DJ Schaffer

Child of the King 👑 Kid’s Animation Screenwriter ✍️ Soccer/Football Fanatic ⚽️

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

“Last year alone, Muslims kiIIled 500,000 Christians in only Nigeria. Why are they only talking about Palestine?"

He is 100% correct.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: It has now been 15 days since 173 people were kidnapped from Church service last Sunday.

How is this not a bigger story? Why isn’t the media reporting this?

173 innocent Christians kidnapped by Islamists.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

52,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria by Islamists.

Not a word from Candace Owens.
Not a word from Tucker Carlson.
Not a word from the international media.
Not a word from the United Nations.

This is a real genocide.

Their silence is deafening.

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

Nobody Dies for a Lie.

[Rikki Doolan @realrikkidoolan]

A reported 1.37 million Christian’s took to the streets in Serbia to declare it Christian land. Hallelujah.

[Bryce Crawford @ibrycecrawford]

We must repent and turn to Christ.❤️

[FS YUSUF @FSYusuff]

Protest going on in front of BBC Office.

The BBC must report on the genocide of Christians in Nigeria.

“Shame on the BBC! Christian Lives Matter. “✝️

[DJ Schaffer @djschaffer7]

@davidfischer Jesus is Lord

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Joseph of Arimathea took down a corpse.

Hands still sticky with blood.

Skin already cold.

Touched death. Held it. Wrapped it.

Became ceremonially unclean for Passover.

For a dead man.

Here's what most Christians miss about the burial of Jesus:

Joseph was a wealthy man. A member of the Sanhedrin. A respected Jew.

And Passover was 3 hours away.

The holiest day of the year.

But he climbed Golgotha anyway.

Jewish law was clear:

Touch a dead body = unclean for 7 days.

Can't worship. Can't celebrate. Can't enter the temple.

Joseph knew this.

He'd spent his entire life following these laws.

But Jesus was still hanging on that cross.

Picture it:

The crowds are gone. The soldiers drunk. The women weeping.

Joseph approaches Pilate—the man who just murdered his Lord—and asks permission.

"Can I have the body?"

Pilate grants it.

Now Joseph has to actually DO it.

He walks to Golgotha.

Blood-soaked dirt. The smell of death. Three crosses against the sky.

Jesus in the middle.

Still.

Finally still.

Joseph climbs the ladder.

Grabs the first nail.

Pulls.

Feel the weight of that moment.

God's body in your arms.

The blood isn't dry yet.

It stains his expensive robes.

His hands.

Under his fingernails.

He can taste the iron in the air.

This is what obedience looks like.

Messy. Expensive. Permanent.

Nicodemus shows up.

Another secret disciple. Another Sanhedrin member.

He brings 75 pounds of myrrh and aloes.

That's about $150,000 worth of burial spices in today's money.

Two wealthy men. Two cowards until now.

Finally brave when it's already too late.

They work fast.

Sabbath is coming. They have maybe 3 hours.

Wrap the body. Pour the spices. Seal the tomb.

The sun is setting.

Joseph is now officially unclean.

Can't celebrate Passover tomorrow.

Can't enter the temple for a week.

Think about what he just gave up:

His ceremonial purity.

His Passover celebration.

His reputation (everyone saw him bury a "blasphemer").

His position (the Sanhedrin won't forget this).

His safety (Romans might come for disciples next).

All for a dead man.

But here's what most Christians miss:

Joseph didn't do this expecting resurrection.

He did it expecting NOTHING.

Jesus was dead. Gone. Finished.

This wasn't faith in resurrection.

This was love for a corpse.

That's the part that wrecks me.

Joseph touched death—literally—knowing it meant giving up everything.

Not because Jesus promised him anything.

But because Jesus deserved honor even in death.

Modern Christianity wants clean obedience.

Safe obedience.

Obedience that doesn't cost you Passover.

But Joseph shows us something different:

True discipleship gets your hands dirty.

You want to follow Jesus?

Then stop avoiding the messy parts.

Stop waiting for clean opportunities.

Stop demanding that obedience be convenient.

Joseph climbed Golgotha when everyone else went home.

He wrapped a corpse when he could've stayed clean.

He missed the holiest day of his life to honor a dead "criminal."

He risked everything when there was no visible reward.

That's not religion.

That's worship.

The twist?

Three days later, that tomb was empty.

Joseph gave his grave to Jesus.

Jesus left it empty.

Forever.

Joseph thought he was burying God.

He was actually setting the stage for resurrection.

Your messy obedience?

God's using it too.

Even when you can't see it.

So here's the question:

What are you avoiding because it's too messy?

What obedience are you postponing because it's inconvenient?

What grave are you unwilling to give?

Joseph of Arimathea held death in his arms.

Got blood on his hands.

Missed Passover.

Lost his reputation.

And earned his name in all four Gospels.

Religion says "stay clean."

Discipleship says "get dirty."

Joseph chose discipleship.

What are you choosing?

—TBM

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

52,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria by Islamists.

Not a word from international media.
Not a word from the United Nations.
Not a word from Candace Owens.
Not a word from Tucker Carlson.

This is a real genocide.

Their silence is deafening.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Life-long core memory with Dad. Mom heart attack. 10/10 would not recommend.

It's always the dad's.

[E @ElijahSchaffer]

Christians REFUSE to renounce their faith in Nigeria after their church was burned down

7,679 churches attacked, 4,734 Christians jailed and 4.476 MURDERED

& that’s just the ones recorded. We need to end persecution now

https://t.co/dtmBr1aZlz

[Christian Emergency Alliance @ChristianEmerg1]

Syria: Christians in the Valley of the Christians marched under the slogan: “We die but refuse humiliation. Christian blood is precious.”

The protest broke out after masked Islamists reportedly gunned down three Christian men.

Pray for the Christians of Syria.

[Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner]

Probably one of Charlie’s best answers ever. Watch until the end.

Charlie Kirk when asked about the culture war and how to save America: “We will not save the country just through politics. Politics is a means towards an end—a means towards liberty. But liberty is not man’s idea. It is God’s. And we are only able to experience that liberty if we are a moral and religious people…The Constitution is incompatible with a faithless nation. You will not have a free society if the country goes atheist.”

This is what our Founding Fathers knew, and it hold true today and forever.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

I want Forrest Frank to perform at halftime of the Super Bowl.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

BREAKING: Active shooting at a Grand Blanc, MI church. Multiple victims reported. Police say the shooter is down and the threat neutralized.

Church is on fire.

Pray.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Every knee shall bow!

[Catarina Senora Gatita @WyattCatarina]

🚨If you see it call police don’t just leave it there for someone else or a child to find 👀

[DJ Schaffer @djschaffer7]

The quality of your life is determined by the hard things you do 👀🫡

[Rabbi Brian Samuel @rabbriansamuel]

I am Jewish. I believe that Yeshua (Jesus) is the promised redeemer of Israel, the one and only Messiah my people eagerly await.