Welcome to the Jeff Kaven show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship and evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples.

This is show 289, your Catholic Swiss Army knife, part 2.

Jeff Kavens with you. Thank you for joining me again. I'm excited this week. I really really am. I am excited because what I started last week with your Catholic Swiss Army knife, part 1, kind of got me excited.

And so I am back for the second episode, the first episode I gave you five tools in your Catholic Swiss Army knife that are essential for daily living.

And today I've got five more for you. Hey, if you want my show notes, which I hope last week, seriously, that you did print them out and walked around for at least a day with those five tools just to show yourself that you really do need the tools that God has given you to live out your life as an activated disciple. You really do need them and to have tools and not use them.

Well, that's me. I'm just being honest with you. I have a toolbox downstairs and it's kind of a joke in our family that I felt like as the man of the house, king of my castle, in a sense, I needed to have a toolbox with everything that you should have in your in your house.

So in the toolbox, I've got a hammer. I've got a screwdriver. I have pliers. I have a crescent wrench.

So I have a measuring tape and a ratchet. I'm surprised I even remember the names of some of these things. In any way, I even have them set very nicely in the toolbox.

But Emily's big complaint is, why don't you use them? Because I, because I forget. And that's one of the problems that we run into is that we end up getting all the tools, the proper tools in Catholicism in our faith and we don't use them.

But I have put together for you this week. Part number two of your Catholic Swiss army knife. I was mentioning last week, by the way, that when you're a kid growing up and you have a Swiss army knife,

it's almost like, it's almost like you have graduated to a certain level. Your mom or your dad or your grandpa gave you an army knife or maybe they gave you a leatherman or a Gerber or something like that.

And you feel like, wow, I'm prepared now. I can go out into the world and I've got this Swiss army knife and I can tackle any situation now.

And in the last trip that we went to a final five weeks ago with our grandchildren, the two boys got their Swiss army knife. They're very first one.

And when they got back into the States, my daughter told me they were out in the backyard carving wood and it was just so much fun for them.

And so I'm going to hand you your very first Catholic Swiss army knife. Actually, I did that last week. And this week, I have five more tools on there. Before I tell you what these tools are, I do want to remind you that if you want the show notes, because I've got scriptures and I've got all this listed in the show notes.

All you got to do is text my name, Jeff Kaven's one word Jeff Kaven's to the number three three seven seven seven. That's three three seven seven seven.

We'll get you the show notes in perpetuity. That means from now on, you're going to get them. Well, last week in your Catholic Swiss army knife part one, I mentioned to you how each one of us have been given these essential tools by Jesus number one, the blade.

That's the blade. That's the sword of the spirit. That's the word of God. For the word of God is living in active sharper than any two-edged sword. It penetrates even to the dividing of soul and spirit joints and marrow.

It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. And so that became very important. Number two, a bottle opener on your Swiss army knife. And that's how do you how do you open up a conversation?

How do you share the gospel with other people with the curriculum? We talked about that last week. And by the way, when we're talking about that, the key is asking questions.

It's starting up a conversation by asking questions and truly being interested and fascinated by people. Third one last week was the file and that's confession dealing with those things that sin in our life that is so unnecessary.

Then the fourth one was the corkscrew. We're not talking about Merlot. We're not talking about Cabernet or a reasling or anything else. What we're talking about is the body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus, the holy sacrifice of the mass.

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