Welcome to the Jeff Kaven's show where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and

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This is show 400 Jesus and radical individualism. Thanks again for joining me, my friend. I am looking forward to talking to you today,

especially after watching just a few minutes of the news this week, which I'm sure you have or you heard

from somebody else. It's like a sport that you got to warn people about. You could come out,

confused and injured after, you know, listening to what's happening

all around the world, especially in the United States with politics and Hollywood and law and jurisprudence, you know, the Supreme Court and all these different things that are

happening.

In fact, they've been happening for a while now it's almost like

we're in a jag where where the news just plain looks like it looks right now and I

know that in talking to people, they can feel discouraged when they look at the

news and then they start to forecast their own lives or their children's lives and they, you know,

they kind of hang their heads and say, boy, I just don't know about it. I don't know what's going to go on here. So I want to address that today with this topic called Jesus and radical individualism. If you want the show notes, I do have plenty of scripture as always,

and you can get the show notes by texting my name, one word Jeff Kavans, J-E-F-C-A-V-I-N-S, and you can text that name, Jeff Kavans, that's my name, to the number

3-3-7-7, which is about as, it's about as biblical as you can get for it, you know, for

texting. 3.7. Well, you know, an encouraging word is not always a positive word.

I think you probably know that.

And when you were growing up, your parents probably took you aside more than a few times and said let me tell you something and it was it was an encouraging word but it wasn't necessarily a positive word because they were trying to get something across to you which would result in better behavior,

going down the right path, avoiding trouble, whatever it might be.

When men and women of God speak into a culture, they must be honest, and not only

honest, they must be clear and to the point. And there is such a temptation today and I know this firsthand and prior to coming

back to the Catholic Church I was a pastor of an independent church so I certainly

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