The Ridiculous Hour

Meet Nebraska labor and employment attorney Mark Fahleson. At the same firm since 1997, he spent a few years advocating for a sabbatical policy. When the firm adopted it in 2020, he was the second post-COVID lawyer to spend a few paid months away from the practice of law.

He thought it was going to be awesome, but...

He was miserable.

Listen to how God slowly transformed his perspective on the role of work in life and the role of rest in relation to others and the One who made him to rest.

Join Kat Silverglate, Founder of The Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation, for the organization's 83rd Mobile Mission Challenge -- Sacred Wrest.

Written and spoken material Copyright 2026 Kat Silverglate

A man died in his neighborhood and wasn't discovered for months. Lev Montgomery was rocked to his core. How is it possible nobody knew this neighbor beyond the surface of watching him periodically come and go? How much of "neighboring" includes the real risk of knowing and being known? Listen as Lev shares, for the first time publicly, some of the deeper details of his one ridiculous life. Details that led to a graveyard where he found himself on his knees and heard the Holy Spirit's voice. Details that led to God's clear call on his life to use his gift of writing to move us below surface level to the depths where God is working all the time.

Two little girls meet in middle school and bond over rescue horses. They dream of a future that includes horses and children and spouses and families that love both. Listen as they unwind more than four decades of friendship including trauma and unspeakable hardship -- that results in a wild dream coming alive in ways neither could have fathomed or imagined. Listen as they describe how God birthed two equine mission organizations on two different coasts and made use of things stuffed in their luggage that followed them every step of the way.

To learn more about The Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation and to receive a free copy of the Mobile Mission Pack that contains this true story, visit www.theridiculoushour.com.

Sometimes we don't need more information, we simply need to allow ourselves to see how we are being formed in the waiting. When we've done all we know to do, and we come to the end of ourselves, our good ideas, our best actions, availing ourselves to the help that has come... perhaps we are in the perfect posture to simply receive? At least that is the way it seemed as a perfect stranger shared the story of a dark-night-of-the-soul formative season of his life and his choice to open a pottery studio as a result.

Join Kat Silverglate, Founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation, for the organization's 80th responsiveness challenge.

To learn more about the project or to receive the equipping pieces described in this episode, visit theridiculoushour.com.

We are builders by nature. We build families and houses and companies. We build names for ourselves and libraries and friendships. We were made to build.

When the Lord decides to build His dwelling in our hearts, He makes us new and places us as weapons of mass construction in a disintegrating world. How in heavens name do we manage the difference between what He has built in us and what we and others continue to build in vain?

Join Kat Silverglate, Founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation for Episode 79 -- creatively explore the fact that our actious reveal more about what we believe the Lord has built in us than our words about what we believe.

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Roxanna Miyares learned, in a most shocking way, that trusting God includes learning to trust those He sends our way in response to our prayers. Only God would invite a 4'11", self-described "most non-athletic woman on the planet," to grow in trust publicly through coaches, teammates, teachers and strangers, in a 26.2 mile race [never run before], a mile-long swim [could not swim] and a climb up Kilimanjaro [never climbed anything]. Only God!

Join Kat Silverglate, creator of The Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation, for the organization's 78th Mobile Mission. Individuals in 21 countries, 48 states and territories and more than 500 cities will receive this challenge. on June 1st. If you would like a copy of the materials discussed in this episode, visit www.theridiculoushour.com. They are free!

Our story this month seems totally made up. You may have a hard time believing it is true, until you read past the highlight reel of her life. Diana Timmons ridiculous life includes time with Pope Francis, Zig Ziglar, Barbara Bush, Joel Osteen, Dallas Willard, and time in The White House, the Vatican, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Israel [13 times], and presence at the red-carpet premiere of the recent Lionsgate film, I Can Only Imagine – 2 about her son (by marriage) Tim Timmons played by Milo Ventimiglia of This is Us fame. Listen to the full podcast for the fuller list of unbelievables.  

Laced through that highlight reel, however, is a little girl who carried the burden of perfectionism through some painful circumstances and came out on the other side with a faith refined in suffering.

So much so that at the ripe young age of 79, Diana Timmons started Joy Please! a nonprofit dedicated to exploring the mystery of constant joy. Not because her life has been easy. It hasn’t. But because she asked God for joy in hard circumstances and He was pleased to give it to her.

For the most part, we don't start at the beginning of much in life, do we? We are born into the middle of our parents' lives, a political culture, a particular century. When we meet new people, we don't start with "in the beginning." We don't say: "My parents decided to have a second child in New Jersey in 19......" No, that would just be weird. We start in the middle of our lives and theirs -- cancer, divorce, aging parents, graduations, weddings, births, funerals, renovations, job shifts, you name it. The same can be said of our faith walks. Our awareness of the Lord's presence comes in the middle of every imaginable circumstance.

Join Kat Silverglate, Founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation, for the organization's 76th true story and responsiveness challenge. To learn more about the Mobile Mission Project and The Ridiculous Hour Foundation, visit www.theridiculoushour.com.

What we magnify, we become. Sounds a little dramatic, doesn't it? Samuel Hubbard Scudder, a mid 1800's scientist, learned that lesson in a most humorous way from a quirky passionate professor -- a mentor he credits with the way he walked the rest of his career, eventually becoming the foremost expert in his field. When the Scriptures talk about moving through our lives from one degree of glory to another, they talk about what we magnify.

Join The Ridiculous Hour Foundation for its 75th consecutive true story and Mobile Mission challenge. If you would like a free set of the equipping pieces discussed in this episode, visit www.theridiculoushour.com.

In this Episode we'll met a metal-detecting, treasure-hunting lawyer who faced a personal storm that brought anxiety to the surface of his life -- a storm he preferred to keep buried. When an emotional storm swept a fellow-lawyer away, his own hidden struggle with anxiety seemed more like treasure to others who needed to know they aren't alone.

Join Mobile Mission Project founder Kat Silverglate as she introduces the true story that frames the Ridiculous Hour Foundation's 74th consecutive Mobile Mission called The Order Project: Hidden Treasure.

For more information about this mission and project, visit www.theridiculoushour.com.