Paying Ridiculous Attention To Jesus · Season 10 Episode 2 – The Shocking Kindness of Jesus… In Our Grief Rick and the Becky-nator are back with the first episode in a new series we’re calling “The Shocking Kindness of Jesus.” It’s the theme of a new book Rick is mulling as he prepares to propose it to publishers.…
Paying Ridiculous Attention To Jesus · Season 10 Episode 1 – 10 Years of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus Rick and the Becky-nator are back with a very special episode of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus—it’s Episode 1 of Season 10 – “10 Years of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus.”…
Paying Ridiculous Attention To Jesus · Season 9 Episode 8 – We Already Have What We Need Rick and the Becky-nator are back with a new episode of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus—it’s Episode 8 of Season 9 – “We Already Have What We Need” – a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.”…
Paying Ridiculous Attention To Jesus · Season 9 Episode 5 – Dependence Mind the gap! Rick and the Becky-nator are back with a new episode of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus after a six-month “gap.” It’s Episode 5 of Season 9 – “Dependence” – a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.”…
We are shorthand people who prefer shorthand solutions to complex problems. That’s true in life, and it’s true in youth ministry. In the past, our shortcut paths to deeper discipleship included… • What Would Jesus Do—”Go beyond your identity as a church-attender and have the courage to live like Jesus.…
Join Rick and the Becky-nator for a new adventure in Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus—Episode 3 of Season 9 – “You’ve Got All My Love” – a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his new book Editing Jesus.…
In youth ministry we often settle for small wins (ANY wins) when Jesus said his followers will do “even greater things” than he did (John 14:12). Can I be honest? In some ministry settings, if I didn’t celebrate the small wins, I wouldn’t have any wins to celebrate.…
On Pentecost Sunday Calebe Silva, a teenager in New Jersey, opened his church’s Zoom church service with a short reading from Isaiah, followed by a piercing lament over the grief and pain the African-American community is experiencing right now (in the wake of the protests over the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police).…
Like many of you, we’ve been walking with this year’s senior class through the heartbreaking loss of their final high school semester. The conversations are raw, varied, and emotional. These teenagers are grieving, and their struggle is similar to those who are grieving the loss of a loved one.…
Remember when you had the perfect ministry role? It was the night before you started serving in it. After that, and every day forward, you likely thought: “This isn’t exactly what I expected.” Maybe it was close enough that you stuck it out.…
