What Is Sin and How to Overcome It
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Are you able to recognize sin in your life? Drawing from Sacred Scripture, the wisdom of the saints, and the rich teaching of the Catholic Church, Jeff walks through the nature of sin, its devastating consequences, and the path toward true freedom through repentance.
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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. |
| 0:23.7 | This is show 477. What is sin and how to overcome. |
| 0:33.7 | Thank you for joining me once again this week. I'm Jeff Kavens and this is the Jeff Kavens show. |
| 0:39.8 | And I'm happy you're here. We're going to talk about a topic today that everybody really needs to hit head on. |
| 0:46.0 | And that is discovering what is sin in my life and then very important how to overcome it. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm going to give you some basic steps to do this today, and that's the easy part. |
| 0:58.9 | The hard part is actually putting the teachings of Scripture, the teachings of the church, into practice. |
| 1:06.0 | And if you do that, then you will enjoy the fruit of repentance, the fruit of turning from what is actually |
| 1:13.2 | killing you and setting you back and placing you into a new arena where you can grow and you can |
| 1:22.0 | become like the Lord and get rid of all of the things that heavily weigh you down, you know, these burdens in your life. |
| 1:30.1 | So we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:31.8 | If you want the notes, which I do have some good quotes from John Paul II, as well as some scripture, |
| 1:38.8 | all you got to do is text my name, Jeff Kavens, to the number 33777.-Jepin's being one word and text it to 33-7-77. |
| 1:50.0 | We'll get you the notes here. |
| 1:51.4 | They're pretty valuable, mainly because it's scripture and John Paul II. |
| 1:56.9 | And wow, you put the two together. |
| 1:59.2 | You've got a guy that knew how to live. |
| 2:01.6 | He's a saint now. |
| 2:02.7 | And he has left us so many wonderful, wonderful things, particularly his writings on reconciliation and penance, |
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