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The Turning Point

“The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”

— Psalm 11:5 (ESV)

On Wednesday, September 10th, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated at the kickoff event of his “American Comeback Tour” at Utah Valley University.

He was a Christian.
He was a husband.
He was a father.
He was a patriot.

And they murdered him.

A single shot was fired from afar, hitting Charlie in the neck as he was in the middle of a peaceful conversation with a student regarding the rising violence of radical leftists.

Charlie has been warning about the growing trend of violent rhetoric on the left for some time now. Today, they proved him right.

Ironically, his legacy now has more power than ever before. They made him a martyr. They ensured that his name and ideas will ring out for generations to come. The young men and women watching this unfold today are becoming more emboldened than ever, more ready to fight if the fight is brought to them—and it most certainly has.

Mark my words. A reckoning is coming upon this nation. If you don’t see it now, you’ll see it in a few years. You’ll see it in the eyes of the young people growing up to be colder than they might have been, more determined than they might have been, less compromising than they might have been. This will be a defining moment for America.

The Best Of Us

Charlie wasn’t like other conservatives. He wasn’t in it for the money or the attention. He wasn’t a career politician. He wasn’t an atheist or an agnostic or even a religious person carrying the label begrudgingly. He was a genuine, outspoken, deeply passionate Christian who regularly advocated for evangelism and spiritual growth in America.

If you’re a conservative Christian reading this, there’s something you have to understand. Charlie wasn’t some kind of crazy radical. His beliefs were representative of the average conservative voter. He wasn’t a racist. He worked with and inspired people from all different backgrounds. He wasn’t hateful. He spoke with love and care, even to those he disagreed with the most. He was the purest among us, a real conservative actually fighting to conserve what’s right and true.

“What is so important to our country is to find our disagreements, respectfully, because when people stop talking, that’s when violence happens. People like me are facing violence, assaults from the left.”

— Charlie Kirk (source)

If they wanted him dead, what makes you think they see you any differently?

The only difference between you and Charlie is visibility. The only difference between you and Charlie is that he decided to get up and speak his mind.

He was making a difference, changing hearts and minds across the nation. He brought his confidence and conservative viewpoints to college campuses, the very places the left planted their flag of victory long ago. He made an impact they couldn’t ignore, and they knew it was impossible to stop his viral grassroots movement without resorting to violence.

We should be so bold as to make the enemies of truth and justice want to murder us. We should stand so tall and speak with such expertise as to be unbeatable without using a bullet. It’s easy to say, but extremely hard to live up to.

The Radical Left Celebrates

Thousands of leftists are celebrating Charlie’s death today. They’re giddy to see his blood spilled onto the ground. You think I’m lying, don’t you? You think it’s just a tiny minority of anonymous online accounts doing this. But you’re wrong. This is happening everywhere.

There’s a lot more where these came from. I’ve seen similar talk even from those I’ve known personally. These are people you might see on the street. Maybe they work in your local grocery store. Maybe you went to school with them. They’re posting from their public social media accounts tied to their jobs and communities. They aren’t afraid to show the world that they want conservative Christians like Charlie Kirk dead.

The only thing I have to say in response is an imprecatory Psalm, for anyone and everyone who dares curse Charlie’s name while his body is still warm and his wife and children in tears.

“He loved cursing—let it fall on him; he took no delight in blessing—let it be far from him. He wore cursing like his coat—let it enter his body like water and go into his bones like oil.”

— Psalm 109:17-18 (CSB)

Stay vigilant, fellow Christians. Be aware, fellow conservatives. Protect your family. Keep a watchful eye. Those who would seek to harm you and yours are acting upon their hatred more and more every day. Understand the times we are living in and act accordingly. Prepare for the worst. Pray for the best.

How to Keep Going

How do you move on from this? How do you go about your day knowing that thousands of people you thought of as fellow Americans would rejoice over your death? How do you keep fighting against such evil without giving in to violence yourself?

We must remind ourselves that the battle is not yet over. We have not lost. Charlie is closer now to his Lord than ever before. God’s judgement will come down upon the wicked; he will have the final say. Not just the murderer, but all those who praise wickedness will be punished according to their deeds. God is the great avenger.

“Vengeance and retribution belong to me. In time their foot will slip, for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

— Deuteronomy 32:35 (CSB)

Paul comments on this in Romans, urging his readers to—if possible—live peaceably.

“If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for God’s wrath, because it is written, ‘Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay,’ says the Lord.”

— Romans 12:17-19 (CSB)

And let us never forget that without God’s grace, each and every one of us would be destined for the lake of fire, and rightly so. Christ’s sacrifice on the cross is all that stands between us and judgement.

“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus”

— Romans 3:23-24 (ESV)

Another Psalm comes to mind. In it, we see David’s righteous anger and grief over the prevalence of the wicked.

“Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.”

— Psalm 138:19-22 (ESV)

But what is his conclusion?

“Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!”

— Psalm 138:23-24 (ESV)

He lays himself before God. He invites God’s pure and utter holiness to purge his heart of any and all sin. He invites God to attend to his every thought, ensuring that it is honoring to his Creator. He asks for God’s guidance along the path towards everlasting life.

We should do the same. Charlie would have wanted nothing less.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

— Matthew 5:4 (ESV)


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How to Reconstruct Your Faith

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In the world of American Christianity, there are two common paths I see kids taking nowadays.

The first is tradition. It’s comforting to stick to what you know and embrace the familiar. Many people copy their parents’ faith and don’t think too much of it. But others have noticed how apathetic so many modern churches are. They don’t want the same faith that their parents had. They want something bigger and grander. They want to return to the old ways, dig up old traditions and hold fast to them in what eventually becomes an aimless pursuit of religious nostalgia. This is where you’ll find a lot of dogmatic young people who are hard to get along with unless you subscribe to their specific ideas of “how things should be.”

The second path so many are taking is the deconstruction of their faith. The phrase has become ubiquitous in today’s culture. We’re seeing not only nominally Christian celebrities “deconstructing their faith,” but also openly Christian authors, speakers, and even pastors—very influential figures for our youth. It’s more popular than ever to question Christianity. American culture is getting more hostile to traditional Christian values as time goes on. It’s much more convenient for public figures to distance themselves from fundamental doctrines and stick to the hazy no-mans-land of progressive Christianity. They might claim they’re just “searching” or “finding what makes sense to them.” They still claim to be Christian, but they live in such a way that any self-respecting Christian of the last 2000 years couldn’t distinguish them from an unbeliever. This new culture of skepticism has grown like a cancer and spread on the back of political dogma to great effect among our youth.

So what’s the right answer? Should you reject modernity and embrace tradition or should you deconstruct your faith? I’m here to tell you there’s a better way. Don’t reject the old just because it’s old. Don’t embrace the new just because it’s new. Instead, pursue truth.

There can actually be great value in deconstructing your faith. It’s healthy to take a critical look at your own worldview. But that’s not where you should stop. Asking questions, challenging norms, and tearing down traditions is easy. The hard part is settling on what you actually do believe and sticking to it. After you’ve deconstructed your faith, what do you have left? Most people don’t have much of anything, and the void is quickly filled by worldliness and hedonism. Instead, reconstruct your faith. After removing the baseless traditions and inconsistencies, replace them with what’s true. That’s the sign of real maturity.

Here are four ways you can do just that.

1. Build up Truth From Valuable, Authoritative Sources

      First, the Bible.

      “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
      — John 8:31b-32 (ESV)

      Become a student of the word of God and you will know truth and that truth will set you free. Be willing to hear out your Christian peers as well. Your interpretations of Scripture won’t always be correct. Join a Bible study at your church. Talk to your pastors about hard questions and be willing to listen. Read old books by credible theologians. There’s no shortage of resources available to you.

      2. Be Willing to be Wrong

        “With humility comes wisdom.”
        — Proverbs 11:2b (CSB)

        If you tossed away a doctrine in the process of deconstructing your faith that turns out to be true, have the humility to add it back. If you picked up something wrong, be willing to let go of it. Remember, you are not pursuing a specific framework. You are pursuing truth. Your goal is not to become a good Baptist, a good Presbyterian, a good pre-millennialist, or a good covenant theologist. Your goal is to become a good Christian who clings to truth above all else.

        “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
        — Micah 6:8 (ESV)

        3. Walk the Walk

        “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.”
        — 1 Samuel 15:22 (ESV)

        Now, we are saved by faith in Christ, and having good theology and sound traditions is important. But the life of a Christian will also produce good fruit at the end of the day, and that’s the hardest part. Be willing to live the “mundane” Christian life. You don’t have to restructure your church denomination, correct everyone’s ideas about the end times, or reclaim the political arena for Christian values in order to make a difference and obey Christ. Big goals are good to have, but steadfast living day by day is immediate, impactful, and essential.

        “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.”
        — 1 John 2:3 (ESV)

        You can’t change the world if you don’t have your life together. So be the man or woman of God that you’re meant to be in the little things. Work your day job as unto the Lord, even if it’s frustrating. Forgive your parents, even if they don’t accept it. Share Christ with that coworker, even if it’s awkward. Give your resources and time to causes in your church, even if nobody notices. Lay down your pride in your marriage, even if it’s not reciprocated. These “little things” are not little at all. They are the real battleground for not only your heart, but the world. God has already won the battle and he’s the one who will get the credit for it. Walk in his victory and dare to claim it in your daily habits.

        “If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.”
        — 1 Corinthians 13:2 (CSB)

        4. Embrace Unity With Other Believers in a Local Church

        “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.”
        — 1 John 4:20 (ESV)

        Church is not optional for the Christian. Walking through the forest may show you God’s glory, but it’s not enough to save you. Reading the Bible is what allows you to understand that glory and the path to salvation, that you may experience it beyond your short life here on earth. In the same way, following Christ in your own private life will yield good fruit, but it’s not enough for your soul. You need a church.

        “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”
        — Hebrews 10:24-25 (ESV)

        Membership in a church is what allows you to thrive in knowledge, holiness, and proper worship with other Christians. Paul talks at length about the importance and benefit of being united with a church:

        Now as we have many parts in one body, and all the parts do not have the same function, in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another.

        According to the grace given to us, we have different gifts: If prophecy, use it according to the proportion of one’s faith; if service, use it in service; if teaching, in teaching; if exhorting, in exhortation; giving, with generosity; leading, with diligence; showing mercy, with cheerfulness.

        Let love be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good. Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters. Take the lead in honoring one another. Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the Spirit; serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer. Share with the saints in their needs; pursue hospitality… Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
        — Romans 12:4-13, 15

        If you’re serious about following Christ, you won’t just feel obligated to attend a worship service once a week; you’ll seek out a church where you can serve and encourage others, eagerly offering your time, money, and talents for the benefit of the congregation. That means getting to know these people, praying for them regularly, meeting their needs, and being present with them to study the word and worship together.

        “Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.”
        — Acts 4:32 (ESV)

        Just as we should not expect to reach perfection in ourselves this side of eternity, we cannot expect to find “the perfect church.” It doesn’t exist. Every church is full of sinners and you are one of them. Don’t keep hopping around between churches. Pick one that preaches the word rightly, join it, and get involved. Don’t leave or become disillusioned if you encounter some drama, secondary theological disagreements, or different aesthetic preferences. Learning to live in unity and love with people who are not exactly like you is not only healthy, but necessary.

        “As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.”
        — Titus 3:10-11 (ESV)

        “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
        — John 13:34-35 (ESV)

        Surrounding yourself with other Christians and learning to live life together is the best thing you can do to reconstruct your faith. It will challenge you to be humble, encourage you towards obedience, and secure you in the truth.

        “Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.”
        — 1 Peter 3:8 (ESV)

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        The Insanity of the Pro-Choice Agenda

        “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

        Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV)

        In two days, a bill called the “Women’s Health Protection Act” will go to a vote in the US Senate. Sounds pretty great, right? Shockingly enough, this bill has nothing at all to do with protecting health. It’s specifically designed to guarantee immunity for murder. And don’t worry, there’s a nice helping of virtue signaling in there as well.

        The pro-abortion act was passed by the House of Representatives last September. It came shortly after Texas implemented new restrictions on abortion. With a pro-life majority on the Supreme Court, which declined to interfere with the Texas law, there’s real hope that Roe v. Wade might be overturned in June of this year. The death cult is scared, but they aren’t going down without a fight. Even though it’s expected not to make it past the Senate, this new bill is a perfect representation of just how insane the “pro-choice” agenda has become in 2022.

        Don’t take my word for it. I encourage you to read through the act in its entirety here. I will be referring to specific sections to give you the highlights. Let’s begin.

        Abortion services are essential to health care and access to those services is central to people’s ability to participate equally in the economic and social life of the United States.1

        In the span of one sentence, murder has been justified not only as “health care,” but as a key component of equality. This is blatant propaganda of Orwellian proportions. It borders on an eliminationist mockery of feminism, declaring that women can only truly be equal with men when they offer up their children to be slaughtered in cold blood. If you believe all people are created equal, as is stated in our Declaration of Independence, it’s impossible to propose that women are lesser without the freedom to murder their offspring; it’s beyond any shred of reason to simultaneously hold that the worth of a child’s life is dependent on whether he or she is wanted.

        Reproductive Justice is a human right that can and will be achieved when all people… have the economic, social, and political power and resources to define and make decisions about their bodies, health, sexuality, families, and communities in all areas of their lives, with dignity and self-determination.2

        Ah yes, it wouldn’t be a leftist propaganda piece without some good old social justice. Not only do they frame murder as a tenet of feminism and equality, but now they have the audacity to invent a phrase to get the idea across that they’re really, definitely the good guys here. After all, who could disagree with justice?

        The funny thing is that in avoiding the question, they beg another more gruesome one. They claim abortion is about granting people the power to make decisions about their bodies. Rather than address whether or not abortion is murder, they insist that this is only about the power of the individual. They miss the point entirely by pretending unborn children are only organs of the mother, but what’s worse are the implications. They specify families and communities here. Are they insinuating that mothers have the right to slice through their relatives and neighbors until the world is to their liking? They would say no, I’m sure. But the language is pretty damning. Perhaps they should hire proofreaders.

        Pro-Life is Racist?

        Reproductive justice seeks to address restrictions on reproductive health, including abortion, that perpetuate systems of oppression… white supremacy, and anti-Black racism. This violent legacy has manifested in policies including enslavement, rape, and experimentation on Black women; forced sterilizations; medical experimentation on low-income women’s reproductive systems; and the forcible removal of Indigenous children. Access to… abortion services, has always been deficient in the United States for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC).3

        Whew, that’s a lot of desperation in a single paragraph. You can almost see them begging at the feet of minorities to approve of their violent crusade. This paragraph, like many others, was entirely unnecessary for “abortion rights” to be preserved as a result of this bill. They chose to add it for political reasons. They couldn’t just advocate for murder. They had to imply that anyone opposing their bloody tirade is a racist complicit in rape, slavery, and forced sterilization.

        Let’s take a look at the logic for a moment. The claim? Restrictions on abortion perpetuate racism. The evidence? “Policies including enslavement, rape, and experimentation on Black women…” The list goes on. None of these “policies” exist today. By their own admission, they’re trying to fix something that isn’t broken. It’s all empty ramblings. The only thing in this list that’s somewhat relevant today in America is the “forcible removal of Indigenous children.” In a stunning turn of events, they’ve suddenly decided to defend the rights of young ones, but only if they’re brown and only to exploit their existence for political clout. If that isn’t the very definition of racism, I don’t know what is. This is not to mention that even with control over the House and the presidency, Democrats still haven’t done anything to reverse the “kids in cages” problem at the border that has existed since the Obama era. The hypocrisy is pungent.

        Lastly, they claim that access to abortion has “always been deficient” for minorities in the US. This is simply not true. Let’s take a look at this infographic by the pro-abortion group, Guttmacher Institute.

        They claim there’s a horrible problem with income inequality, racism, and discrimination as it relates to abortion. Then they show us the data. As it turns out, white women have the fewest abortions per capita! Minorities have far more abortions. It doesn’t seem like they’re having much trouble finding people to kill their babies for them, even assuming they have less access to necessary funds and available clinics.

        Now, I’m not ignorant of their intentions here. They don’t want you to look at the number of abortions per capita. They want you to notice that the rate of decline over time is slowest for white people. Their hypothesis is that the boogeyman of “systematic racism” is somehow cutting off access to abortion (and/or birth control) for minorities. They couldn’t imagine any other alternative, least of all that minorities are just choosing to have fewer abortions for personal reasons. Culture isn’t homogeneous and attributing an effect to a cause without evidence is bad science.

        The legacy of restrictions on reproductive health, rights, and justice is not a dated vestige of a dark history. Presently, the harms of abortion-specific restrictions fall especially heavily on people with low incomes, BIPOC, immigrants, young people, people with disabilities, and those living in rural… areas.4

        Ah, it seems they anticipated my objection that the evils they wrongfully attribute to pro-lifers are irrelevant to modern times. Unfortunately, they’ve forgotten to list any evidence. What a shame. We only get more empty words.

        Don’t Forget Trans People!

        The terms “woman” and “women” are used in this bill to reflect the identity of the majority of people targeted and affected by restrictions on abortion services… which are rooted in misogyny. However, access to abortion services is critical to the health of every person capable of becoming pregnant. This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy—cisgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others.5

        That’s right. They have to satisfy every possible gender-obsessed group they can think of. That includes trans people. But the funny thing is, in appealing to a tiny minority of their audience, they alienate the vast majority. Women are getting tired of confused men intruding on their spaces and identity, removing femininity from language and culture in favor of politically correct androgyny. What ever happened to feminism?

        It reminds me of what happened to J.K. Rowling. She preached feminism for years and was loved by the left. When she saw the insanity of the trans movement, she stood by real women in refusing to change her language or her beliefs. She’s since been canceled by the very people who once championed her cause. These days, it’s not enough to be liberal. It’s not enough to be feminist. It’s not enough to advocate for abortion. You have to say men are women. Men can get pregnant. Men can be oppressed by abortion restrictions. I’m again reminded of Orwell’s 1984. Truth is stranger than fiction.

        Here are a couple more quotes that stood out to me. “Abortion is essential health care and one of the safest medical procedures in the United States.”6 Murder is safe and essential? Makes sense to me! “International human rights law recognizes that access to abortion is intrinsically linked to the rights to life, health, equality and non-discrimination, privacy, and freedom from ill-treatment.”7 Abortion is linked to the right to life? That’s the saddest thing I’ve heard all day. Also, pro-lifers are apparently anti-privacy now. I wasn’t aware of that one.

        Conclusion

        I know I’m not changing anyone’s mind with this post. Those of you who support abortion probably can’t stand me. I’m comfortable with that. Those of you who are against abortion probably agree with me. My goal today was not to provide some amazing new insight on abortion itself. My goal was to highlight just how nuts this “pro-choice” movement has become in recent years, to reveal their true agenda. It’s not just about abortion anymore. It’s about changing language to accommodate insane mental gymnastics. It’s about attaching any and all oppression, past and present, to conservatives. It’s about elevating men who wish they were women above actual women.

        Do you still think this is about “women’s health?”

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        1. Section 2, (a), (1) of the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021, H. R. 3755, 117th Cong. (2021)
        2. IBID, Section 2, (a), (4)
        3. IBID, Section 2, (a), (5)
        4. IBID, Section 2, (a), (6)
        5. IBID, Section 2, (a), (8)
        6. IBID, Section 2, (a), (11)
        7. IBID, Section 2, (a), (16)