Jesus Is the Model Teacher
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
What made Jesus the greatest teacher the world has ever known?Jeff reflects on Jesus as the model teacher, exploring not only what Christ taught but how He taught—with availability, sensitivity, compassion, and transformational truth.
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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. |
| 0:23.8 | This is show 484. Jesus is the model teacher. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome to the show again, my friend. |
| 0:35.8 | Good to spend some time with you this week. |
| 0:38.9 | At the time of this show, it is very hot in Minnesota. |
| 0:43.5 | We're up around 90 and we're not used to it this time of the year. |
| 0:46.6 | But we welcome it after our long, hearty winters up here in the north. |
| 0:52.7 | And it is days like today that I get to stay inside and study. |
| 0:59.0 | And as I was studying and thinking about you, well, my wife and I have been thinking a lot |
| 1:04.5 | lately about creation and studying science and biology and all these different things and looking at the |
| 1:13.3 | marvelous creation of God, as it says in Psalm 19, the heavens declare the wonders of God. |
| 1:20.6 | And they speak to us day by day, don't they? And my attention was turned to the one who holds all of this together, and that is Jesus, |
| 1:30.7 | the son of God. He was completely man, completely God, hypostatic union. Something about Jesus is so |
| 1:42.1 | awesome and is never ceased to amaze me. And from the time that I was 18 years old in February, |
| 1:49.9 | February of 1977, I have been just fascinated with Jesus. And I've never gone through a drought |
| 1:58.2 | as far as my fascination with him. And one of the things that really grabbed my |
| 2:03.4 | attention clear back in the 70s and 80s was the teaching methodology of Jesus as the master |
| 2:11.6 | teacher, the model teacher. And I was privileged for about 10 years of my life to study with some of the greatest teachers at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. |
| 2:24.3 | My wife and I both took Hebrew at the University of Minnesota. |
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