Wrestling with God Show

Father Len explains why God allows evil in the world and how we choose to react to evil can cause bane or enlightenment. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom God gives us free will to choose our actions. It’s up to us to choose good or evil. If God took away our choices, we’d no longer be human beings. We’d be preprogrammed like toasters and robots. “It makes no sense to pray for somebody to do something...

The effect of freedom depends on how you define it. Father Len reveals how God defines freedom and how other definitions can produce destructive consequences. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Freedom involves being free from something in order to be free to become something. The American Revolution was about becoming free from the tyranny of a king and the injustices and oppression of a political sys...

Irish shares some good news about the return of the Wrestling with God Show and the new podcast from Wrestling with God Productions featuring Father Len. Support the work of Wrestling with God Productions by making a financial donation here: https://www.givesendgo.com/wwgproductions Life Lessons from Jesus podcast website: http://www.lifelessonsfromjesus.org

Father Len explores two Bible stories about the purpose of prayer beginning with the time the disciples ask Jesus to teach them how to pray. This is a preview of episode 3 of the new podcast from Wrestling with God Productions , featuring Father Len, titled “Life Lessons from Jesus and the Church He Founded.” Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Father Len shares a fun story about his experience with a P...

Father Len explores the Bible story of a wealthy and powerful man and a bankrupt and outcast old woman. Both seeking healing from Jesus. The story reveals the essence of the religion of Jesus and puts our personal beliefs about religion on trial. This is a preview of episode 2 of the new podcast from Wrestling with God Productions , featuring Father Len, titled “Life Lessons from Jesus and the Chu...

Irish explains why there hasn’t been a new WWG Show episode lately and Father Len unpacks three Bible stories about love and illustrates the traits God will help us develop, and we’ll surely need, if we are to love like Christ. This a preview of episode 1 of a new podcast from Wrestling with God Productions, featuring Father Len, titled “Life Lessons from Jesus and the Church He Founded” . Highlig...

Irish shares a big decision about his future and the expansion of the work he and Father Len have begun with the Wrestling with God Show. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Irish looks back at what inspired the Wrestling with God Show, the effect he and Father Len hoped the podcast would have and how listeners have responded to the podcast during its first two years. Irish describes how producing the p...

Father Len wrestles with his lifelong fascination with near-death experiences and how what they reveal should challenge all of us to examine how we’re living our lives. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Father Len shares Plato’s analogy of life as a cave where we experience only a dim reflection of true reality and the scientific and philosophical revolution it sparked. “The Republic” by Plato “Life a...

Introducing a new podcast coming soon from Wrestling with God Productions. It features candid conversations with Catholic priests about their journeys to the priesthood, their experiences being a priest, and why those experiences are so meaningful and rewarding. The intention for the podcast is to create intrigue and interest in young men becoming Catholic priests. This preview episode explores Fa...

Father Len presents stunning evidence that he’s experienced that supports the reality of an afterlife. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom The WWG Show has been downloaded more than 38,000 times with regular listeners in 49 states and 11 countries. Thanks for listening to the podcast and sharing it with friends and family. Irish is forming “Wrestling with God Productions,” a nonprofit company, to expand...

Father Len reveals the real “reason for the season” is us. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom “When I look at the world upside down, that’s when it seems right to me.” – Jeret “Speedy” Peterson Father Len tells a story about geese to illustrate why God became a human being. Christmas is a revelation of who we are meant to be. To be good is to become a true human being. Our true humanity is...

Father Len explains how the radical ideas Jesus introduced 2000 years ago and the church he established to spread those ideas have changed the world forever. Make a financial donation here: https://www. GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom “You’re talking about the single event that probably influenced civilization as we know it now. It’s created our laws and behavior. The k...

Father Len explains how pride can poison everything in life from relationships, to religion, to marriages, to organizations and companies. Highlights, Ideas, & Wisdom Pride and its effects are often so subtle as to be unrecognizable. The easiest way to manipulate people is to use their pride against them. Father Len shares the story of how an FBI agent uses the pride of criminals to induce the...

Father Len reveals that pride is damaging lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Pride is a cancer that often goes undetected until it’s too late. “The Truth Detector: an Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide for Getting People to Reveal the Truth” by Jack Schafer The moment you tell a lie about yourself you are owned by the lie. Happy people don’t need to feel superior. The fall of...

Father Len explains what it takes to become truly free and how the common American understanding of freedom leads to selfishness and narcissism. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Freedom involves being free from something in order to be free to become something. The American Revolution was about becoming free from the tyranny of a king and the injustices and oppression of a political system. 70% of Am...

Reacting to why actor Seth Rogen says he and his wife don’t want kids, Father Len explains the relationship between making commitments, happiness, love, and having kids. Support Wrestling with God Productions here: https://www. GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom “It’s not an easy haul having kids. You can’t be narcissistic. You have to give yourself over to parenting. Kids...

Father Len exposes the dangerous effects of trying to boost self-esteem with excessive or false praise and compliments. Support Wrestling with God Productions: https://www. GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom. “Self-esteem is like a four-letter cuss word that when you say it you need to wash your mouth out” – Father Len Father Len illustrates the negative effects of self-es...

Father Len shares his favorite method for the difficult and necessary job of curing shame. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Shame can control you and make your life and the lives of those around you miserable. Shame is that voice inside your head that constantly tells you that you are worthless. Self-esteem programs are not effective for curing shame. You have to learn how to love yourself in order t...

Father Len explains why God wants one universal church that accepts everybody and why the church established by Christ has split into over 400,000 denominations.

Father Len introduces the process of deconstruction to help a listener detox her religious upbringing and purify her religious values, beliefs, and practices.

Father Len reveals how oils and their fragrances help fulfill God’s intention for religion and worship to be carnal and sensuous experiences. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Previous Bible symbols episodes: Ep45 Water, Ep56 Trees

Father Len reveals his 30 year battle with anger and explains why it’s like a cancer that can destroy you unless you learn how to respond to it. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Father Len responds to an email from the mother of a 15-year-old daughter who became depressed and filled with rage over the death of George Floyd. Father Len reveals that anger has been one of his most common sins throughout...

Father Len takes a deep and challenging dive into the nature of true friendship and its profound effects on us throughout our lives.   Highlights, Ideas and Wisdom In Greek, the word friend or friendship is another word for love. The word love in English is just another word for sex, not friendship. Greeks believe there are four types of love. Love of one’s family, love of one’s friends, romantic...

Father Len explores the history of marriage, our changing attitudes and expectations about it, God’s expectations for marriage, and what makes marriage so difficult yet so worthwhile. Highlights, Ideas and Wisdom Ancient marriages were rarely about love and had little to do with religion. Marriages were pragmatic contracts between families about such things as wealth, political alliances, childbea...

Responding to a listener’s question about whether God’s teachings are black and white, Father Len explains why it’s difficult for us to fully understand the language of God’s love. Highlights, Ideas and Wisdom God’s morality and teachings are black and white and pure because God is love, without ego and without corruption. Our interpretation of God’s morality and teachings is often wrong because i...