Author: Jasu Diaz

By Jasu Diaz — All that turning over money changers’s tables, all that snapping the whip through the Temple-turned-den of the thieves, requires a lot of muscle. This is NOT an introduction to the soft-spoken and compassionate Jesus fans have come to love in the series The Chosen. This is swole Jesus. Jonathan Roumie became Jesus in the widely appreciated Dallas Jenkins series. While in the hearts and minds of fans, he was Jesus, the Catholic actor was actually ushering people to the real Jesus, the Spirit, in Heaven. For Season 6, Roumie says he walked 10,000 steps a day…

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Trigger warning By Jasu Diaz — The day Cathy Day told her mom a neighbor had molested her — and her mom “told me not to talk that way,” was the day Cathy’s self esteem “disappeared.” She was 7 in Prescott, AZ. When Cathy was 10, her mother divorced her dad and remarried the man with whom she was having an affair, only to be beaten by him weekly. She found out her brother was adopted. “I tried even harder to be the good girl so all these bad things would stop,” she remembers. When she was 12, her brother…

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By Jasu Diaz – After he got off work, Jesse Holguin loved to go shoot people. “I ended up being the main guy from my neighborhood. I had the power and could tell the other guys what to do,” he says. “But I used to do the shootings. I loved shooting, I loved guns. I could tell anyone to do it, but I was like, ‘Nah, whatever the situation, I’m doing the shooting.’” But the feared La Puente, CA gangster turned to God. Now in a wheelchair, he preaches fearlessly, in jails, schools, anywhere he can persuade kids to choose…

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By Jasu Diaz – Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Jamey Carrington lives in a wheelchair. “In all of my 18 years on this planet, I’ve never walked, I have never fed myself, never bathedmyself,” he says on his YouTube channel. “I don’t know what it’s like to feel the grass below my feet or jump on the trampoline. “But I believe in my Savior Jesus Christ.” Jamey found that, contrary to what the devil promised, the pain of being deprived from fun and everyday experiences didn’t heal through Satan’s offerings to anesthetize through porn, marijuana or “crawling in a hole…

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