What Do I Think About This Charlie Kirk Situation?
Recently a technician working on my internet issues asked what I thought about the Charlie Kirk assassination. Charlie Kirk was one man, a Christian, a husband, father and a patriot actually doing something about the “minion mentality” of today’s youth, Gen X, Y, Z and beyond by challenging their intellect in meaningful debates (you know like they used to do with high school debate teams). Charlie said to be effective they must be grounded in truth, for him it was the Bible. It’s been said that “one man can make a difference” and Charlie is one of the best examples of being that one man.
What is true is that God made only one Charlie Kirk. In fact, God made only one you and me. We were not randomly placed on this earth just to breathe air and take up space. We were each created with a purpose, some may rise to great heights financially, politically or technologically, but what we accomplish depends upon how we respond to our environment and the world around us as we search for God’s plan for our own life. It’s also true that nobody is born with a “silver spoon in their mouth” although one may be placed there by caring parents, family or friends, but we are each created by God equally – needing air, water, nourishment and love that comes from God.
Charlie Kirk didn’t try to tell anyone else what to think, but simply to think and question everything. Charlie challenged the status quo, the fake news, the misinformation and propaganda that is prevalent on high school and college campuses across the nation and around the world.
Sunday 9-21-2025 at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona will be Charlie’s celebration of life service where family and friends will pay tribute to the man who lived out his faith, his patriotism and his duties as a husband and father and as the driving force behind Turning Point USA. Charlie was and is an inspiration for others. Charlie was not perfect, but walked in the perfect will of God for his life. Charlie is now in the very presence of Almighty God. – RTM
It was never about Charlie Kirk, but the convictions of his faith in Jesus Christ. He didn’t just wear his faith on his sleeves but he was defined by publicly living out his faith. Just as the sun rises in the east, Charlie Kirk was a born-again Bible believing follower of Christ. He prayed that his words conveyed were what God wanted him to say. In September 10th, 2025 hearts were broken, lives were changed and the course of this nation was altered in a way that only God knew.
When asked how he wanted to be remembered Charlie said the most important was “by the courage of his faith”. From family to co-workers, leaders of faith and of the nation everyone saw a great political future for Charlie, but even though he said that was not for him he was a great politician.
Charlie’s most avid supporters were God, his family and those around him who caught his vision of engaging America’s young people in open debates about any topic, and at any time without judgment.
As Charlie stated right from wrong, some were offended, others enlightened and set on a new course in their beliefs. Charlie didn’t tell them how or what to think, but simply to think and to question everything. He said they needed a baseline to know right from wrong, for him it was the Bible.
The shock of losing a public figure to political violence changes one’s perspective on life. Nobody will forget where they were when they saw or heard the news that Charlie Kirk had been assassinated. Why do bad things happen to good people? Maybe it is to challenge each of us about placing our trust in God, not man or government.
The great awakening across this nation and around the world is possible because of the spark that ignited the spiritual walk of someone like Charlie Kirk. May God richly bless and comfort Charlie’s family, guide the movement of his ministry and this great nation. – RTM
As believers we pray for the will of God in our lives. We yearn to touch the world around us for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We sow seeds of faith in hopes that one day those seeds will produce believers from the vast fields of unbelief. We hope and pray that one day when we take our final breath we will be instantly translated into the presence of Almighty God. We want to go out “with our boots on” or as they may have said in the wild, wild west, “with guns ablazing” (or maybe that’s just Hollywood).
What we fail to understand is where the bible tells us to “Study to show ourselves approved” from 2 Timothy 2:25 (NIV), where it says: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth”.
We then must pray asking God to give us HIS purpose for our life. We sing and we pray “have your own way Lord, have our own way”, yet we are often fearful of what that way actually is.
There are many examples in the old and new testaments where ordinary men and women are called by God to do extra-ordinary tasks. Once they have accepted the call from God, they have gone out to change the world in which they live.
In more modern times there have been those who have answered the call of God upon their lives resulting in they being totally and radically changed. (Like Saul on a mission to rid the earth of these blasphemers of God, before meeting Jesus and becoming Paul a radically committed follower of Christ).
One such American Christian was Jim Elliott, who felt called to witness to tribes of Central America only to be murdered, martyred for the gospel. His wife wrote a book, “In the Shadow of the Almighty”.
Another is singer, songwriter Keith Green who as a very young man traveled the coastline of California playing in barrooms and honkytonks before meeting Jesus who forever changed his life. Keith began writing, singing and playing songs as the voice of God to audiences. Radio stations and churches all refused to play his music. Keith and his wife Melody began ministering to druggies and potheads to the point they sold their modest home, purchased a ranch in Texas and moved their entire ministry. Keith was unabashedly and totally committed to God. His motto was “No Compromise”, as was the name of the book written by his wife after Keith, two of his children and several family members were killed in a small airplane crash shortly after taking off from their Texas ranch. Today many of his songs is played in churches around the world.
There are others, men and women who after becoming sold out and radically changed have brought God to a great many unsaved people across the globe. One such woman was my friend Paula Randall, a wife and mother who led worship and prayer services in Yokohama, Japan along with her husband Pastor Jim Randall, until she came down with and succumbed to Parkinson’s Disease.
The recent assassination of Charles Kirk a divot Christian, husband and father of 2 young children and the founder of Turning Point USA, a ministry to America’s youth has caused a great number of followers to question, “Why Charlie, God”? Why do bad things happened to good people? What we should be asking is “Why not Charlie”? Was his unexpected death not in God’s plan? Charlie was a Christian who moved with a purpose, God’s purpose. His debating skills were excellent, some might say it was the work of the Holy Spirit living inside of him that made it all happen.
Maybe it’s time for believers around the globe to be more like Charlie (WWCD), who strived to be more like Jesus (WWJD) to move, act and speak with a purpose that came from a loving creator God?
We know and believe that to be absent from the body is to be in the presence of God as said in 2 Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord”.
What I can say is, what a way to go…….instantaneously and without prolonged suffering.
For the non-believer a heart attack can be painful; a stroke can leave one crippled for life; an automobile accident can be devastating and leave someone bedridden, alive only by machines, medication and constant personal care.
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life”.
After that last breath, that last heartbeat, that last taste of life on this earth, there is no coming back from the hereafter, from the brink, no “do-over”.
God’s grace and His plan of Salvation is totally free, but will cost you everything. What will be your excuse? – RTM
In the scripture we read that Jesus was on the earth approximately 33 years and the last 3 years he gathered his disciples, whom he called by name. Jesus spoke to them what his Father in heaven told him and said that he was going away to prepare a place for them. He said he would return again one day to take them to the place he had prepared for them.
The world they had come to know was falling apart. They had seen John the Baptist beheaded for speaking truth to darkness.
Jesus did not mount an army to remove the Romans from ruling over the Jews and now Jesus himself had been crucified. For three days the disciples huddled in the upper room afraid that they would be hunted down next because they had believed in and followed Jesus.
When Jesus first revealed himself to his disciples he began with “Peace Be Still” and “Be Not Afraid”.
The world was in turmoil. Sin was rampant. It seemed that Satan had the upper hand.
Jesus said not to worry because he had taken the keys to hell and the grave. He had conquered sin. Jesus said he was coming back again.
Not much has changed. Today the world is still spinning out of control. Sin is still rampant. It appears that Satan has the upper hand.
Hell is real.
Heaven is real.
Bad things happen to good people.
Bad people seem to go unpunished.
God will not be mocked.
God is in control.
Everything happens for a reason and that reason is to bring sinful man back into right standing with the God who created them.
The day is coming when Jesus will come back to retrieve his own to reign with him in heaven. Those who choose to accept God’s forgiveness of sin, believing that Jesus Christ, was born of a virgin, crucified for the sins of mankind and raised again on the third day have a future that extends far beyond life on this failed and sinful planet, for eternity.
Those who do not accept God’s saving grace are destined to spend eternity with Satan and his demons where there is no good thing. Think of it this way, you choosing to live in a world spinning out of control without hope or relief. A place where after your last breath, all of the bad things throughout human history are collectively and compoundedly far worse than anything you can imagine. It is a place where you get exactly what you wish for and totally deserve with no way out.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”. – RTM
The assassination of Charlie Kirk on 9-10-2025 on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem was an anti-religious hate crime and a deliberate act of senseless political violence. Because it was carried live on television, cable and over the internet it sent shockwaves of anger, frustration and fear instantly around the world.
Let me be clear, Charlie Kirk was an avid Christian, a Patriot, a son, a husband and a father who loved Jesus Christ, his family, the United States of America, and was unapologetically unafraid to engage in political debates or one-on-one discussions with anyone.
Talking heads of the political left and their media are no different in their rhetoric than Islamic Terrorists who use fear as a means of establishing and maintaining control over the people they influence. In this case they use terms like “a hatful, divisive right wing political activist” to attach an idea to someone they do not know.
Pastor David Jeremiah once preached, “Envy always hates the Excellency it cannot reach”. He went on to say that Stand-up People: Get promoted; are persecuted; are protected from the law; are protected by the Lord; are powerful. God’s man in the center of God’s will is immortal until God is finished with him.”
Let me say this, the impact of Charlie Kirk’s mission on earth is yet to be felt across this nation and around the world.
A quote from Martin Luther King, Jr’s. ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness’ speech reflected John 1:5, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it”.
Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord”.
Philippians 1:21, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain”.
Romans 14:8, “If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord”.
Charlie was not a perfect man. Only Jesus was perfect and without sin.
Charlie was an example of what it meant to live life to the fullest, in all aspects of faith, family and politics. – RTM
The media and the Democratic Party are up in arms (figuratively and literally) about the nationwide crackdown by I.C.E. locating and identifying foreign workers with improper or nonexistent visas and those who have purposefully overstayed their visas which is cause for the U.S. State Department to have them fined, imprisoned or removed from the United States.
“Blue” cities and states are fuming and seeing this legal action enforcing immigration laws as an “attack on their cities and states” when it is actually an enforcement effort to protect US Citizens, foreign workers and visitors from the crime and violence perpetuated by violent criminal gangs and individuals who attack, rape or murder with impunity in those “blue” communities where law enforcement officers are handcuffed by elected officials and prevented from doing their duty to protect and serve the communities in which they live. This administration is putting real teeth into the “War on Crime” mouthed by previous administrations.
The Trump Administration has repeatedly (from day one) declared that illegal is illegal and those who break the laws of the United States in order to get here will be removed by deportation or self-deportation beginning with the worst of the worst.
The unprecedented action taken in the District of Columbia has shown that all it takes to fight crime and protect the citizens and residents of a city is to turn loose the officers of the law and change the attitude within local and federal courts where appropriate punishment for crime is a deterrent.
However it isn’t only “blue” cities and states, but also “blue” cities within “red” states where crime is met with silence by law enforcement due to failed political agendas.
Crime is worse in areas where gun laws prevent law abiding citizens from carrying openly weapons for self-defense. When bad guys with guns are met with good guys with guns that can be the deterrent.
Think of it this way, you or your family member are being assaulted or attacked, who are you going to call? – RTM
You’re not too young [or too old] to do something great – In America with drive and ambition you can do anything
You have to love what you do
Think big – it’s just as hard to solve a small problem as a big problem and it’s just as much energy….and the result is going to be a smaller one so love what you do and think big
Work hard
Don’t lose your momentum – if you do, know when to stop
Have the courage to be an outsider – take certain risks
Trust your instincts (common sense)
Everybody believe in the American Dream – it’s right in front of you
Think of yourself as a winner (positive thinking)
Be an original – God only created one of you
Never give up – perseverance is everything – in America the impossible is what we all do best
Why democrat politicians fail:
Always playing the “victim” card
Denigrating “opposition” voters
Passing the buck “it never stops here”
Resisting all things Trump
Standing on the “wrong” side of right
Failing to take care of their constituents (American voters)
Declaring America as a failed country
Inaccurately calling America a democracy
Not understanding that America is a Constitutional-Republic
Taking from the rich (or anyone) and giving to the poor or undeserving doesn’t replace the policies of poor leadership or bad decisions
What is the difference in digging a well or a grave? If you don’t know where you are, where you are going or how to get there, how in the world will you know when or if you’ve gotten there if there is no there, there?
Corruption knows no bounds. Corrupt politicians see nothing wrong in being rewarded by what we call “bribes” – because everybody’s doing it, right! Wrong! Right is right and wrong is wrong.
The political systems of America need men and women of integrity who will stand up to tyranny, oppression and corruption.
I watched a portion of the televised congressional hearings with the Senate Finance Committee interrogating Secretary of House and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
What I was and heard was a combination of corrupt senators from both sides of the isle accusing the secretary of incompetency, while justifying or not denying the “in-your-face” corruption of members of congress who demanded his immediate resignation or called for his being fired because the secretary fired the entire CDC board due to their incompetence.
I demand that every member of congress (Senate or House) who has taken or is taking bribes from lobbyist groups, industries or corporations should themselves voluntarily step down and face prosecution.
The last time I checked President Trump is the only one to make that call, but when the president fires someone, they refuse to leave and instead file a lawsuit to prevent them from being ousted.
During the next joint session when members of congress boycott or refuse to do their duty to their constituents, maybe then we could hear President Trump say to those defiant members of congress, “I DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY AND TO THOSE DEFIANT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS – YOU’RE FIRED”. – RTM
If ever the time is right for a political party to rethink their overall strategy it is now. For more than 10 years the Democratic Party’s basket has been filled with Trump’s deplorables and nothing more. We saw severe opposition to Trump during the 2016 election, the 4 years of the first Trump administration, the 2020 election and 4 years of the Biden-Harris administration. The blame for Harris losing to Trump was “I didn’t have enough time to prepare a proper campaign” as her book “107 Days” must really shed some light on how she managed to waste $20M in 107 days, leaving the DNC to foot the bill.
In these first 8 months of Trump’s second administration we have seen many democrats attempt to rise to the top and capture the title “Leader of the Democratic Party”. We have yet to hear how DNC leadership is poised to improve the lives of ALL Americans. All we have seen are Democrats taking up arms in support of illegal immigrant invaders and transgender dysphoria stricken “athletes” and school students wanting into the bathrooms of their biologically opposite sexual students (at any expense). We see Democrats taking up arms in resistance to the deportation of international drug dealers and the repatriation of unaccompanied migrant children brought here under the Biden-Harris administration to work in the fields and as sexual slaves by human traffickers.
What it all boils down to is a nationwide conspiracy to resist all things Trump (including attempted assassination, executive actions and decisions pertaining to the Executive Branch of which the President is constitutionally mandated. I venture to say this all equates to Sedition and/or Treason by current and former elected or appointed officials in their efforts to STOP TRUMP!
Isn’t it time the Democratic Party come to their senses and THANK PRESIDENT TRUMP because otherwise their basket is completely empty. They have nothing to offer to American citizens except threats, fear and control.
Show me one democrat politician with a single idea of how to make our nation strong, great, safe and respected again, at home and abroad and I’ll show you a politician wanting to be a republican but afraid to be ostracized by his party and his constituents. – RTM
If one is to believe the political left politicians like Illinois governor J.D. Pritzker or Chicago Mayor Johnson who believes he fights every day to protect the people of his city, then why are they so dead set against helping the olive branch offered by the White House to fight crime in Chicago?
Democrats seem only to be good at filing law suits. So why not file law suits against criminal elements in their fair city? Why stand idly by while Chicagoans are attacked and murdered in the streets and in their homes? Why are criminals given free rein to do as they please with little to no consequence for their actions, while law abiding citizens are left to themselves but restricted to which weapons they are allowed to use in self-defense?
BAN CRIMINALS, NOT GUNS!
If one takes the recent D.C. crackdown as an example of how crime can be brought down and murders stopped in a few short days, would not Chicagoans be safer if the same tactics are brought to bear in their neighborhoods? The same could be said to every democratic run state and city across America?
Maybe the problem is that while democrats run a really good election campaign, they are simply not capable or willing to fight for the safety and rights of their electorate, but choose to be on the losing side of right versus wrong?
I live in the blue state of Colorado where crime has gone over the top and I welcome the use of federal law enforcement AND EVEN National Guard troops if it will stop the bad guys in their tracks and make our cities and our state safer.
So why has American troops been sent globally to fight terrorists and criminals in other countries but forbidden from being used as an effective deterrent to crime on our homeland?
I have a stern warning for politicians who are unwilling or unable to protect AMERICANS – get out of office and go back to being one of us and let real men and women of honor lead the way with responsible leadership.
One quick lesson: When soldiers see figures advancing in their fields of fire they are the enemy and must be dealt with immediately and unhesitatingly (enemy in front, friends on either side and behind!).
God – Family – Country!
This should never be a political football issue of left versus right or political party against political party. In fact politicians are elected to take care of ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS AND FOREIGN VISITORS against law breakers and criminal elements no matter where they are in our country. – RTM
If you believe the mainstream media “Fake News” their take on President Trump’s law and order mandate would have you believe that Trump is striking fear and division across America.
Beginning with the federalization of the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan police and the activation of the National Guard in a few short days bad guys were put behind bars, crime went way down and during the first seven days no murders happened in Washington D.C.
The President has identified several major crime cities lead by blue democrat mayors and blue democrat governors have publicly come out against Trump’s law enforcement officers coming down squarely on the side of criminals.
I’m sure that plans are underway to use D.C. as the model for dealing with crime and criminals in cities and states across the nation. It would behoove these politicians to get on board the “Law and Order Train” by eliminating liberal restrictions on local law enforcement and when needed reaching out to federal agencies for assistance in arresting bad guys and bringing the crime rate down. Law and Order and public safety is the primary responsibility of government!
What these blue state politicians fail to realize is that federal agents do not have to obtain “permission” to enforce federal statutes and laws ANY WHERE IN THE UNITED STATES. That alone could spell serious trouble for those who choose to hinder, interfere, or obstruct federal officers in the performance of their official law enforcement duties.
So the charge that President Trump is striking fear and division is a true statement considering that the bad guys fear their reign of terror is coming to an end. Justice will prevail!
Americans need only to see the number of elected or appointed democrats who feel like America has been their oyster and it was their duty to pick it clean. As the Trump D.O.J. continues their investigative efforts to uncover blatant and obvious wrongdoing by certain “untouchables” it will soon be apparent that accountability is coming to America.
When I was a child I used to have bad dreams where I was being chased and just before I was caught I would whirl around saying I was one of them. We would go off to chase someone else and then I would wake up.
The problem is that blue democrats have contracted a serious mental disease called “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, a dream from which they are unable to wake up.
Americans must separate themselves from those affected by TDS, stop watching or listening to the fake news media and decide for themselves whether politicians and their policies allow or restrict them from fully living the American Dream.
Life, Liberty, National Security, Freedom, Safety, and “Justice for All” begins right here, right now – with You and with Me! – RTM
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