How a Man Battles Cancer (with Matthew James Christoff)
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
When you hear the word cancer, everything changes. Matthew James Christoff joins Jeff to share his experience walking through cancer for the third time. In this candid and hope-filled episode, Matthew shares how his first diagnosis 25 years ago led to a life-changing encounter with God, his conversion to the Catholic faith, and a powerful mission.
Matthew James Christoff is a Catholic convert who focuses on helping the Church recognize and respond to the Catholic “man-crisis” through The New Emangelization Project, EveryCatholicMan.com, the Every Catholic Man Podcast and CatholicManNight.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
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| 0:11.8 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.0 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.7 | This is episode 471, How a Man Battles Cancer. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the show this week. I'm Jeff Kavins. Thank you again for joining me. And today I've got a special guest for you. We don't have a lot of guests on this show. We always find something to talk about. But you know, there comes a point where you meet someone who has gone through something that you realize others need to hear. Others need to learn. |
| 0:55.3 | Others need an example to follow. And I'm going to be talking today about a topic that maybe |
| 1:01.4 | you've come face to face with or somebody in your family or a friend at work, somebody who is |
| 1:08.6 | battling cancer. Could be you. So, you you know when people find out that they have cancer |
| 1:15.9 | it can really shake up their world the show's not about me this week but I'll tell you I have |
| 1:21.2 | heard that word before melanoma and about 11 years ago and I know what I felt like when I heard that and I thought about the |
| 1:29.2 | battle up ahead. And the Lord was so good. But I've got to tell you, there is an art to walking |
| 1:37.7 | with cancer. There is an art to being that witness of Jesus, that disciple of Jesus, even after you've heard difficult news. |
| 1:48.4 | Joining me today on the show is a good friend. He's been on the show a number of years ago. |
| 1:53.8 | He's been dedicated to men's ministry and is one of the, just a handful of guys that I know who have really moved the dial in men's |
| 2:02.8 | ministry in North America. And by that I mean in the United States and Canada as well. He served |
| 2:09.4 | on many boards for men's ministry. And he has one of the most rich websites about studying about men and ministry, listening to stories about men |
| 2:21.0 | and ministry. I want to welcome you to that site. It's called Every Catholic Man.com. My guest is |
| 2:26.7 | Matthew James Christoph, and he has written an amazing book for 2006. And it's called |
| 2:34.2 | Becoming a Happier Catholic Man. |
| 2:36.5 | I would suggest you seek |
| 2:38.1 | it out. We'll put some notes in the show notes |
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