Giving The Enemy No Foothold with John Eldredge
The Exorcist Files
Ryan Bethea, Fr. Carlos Martins
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author, speaker and counselor John Eldredge joins the show to share his own experiences with spiritual warfare and offer a mental health perspective on deliverance ministry.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Exorcist Files. |
| 0:10.4 | We hope you have been enjoying the latest round of dramatic cases. |
| 0:13.9 | And just to keep the good times rolling, and keep you guessing, just what will they put out next? |
| 0:19.0 | We are excited to announce that in the coming weeks, Father |
| 0:22.1 | Martins will be offering a Lenton retreat. Well, a Lenton audio retreat on the Exorcist Files. |
| 0:28.4 | Now, in addition to weekly content, in a multi-part series, Father will offer spiritual meditations |
| 0:33.8 | for the season and show just how Lent spiritual warfare are in many ways inexorably |
| 0:40.6 | intertwined. So look for that in the coming weeks. Today we welcome a best-selling author, a speaker, |
| 0:47.4 | and someone who has disciples millions through his books on identity, prayer, and the love of God. |
| 0:53.3 | Please welcome a man who is, quote, wild at heart, |
| 0:56.6 | and always working to try and make, quote, all things new. Please welcome to the Exorcist Files, |
| 1:03.6 | John Eldridge. |
| 1:19.3 | Welcome to The Exorcist Files, the show we tell demons where to go. |
| 1:24.9 | Guys, I'm so excited today because we get to interview a longtime spiritual father and hero of mine. |
| 1:25.9 | Now, he doesn't know that he's a spiritual father of mine because he lives hundreds of miles away for most of my existence, but his books have disciples me. In fact, they've disciple people all over the world. He is a best-selling author. He is a mental health professional. He's a trove of wisdom and is evidenced by his long, silver mane of salt-ridden hair. He is also a Richard Branson stand-in. Please welcome John |
| 1:46.2 | Eldridge to the show. Ryan, I'm delighted to be here. I really am. And I love, I love, love, |
| 1:52.9 | love the discipleship heart that you have and the tact that you take on this, of leading people |
| 2:00.0 | deeper into the life from Jesus. It's beautiful. |
| 2:03.1 | Well, thank you. It's a weird role. I mean, people always ask me, did your career counselor |
| 2:08.2 | have a form that you filled out? And it said, Protestant slash Catholic exorcism podcast host. |
| 2:14.8 | And that really wasn't on the available careers when I was in high school. |
| 2:19.3 | And so, who knows? But actually, maybe this is a good question for you is, you know, as you now, |
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