Ryan Richter

Faith, Family and Football, Teacher/Coach / Hook’em Horns 🤘🏻/ Hard luck Cowboys fan / Astros fan

[Ryan Richter @richter_ryan]

@Andrew_FBB Agustin Ramirez in a keeper?

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

Pray with me
May 10, 2026

Heavenly Father,

Today we thank You for mothers, for the women who carry burdens quietly, love deeply, pray faithfully, and give endlessly. Thank You for the strength You placed inside them, the compassion in their hearts, and the wisdom that steadies homes and generations.

Lord, bless the mothers who are weary. Renew their strength when they feel overlooked and exhausted. Remind them that every sacrifice made in love is seen by You. Give them peace in anxious moments, joy in ordinary days, and courage for every season they walk through.

Protect their hearts and minds. Fill their homes with grace, laughter, patience, and truth. Let their words carry life and healing. May they know that their influence is powerful, their calling is holy, and their prayers are never wasted.

For the mothers carrying grief, bring comfort. For the single mothers, bring provision and support. For the grandmothers, spiritual mothers, and women who nurture others faithfully, honor them with encouragement and strength.

Teach us to rise up and call them blessed, to cherish them well, and to thank You for the gift they are.

As Your Word says:

“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”
(Proverbs 31:28)

And,

“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.”
(Proverbs 31:25)

May every mother know today that she is loved by her family and treasured by God.

In the name of Jesus,
Amen

[🍊🍊Capt'n Cornjuice🥃🥃 @BoCamaro]

So I watched "The Passion of the Christ" last night. And I am on my back deck tonight thinking.

Think about this.

In the movie, they have beaten him to near death and when they first take him to his cross, Jesus clings to it, and the thief chastised him for embracing his own cross. Mocking him for doing so.

Then Christ gave all he had to carry that cross which weighed as much as him.. They beat him while he did. It came to the point that his physical body couldn't carry it any longer, so a man was ordered to carry it with him. Yet Christ still clung to the cross.

Do you know why?

Because he knew at the other end of that short journey was OUR freedom. Not his.... OURS..... with every single step, with every drop of blood, with every single tear, he knew he was one moment closer to being at the right hand of the Father and his mission complete to free us all.

The man embraced the cross. Begged God to forgive the men nailing him to it. Begged God to forgive those that had beaten him with whips and canes and hammered a crown of thorns on his head.

He embraced it all.... for US......

And now, when times get hard and life gets even slightly uncomfortable, we claim that "God isn't listening and won't take my burden" as if we even know what a real burden is...

How many times would we cling to the proverbial cross for another and suffer as he did to free them from the pain? Would we ever do it at all? Maybe for our own child? Maybe?

As you lay down tonight, pray a prayer of thanks. Not for the normal things. Not tonight. Tonight, pray a special prayer of thanks that he held on to that cross and carried it as far as his mortal body would allow... because that took more dedication than any of us could give for anyone.

By the time you wake up in the morning, he will have risen, 2000 years ago. He will have beat death. 2000 years ago, all the sin you and I will ever commit was paid for because he clung to that cross like it was a lifeline.... not for him... But for you and me.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

In 1986, the American Medical Association published an article titled "The Physical Death of Jesus Christ". It details the entire process of Jesus' trial to His death on the cross.

In Luke 22, before Jesus is arrested, it is written that He was in great distress & sweating blood. Although rare, it is recognized as Hematidrosis, a condition caused by high levels of stress.

At the time, the crucifixion was considered the worst death for the worst of criminals. But this is not all Jesus faced. He endured whipping so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. He was beaten so horribly that His face was torn & His beard ripped.

A crown of thorns, 2-3 inches long cut deeply into His scalp. The leather whip used to flog Him had tiny iron balls & sharp bones. The balls caused internal injuries while the sharp bones ripped open His flesh. His skeletal muscles, veins, & bowels are exposed, causing major blood loss. Most men do not survive this kind of torture. After Jesus was severely flogged, He was forced to carry His cross while people mocked & spat on Him.

Crucifixion was a process meant to instill excruciating pain, creating a slow & agonizing death. Nails as long as 8 inches were driven into Jesus' wrists & feet. The Roman soldiers knew the tendons in the wrists would tear & break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support Himself to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the courage...Jesus endured this reality for 3 hours!

The Gospel of John writes that after Jesus' death, a Roman soldier pierced His side with a spear & blood & water came out. Scientists explain that from hypovolemic shock, the rapid heart rate causes fluid to gather in the sack around the lungs & heart. The accumulation of fluid in the membrane around the heart is called a Pericardial effusion & the lungs is called a pleural effusion.

To the world, Christianity is as foolish as it can get. They believe it's for the weak. But when you are confronted by the reality of the cross, it's clearly not a pretty sight. It is brutal & horrific.

This is the weight Jesus carried. The weight of the sins of the world, all so that we can live. God's wrath is fully satisfied in Jesus. This is what it took. Repent & believe! Jesus is “God among us” in the flesh. Jesus is our Savior. Jesus loves you so much that He went through this spiritual and physical punishment for your sins and mine.

Jesus is the LORD, Almighty God, Everlasting Father.

Thank You, Jesus.

[Ryan Richter @richter_ryan]

@CoachVic_UT Amen

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

Pray with me
April 2, 2026

Father, when we don’t know what to pray we remind ourselves that You see everything anyway. You know the thoughts we hide, the fears we carry, the weight we drag around like chains we forgot we were allowed to drop.

So today we start here… Search us.

As it says in Psalm 139, “Search me, O God, and know my heart… try me and know my anxious thoughts.” We invite that. Not because it is comfortable, but because it is freeing. Shine light into the corners we avoid. Expose what we have tolerated. Uproot what does not belong to You.

Lord, we do not just want relief… we want transformation.

Your Word says in Romans 12:2 that we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. So renew us. Break patterns that have owned us for years. Tear down lies we have believed about ourselves, about others, even about You. Replace them with truth that stands when everything else shakes.

Today we lay down anxiety.

Your Word says in Philippians 4:6-7 to be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, to present our requests to You. So here it is, God… the stress, the unknowns, the pressure, the things we cannot control. We hand them over. Not halfway. Not temporarily. Completely.

And in exchange, we receive Your peace, the kind that does not make sense, the kind that guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Lord, make us people who run to You first.

When fear hits, teach us to pray before we panic. When evil is seen, teach us to intercede before we react. When the world gets loud, anchor us in Your voice.

As it says in Ephesians 6, we are not fighting flesh and blood. So sharpen our awareness. Wake us up to the spiritual reality around us. Put armor on our lives… truth around our waist, righteousness on our chest, faith as our shield, salvation as our helmet, and Your Word as the sword in our hands.

Make us dangerous in prayer.

Not loud in opinion, not reactive in emotion, but steady and powerful in the Spirit.

Lord, we also ask this…

Break our hearts for what breaks Yours.

Give us eyes to see people the way You do. Not as enemies, but as souls. Not as problems, but as purpose. Where we have grown cold, reignite compassion. Where we have grown numb, awaken conviction.

Teach us to love in truth, not just tolerate in silence. As it says in 1 Corinthians 13, let our love be patient, kind, enduring, and rooted in what is real.

Jesus, we remember today that You are not distant.

You are King. You are Savior. You are the One who stepped into our mess, carried our sin, and conquered death. As it says in Colossians 1, You hold all things together. So we trust You to hold us together too.

And Holy Spirit, we ask You to fill us fresh today.

Not just visit us… dwell in us, move through us, speak to us. Guide our decisions, guard our words, align our lives. Produce in us what we cannot manufacture… love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Today we surrender again.

Our plans, our pride, our timelines, our need to be in control.

And we declare this truth…

But God.

Even when we feel weak, You are strong. Even when we do not understand, You are sovereign. Even when things look dead, You bring life.

So we trust You.

We follow You.

We belong to You.

In the mighty name of Jesus,

Amen

[Ryan Richter @richter_ryan]

@EricCrossMLB Would you keep him or Ralphy Velasquez as your last minor leaguer?

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@Andrew_FBB Vinny Pasquantino or Agustin Ramirez as your last keeper in a dynasty league?

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@FAmmiranteTFJ In a dynasty H2H league would you keep Vinny P or Agustin Ramirez as your last keeper?

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@ProspectsLive Where would Ramirez be?

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@EricCrossMLB What’s this mean for Melton?

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@EricCrossMLB Cease?

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Psalm 46:1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.