DJ Johnson

Heavenly Father thank you for your mercy and your grace. The glory goes to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ✝️ I’m humbled to accept the Assistant Director of Player Personnel role for the University of Hawaii! Thank you @matt_chon @CoachTimmyChang Let’s work 🌈🏈 #Braddahhood

God could have raised Jesus from the dead in 30 seconds. He is sovereign over time. Christ could have satisfied divine justice, breathed his last, and walked out of that tomb within the hour. The stone could have rolled away on Friday evening. There was no cosmic constraint forcing a three-day wait. God chose the silence. And that choice is itself a sermon. We so easily skip to Sunday because we’re a culture of spoilers. We treat Saturday like a commercial break. But to the disciples, it wasn't "Holy Saturday." It was just silence. It felt like the end. The tomb was sealed. The guards were posted. The disciples were scattered and weeping. From every observable angle, the story was over. Saturday was not dramatic, it was just quiet. And that silence felt like the verdict. But God’s silence is never his absence. This is one of his most consistent signatures across Scripture. Joseph rotted in an Egyptian prison for years between the dream and the throne. Israel spent four centuries under Pharaoh’s whip between the covenant and the exodus. Lazarus lay four days dead while Jesus, who had heard the news and deliberately waited, finally arrived to a grieving family asking why he had not come sooner. The pattern is unbroken, God operates in the gap between promise and fulfillment, and that gap while appearing like inactivity, is actually just invisibility. The three day wait was not a concession to time, it was a proclamation through time. In the ancient world, day three was the threshold of undeniable death. A 30-second resurrection looks like a medical fluke. A day-three resurrection slams the door. It proves the grave was truly locked before God kicked it open. And the timing was prophetic to the letter, the sign of Jonah, the temple rebuilt in three days, Isaiah’s suffering servant assigned a grave. God does not cancel his own word. He fulfills it down to the schedule. Interestingly, the disciples did not know Sunday was coming. They lived Saturday as though it were permanent. Friday seemed like the final act to them. And that is exactly where many of us are right now. You received a word, a promise, a vision and then everything went quiet. You are living in Saturday, and Saturday feels like the story is over. It is not over. God’s activity and God’s visibility are not the same thing. What looks like a sealed tomb from the outside can be, from eternity’s vantage point, the most active moment in the history of your life. The enemy’s most determined act of sealing always becomes God’s most glorious setup for opening. The silence is not the verdict, it is gestation. The waiting of Saturday has a shape. The silence has a purpose. And when God breaks it, He doesn’t just answer your question, He swallows it whole. Sunday is coming. Hold on through Saturday.

Understand this: The movies and shows about the crucifixion have been tame when compared to what He actually went through. Even The Passion Of The Christ was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating. Crucifixion was, and still is, arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience. The night before in Gethsemane, He was sweating blood. This is known as hematidrosis. This would have caused His skin to become extremely sensitive, thus making the beatings to come even worse. The fear He felt was the beginning of His feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on Him. Yet - in this moment, He didn’t demand that the Father take it from Him. He only asked for the cup to pass Him over if it was within the Father’s will. Up next came the Cat of Nine Tails, or a Roman Flagrum. This was a weapon with long leather “tails”, each embedded with sharp bones and metal. He was flogged 39 times as Jewish law mandated “40 minus one”, because 40 was said to kill a man. This flogging wasn’t like being punished by your father’s leather belt. Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle. Every strike exposed nerve endings. Every strike tore flesh to the bone. This would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again, leading to hypovolemic shock from blood loss. Oh, and the crown of thorns? These weren’t rose thorns. These were thorns which were 2-3 inches long. Beaten into his skull. These thorns would have pierced his skull, tripping the trigeminal nerve, thus causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds. At this point, extreme nausea and dizziness would begin to set in. What came next? Carrying the cross. Which weighed around 300lbs. This would be like carrying two full kegs on your back. Splinters and wood grating against the open flesh on His back. And He had to carry it 650 yards, or close to a half mile. Imagine carrying a log on your back after being skinned alive. Up next? He was nailed to the cross with spikes 5-7in in length. Piercing His wrists - this no doubt pierced the median nerve, causing extreme burning sensations up and down His arms. A spike was driven through his ankles - severing nerves and tendons. This would have felt like standing on broken glass every time He pushed Himself up in order to breathe. He suffered for 6 hours. His chest muscles collapsing, making every single breath a fight for life. His shoulders were dislocated, His arms stretching unnaturally long. His heart was struggling to pump blood. He was extremely dehydrated, His lips cracking. His heart more than likely literally ruptured from the stress. And on top of all of that, He had to feel a separation with the Father for a period of time in order to REALLY bear the weight of our sin. He took up this burden for ALL sin before Him, and ALL sin which came after Him. HE DID IT ALL FOR US. To free us. To defeat sin. To give us a pathway to the Kingdom. Every sin we commit is exactly why He had to do it. And the real kicker? He knew what was coming when He rode into Jerusalem … and He didn’t turn around. He kept going. For us.

Jesus Christ is King

Love this… I would add to anyone watching or listening, you don’t have to/ need to wait for your relationship with King Jesus to be the most important thing in your life until you are older, established in your career, or nearing the end… you can and need to make sure it’s the most important now.

Walk the Building! Whenever and Wherever I have ever Scouted when I walked in the football facility, I would say Hello to coaches, support staff, equipment managers, cafeteria workers, security people and even the janitors. If time permitted, I would stop in the Recruiting Sweat Shops of Student Interns, Graduate Assistants and Staff Members and hold impromptu Scouting Seminars. I wanted to make a connection to get to know them better. Find out about their interests and let them know me. I saw Mike Tomlin, Kevin Colbert and Mr. Dan Rooney do this daily in the Steeler Facility. Where in the morning, they greet the office workers. A simple, “Good Morning”, can go a long way to make people feel good. Bosses that do not do this are not leaders. Cultural is built from the bottom up. The bottom line is people who don’t interact, hide in their office or don’t eat with their co-workers, just do not care about others. Caring goes a long way when people see you and your good intentions! The Little, The Simple, Mean the Most, to People! Do the Walk!

High Point G Chase Johnston hit the game-winning bucket in their upset win vs Wisconsin with Acts 20:24 on his shoe. “But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts 20:24 The broadcaster falsely stated the Bible verse was about The Parable of The Lost Sheep, & tried to relate it to the game, but who cares, I’ll take as much Bible and Jesus in the game as possible 👍🏼

Sports make a great game - but a terrible God. Listen carefully if you’re an athlete… One day the season will end. One day the career will end. One day the applause will stop. If your identity is in the game, you’ll feel lost when the game is gone. But if your identity is in God, the game simply becomes a platform. Sports are meant to be played. They were never meant to be worshipped. Train hard. Compete with excellence. Honor God with your effort. But never forget: Your purpose is bigger than your performance. “You shall have no other gods before me.” {Exodus 20:3}

A year ago today, I made the greatest decision in my entire life ✝️ Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and I will praise God forever! 🙏🏾

I’d rather have Jesus Christ than anything this world has to offer. I don’t need the big house or a lot of money or the fancy cars or jewelry. Having Jesus Christ is far more valuable than those things. Everything on this planet will perish, but our souls live on for eternity, and it’s either in Heaven or Hell. I choose Jesus Christ, not this world. Who’s with me? 🙏🏻✝️💙

The Bible was written on three continents. Asia. Africa. Europe. In three languages. Hebrew. Aramaic. Greek. By over 40 different men — Shepherds. Kings. Prophets. Fishermen. A doctor. Across roughly 1,500 years. Yet it tells one continuous story: Creation. Fall. Redemption. Christ. Different writers. Different centuries. Different cultures. One voice. Because behind the human hands was a divine Author. Men held the pens. But God wrote the story.

The devil doesn't fear a man who goes to church. He fears the one who obeys Christ when no one's watching.

It is written.

BREAKING: Earthquake during Jesus’s crucifixion proven to be true by latest research, per Daily Mail.

Jesus was glorified at Super Bowl LX in San Francisco.

DAVID WAS PREPARED in the pasture. JOSEPH WAS PREPARED in the pit. MOSES WAS PREPARED in the wilderness. ESTHER WAS PREPARED in obscurity. If God is preparing you in private, you’re right on schedule.

Portal 2026 was one for the ages. Incredibly grateful for @matt_chon @mikeympo2 @_djjohnson11 & @ReynShiraishi for the work day after day after day after day. Lots to be excited about this year for the #BRADDAHHOOD

Jesus is King! ✝️

“All glory to God. Thank you, Jesus Christ. Like the Scripture says, ‘Let our light shine before you God, that when people see us play, let it glorify your name.’ So, just a shoutout to Jesus Christ” - Houston Texans DE Will Anderson Jr. after their playoff win vs Steelers

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The QBs of all four teams in the College Football Playoffs are Christians.