Michael Ryan Moss

Michael Ryan Moss|32| Graduate| Single. Measure: 6 feet tall Gender: Male I'm 32 years old, I'm the adventurous Michigan man who was born in December, I'm also a Christian and a videographer at YouTube.

[dailyeffectiveprayer]

Lord, give me the boldness to walk through the doors You open for me, amen.

[blessedbeyondallbelief]

[dailyeffectiveprayer]

AMENNN

[dailyeffectiveprayer]

AMENNN

[yahushuasworld]

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Being a progressive Christian can be pretty damn irritating because you’ll hear people that you otherwise politically and morally align with try to make a point against specifically right-wing Christians, but instead of doing that, they just insult Christianity in general.

I understand why. I understand that the main group of people (at least in the U.S.) bringing Christian imagery into their political rhetoric is right-wing fundamentalists who use their religion as an excuse to harm marginalized communities and strip away women’s rights. It’s sad but it’s true. So when Christianity comes up in a political context, the natural inclination is to associate Christianity with the right, especially if you aren’t Christian yourself.

“Hate” towards Christians (again, I’m talking specifically about the U.S.) is a lot like misandry in some ways. It’s not, and probably never will be, a systemic force of oppression. They’re both also mainly spewed by people who A) don’t fully mean it and are just making an ill-articulated point or B) do mean it, and are assholes for that, but have understandable reasons that point to a larger systemic issue in which they’re ultimately more of a victim than the people they’re hating on.

But the thing about hating on Christianity, as opposed to Christian nationalism and fascism, isn’t that it’s just mean or annoying to those of us who are both politically progressive and devoutly Christian. It’s that it plays into the hands of right-wing Christian nationalists. Their rhetoric depends entirely on framing their social and political adversaries as not just that, but enemies of the Christian faith itself. Giving them what they want, rhetorically, only allows them to further dehumanize and demonize you, and convince less radical/more politically neutral Christians to see you the way they do.

So the point I’m trying to make is that in the United States, no, Christians are not oppressed, and yes, the real oppressors are a certain type of Christian, but they don’t represent the faith itself. We shouldn’t allow them to. Non-Christian progressives need to recognize that, and Christian progressives need to be louder about it.

[mrmossmichael]

I could not believe that Sam Neill passed away today, as we thought he was cancer-free. Here's a tribute to him, though. Sam Neill is a great actor. He plays Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park movie series (one of my favorite movie series), Colonel Geoffrey Brydon in Disney's The Jungle Book 1994 live-action movie, 'Sir' Richard Martin in Bicentennial Man (among with the late Robin Williams), Allomere the great gray owl in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Odin actor in Thor: Ragnarok, and Molloy in The Simpsons episode called "Homer the Vigilante". Oh, these are the movies and one TV show that I've watched before. Anyways, may the Lord our God be with all of his people, including his family, his friends, and that includes his Jurassic co-stars. Farewell, Sam Neill. It was great to know you, and you will be missed by your family, your friends, your Jurassic co-stars, and Jurassic Park fans like me. Rest in peace.

[blessedbeyondallbelief]

[heartsings77]

[thetruthministries]

THE LORD IS THERE

Wherever the LORD is present, there is holiness, perfection, fullness, and blessings.

Where two or three are gathered, the LORD is there.

The LORD is present when you seek Him wholeheartedly. He is in the prison, in the wilderness, in the dungeon, and in the furnace of fire. He is in the ICU.

He is everywhere; He is omnipresent.

Is He in your home and in your heart?

In every season of trouble, pain, and anxiety—and even in joy and sorrow—seek the place where the LORD resides.

[heartsings77]

[dailyeffectiveprayer]

GOD IS GOOD

[yahushuasworld]

[mrmossmichael]

It's been 10 years since Universal Pictures and Illumination's The Secret Life of Pets, which is the first one, that came out on July-8-2016 and I have to be honest with you guys: that movie is very great! It's about Max (Louis C.K.) is a spoiled terrier who enjoys a comfortable life in a New York building until his owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper), adopts Duke (Eric Stonestreet), a giant and unruly canine. During their walk outside, they encounter a group of ferocious alley cats and wind up in a truck that's bound for the pound. Luckily, a rebellious bunny named Snowball (Kevin Hart) swoops in to save the doggy duo from captivity. In exchange, Snowball demands that Max and Duke join his gang of abandoned pets on a mission against the humans who've done them wrong. It also follows what the other pets do when their owners are gone for the day.

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[mrmossmichael]

It's been 20 years since Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which is the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, came out on July-9-2006 and let me tell ya: it's really a fantastic movie I've ever watched. It's about when ghostly pirate Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) comes to collect a blood debt, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) must find a way to avoid his fate lest his soul be damned for all time. Nevertheless, the wily ghost manages to interrupt the wedding plans of Jack's friends Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). When I was a middle schooler, my former teachers, Miss Donaldson and Mrs. Terbrack, and my former classmates were supposed to watch any Treasure Island movie after we had read the Treasure Island book, but instead, we watched the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Well, that was not my fault that my former teachers picked the wrong movie.