the Lord Resources * Jeff’s Email: thejeffcavinsshow@ascensionpress.com * The Great Adventure Bible Timeline study (https://ascensionpress.com/collections/the-bible-timeline-the-story-of-salvation) catholic, scripture, bible, salvation, prayer, catholicism Growing in faith is difficult in our fast-paced, distraction-heavy lives. Jeff Cavins slows things down to help us focus on prayer and Jesus.

Snippet from the Show
“The pace of a disciple is not hurried. As we look at the saints, we see people who spent a lot of time with Jesus.”

Ways We Can Slow Down Our Lives

  • Prayer
  • Read the Bible and learn about the Story of Salvation
  • Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • Take some time to relax and sit in the presence of the Lord

Resources

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]]> Growing in faith is difficult in our fast-paced, distraction-heavy lives. Jeff Cavins slows things down to help us focus on prayer and Jesus.

Snippet from the Show
“The pace of a disciple is not hurried. As we look at the saints, we see people who spent a lot of time with Jesus.”

Ways We Can Slow Down Our Lives

  • Prayer
  • Read the Bible and learn about the Story of Salvation
  • Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • Take some time to relax and sit in the presence of the Lord

Resources

Support The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

]]> Created for Love, Settling for Likes https://thejeffcavinsshow.fireside.fm/124 8bfdc3f5-4714-4ed5-9b56-07d1da1ed461 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:00:00 -0400 Ascension full Ascension We are created to be loved, and to love others. But it’s easy to settle for likes. We feel a boost of ego when someone leaves a flattering comment or shares our post, and it’s satisfying … to a point. But deep inside we all want to be loved, not just liked. Jeff brings up Scripture passages on what it means to be created for love and talks about the things that hold us back from pursuing authentic love. 34:08 no We are created to be loved, and to love others. But it’s easy to settle for likes. We feel a boost of ego when someone leaves a flattering comment or shares our post, and it’s satisfying … to a point. But deep inside we all want to be loved, not just liked. Jeff brings up Scripture passages on what it means to be created for love and talks about the things that hold us back from pursuing authentic love. Do you have comments or questions for Jeff? Use the comment box below, or email Jeff at thejeffcavinsshow@ascensionpress.com. You may hear your question or comment in an upcoming podcast episode! Snippet from the Show “We are created for love, but we settle for likes because of fear, anger, hurt, woundedness, ego, inconvenience, love of money—all of these things can stop us.” SHOWNOTES John 15:13 “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” CCC 545 “Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: ‘I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.’ He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father's boundless mercy for them and the vast ‘joy in heaven over one sinner who repents’. The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life ‘for the forgiveness of sins". John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.” John 17:26 “I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 14:21 “He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her” John 1:18 “No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.” What stops the love of God? Fear – fear of opening up your heart Anger – unresolved conflict in our hearts Hurt – go to confession and profess your desire to grow closer to God Woundedness – wounds from our lives that stop us from receiving the love of God Jealousy, Envy, and Inconvenience Ego – believing that we can do it all on our own Love of Money and Career - are our careers keeping us from loving those around us? love, like, social media, god, christian, catholic, scripture, bible, created for more We are created to be loved, and to love others. But it’s easy to settle for likes. We feel a boost of ego when someone leaves a flattering comment or shares our post, and it’s satisfying … to a point. But deep inside we all want to be loved, not just liked.

Jeff brings up Scripture passages on what it means to be created for love and talks about the things that hold us back from pursuing authentic love.

Do you have comments or questions for Jeff? Use the comment box below, or email Jeff at thejeffcavinsshow@ascensionpress.com. You may hear your question or comment in an upcoming podcast episode!

Snippet from the Show
“We are created for love, but we settle for likes because of fear, anger, hurt, woundedness, ego, inconvenience, love of money—all of these things can stop us.”

SHOWNOTES

John 15:13
“No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

CCC 545
“Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: ‘I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.’ He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father's boundless mercy for them and the vast ‘joy in heaven over one sinner who repents’. The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life ‘for the forgiveness of sins".

John 13:34
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”

John 17:26
“I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

John 14:21
“He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her”

John 1:18
“No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.”

What stops the love of God?
Fear – fear of opening up your heart
Anger – unresolved conflict in our hearts
Hurt – go to confession and profess your desire to grow closer to God
Woundedness – wounds from our lives that stop us from receiving the love of God
Jealousy, Envy, and Inconvenience
Ego – believing that we can do it all on our own
Love of Money and Career - are our careers keeping us from loving those around us?

Support The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

]]> We are created to be loved, and to love others. But it’s easy to settle for likes. We feel a boost of ego when someone leaves a flattering comment or shares our post, and it’s satisfying … to a point. But deep inside we all want to be loved, not just liked.

Jeff brings up Scripture passages on what it means to be created for love and talks about the things that hold us back from pursuing authentic love.

Do you have comments or questions for Jeff? Use the comment box below, or email Jeff at thejeffcavinsshow@ascensionpress.com. You may hear your question or comment in an upcoming podcast episode!

Snippet from the Show
“We are created for love, but we settle for likes because of fear, anger, hurt, woundedness, ego, inconvenience, love of money—all of these things can stop us.”

SHOWNOTES

John 15:13
“No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

CCC 545
“Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: ‘I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.’ He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father's boundless mercy for them and the vast ‘joy in heaven over one sinner who repents’. The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life ‘for the forgiveness of sins".

John 13:34
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”

John 17:26
“I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

John 14:21
“He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her”

John 1:18
“No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.”

What stops the love of God?
Fear – fear of opening up your heart
Anger – unresolved conflict in our hearts
Hurt – go to confession and profess your desire to grow closer to God
Woundedness – wounds from our lives that stop us from receiving the love of God
Jealousy, Envy, and Inconvenience
Ego – believing that we can do it all on our own
Love of Money and Career - are our careers keeping us from loving those around us?

Support The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

]]> Tweet Others the Way You Want to be Tweeted https://thejeffcavinsshow.fireside.fm/122 86b3b3bd-6df9-4330-a307-fe68ecd27a4c Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:00:00 -0400 Ascension full Ascension If social media existed when the Scriptures were written, what would they say about it? Jeff revises verses from the Bible about speech to answer this question. 33:02 no If social media existed when the Scriptures were written, what would they say about it? Jeff revises verses from the Bible about speech to answer this question. Snippet from the Show “Rash tweets are like sword thrusts, but the tweet of the wise brings healing.” Check out today's shownotes (including every scripture verse from this episode) at ascensionpress.com/thejeffcavinsshow or email us at thejeffcavinsshow@ascensionpress.com social media, catholic, catholic church, bible, scripture, bible study, st. paul, gospel If social media existed when the Scriptures were written, what would they say about it? Jeff revises verses from the Bible about speech to answer this question.

Snippet from the Show
“Rash tweets are like sword thrusts, but the tweet of the wise brings healing.”

Check out today's shownotes (including every scripture verse from this episode) at ascensionpress.com/thejeffcavinsshow or email us at thejeffcavinsshow@ascensionpress.com

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]]> If social media existed when the Scriptures were written, what would they say about it? Jeff revises verses from the Bible about speech to answer this question.

Snippet from the Show
“Rash tweets are like sword thrusts, but the tweet of the wise brings healing.”

Check out today's shownotes (including every scripture verse from this episode) at ascensionpress.com/thejeffcavinsshow or email us at thejeffcavinsshow@ascensionpress.com

Support The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

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