Life Lessons from Jesus

Life Lessons from Jesus

Father Len unpacks stories from the Bible and explores 2000 years of traditions and rituals in the Church Jesus founded to reveal God’s intentions for our lives and what to worship and how to worship.

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Ep12 Interpreting the Bible

September 26, 2023 • 16 mins
Father Len describes the challenges of accurately interpreting the Bible and reveals what it takes to understand its full meaning. Support Wrestling with God Productions here: https://www.GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Three levels of interpretation are essential to accurately interpreting the Bible: literal, symbolic, and contemplative. Complete understanding of the Bible is impossible if you ju...
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Ep11 Lessons from Jesus on the Dangers of Fear

July 12, 2023 • 21 mins
Father Len explores Christ’s teachings on fear and how it controls all of us in not such good ways without us even knowing it. Support Wrestling with God Productions here: https://www.GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Fear and anger are identical cousins. We don’t always recognize when we’re being controlled by fear. Martin Luther King trained his followers in the civil rights movement to pray, pr...
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Ep10 The Bread of Life

June 30, 2023 • 10 mins
Father Len dives into the sacred mystery of the food Jesus gives us to feed and fortify our souls on the journey to our heavenly home that he's prepared for us. Support Wrestling with God Productions here: https://www.GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom The biggest theme in the Bible is that of a meal. Access to the divine happens through a meal. Beginning in the Garden of Eden, God provides food fo...
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Ep9 The Founding of Christ’s Church

April 13, 2023 • 15 mins
Father Len traces the history and traditions of the Church Jesus founded back 4000 years and explains the relationship between Judaism and Catholicism. Support Wrestling with God Productions here: https://www.GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom The Catholic (Universal) Church Jesus founded is the longest running institution in human history. History teaches us wisdom if we are open to it and willing t...
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Ep8 Why God Chose to Take on Human Flesh

January 4, 2023 • 19 mins
Father Len explains that God became one of us to establish a different religion because 2000 years of religion based on laws, regulations, and teachings from the prophets on how to love wasn’t working so well. Support Wrestling with God Productions here: https://www.GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Father Len shares a fun story about a student’s reaction to his teaching in a class on Jesus and the po...
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Ep7 What is a friend?

September 8, 2022 • 46 mins
Father Len explores what Jesus and the Bible have to say about friends and friendship and why friends are vital to growth, survival, and discovering and becoming who we’re meant to be. Donate to Wrestling with God Productions here: https://www.GiveSendGo.com/WWGProductions We welcome your questions and comments: Email: irish@wwgproductions.org Text or voicemail: 208-391-3738 Links to Additional Podcasts from Wres...
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Ep6 Trees, Food, Worship, and Eternal Life

August 11, 2022 • 27 mins
Father Len explains why trees are so prominent in the Bible and how they symbolize and reveal the path to eternal life including the choices we need to make and the food we need to eat along the way. He also clarifies what food we’re really praying for in the Lord’s Prayer.  Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom The English translation of the Lord’s Prayer is incorrect. When we pray “give us each day our daily bread,” we are not prayin...
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Ep5 The Purpose of Worship

July 12, 2022 • 33 mins
Father Len explores the history of worship and reveals that all worship and its purpose come from the Bible. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom The word liturgy means worship or how to worship. We worship not to get something, but to become aware of something. We worship and go to church to remember many things. The past, the present as it truly is, who we’re meant to be and what we’re supposed to become. God tells us in the b...
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Ep4 What divides and unites us?

June 15, 2022 • 25 mins
Father Len takes a deep dive into what divides us and what unites us. He introduces us to Communio, the one thing that can unite us forever and where to find it. Highlights, Ideas and Wisdom Communio is this invisible union between us and God. It’s also the thing that makes us united with each other. Communio celebrates the mystical communion that makes us one community. Father Len illustrates the effect of Communio by tell...
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Ep3 The Purpose of Prayer

May 6, 2022 • 13 mins
Father Len explores two Bible stories about the purpose of prayer beginning with the time the disciples ask him to teach them how to pray. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Father Len shares a fun story about his experience with a Protestant minister and his wife who have a very different idea than Jesus about the purpose of prayer. The purpose of prayer is not to ask God for help getting something as if God is the big Santa Clau...
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Ep2 The Religion of Jesus

May 3, 2022 • 12 mins
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 beliefs about religion on trial. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Jesus pushes us to take religion beyond just believing that He is the Messiah and being a good person obeying moral laws. Jesus dismisses laws in the Book of Lev...
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Ep1 How to Love like Christ

April 26, 2022 • 17 mins
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. Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom When Jesus began preaching love and pushing the boundaries of love to include loving all people unconditionally, the people didn’t like it. All they wanted to hear was God loves me and people like me. God tells the prophet Jeremiah, people “w...
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