Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus

Rick and the Becky-nator are back with the fifth episode in our new series “The Shocking Kindness of Jesus.” It’s the theme of a new book Rick is working on: Snakes & Stones: The Shocking Kindness of Jesus. In this episode, we’ll explore the kindness of Jesus in the midst of our disappointments in life. To get at this, we’ll plunge into the story of maybe the most notorious person in history—Judas...

Rick and the Becky-nator are back with the fourth episode in our new series “The Shocking Kindness of Jesus.” It’s the theme of a new book Rick is working on - Snakes & Stones: The Shocking Kindness of Jesus. In this fourth episode of the series, we’ll explore the kindness of Jesus in the midst of our doubts. When Jesus invites Thomas to “put your finger here, and look at my hands,” we commonly im...

Rick and the Becky-nator are back with the second episode in our new series “The Shocking Kindness of Jesus.” It’s the theme of a new book Rick is working on: Snakes & Stones: The Shocking Kindness of Jesus. In this second episode of the series, we’ll explore the kindness of Jesus in the midst of our shame. Shame is not the same as guilt—when we’re captive to shame, we don’t simply make mistakes,...

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. That book will be called Snakes & Stones: The Shocking Kindness of Jesus. It’s based on the the sneaky little parable Jesus tells the crowd in Matthew 7: “You parents—if your children ask fo...

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.” Here Rick and Becky look back on 10 years of digging deep into the heart of Jesus, tracking their most listened-to episodes and reflecting on the impact of recording together for a decade. You’ll hear a little Strang...

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.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his new book Editing Jesus. They continue a mini-series within the series—exploring dependence as a core teaching of Jesus. In this episode we dive i...

Rick and the Becky-nator are back with a new episode of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus—it’s Episode 7 of Season 9 - “Crossing the Event Horizon” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his new book Editing Jesus. They continue a mini-series within the series—exploring dependence as a core teaching of Jesus. In this episode we explore...

Rick and the Becky-nator are back with a new episode of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus—it’s Episode 6 of Season 9 - “Spirit Intimacy” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his new book Editing Jesus. They continue a mini-series within the series—exploring dependence as a core teaching of Jesus. In this episode we explore a mystery—h...

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.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his new book Editing Jesus. In this episode they kick off a mini-series within the series—we’ll explore dependence as a core tea...

Join Rick and the Becky-nator for a new adventure in Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus—Episode 3 of Season 9 - “Our Right-Now Eternity” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his new book Editing Jesus. In this episode they continue their expedition into the heart of Jesus, and what He means by “eternal life.” It’s so much more than a t...

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 this episode they continue their expedition into the heart of Jesus—discovering the answer to what seems like an obvious question, b...

We’re back! Join Rick and the Becky-nator for a new season of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus—Episode 2 of Season 9 - “The Light of the World” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his new book Editing Jesus. In this episode they continue their expedition into the heart of Jesus—discovering why “light” is so often used as a descripto...

We’re back! Join Rick and the Becky-nator for a new season of Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus- Episode 1 of Season 9: “Kindness for Broken People” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his new book Editing Jesus. In this episode they continue “reverse-engineering” back from Jesus—that means we adjust our “operating system” in life by...

Join Rick and the Becky-nator for Episode 8 of Season 11 - “The Enemy” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his just-released book Editing Jesus. In this episode they continue “reverse-engineering” back from Jesus—that means we have to account for His relationship with the supernatural, and what He says our relationship with the supernat...

Join Rick and the Becky-nator for Episode 8 of Season 10 - “What Maturity Is, and Isn’t” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his just-released book titled Editing Jesus. In this episode they explore maturity—Jesus is always inviting us to live our lives by the values, priorities, and norms of an unseen kingdom. He calls it the Kingdom o...

Join Rick and the Becky-nator for Episode 9 of Season 8 - “The Deep-Fake Jesus” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his just-released book titled Editing Jesus. In this episode they explore something that didn’t exist in our vocabulary 10 years ago—with the burgeoning advances made in AI, artificial intelligence, comes the dark side of...

Join Rick and the Becky-nator for Episode 8 of Season 8 - “Losing Our Chaff” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Here Rick and Becky explore themes drawn from his just-released book titled Editing Jesus. In this episode they continue their deep dive into the “core” of Jesus’s mission—it’s not to plant a new religious movement, or to reset our moral compass, or to warn us of the con...

Join Rick and the Becky-nator for Episode 7 of Season 8 - “Peculiar People” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Rick and Becky will be exploring themes drawn from his just-released book titled Editing Jesus. In this episode we explore why Peter calls the followers of Jesus “peculiar people”—of course, we translate that as… odd people. And, just being real, some of us are odd… Maybe...

Join Rick and the Becky-nator for Episode 6 of Season 8 - “If It’s So ‘Easy,’ Why Am I So Worried?” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Rick and Becky will be exploring themes drawn from his just-released book titled Editing Jesus. In this episode we explore a conundrum—we know that Jesus told us that His “yoke is easy” and His “burden is light,” by why does real life so often feel...

Join Rick and the Becky-nator for Episode 5 of Season 8 - “The Relational Generosity of Jesus” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Rick and Becky will be exploring themes drawn from his upcoming book (releasing June 4) titled Editing Jesus. In this episode we explore one facet of the diamond-like beauty of Jesus—the way He longs to relate to us is deeply magnetic for our soul. We c...

Big news! We’ve re-launched Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus after a year-long sabbatical. Even bigger and better news—the Becky-nator is joining Rick again to co-host. So check out Episode 4 of Season 8 - “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Rick and Becky will be exploring themes drawn from his upcoming book (releasing June 4) titled Editing Jesus. In thi...

Big news! We’ve re-launched Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus after a year-long sabbatical. Even bigger and better news—the Becky-nator is joining Rick again to co-host. So check out Episode 3 of Season 8 - “The Exclusionary Jesus” - a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Rick and Becky will be exploring themes drawn from his upcoming book (releasing June 4) titled Editing Jesus. In...

Big news! Rick is re-launching his podcast Paying Ridiculous Attention to Jesus after a year-long sabbatical. Even bigger and better news—the Becky-nator will be joining him again to co-host. So check out the Episode 6 of Season 8 “Sitting at the Wrong End of the Table”—a continuation of the series “THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Rick and Becky will be exploring themes drawn from his upcoming book (releasing...

Join Rick for the first episode of Season 8, continuing the series—“THE WAYS OF JESUS.” Our understanding of death, and our fear of it, colors our life. It plays in the background, like a haunting film score to our life narrative. But if we understand the way of Jesus, relative to death, we will have a much deeper understanding of what it means to live in deep peace, and we’ll discover the secret...

Join Rick for the fourth episode of the new series—“THE WAYS OF JESUS.” We all have rutted narratives that emerge from our painful experiences. But Jesus tells us, over and over, that our un-rescued pain is beauty disguised as ugly. We see weakness as the unwelcome byproduct of pain. But in the Kingdom of God, real weakness is exposed as arrogance. Jesus’ opposes the “strength” of the Pharisees be...