Memorial details for Turning Point USA’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk, have officially    been announced.

 In a post on Facebook by Turning Point USA, the organization gave the     announcement that celebration for Kirk’s life and legacy will take place next   Sunday morning, September 21, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona at the State Farm   Stadium.

On the site, “Fight for Charlie,” further details about this service are described. Doors will officially open at 8 a.m. and the program will begin at 11 a.m. Registration is required to attend the event.

God’s Holiness—and Ours

Author: Wayne Grudem
Holiness in the Bible always has two parts—a separation from something and a devotion to something else. More specifically, holiness means a separation from everything that is evil or ordinary and a devotion to serving and honoring God.

God’s own holiness includes these two components, for God Himself is separate from the evil in the world and devoted to seeking His own honor. God is often called the “Holy One of Israel” (Psalm 71:22, for example). The seraphim around God’s throne cry, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” (Isaiah 6:3). “The Lord our God is holy!” exclaims the psalmist (Psalm 99:9).

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​Wayne Grudem is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Theology and Biblical Studies at Phoenix Seminary. Parts of this article have been adapted from his book Systematic Theology and are used with permission from the publisher.

Showered with Blessings

Author: Anne Graham Lotz

"From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another" (John 1:16, NIV).

As children of God, we are the primary recipients of His blessing. Regardless of our past failures or present shortcomings, our relationship with Jesus Christ ensures that “from the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another.”

When the Mediterranean Sea evaporates or runs low, the Atlantic Ocean rushes in at the Strait of Gibraltar to replenish it and keep it full. When you and I are related to Jesus Christ, our strength and wisdom and peace and joy and love and hope may run out, but His life rushes in to keep us filled to the brim – not because of anything we have or have not done, but just because of Him we are showered with blessings.

Blessings,

Anne Graham Lotz 
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Psalm 119
New International Version
Psalm 119[a]א Aleph
​1 Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
    who walk according to the law of the Lord.
2 Blessed are those who keep His statutes
    and seek Him with all their heart--
3 they do no wrong
    but follow His ways.
4 You have laid down precepts
    that are to be fully obeyed.
5 Oh, that my ways were steadfast
    in obeying Your decrees!
6 Then I would not be put to shame
    when I consider all Your commands.
7 I will praise You with an upright heart
    as I learn Your righteous laws.
8 I will obey Your decrees;
    do not utterly forsake me.

My little girl loves animals, but one day she was bitten by a small field mouse she'd found. She carried it home in her pocket and told me what happened. Worried about rabies, I called our town Humane Society and was told that the animal would have to be examined, and they'd send someone for it.

When the Humane Society truck pulled up, a big man got out, put on a pair of gauntlets, and took a capture stick and cage from the back of the truck. Trying not to laugh, I handed him a shoe box containing the mouse.

"Lady," he said, seeing my expression, "they only told me it was a wild animal."

Everyone is important, young and old, rich and poor, etc. Sometimes I wish I knew people who are somewhat famous, who have influence, and see things more my way and chat with them. Case in point...Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA which is a nonprofit right-wing organization with the stated mission “to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.”  Dad and I often watch Fox News which is right leaning I know, but I believe that having both sides to a problem is good. Fox News has both liberal and conservative contributors and I like that. I get news from Apple on my cell phone some times which I think is left leaning, however, I can glean how others think of stories in the news who see things differently.  I was impressed by Charlie Kirk but didn't realize how young he was. He was only 31 years of age when he passed away. When I did realize his young age and discovered that he dropped out of college early on, and then started speaking to young people about conservatism I was impressed.

Laura Ingraham, host of The Ingraham Angle, remarked that Charlie Kirk was an evangelist who was not afraid to share his faith along with his values.  I don't think that Christians need to worry per se about winning people to Christ in a single conversation, or beating people over the head as it were with unloving dogma, but I do believe that we can share God's love in a civil loving manner and of course pray for people. We can also be firm and confident in our faith as well. There are some people who don't even believe that God exists, and others think that maybe He does. At least they are honest and a conversation can start from the point of their unbelief.

If you have valuable friends who do not believe in Christ, it should be easy to share that Jesus loves them and died and rose again for them. They may not agree, but be persistent in a kind way.

Erika Kirk, the wife, and now widow of Charlie Kirk, was quite uplifting in speaking about the recent death of her husband, who was shot in the neck while he was hosting an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. She used Bible verses and I was touched to hear her.

Join me in praying for Erika and her precious young children.

​Blessings, 
​Greg

If you were not privileged to watch and hear Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk following his assassination, I offer you this YouTube video that my webmaster, Mel Tinney, sent to me.

In His Presence . . . Forever

Author: Anne Graham Lotz

"I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple" (Revelation 21:22, NIV).

The Greek word for “temple” is, in this case, the same word used for the “Most Holy Place,” which was the inner sanctuary of the ancient Israelites’ tabernacle, and later the temple. It was the place where God was said to dwell. The high priest could only enter once a year to sprinkle the sacrificed animals’ blood on the mercy seat in order to make atonement for the sin of God’s people. The Book of Hebrews teaches us that today “we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body” (Heb. 10:19-20, NIV). In other words, through the death and broken body of Jesus Christ on the Cross, you and I have been given access to the presence of God when we approach Him by faith in prayer.

In our heavenly home, we will not just have occasional access to the presence of God; we will live in His presence! For all eternity!

Blessings,

Anne Graham Lotz
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​“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” ​(Psalm 11:3, NKJV).

Scriptures about the word "Foundation":

New Living Translation
So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family. Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus Himself.

Ephesians 2:19-20   
Father, I want these whom You have given Me to be with Me where I am. Then they can see all the glory You gave Me because You loved me even before the world began!

​John 17:24  
Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 1:7   
Fear of the Lord is the foundation of wisdom.
Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment.

Proverbs 9:10   
So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Hebrews 6:1-2   
Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true wisdom.
All who obey his commandments will grow in wisdom.
Praise him forever!

Psalm 111:10   
The Lord’s home reaches up to the heavens,
while its foundation is on the earth.
He draws up water from the oceans
and pours it down as rain on the land.
The Lord is his name!

Amos 9:6   
In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation.

1 Peter 5:10   
Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.
​  
So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things, and you will never fall away. Then God will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:10-11   

I was getting my hair cut at a neighborhood shop, and I asked the barber when would be the best time to bring in my two-year-old son.

Without hesitation, the barber answered, "When he's four."

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Remembering Charlie Kirk's legacy
A Hero of Truth was assassinated, but not forgotten

Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel

Charlie Kirk was murdered for speaking the truth and defending freedom.

He was a lion-hearted friend of Israel. He fought the lies that were taught. He stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization.

I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to come to Israel. Sadely that wish will not take place.

Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University on September 10th.

This profile of Charie Kirk was published in July 2025.

THE CROWD at the University of California Riverside was riled up. A few thousand people—locals and students at this public university outside Los Angeles—had gathered on a campus lawn to watch Charlie Kirk debate anyone who would challenge him. Many of them knew Mr Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative activist, from social-media videos documenting his debates with college students. These have titles like “45 Minutes of Charlie Kirk SHUTTING DOWN College Kids”.

To his supporters, Mr Kirk is more than a conservative activist: he is an evangelist of the right, St Paul SHREDDING the libtard Gentiles. He started Turning Point USA, the country’s most prominent conservative youth organisation, “to save the greatest culture and country ever to exist”, as he put it in a video from 2023. Although some on the right might see that goal as accomplished by Donald Trump’s re-election last year, he remains in organising mode. Many of Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters have recently become disillusioned by his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein affair. Mr Kirk has attempted, on his podcast, to lead this unruly flock back to their master. As Mr Trump loses popularity and the rift within his party grows, the coming months will test whether Mr Kirk has made a lasting mark on American politics.
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VP JD Vance carries Charlie Kirk's casket home in Arizona aboard Air Force 2.  That was a deeply moving scene.

United States [2001]

Author: Peter L. Bergen

LAST UPDATED: Sep 4, 2019 See Article History
Alternative Titles: 11/9 attacks, 9/11 terrorist attacks, September 11

September 11 attacks, also called 9/11 attacks, series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history. The attacks against New York City and Washington, D.C., caused extensive death and destruction and triggered an enormous U.S. effort to combat terrorism. Some 2,750 people were killed in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania (where one of the hijacked planes crashed after the passengers attempted to retake the plane); all 19 terrorists died (see Researcher’s Note: September 11 attacks). Police and fire departments in New York were especially hard-hit: hundreds had rushed to the scene of the attacks, and more than 400 police officers and firefighters were killed.
​
The Plot
The September 11 attacks were precipitated in large part because Osama bin Laden, the leader of the militant Islamic organization al-Qaeda, held naive beliefs about the United States in the run-up to the attacks. Abu Walid al-Masri, an Egyptian who was a bin Laden associate in Afghanistan in the 1980s and ’90s, explained that, in the years prior to the attacks, bin Laden became increasingly convinced that America was weak. “He believed that the United States was much weaker than some of those around him thought,” Masri remembered, and “as evidence he referred to what happened to the United States in Beirut when the bombing of the Marines base led them to flee from Lebanon,” referring to the destruction of the marine barracks there in 1983 (see 1983 Beirut barracks bombings), which killed 241 American servicemen. Bin Laden believed that the United States was a “paper tiger,” a belief shaped not just by America’s departure from Lebanon following the marine barracks bombing but also by the withdrawal of American forces from Somalia in 1993, following the deaths of 18 U.S. servicemen in Mogadishu, and the American pullout from Vietnam in the 1970s.

The key operational planner of the September 11 attacks was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (often referred to simply as “KSM” in the later 9/11 Commission Report and in the media), who had spent his youth in Kuwait. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed became active in the Muslim Brotherhood, which he joined at age 16, and then he went to the United States to attend college, receiving a degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1986. Afterward he traveled to Pakistan and then Afghanistan to wage jihad against the Soviet Union, which had launched an invasion against Afghanistan in 1979.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (U.S. v. Moussaoui)

According to Yosri Fouda, a journalist at the Arabic-language cable television channel Al Jazeera who interviewed him in 2002, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed planned to blow up some dozen American planes in Asia during the mid-1990s, a plot (known as “Bojinka”) that failed, “but the dream of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed never faded. And I think by putting his hand in the hands of bin Laden, he realized that now he stood a chance of bringing about his long awaited dream.”

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In 1996 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed met bin Laden in Tora Bora, Afghanistan. The 9-11 Commission (formally the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States), set up in 2002 by Pres. George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress to investigate the attacks of 2001, explained that it was then that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “presented a proposal for an operation that would involve training pilots who would crash planes into buildings in the United States.” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed dreamed up the tactical innovation of using hijacked planes to attack the United States, al-Qaeda provided the personnel, money, and logistical support to execute the operation, and bin Laden wove the attacks on New York and Washington into a larger strategic framework of attacking the “far enemy”—the United States—in order to bring about regime change across the Middle East.

The September 11 plot demonstrated that al-Qaeda was an organization of global reach. The plot played out across the globe with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by plot leaders based in Hamburg, Germany, money transfers from Dubai, and recruitment of suicide operatives from countries around the Middle East—all activities that were ultimately overseen by al-Qaeda’s leaders in Afghanistan.

Key parts of the September 11 plot took shape in Hamburg. Four of the key pilots and planners in the “Hamburg cell” who would take operational control of the September 11 attacks, including the lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, had a chance meeting on a train in Germany in 1999 with an Islamist militant who struck up a conversation with them about fighting jihad in the Russian republic of Chechnya. The militant put the Hamburg cell in touch with an al-Qaeda operative living in Germany who explained that it was difficult to get to Chechnya at that time because many travelers were being detained in Georgia. He recommended they go to Afghanistan instead.

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Although Afghanistan was critical to the rise of al-Qaeda, it was the experience that some of the plotters acquired in the West that made them simultaneously more zealous and better equipped to carry out the attacks. Three of the four plotters who would pilot the hijacked planes on September 11 and one of the key planners, Ramzi Binalshibh, became more radical while living in Hamburg. Some combination of perceived or real discrimination, alienation, and homesickness seems to have turned them all in a more militant direction. Increasingly cutting themselves off from the outside world, they gradually radicalized each other, and eventually the friends decided to wage battle in bin Laden’s global jihad, setting off for Afghanistan in 1999 in search of al-Qaeda.

Atta and the other members of the Hamburg group arrived in Afghanistan in 1999 right at the moment that the September 11 plot was beginning to take shape. Bin Laden and his military commander Muhammad Atef realized that Atta and his fellow Western-educated jihadists were far better suited to lead the attacks on Washington and New York than the men they had already recruited, leading bin Laden to appoint Atta to head the operation.

The hijackers, most of whom were from Saudi Arabia, established themselves in the United States, many well in advance of the attacks. They traveled in small groups, and some of them received commercial flight training.

Throughout his stay in the United States, Atta kept Binalshibh updated on the plot’s progress via e-mail. To cloak his activities, Atta wrote the messages as if he were writing to his girlfriend “Jenny,” using innocuous code to inform Binalshibh that they were almost complete in their training and readiness for the attacks. Atta wrote in one message, “The first semester commences in three weeks…Nineteen certificates for private education and four exams.” The referenced 19 “certificates” were code that identified the 19 al-Qaeda hijackers, while the four “exams” identified the targets of the attacks.

In the early morning of August 29, 2001, Atta called Binalshibh and said he had a riddle that he was trying to solve: “Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down—what is it?” After considering the question, Binalshibh realized that Atta was telling him that the attacks would occur in two weeks—the two sticks being the number 11 and the cake with a stick down a 9. Putting it together, it meant that the attacks would occur on 11-9, or 11 September (in most countries the day precedes the month in numeric dates, but in the United States the month precedes the day; hence, it was 9-11 in the United States). On September 5 Binalshibh left Germany for Pakistan. Once there he sent a messenger to Afghanistan to inform bin Laden about both the day of the attack and its scope.

God’s Primary Purpose

Author: Anne Graham Lotz

"I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4, NIV).

Trusting God to accomplish His primary purpose through our pain was eloquently expressed by the widow of Todd Beamer. Todd was a passenger on the fateful United Flight 93 when it was hijacked by suicide bombers on September 11, 2001. He and other passengers overpowered the hijackers, thwarting their use of the plane as a flying missile apparently aimed at the very heart of Washington, D.C. But the passengers were unable to prevent the plane from a nosedive crash into a vacant field in Pennsylvania, so September 11, 2001, was the date of Todd Beamer’s entrance into heaven. Lisa Beamer gave us a snapshot of her faith that is being developed through suffering when she told an interviewer, “God says, ‘I knew on September 10, and I could have stopped it, but I have a plan for greater good than you can ever imagine.’ I don’t know God’s plan, and, honestly, right now I don’t like it very much. But I trust that He is true to His promise in Romans 8:28.”

Thank you, Lisa, for trusting God when you don’t understand why!

Blessings,

Anne Graham Lotz

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The Lord’s Covenant With Abram
1 After this, the Word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
“Do not be afraid, Abram.
    I am Your shield,[a]
    Your very great reward.[b]”
2 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can You give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[c] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
4 Then the Word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then He said to him, “So shall your offspring[d] be.”
6 Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.
7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord, Who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”
8 But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
9 So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[e] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates-- 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
Footnotes

1. Genesis 15:1 Or sovereign
2. Genesis 15:1 Or shield; / your reward will be very great
3. Genesis 15:2 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
4. Genesis 15:5 Or seed
5. Genesis 15:18 Or river