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Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer Biography
In his prayer — intended by the writers to be satire — Ricky Bobby prays to the baby Jesus, thanking him for the millions of dollars he had made by winning NASCAR races. Despite protests from his family, he insists on praying to tiny, little 8 pound, 6 ounce baby Jesus who "don't even know a word yet."
He exclaims that he likes the "Christmas Jesus" the best, and that you can pray to whichever Jesus you want.
I have long felt a little resentful about Christmas. It has always felt fake, but that resentment has always been a just feeling — irrational, at best. I would justify my feelings by saying, "Well, Jesus wasn't born in the winter, anyway. It's a pagan syncretism," or "you know Jeremiah 10:3-4 actually forbids Christmas trees." (That last one is a actually taken way out of context and isn't talking about Christmas trees at all, but I liked to use it anyway just to buck the system.)
It still bothers me to see the wise men at a Nativity scene because they didn't come to see Jesus until he was nearly 2 years old and living in a house in Bethlehem.
When I started to work on becoming a pastor, a mentor pointed out to me that Christmas stuff is a pretty big part of being a pastor, and I would have to figure out what to do with Christmas if that's what I wanted to pursue. So I started thinking about it, and I couldn't put my finger on the real reason why I really didn't like Christmas.
I never realized it until I saw "Talladega Nights" one summer while my thoughts couldn't be further from Christmas.
It struck me, our whole culture worships the baby Jesus at Christmas.
We like the baby version of God's son. We choose the Christ that doesn't threaten us. We worship the Jesus who, if he does anything but lay there silently, just wants to bless us with plenty of money and lots of completely unnecessary gifts under the tree.
You may say "Keep Christ in Christmas." I'd ask you, which Christ you want to keep?
When you hear Jesus between Black Friday and Dec. 25, are you thinking of a helpless, little baby? Or do you see the God-man, the Almighty made flesh?
This is the baby who would purge the temple and call religious leaders a "pit of vipers" and "whitewashed tombs." This is the baby who would later command the forces of nature and the power of Satan just by speaking. This is the baby who, though he didn't know a word, was himself the word. This child Stuart Townend — the lyricist behind the modern hymn "In Christ Alone" — calls the "fullness of God in helpless babe."
Most importantly, this is the baby who saved you and me from the wrath of God, reconciled us to him and even audaciously called us his friends.
The real Jesus challenges you with the words he came to know. He threatens the idea of self, claiming you cannot really live until you let him kill it. He is dangerous. He is so dangerous, people killed him to try to shut him up.
Even that didn't work
This Christmas, I dare you to choose the real Jesus. I dare you to trust and worship the one who will actually and radically change your life; the one whom you can look to with awe rather than the cute, little infant we can all look at and just say, "aww."
Your Christmas tree will look different and your credit card bill will be shorter, but Christ — the real Jesus who became a real man — will be the one who gives you life and life abundantly this Christmas season.
Kyle Hooks is the youth pastor at Angelo Bible Church. You can hear him on the radio with Jim Stanley every Thursday at noon on 93.9 KCRN. Contact him at kyle@lookingupfrombelow.com. You can like Looking Up at facebook.com/lookingupfrombelow.
Ricky: "Dear Lord Baby Jesus, or as our brothers in the South call you: 'Jee-suz'. We thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Dominos, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just want to take time to say thank you for my family: my two beautiful, beautiful, handsome striking sons, Walker: Texas Ranger, or TR as we call him. And, of course, my red hot smokin' wife Carley, who is a stone cold fox, who if you would rate her *** on 100, it would easily be a 94. I also want to thank you for my best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton Jr, who's got my back no matter what...Dear Lord Baby Jesus, we also thank you for my wife's father Chip. We hope that you can use your Baby Jesus powers to heal him and his horrible leg. It smells terrible and the dogs are always botherin' with it. Dear Tiny Infant Jesus..."
Carley (Leslie Bibb) interjected and argued with him about which Jesus to pray to: "Hey, um... you know, sweetie, Jesus did grow up. You don't always have to call him baby. It's a bit odd and off puttin' to pray to a baby."
Ricky: "Well, look, I like the Christmas Jesus best when I'm sayin' grace. When you say grace, you can say it to Grown-up Jesus, or Teenage Jesus, or Bearded Jesus, or whoever you want."
Carley: "You know what I want? I want you to do this grace good so that God will let us win tomorrow."
Ricky: "Dear Tiny Jesus, in your golden fleece diapers with your tiny, little fat balled up fists...Look, I like the baby version the best, do you hear me? I win the races and I get the money."
Carley: "Finish the damn grace!"
Ricky: "Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus, don't even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent. We just thank you for all the races I've won and the $21.2 million dollars... LOVE THAT MONEY, that I have accrued over this past season. Also due to a binding endorsement contract that stipulates I mention PowerAde at each grace, I just wanna say that Powerade is delicious and it cools you off on a hot summer day and we look forward to PowerAde's release of mystic mountain blueberry. Thank you, for all your power and your grace, Dear Baby God, Amen." During the latter part of the prayer, Cal inserted his own views on which type of Jesus he preferred: "I like to picture Jesus in a Tuxedo T-shirt, 'cause it says, like, 'I want to be formal, but I'm here to party, too.' I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party.... I like to think of Jesus with like giant eagles' wings and singin' lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like an Angel Band, and I'm in the front row, and I'm hammered drunk..."
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I did not see this movie. I don't particularly like this prayer. However, I thought that the perhaps the character was just trying to relate to Jesus...make him personal to him. His crudeness was probably due to the way he was reared. ( I am aware that it's a movie. ) Though not the prayer I would pray, it is important to remember we are not supposed to judge.
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Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer Biography
In his prayer — intended by the writers to be satire — Ricky Bobby prays to the baby Jesus, thanking him for the millions of dollars he had made by winning NASCAR races. Despite protests from his family, he insists on praying to tiny, little 8 pound, 6 ounce baby Jesus who "don't even know a word yet."
He exclaims that he likes the "Christmas Jesus" the best, and that you can pray to whichever Jesus you want.
I have long felt a little resentful about Christmas. It has always felt fake, but that resentment has always been a just feeling — irrational, at best. I would justify my feelings by saying, "Well, Jesus wasn't born in the winter, anyway. It's a pagan syncretism," or "you know Jeremiah 10:3-4 actually forbids Christmas trees." (That last one is a actually taken way out of context and isn't talking about Christmas trees at all, but I liked to use it anyway just to buck the system.)
It still bothers me to see the wise men at a Nativity scene because they didn't come to see Jesus until he was nearly 2 years old and living in a house in Bethlehem.
When I started to work on becoming a pastor, a mentor pointed out to me that Christmas stuff is a pretty big part of being a pastor, and I would have to figure out what to do with Christmas if that's what I wanted to pursue. So I started thinking about it, and I couldn't put my finger on the real reason why I really didn't like Christmas.
I never realized it until I saw "Talladega Nights" one summer while my thoughts couldn't be further from Christmas.
It struck me, our whole culture worships the baby Jesus at Christmas.
We like the baby version of God's son. We choose the Christ that doesn't threaten us. We worship the Jesus who, if he does anything but lay there silently, just wants to bless us with plenty of money and lots of completely unnecessary gifts under the tree.
You may say "Keep Christ in Christmas." I'd ask you, which Christ you want to keep?
When you hear Jesus between Black Friday and Dec. 25, are you thinking of a helpless, little baby? Or do you see the God-man, the Almighty made flesh?
This is the baby who would purge the temple and call religious leaders a "pit of vipers" and "whitewashed tombs." This is the baby who would later command the forces of nature and the power of Satan just by speaking. This is the baby who, though he didn't know a word, was himself the word. This child Stuart Townend — the lyricist behind the modern hymn "In Christ Alone" — calls the "fullness of God in helpless babe."
Most importantly, this is the baby who saved you and me from the wrath of God, reconciled us to him and even audaciously called us his friends.
The real Jesus challenges you with the words he came to know. He threatens the idea of self, claiming you cannot really live until you let him kill it. He is dangerous. He is so dangerous, people killed him to try to shut him up.
Even that didn't work
This Christmas, I dare you to choose the real Jesus. I dare you to trust and worship the one who will actually and radically change your life; the one whom you can look to with awe rather than the cute, little infant we can all look at and just say, "aww."
Your Christmas tree will look different and your credit card bill will be shorter, but Christ — the real Jesus who became a real man — will be the one who gives you life and life abundantly this Christmas season.
Kyle Hooks is the youth pastor at Angelo Bible Church. You can hear him on the radio with Jim Stanley every Thursday at noon on 93.9 KCRN. Contact him at kyle@lookingupfrombelow.com. You can like Looking Up at facebook.com/lookingupfrombelow.
Ricky: "Dear Lord Baby Jesus, or as our brothers in the South call you: 'Jee-suz'. We thank you so much for this bountiful harvest of Dominos, KFC, and the always delicious Taco Bell. I just want to take time to say thank you for my family: my two beautiful, beautiful, handsome striking sons, Walker: Texas Ranger, or TR as we call him. And, of course, my red hot smokin' wife Carley, who is a stone cold fox, who if you would rate her *** on 100, it would easily be a 94. I also want to thank you for my best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton Jr, who's got my back no matter what...Dear Lord Baby Jesus, we also thank you for my wife's father Chip. We hope that you can use your Baby Jesus powers to heal him and his horrible leg. It smells terrible and the dogs are always botherin' with it. Dear Tiny Infant Jesus..."
Carley (Leslie Bibb) interjected and argued with him about which Jesus to pray to: "Hey, um... you know, sweetie, Jesus did grow up. You don't always have to call him baby. It's a bit odd and off puttin' to pray to a baby."
Ricky: "Well, look, I like the Christmas Jesus best when I'm sayin' grace. When you say grace, you can say it to Grown-up Jesus, or Teenage Jesus, or Bearded Jesus, or whoever you want."
Carley: "You know what I want? I want you to do this grace good so that God will let us win tomorrow."
Ricky: "Dear Tiny Jesus, in your golden fleece diapers with your tiny, little fat balled up fists...Look, I like the baby version the best, do you hear me? I win the races and I get the money."
Carley: "Finish the damn grace!"
Ricky: "Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus, don't even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent. We just thank you for all the races I've won and the $21.2 million dollars... LOVE THAT MONEY, that I have accrued over this past season. Also due to a binding endorsement contract that stipulates I mention PowerAde at each grace, I just wanna say that Powerade is delicious and it cools you off on a hot summer day and we look forward to PowerAde's release of mystic mountain blueberry. Thank you, for all your power and your grace, Dear Baby God, Amen." During the latter part of the prayer, Cal inserted his own views on which type of Jesus he preferred: "I like to picture Jesus in a Tuxedo T-shirt, 'cause it says, like, 'I want to be formal, but I'm here to party, too.' I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party.... I like to think of Jesus with like giant eagles' wings and singin' lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with like an Angel Band, and I'm in the front row, and I'm hammered drunk..."
.....................
I did not see this movie. I don't particularly like this prayer. However, I thought that the perhaps the character was just trying to relate to Jesus...make him personal to him. His crudeness was probably due to the way he was reared. ( I am aware that it's a movie. ) Though not the prayer I would pray, it is important to remember we are not supposed to judge.
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Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
Ricky Bobby Baby Jesus Prayer
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