Mirror Mirror on the Web

The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)

Ascension

Self-improvement, Education, Christianity, Jeff Cavins, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Bible Study, Catholic, Catholicism, Christian, Catholic Bible Study, Ascension, Ascension Press

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We all have fallen into the trap of comparing ourselves to others. In an age of social media, constant comparison is hard to avoid and it leads to us feeling bad or anxious about our own lives compared to those of our 500+ closest online friends. Jeff explains the dangers of comparison and shows you how to look to God when you start down this path.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show, episode 67, Mirror Mirror on the Web.
0:09.6	Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible?
0:14.4	All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general.
0:20.7	It's the Jeff Kaven Show.
0:27.0	Hey, welcome to the show again this week. Glad you could join me. We are in the midst of spring waiting for summer and it is beautiful and it's good to be with you.
0:35.8	I'm here in the cabin in deep in the woods in Minnesota and spending just a few minutes
0:41.8	studying and thinking about being a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.
0:47.0	And I've got something I want to share with you today.
0:49.0	And I think it's really relevant because it deals with the way that we look at ourselves and constantly
0:54.5	compare ourselves with others and I've entitled this show, Mirror Mirror on the
0:59.9	web and so many of us fall into this trap today and I want to talk a little bit about
1:05.4	that and some of the dangers but also I want to give you something to do if you
1:10.0	have fallen into this trap of constantly comparing yourself to other people and finding
1:16.2	out that you are wanting, that you are coming up on the short end and you feel bad about your life. Maybe you feel depressed,
1:25.4	maybe you feel a little anxious and like, well, you know, things didn't turn out the way I wanted
1:30.1	them to and look at my college friends and I look at them on Facebook and
1:34.7	look what they're doing, you know, and so we want to talk about, we want to talk about that.
1:39.5	Yeah, I do appreciate your feedback. I've been going over to iTunes, Google Play, and looking at your comments, really do appreciate it and all the email that you have been sending in. I read it. I love it and I like this aspect that we can
1:55.1	that we can actually talk with one another. One of the emails that came this
1:59.8	week was by Christina. She wrote in more of a kind of a request for a topic to talk about and
2:06.6	this is one of those where I'm saying yeah Christina I think I'm gonna do that and
2:11.2	I encourage all of you to write if you have a show that you want some topic you want addressed
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