You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show, episode 202. I need some time to think.

Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? All the way from

motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general.

It's the Jeff Kaven Show.

Hey, thanks for joining me again.

Came out to the cabin out in the woods here, deep in the woods of Minnesota, and I want to talk

about a topic that many of us think about, no pun intended, but we don't get around to very often.

And that is the art of thinking, taking some time to just think.

Putting down the Netflix series, putting down social media,

all other forms of stimulation,

and just, just thinking. I want to talk about that today and

give you some guidelines on what it means to really be a Christian thinker and

to take the time to think about things that are really, really important.

I have all kinds of scriptures and some quotes for you today and I'll give those to you in the show notes.

All you have to do is if you're not on board already.

All you have to do is text my name, Jeff Kavans, and you can text it to 337777. At the time of this broadcast, the Bible in a year podcast with Father Mike Schmitz and

myself, I think it's number two in the country now, 17 days at number one, now it's number two and wow is it really

you got some traction. I've got television news stations and

Papers calling they want to know what in the world is going on

How come in the midst of all this craziness in the world today? How come a podcast about reading the Bible is number one? And at the time of this podcast, the coming Sunday, the third Sunday in ordinary time,

it is a Sunday that Pope Francis has set aside as

Sunday to think about the Word of God and that's going to play into what I'm going to

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