Trading TV for Bible Knowledge
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Are we spending more time keeping up with the latest shows and headlines than we are with the Word of God? Jeff invites us to “redeem the time” by trading a little screen time for Scripture, showing just how quickly many books of the Bible can be read.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.0 | videos and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.0 | 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 show 472, Trading TV for Bible Knowledge. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jeff Kavans. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you for taking a few minutes to join me. I promise that if you |
| 0:40.4 | stay with me, you're really going to get something out of this. And you're certainly going to get more of the |
| 0:46.3 | word of God. The Bible, reading the Bible. No, I want to talk today about trading TV for Bible knowledge |
| 0:53.1 | because I have been talking to a lot of |
| 0:56.2 | people recently who ask me the same question and I got to thinking what in the world are people |
| 1:03.0 | doing in the evening as far as their TV habits. What I mean by this is that people have been |
| 1:09.7 | asking me, hey, did you hear about what so-and-so said last night on TV? |
| 1:14.7 | Did you hear about what so-and-so said on their podcast? |
| 1:17.2 | Did you hear about this on YouTube and so forth? |
| 1:20.6 | Asking me all these questions about pop formators out there, and they're wonderful people. |
| 1:26.8 | Don't get me wrong. There are just a lot of good |
| 1:28.7 | people saying a lot of good things on Fox. We got Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson. We've got all of these |
| 1:34.8 | wonderful people. But then we have also a lot of other kinds of shows that are getting into people's |
| 1:42.6 | schedules, so to speak. |
| 1:51.6 | And I am wondering, are people spending too much time trying to stay up on politics, |
| 2:00.1 | stay up on the war, stay up on immigration, stay up on Minnesota, and so many other topics that they literally are not sitting down and reading |
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