Between Two Yearns: The Spirit and The Flesh
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt stuck between the desires of the spirit and the desires of the flesh? Today, Jeff shows us how to overcome the constant tension we feel between our yearning for heaven and our yearning for the things of this passing world. By taking us back to Scripture, he shows us how to face this battle and walk according to God's purpose for our lives.
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"Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Jeff Kaven Show episode 210 Between Two Yerns. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, I'm Jeff Kavens. |
| 0:13.2 | How do you simplify your life? |
| 0:15.3 | How do you study the Bible? |
| 0:16.8 | All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith |
| 0:20.9 | and life in general. |
| 0:23.1 | It's the Jeff Kaven Show. |
| 0:26.4 | Hey, thanks for joining me once again. |
| 0:30.2 | You know every single day, all throughout the day, we find ourselves at a crossroads |
| 0:37.2 | when it comes to decision making, driven by two yerns. |
| 0:43.4 | One is for the flesh here on earth. |
| 0:46.2 | The other is for the spirit which is eternal in every single day. |
| 0:51.4 | We're making those decisions. |
| 0:52.9 | What are we going to give our time to? |
| 0:55.0 | What are we going to give our treasure, our talent to our heart to, and it never stops, |
| 1:02.7 | does it? |
| 1:03.7 | It never, never seems to stop. |
| 1:06.1 | And I want to talk to you about that decision between two yerns and a couple of suggestions |
| 1:12.3 | on what you can do to make the right choice, the right choice. |
| 1:18.8 | Hey, coming up in June, we're not going to talk about this too much more because it's |
| 1:24.5 | right around the corner. |
| 1:26.3 | Father Mike Schmitz and I are going to go to the Holy Land and Andrew and Sarah Swatford |
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