Remembering Charlie Kirk

Becky and I join with Americans all across the nation in expressing our shock and outrage at the senseless murder of Charlie Kirk.

No one more epitomized the American Way than Charlie. His ability and passion to stand in the public square and debate the values he believed in with anyone who disagreed raised up a massive youth movement that was turning the nation around. The cost… his life.

How tragic that this is where we are as a nation.

May the sacrifice of his life become the catalyst that will return us to a people of Godly values.

May what he passionately practiced in his faith in Jesus, his love for his family, his engaging wit and knowledge, his courage to stand up and speak up and challenge everyone else to do the same cause all of us to fight for the future of our nation as he did.

May the Lord hold his wife and family in His everlasting arms and grant His peace and comfort.

In talking with Charlie privately and interviewing him publicly, I was so impressed by this young man that God had raised up to be such a profound and courageous young voice to speak to our day.

As in His life and now even more so in his death, may all of us courageously stand against the evil that so abounds in our day.

May our voices resonate those same values Charlie stood for and has now died for.

Thank God for Charlie Kirk. He was the voice of his generation.

During my public interview with him at one of our weekly prayer meetings, Charlie made it unmistakably clear where he stood:

Evil should not be tolerated in the American church.”

“Courage is doing the right thing regardless of the cost.”

“If the American church stood boldly and courageously, we retake the lead in the culture war.”

“Cowardly pastors have to resign and righteous, bold pastors have to be raised up to preach the Word of God and to defend liberty in a time such as this.”

“You as a Christian are not allowed to despair. You are not allowed to engage in cynicism. We are a hopeful people because we know the battle is already won.

Charlie’s words are not only a challenge—they’re a blueprint.

They echo the very ideals of FORGE itself:

Shaping Pastors Who Will Shape the Nation

Forge is about molding leaders who thunder from their pulpits with courage and call their congregations to engage the culture with unwavering biblical conviction.

This is why we do FORGE… because the future of the Church, and the future of our nation, depends on pastors who will stand as Charlie stood and stand as he described—boldly, uncompromising, and filled with hope.