Be Specific - A Key for Spiritual Growth (Books and Sacraments)
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If you want to grow spiritually, you really have to focus on some specific areas and go for it. In this third and final part of a series on “Being Specific,” Jeff Cavins turns to the areas of Sacraments and books. He offers suggestions for specific areas to focus on in the sacraments. He also advises a particular way to approach reading books.
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“Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession, there is a chance for mercy.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven's show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and |
| 0:05.4 | evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples. |
| 0:15.0 | This is episode 358. Be specific. |
| 0:17.0 | A key for spiritual growth part three, |
| 0:20.0 | books and sacraments. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome back to the third part. books in sacraments. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome back to the third part of the three-part series on being specific. |
| 0:28.4 | If we want to grow spiritually, we really have to focus on some of the specifics and go after them just like any |
| 0:36.1 | discipline in life whether it's baseball some kind of sport or music you say I |
| 0:41.6 | want to become a concert violinist. Well, good. You're going to have to be a little bit more specific. If you want to be a dynamic concert violinist, that's good, but you're going to have to be specific. |
| 0:54.5 | And how would you be specific? |
| 0:55.8 | Well, you might start with the Suzuki method. |
| 0:57.8 | All three of our girls started there. |
| 1:00.2 | None of them are concert violinist today, but they learned a lot about music. |
| 1:05.0 | Had they wanted to go on to be a concert violinsists, they would have had to continue to be specific about learning how to play. |
| 1:13.2 | So in our first episode, we were talking about being specific |
| 1:17.8 | in the area of Bible study, going deeper into Bible study, |
| 1:22.0 | of course your prayer life. |
| 1:23.4 | If you want a dynamic prayer life, you certainly have to start focusing on specific things |
| 1:28.9 | about prayer life, the time, the place, what you're going to pray about, models for prayer, you know, |
| 1:36.0 | bringing your cares to the Lord, all of that. |
| 1:38.6 | In episode two, we were looking at virtues and family. If you want to grow in virtues, if you want to be a |
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