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America's Revival: How Charlie Kirk's Legacy Ignites a National Awakening
Left-wing lunatics hoped for a funeral. America got a revival.
Sunday's Charlie Kirk memorial service transformed into something extraordinary - a spiritual awakening that reached far beyond the 100,000 people physically present in Arizona. Viewers worldwide witnessed not just remembrances of a remarkable 31-year-old conservative leader, but testimonies that sparked what many are calling a turning point in American cultural history.
What makes this moment so powerful? The staggering numbers tell part of the story. Turning Point USA received 67,000 requests for new chapters in just days. Countless Americans reported attending church, opening Bibles, and reconnecting with faith for the first time. Vice President JD Vance revealed that Charlie had encouraged him to be more open about his Christian faith—resulting in Vance speaking more about Jesus Christ in ten days than in his entire political career.
Erica Kirk's speech became the emotional centerpiece of the event. Her grace in forgiving her husband's assassin demonstrated extraordinary spiritual strength. She shared how Charlie had previously quoted Isaiah 6:8 ("Here I am Lord, send me"), never knowing how prophetic those words would become when she cautioned him, "When you say that, God will take you up on that." Her testimony transformed grief into purpose, showing how faith sustains even in life's darkest moments.
Charlie's life embodied the courage he valued above all else. As he once said: "Courage is doing the right thing when you don't know it's going to work out. Courage is committing yourself to the correct course of action, regardless of the cost. Courage is a choice, and I choose courage." His memorial revealed previously unknown dimensions of his influence on American politics and culture, demonstrating how thoroughly he had integrated himself into driving meaningful change while maintaining his primary identity as a man of faith.
Find the courage today to open your Bible, attend church, or embrace your faith publicly. There's no better way to honor Charlie Kirk's legacy than by living with the same courage and conviction that defined his extraordinary life.
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Left-wing lunatics hoped for a funeral. America got a revival A Sunday's service like nothing I've ever seen before. Last week we covered the tragedy. Today we cover the triumph. Let's honor Charlie Kirk today on Share the Struggle Podcast. Let me tell you something Everybody struggles. The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it. The choice is completely yours. Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
Speaker 2:If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you. Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations? Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you. When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense and it all makes sense. Most disagreements. They stem from our own insecurities. You are right where you need to be.
Speaker 1:Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. What it do, what it do, what it hot did it do. Good Lord, Almighty, am I so excited to be back with you. Oh, it's true, it is damn true. Episode 272. That's another week of me and you, 272 consecutive weeks. To be exact, I'm coming at you a little more positive, a little more encouraged, a little more uplifted today because y'all, I went to church on Sunday. I think all of America went to church on Sunday. We started off today's show, the intro to the show. We're talking about the fact that last week we spent a lot of time talking about the tragedy. We tried to highlight the man, but we discussed the tragedy. Today we're going to dig into the triumph.
Speaker 1:I don't know how many of you took the time to watch, to partake, to be a part of, to participate in the Charlie Couric Memorial, but it was absolutely incredible. I actually turned YouTube on in my office. I was making all kinds of stuff getting ready for a Freiburg fair, because you know we're getting ready to head out there. Actually, tomorrow I will be traveling to Freiburg, me and the wifey and the little, but it's crunch time this time of year, right, where I'm spending countless days and hours and all forms of morning afternoon, night delight, the whole night. Right, you're in it to win it this time of year.
Speaker 1:So Sunday I turned on YouTube. I Sunday I turned on YouTube. I went over to Turning Point, usa. I subscribed to Turning Point, which I think it seems like half of America to the same thing. I subscribed to Turning Point and I put on the Charlie Kirk tribute, the memorial from Arizona, which I believe had over 100,000 people in attendance, plus the stadium across the street was full of people and there's millions watching all around the world. They were talking about the fact that this was probably going into the day they were projecting it was going to be viewed by more people than viewed the actual Super Bowl. So that in itself is pretty incredible. So that in itself is pretty incredible. But I turned on Turning Point on YouTube and it was tremendous because there was no commercials. There's no, nothing. It's a live stream. It was the entire service, all the buildup, all the lean into the actual service. They had a bunch of Christian musicians coming out and performing. Brandon Lake was there with his group and it was just incredible. And I don't even know the exact time I turned on Turning Point. It must have been like 9 or 10 am here on the East Coast and I watched and listened to and was a part of that entire service. I didn't miss a second of that service and I don't think it ended until after 7 pm. I want to say it was maybe close to like 7.30 on the East Coast, which here's a full frontal confessional for you, america.
Speaker 1:I'm a diehard Cowboys fan. I don't miss a game. I watch every Cowboys game that I possibly can. If it's televised, I'm watching it, so much so that if I'm at an event I'll have it on my phone. If I have to be at an event, I'm usually watching it on my phone.
Speaker 1:I didn't once turn over to the Cowboys game. I didn't once check my phone for a score. I didn't once pay any ounce of attention to anything except for Charlie Kirk, his friends, his family, his mentors, everybody that came up there and spoke. I truly felt it was the most important thing I could possibly do. This is monumental. This is such an amazing part in US history. This, legitimately, is a turning point for American history. This is a turning point for America. When Charlie founded and started Turning Point many years ago, he didn't know how fitting that name would be, and the fact that he would be the turning point for this country.
Speaker 1:We witnessed a full-on revival on Sunday. We did not tune in for a funeral. We all tuned in and became a part of a revival. It was so heartwarming to me when people started coming out and saying this assassin thought he would be witnessing a funeral. These crazy, lunatic lefties that are out there losing their minds celebrating on his grave were hoping to watch a tearful, agonizing, painful funeral. Instead, they got the tears, they got the emotion, they got the heartfelt. But they they got the tears, they got the emotion, they got the heartfelt. They also got the optimism. They also got the biggest dose of Jesus they could have ever imagined. They got a revival and it was tremendous. All the stories I could sit here for hours and go over all the stories, but I'm hopeful that you all watched it and if you didn't, I encourage you to go back and watch it. It was tremendous.
Speaker 1:I am going to highlight some of the stories and some of the things that I heard that really resonated with me. One of them, as we're just having this conversation, is the first person that came out to speak that Charlie asked to speak. He referred to him as America's pastor. He said you are America's pastor. And when he was talking to him about being America's pastor, they were actually on a retreat. I believe he said they were in maybe Korea, kuwait I honestly can't remember. But he said he was sitting with Charlie and he said listen, I'm not America's pastor and, to be honest, you travel so much. I'm barely your pastor. I don't even get to see you on Sunday. I'm not America's pastor. And Charlie said you absolutely are America's pastor and someday you will prove to the world that you are America's pastor. You will prove me right as he's there speaking. He said Charlie, my friend, you were right again, because today, right now, at this moment, I am the pastor for America. It was the first guy to speak and I already broke down. It was incredible.
Speaker 1:There were so many speeches that came about that were just so moving, so inspiring, so heartbreaking to think that all this tremendous stuff, all this positivity, all this stuff that Charlie had created and he's done in his life and his 31 years of life I realized during this that my wife's older than Charlie Kirk and you just start to think how this world was robbed of such a great man, an amazing heart and such a beacon of faith. It's so incredibly saddening to know what the world lost, but there's some things I'm going to share with you today that I really truly feel will leave you encouraged, because they certainly left me encouraged, but hearing all these stories, so many of them, really truly resonated with me, and the amazing thing is number one to have all these people out there. There's still politicians and influencers out there saying the most hateful, negative things about Charlie. I saw AOC, who I do believe is going to try to run for presidency as the Democratic candidate. She literally came out and again and just went off about how much of a hateful person Charlie was and all the things that he had said, and it's incredible to me that people could just be that numb and that inconsiderate and that just belligerently stupid and it's heartbreaking to know that. But my wife just threw something in the background, or the baby did. I'm not sure. We're multitasking tonight, folks. I'm recording the podcast. My wife is packing for the fair and the baby is everywhere doing whatever the hell she feels like. Okay, so you might have heard that she threw a belt buckle. She's getting ready for the fair. That's reasonable. I would appreciate it if she wouldn't interrupt such a heartfelt moment, but you know she's one. She's going to do what she wants to do.
Speaker 1:But some of the tremendous highlights of this memorial, of this service, of this revival, was hearing how many people were accepting Jesus, acknowledging Jesus for the first time. They talked about how many people have reached out and said I went to church for the first time. They talked about how many people have reached out and said I went to church for the first time, I opened a Bible for the first time, I went back to church for the first time in a long time. So many people saying those things was incredible. It was inspiring. Last week we talked about how I think there was I'm already forgetting the numbers, but there was a couple thousand chapters of Turning Point and then there was a 27,000 request for a new chapter. Last week, and it's already by Sunday, was up to 67,000 requests for new Turning Point chapters.
Speaker 1:It was amazing all that we were able to learn about Charlie, all these inspiring stories right, these interactions that people had with him. All the times he made such positive impacts on people. We were able to learn so much more about the man, so much more than I ever knew. I didn't actually know how much of an impact he had on this recent presidential election. I knew of the impact. I knew he helped get young voters, but I didn't realize that Turning Point was organizing all those Trump rallies. I didn't realize how much of an integral part of the presidency he was. I didn't realize how he was helping to establish cabinet members. I didn't realize that he is, in fact, the person that brought JD Vance to Donald Trump and JD Vance.
Speaker 1:Vice President Vance gave an incredible speech. My absolute favorite part of the speech was Vice President Vance discussing his faith and that he's a devout Christian and he's talking about his beliefs. But he's always been a little nervous about sharing his convictions, about sharing his faith in public. You know, running for different political seats and offices and now as the vice president, he said he was always a little nervous and that Charlie always encouraged him to express his faith and to show it and to be okay with it. And he said that he realized because of Charlie Kirk, in the past 10 days he's acknowledged and talked about Jesus Christ more in the past 10 days than he has in his entire political career combined. Charlie is removing the stigma. He's encouraging people to embrace and showcase their faith.
Speaker 1:Vice President Vance's speech and with that in honor of Charlie Kirk, I have decided that I will no longer make excuses or shy away from my faith here on this podcast, because since the beginning of this podcast we've hovered around the subjects of God. We've talked about us exploring our faith and embracing our faith, but we didn't always really get into those things because I don't believe in trying to, you know, push or press anything onto anyone. But that doesn't mean that I shouldn't be proud of what I believe. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't be okay in saying I believe in Jesus Christ. And from this point on, in honor of Charlie Kirk, because of that speech, I will no longer shy away from my beliefs. When I'm in here on a podcast struggling through something, growing through something, and I mention prayers and the power of prayer and all those things, I will no longer shy away, I will no longer deny. You can book that and you can count that from this day forward.
Speaker 1:There's quite a few things throughout the memorial that really hit home for me and a couple of them. One of them started off early where there was this I believe it was like a college professor that you know. It was actually going to honor Charlie and Erica with an honorary college degree coming up in May. But he said one piece of advice that he gave to Charlie and he said he'd never thought to hear from him again. But he heard from him many, many more times. Then they became close friends and he was a mentor and he was giving mentor and he was giving um Charlie some some advice and and he told him you have to suffer. You have to suffer. And I'm not going to get into the whole context and of what he said. I hope you guys go and listen and look it up and and indulge in that for yourselves. But for me it hit home. For me you have to suffer Anything worth having, anything worth working for, anything that you really truly put your heart and mind towards. You need to suffer. You have to suffer to get to where you want to be.
Speaker 1:And when I heard that, it made me realize all the suffering that myself and my family have been going through, have been growing through, because there's bigger and better and brighter out there for us and we're fixated on that for us. But those goals, those commitments, those dreams, those aspirations, they don't come without sacrifice and they don't come without great layers of challenge and obstacles. And I feel like over the past couple of years, I have never suffered more but I've never been rewarded more in different areas of my life. I've lost my father, I've given up and walked away from relationships and people and friends and family. I've said goodbye to careers to chase dreams. I said goodbye to being financially secure, to taking major risks and being insecure, and I was rewarded with the most amazing, precious gift I could have ever asked for in Paisley Rain. And there's all these other things in my life that are coming to me based on the sacrifice this year for my business. I've sacrificed more than I ever could have imagined and I've suffered more than I ever could have planned on. We're getting rewarded with more sales than we've ever had, but we're suffering along the way.
Speaker 1:Just hearing those words, knowing that I'm suffering for a reason. Right, this too shall pass. I'm suffering for a reason. And in saying this too shall pass, that's kind of ironic too, because I say that all the time. And in listening to some of the things about Charlie going into this weekend, he mentioned one of his favorite quotes to say one of his favorite lines to say is this too shall pass. And if you've been listening to the podcast for the 270 plus episodes, you've heard me say that a million times. This too shall pass. And Charlie said he always used that because it helped him stay grounded.
Speaker 1:In good times and the bad, we often say this too shall pass. When we're struggling, when we're suffering, we say this too shall pass. When we're struggling, when we're suffering, we say this too shall pass. We're not going to stay this down on our luck. We're not going to stay this depressed. This too shall pass. We're not going to stay this broke. I never looked at it from the other side of the coin, where Charlie said it helped him stay grounded, because in times of great wealth, in times of great triumph and victory, remind yourself this too shall pass. So not only will the bad times pass, but the good times will too. So it helps you to stay grounded and to realize I can get through this and I must enjoy this. So if you're struggling, please know this will pass. So if you're struggling, please know this will pass. If you're overachieving and you're hitting all those marks and you're living your life to your fullest, be grounded, be present, enjoy it, because this, too, shall pass.
Speaker 1:Another thing for me that really hit home, because I'm really just trying to spend my time today with you. Just trying to spend my time today with you digging into some of the few key words, key speeches and key moments that really truly resonated with me, and to share that with you, in hopes that, if you haven't watched all these speeches, you go back and you do watch and you look for and you listen to hopes and clues. And I've always said this that success leaves clues along the way. Charlie is an extremely successful individual and his story is going to leave these clues for success to each and every one of us. And these are some of the things that I picked up. That number one give me peace in knowing that Charlie fulfilled his purpose. Give me peace in knowing that Charlie fulfilled his purpose. He's on to bigger and greater. You know obstacles and challenges and quests, and that is something that gives you peace and can give you hope in these dark times. But it also can give you peace and hope and motivation that you can pull through whatever it is that you're going through.
Speaker 1:And for me, I want to say that there was another thing from Charlie. That really hit home for me. And it was an interview where somebody asked him flat out if you were to die, if you were to pass away, what do you want to be known for? And he said I want to be known for my courage. I want to be known for my courage to my faith. And instantly it just just piqued all my emotions and and all my, all my feels. This person in the interview room says what do you want to be known for? Courage. Courage for my faith. Courage is doing the right thing when you don't know if it's going to work out. Courage is committing yourself to the correct course of action, regardless of the cost associated with it. Courage is a choice and I choose courage. Everything above that hit me and it got into my feels and it put me in this moment of reflection and an instant prayer where I instantly hit my knees and said I needed to hear that. And that landed on me right now, for me, at the right time, for many reasons.
Speaker 1:If you are a loyal listener of the podcast and you are a day one, get your ones up. I acknowledge you, I recognize you, I appreciate you. If you're a new one here, if this is a day one for you here, then I'm going to issue a challenge for you here. I'm going to want you to go back to episode 234, finding your guiding word. So, to start the year off, every year we kind of begin to forecast our year, project our goals, paint out those dreams, list those goals and key objectives to attaining our dreams and our goals. And this year I had an episode with my wife. It was on New Year's Eve and we were asking each other questions getting ready for the new year. We were looking at our goals in a different perspective and one of the things this year was to find and identify a guiding word.
Speaker 1:I'm somebody that grew up with a sports background and playing football. My coaches used to commonly come up with a word and say this is our word. This is our word, this is our mantra, this is our mission for the season. We're going to cling to this, we're going to hang on to this, we're going to contribute in all of our actions to this word. Right, whatever we do is going to come back to this word, and I wanted to adapt that into our goals and begin to really focus, pray, meditate, manifest.
Speaker 1:What is that word for me? What is that word that when I see it, I feel something right. There's certain words to me that have great meaning and they're tattooed on me like redemption or relentless. There's words that you want to identify to help you get to where you want to be, to help you live the life you want to live. And when you can find those words and you identify those words, you then, during the year, when you're struggling, when you find yourself going to make a difficult decision, you go back to that word and you ask yourself am I making the right choice based off of my word? Are my actions lining up with my guiding word? And if you go back to episode 234, we're going to outline our guiding words. And if you go to episode 235, we use that word to start making decisions. So what I want to tell you is start making decisions.
Speaker 1:So what I want to tell you is episode 234, back on the eve of 2025, I identified two words sacrifice and courage. To me, sacrifice and suffering are very similar. If I just kind of reflect on, you need to suffer that whole phrase that we just went back on. That's part of it. But my overwhelming word for this year, my guiding word, was courage, and I spent a great deal of time discussing with you courage and all it meant to me and how it inspired me and all the new challenges for me. In episode 235, I use courage to make difficult decisions.
Speaker 1:You fast forward towards the end of the year and I hear a man ask Charlie Kirk, what do you want to be known for? Courage Courage, for my faith. Courage is doing the right thing when you don't know it's going to work out. Courage is committing yourself to the correct course of action, regardless of the cost associated with it. Courage is a choice and I choose courage. That conversation, that moment, it hit me, it moved me, it inspired me.
Speaker 1:This entire day, this revival on Sunday, the multitude of hours I spent in prayer, in thought, in reflection. It was truly, truly incredible. I sat back and I asked myself you imagine that you live a life that makes the difference that Charlie did? Can you imagine that you think about all those people we're talking 67,000 requests to start a Turning Point chapter. All the people you know going to church for the first time. All the people opening a Bible for the first time. You think of opening a Bible for the first time? You think of the 100,000 people in attendance, the millions watching all around the world. Can you imagine a life that makes that level of difference? Can you imagine living a life that makes that difference every single day? It's incredible, it's inspiring, it's motivating, it's humbling. Sunday was an incredible experience.
Speaker 1:Again, for the 1,000th time, I encourage you, if you haven't done so already, go back and watch those speeches. If you don't have the time for all of them, then find some people that you can relate to and that you're inspired by. But ultimately, if you can only pick one speech, find Erica Kirk. Watch her speech, and I challenge you to not break down. I challenge you to not be overcome with emotion emotion when Erica stood there and she chose to forgive the young man that assassinated her husband. It was incredible. There was one part of her speech that I'm going to read back to you that I hope brings some I don't even know how to the best way to put it, because there's so many emotions that come from this but I hope it brings some peace to you, some comfort to you, and I hope that it can help you understand that Jesus does exist, that we are here for a reason. We all have a purpose and Charlie lived and fulfilled his great, tremendous purpose, and his life, in fact, is a turning point for America. I'm going to read this quick statement, a little excerpt from Erica's speech.
Speaker 1:Just a few miles from here, two years ago, at AmericaFest 2023, charlie delivered his speech on stage for our TPUSA faith event. Charlie loves speaking off the cuff he's very good at that without a script, so I personally didn't know what he was going to say, and what he chose to speak about that day was his submission to the will of God. He quoted one of his favorite Bible verses Isaiah 6, 8. Here I am, lord, send me. After Charlie finished, I met him backstage and I spoke to him, and I'll never forget this. I said Charlie, baby, please talk to me next time before you say that statement, because when you say something like that, there is so much power in that verse. When you say here I am Lord, use me, god will take you up on that. And he did. He did with Charlie 11 days ago. God accepted that total surrender for my husband and then called him to his side. More than anything, charlie wanted to do, not his will, but God's will, and over these past 11 days, through all the pain, never before have I found as much comfort as I now do in the words of our Lord's prayer Thy will be done. I'm getting emotional and I'm tearing up just rereading that speech, because that's it. That's all of it, there's nothing else to be said.
Speaker 1:I want to share two more quick things to kind of connect and correlate my family and our story with Charlie and Erica and this speech and why and how these things kind of hit home for us. First off, the Lord's Prayer. For me that's one of the most powerful prayers, so much so that I have part of it tattooed on my chest. And number two over the weekend, on Saturday I was in the office working and my wife and Paisley and my mother went out yard sailing and they found themselves at the flea market. And this flea market is the last place my father visited before he was admitted to the hospital. It's the place where my dad actually collapsed and had the ambulance called and it's when everything started to spiral. From that point on, my wife and my mother were at that same flea market walking around and Allie was kind of rummaging through some trinkets and she found this coin and she picked it up and she saw that it was like in an epoxy type cross and before she could even read it and look at it, the lady that was selling it said you can have that, you can have that. And she said you. And she looked down and there was a coin with a cross and the other side was the Lord's Prayer.
Speaker 1:This is America's Turning Point, charlie Kirk. You are America's Turning Point. I wholeheartedly confess a difference was made in me because of you. I am going to commit more and more to my faith. Because of Charlie Kirk and what happened and I know I'm not alone I hope somebody out there listening to me today can find the courage today to say I am a believer. They can find the courage today to buy the Bible, to open the Bible, to find a church, to go to church. I hope and pray that today someone, somewhere, somehow finds God and that is our greatest tribute to Charlie Kirk. They wanted a funeral. They wanted a funeral. They got a revival America. We are so back. Thank you for supporting Charlie Kirk's American dream. Now go wash your hands.
Speaker 1:You're a freaking savage. That's it and that's all, biggie Smalls. If you're a loud, proud American and you find yourself just wanting more, find me on YouTube and Facebook at loud, proud American, or the face page, as my mama calls it. If you're a fan of the Graham Cracker and want to find me on Instagram or all the kids are tickety-talking on the TikTok, you can find me on both of those at loud, underscore, proud, underscore, american. A big old thank you to the boys from the Gut Truckers for the background beats and the theme song for this year's podcast. If you are enjoying what you're hearing, you can track down the Gut Truckers on Facebook. Just search Gut Truckers. Give them, motherfuckers, a like too. I truly thank you for supporting my American dream. Now go wash your fucking hands, you filthy savage.