Eating and Exercising in the Spiritual Life
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Spiritual growth is like eating and exercising: taking in truth is essential, but transformation only happens when faith is exercised through prayer, virtue, obedience, and love. Jeff challenges us to move beyond just consuming spiritual content to actually living it out intentionally.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.6 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.5 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.6 | This is show 481, eating and exercising in the spiritual life. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome, my friend, to this week's episode. |
| 0:37.5 | Today we're going to be talking about something that is incredibly important, something that kind of came up on the radar screen for me quite a few years ago. |
| 0:48.2 | Within the last 10 years or so, I received an email from somebody that informed me as to all the studies that they had been |
| 0:57.9 | a part of for a period of about five years of their life. And as someone who teaches, as someone |
| 1:06.0 | who puts out Bible studies and writes books and things naturally, you'd want people to |
| 1:10.2 | indulge in what you |
| 1:12.9 | are writing. But I started to see a pattern, and it's a pattern that I have experienced in my own |
| 1:19.4 | life. And so as I talk to you about this topic today of eating and exercising in the spiritual |
| 1:24.6 | life, please know, I'm not talking down to you. I'm talking to you as I need to |
| 1:30.3 | hear it myself from time to time. And this lovely person wrote in beautiful email. This is a while |
| 1:38.5 | ago. And they gave a list of all the studies that they had been through. And there must have been, I don't know, |
| 1:45.6 | 15 of them or something like that. And many of them were my own study, which I was thrilled. |
| 1:50.8 | You know, people were learning and growing, hopefully, in the faith. But it was the way that the |
| 1:56.6 | email ended. And I understand what they're saying, no condemnation whatsoever, no judgment whatsoever. |
| 2:02.4 | But the way that they ended it made me think. And it was, after listing off all of the studies, |
| 2:10.7 | their next question was, what should I study next? Or what should I do next? And that got me to thinking, kind of an autobiographical |
| 2:22.5 | meditation. And I had to ask myself, am I like that? Am I fitting into that pattern of ever learning |
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