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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 460. To repent is taking care of your soul.

Well, God bless you as we get ready for the biggest holiday of them all, Christmas coming up.

My name's Jeff Kavins.

Thank you for joining me today.

You know, over the last number of weeks, we've been talking about a lot of different things.

We've been talking about wisdom for Catholic entrepreneurs.

Do you play the comparison game? And then, of course, after Thanksgiving,

when the turkey is gone dealing with the leftovers, and that's the leftovers of the relationships

and how well you did with your relatives and friends over Thanksgiving. Today I want to talk about

something that I think is so important during Advent, and that is repentance.

And repentance kind of gets a bad rap because we have this idea that it's just so negative,

you know, and people are telling us what we're doing wrong and we've got to deal with it.

But when you really look at repentance in the context of the gospel, in the context of salvation history,

in the context of life, it is a very, very positive thing.

To turn from that which is destroying you, and ultimately James tells us will kill you,

if sin has its way completely, its goal is complete destruction,

to turn from that to God and to be restored and to experience refreshment, well, that's a very

positive thing. And the way that we prepare for Jesus' birth is that we get our hearts right

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