This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts,

videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com.

Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization,

putting it all together in living as activated disciples.

This is show 442 Confession, taken out the garbage of your soul.

Hey, welcome to the show this week. I'm Jeff Kavins. Thank you for joining me. First time listeners, welcome. Welcome to the listening family here where we talk about the word of God, discipleship, living out the faith. And we talk about issues of everyday living. We do that a lot. So glad you are joining us, if it's your first time. And today we're going to talk about something that's very practical, and that's confession,

and specifically taking out the garbage of your soul.

As I was thinking about the show this week, I was thinking of the different topics that I wanted

to talk about.

And I got a whole list of things I want to share with you.

But I landed on

confession and then right away I thought well people know about confession and then it dawned on me

two things one not everybody does and number two we might know about confession but that

doesn't mean that we're actually doing it, at least on a regular basis.

But I'm approaching confession today from a little bit different angle, and that is the past.

The things that have happened in the past that are going to affect you today and affect you

in the future. And I know that a lot of people get caught up in kind of a rut

in their life and they can't go forward because of the past. And they're carrying that baggage.

They're carrying that weight in their soul. And it doesn't allow them to go forward in freedom.

It's like being brought out of Egypt,

but because of what happened in Egypt, you can't go into the promised land because you're not

really free. Well, my friend, I want you to go into the promised land. And so allow me to take you

...