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.

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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.

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She was angry when things didn't go the way she hoped. She prayed. Everybody prayed. But God said no.

Her anger was tempered, however, by a crack in its hot logic -- her father's faith grew the sicker he got. With every unanswered prayer, he seemed to fall more in love with the Lord.

Meet Hannah Miller King, author of Feasting on Hope [Intervarsity Press, release date February 2026]. God met her in what she calls the "wilderness of why." But it took years to unpack.

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If we are meant to live lives worthy of our callings, how exactly do we figure out calling? The concept can seem a bit amorphous until we look at a real life in the rearview mirror. Until we see the least likely candidate for speaking [severe speech impediment] and writing [average student] and counseling [suicidal child and teen] walk one day at a time past a promise ["you can do whatever you want with my life"] to circumstances that only God could orchestrate.

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When Mr. Ed snuck across the threshold of his daughter's life, Don Blackwell went through a heart scrubbing of sorts. Mr. Ed is a akin to the mayhem character in the Allstate commercials -- showing up for no other reason than to bring disorder to life. Mr. Ed, unlike Allstate's Mayhem, has a specialty in the havoc wreaking department -- disordered eating.

While relentlessly intent on unearthing the root cause of her struggle, Don found himself over a different threshold of sorts. He found himself dealing with his own disorder -- perfectionism. In the process, everything changed about the way he saw and lived his life.

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The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is so tall that the top is sometimes covered in clouds. When the clouds are low, you can see a curved pole on one side and a curved pole on the other but you cannot see where they connect. You know they do. You can see they must. But how? It's beyond our sight. The great mysteries of faith are like this. Partially revealed. Partially hidden. God makes the connection.

Scripture reveals the Holy Spirit as our guide, comfort, counselor... as the inspiration for God's Word and opening our hearts to understanding it. The mystery comes in how those promised realities will surface in our daily lives. When we actively seek and yield to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we find ourselves in a powerful dance -- a GUI-dance; God's Unending Invitation to dance toward the mysteries of faith.

Join Kat Silverglate, founder of The Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation as she recounts the power of the yellow arrows on the Camino de Santiago in Spain.

Andy Stanley’s book on minimizing regrets by making better decisions gives several questions to ask before making important choices [Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets]. They’re all great questions, but this one – what story do you want your life to tell – is profoundly halting for anybody who attempts a genuine response. It’s comforting to comprehend that God has actually given us agency over the story ourlives will tell. It’s humbling to imagine that one day the people who love us most dearly will answer this question in a different tense – what story did his/her life tell.

In this episode we will hear from many who had the courage to share their answers to this regret minimizing question and we will celebrate a life that told an epically beautiful story through action.

DEDICATION: The Ridiculous Hour Foundation’s 69th Mobile Mission is lovingly dedicated to Rebecca Miller Webner [April 1952 – August 2025] and to her friend group, the Elephant Sisters, who like elephants in the wild, chose to surround the one in need kicking up dirt to distract predators.

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Sometimes you need to know how lost you are before you want to be found; want to be rescued. That's what Spencer Silverglate discovered on a dusky evening while lost deep in the woods of North Carolina on his trusty Mountain Bike.

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Pliny the Elder, a first century secular naturalist, is often quoted for the principle that you cannot appreciate the magnitude of redemption until you glimpse the depth of the darkness from which it came. He says it this way: “The depth of the darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.” Exact measure? Aspire to reach? Laura Starsoneck’sstory of redemption takes Pliny’s seemingly high bar and explodes the ceiling off it.

When a lie snowballed out of control, Laura found herselfsurrounded by people intent on compassionately walking with her through restoration. While her book, Single-Handedly Blessed, hints at the back story to her journey to life as a single mom, the deeper back story makes the redemption shine blindingly bright for all who think they have gone too far to be blessed by God.

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We never mean to carry someone poorly through loss. We don't plan to drop them or miss a step in how we show up. Nor do we plan to push people away when we are in the pit, but we aren't sure how to let ourselves/others be THAT vulnerable. THAT messy. THAT exposed.

We either move quickly to the "bright side" to avoid lament or we create distance out of a sense of discomfort over what is coming out of the hurting person's mouth. Join The Ridiculous Hour Foundation's Founder, Kat Silverglate, as she shares a series of vignettes that led to "equipping pieces" for those who are grieving, and for those who seek to be a source of comfort to others.

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