By Jennifer Williams

September 15, 2025

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Let me begin by saying that I was not a Charlie Kirk follower.

I do not bow down to any man nor blindly defend actions because of political affiliation.

I would see some of his stuff in passing, but I never really paid attention. I had the opportunity to see him in person but passed because I’m not a follower of personalities.

I’ve had to be mediator in many discussions between my husband and my teenage daughters, when the girls were being emotionally manipulated to take a stand on controversial issues with information and opinions that were biased or misinformed.

But I’ve listened to several videos since his assassination, and he had some really good messages that all guided souls to Jesus!

Some say he was racist because he spoke against DEI. He was not racist. DEI itself is a racist movement designed to call attention to color of skin over content of character, Martin Luther King’s own definition of racism. I stand against DEI and any form of racism too, and I saw plenty of videos this week of black people defending him against white people calling him a racist.

Plus he was starting to connect some pretty important dots and speaking truth in conversations that even his donors were not happy about him “going there” but he didn’t let it stop him from pursuing truth, regardless of party affiliation and allegiances.

His love of Jesus and work for the kingdom should be an inspiration for anybody, regardless of your political beliefs!

You cannot ignore the energetic impact that has flooded the world directly since September 10th.

Acknowledging that does not take away from school shootings, the democratic lawmakers who were shot by another Democrat for breaking ranks on a vote, or the senseless murder of a girl who our injustice system failed by releasing a criminal who never should have been on the streets.

While those actions were horrific, they were not the turning point, the shot heard round the world, that awakened many this past week.

How many people went to church yesterday when they haven’t been there forever because they needed comfort?

Hundreds of thousands across the world have attended prayer vigils and posted that they were turning to Jesus.

45,000 attended a prayer meeting at Angel’s Stadium, and the Fire Marshall had to cap the alter call because too many were flooding onto the field and surrendering their lives to Jesus!

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So why are pastors ignoring it?

I left the service I attended yesterday feeling disappointed. Although the Ukrainian girl was mentioned and a generic statement about the heavy week was said, I don’t even think the pastor said Charlie Kirk’s name!

I have been in prayer all week for our country. I’ve been comforted by my Lord and don’t need an earthly man to discuss it for me, but it’s not about me! It’s about the new people turning to the Lord or current Christians faced with a very real confusion or fear who needed to process the grief and evil they were exposed to.

Never in our history have the masses watched a person shot, bleed out, and die in real time in front of them, like they were forced to see this week! That’s a heavy thing that they can’t “unsee.”

I serve on the prayer team, and I was prepared when I left home for people hurting and needing comfort to step forward for prayer, but no one did.

Perhaps because it wasn’t talked about, or perhaps no one new came to that service for comfort because the Lord didn’t send them there since He knew they would not receive the message their souls were longing for.

People were talking about Charlie after church as I passed through conversations because I don’t believe they had a chance to grieve it properly during church.

When I got home and I scrolled Facebook, I was met with other people feeling the same way.

They spoke of their disappointment that their home church Pastor didn’t discuss it, while others were sad that they attended church for the first time in years and were hoping to receive a message of comfort that was never spoken.

Post after post mentioned if your pastor did not discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk, then you need to find a new church because the one you’re in is weak, watered down, and won’t protect you when the time comes.

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In prayer, I’ve seen 3 major reasons why pastors ignored this:

• Pride
• Personality
• Political Fear

Note: if a Pastor was not led by the Spirit to address the topic, this is not a criticism of them. Their sermons are between them and God. This is addressing the very real void that many felt yesterday and conversations that we should be having when these other issues are at play. As a minister, the Lord has very much had this assassination of a fellow Believer and discussions related to freedom on my heart, along with a “pray without ceasing” mindset for the souls of the world and the divide, hate, and evil we live in.

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Pride

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18

Pastors are humans too, and they experience the same emotions as other humans. Sadly, many pastors have a jealous spirit of churches that are bigger than theirs or preachers that reach more souls.

In a well-meaning desire to reach more, somewhere it becomes a competition or a comparison game.

I saw Pastor Mark Driscoll quote Charlie Kirk this past week, and he called him Pastor Charlie Kirk.

I have said that phrase hundreds if not thousands of times in discussions, because it is TRUTH! It’s the ONLY reason we are here – to spread the good news and reach more souls for Jesus.

But how many pastors missed the message and only got irritated that Charlie was called a pastor when he didn’t go to seminary?

The Lord anoints and ordains each of us according to the spiritual gifts He has given us. Some take the path of formal education; while others, like the disciples, were elevated to a position of leadership, knowledge, and authority without a college degree in theology.

Sadly, sometimes those who took the path of college find themselves in competition or comparison to those who were anointed and ordained without the degree.

Charlie was self-taught and could quote scripture and historical facts off the top of his head in an impressive display of knowledge and recall. That’s an asset to the Kingdom, not something to be jealous about.

Charlie reached more souls for Jesus than many pastors, because he was out evangelizing to the masses. He was effective with the youth in an arena where many had given up trying.

That’s something to be celebrated, not hated.

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Personality

“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Romans 3:23

If pastors refused to acknowledge the life sacrificed for Jesus this week because they didn’t like Charlie’s personality, then that’s a “them” problem that needs repentance.

To judge a man’s right to free speech because you didn’t like how he spoke is petty, ignorant, and callous because his freedom of speech also protects your freedom of religion.

How many times have those pastors been put on the spot from an agitated person trying to trick them into “slipping up” while defending a position? Or said something forever etched in video that they wished they could correct? How many times have their own sermons or jokes came out differently or not as effective as they intended?

Yet they expect Grace!

“Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:5

For anyone who celebrated his death or mocked it because they didn’t like him, is as guilty of the same evil as the man who pulled the trigger.

“But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Matthew 5:28

The same applies to murder.

Thoughts are things.

Hate kills.

Words matter.

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Proverbs 18:21

Our country was founded on our right to freely speak about our opinions, our God, our grievances – without fear of being jailed or murdered!

Without this freedom and 1st Amendment protection, where does that leave us? A nation of chaos where anyone may be murdered for saying something against the political regime or for their God.

Without this freedom, we no longer have the United States of America but a tyrannical rule with thought police dictating if your words are acceptable or in alignment with the truth as they want others to see it! (Very similar to Marco Rubio’s current bill to strip people of passports for speaking against Israel, but I digress.)

This is not about one political side over another, and if people can’t see that… they are blinded by the same hate and evil that orchestrated and pulled the trigger in this murder!

Political Fear

This topic is twofold – political fear of division in their congregation and personal fear for their own lives.

I think some people are afraid to talk about it because they don’t want to think about “what if it was me.”

It’s easier to speak words of protection over their families and rebuke the devil, and pretend like that’s enough.

Monks do that.

Warriors for the kingdom face the evil head on, shining the light on it- and pushing it back where it belongs – defeated, calling the evil a coward for shooting a man who never had the right to face his accuser!

No one made anyone come to Charlie Kirk’s events. They came voluntarily by their own free will. If he wasn’t doing an effective job, they would have stayed home and ignored him. But that wasn’t the case!

Charlie Kirk was reaching the generations of youth that have been brainwashed since birth, in the middle of a social revolution and battle for their minds and souls.

He was effective! He gave others the opportunity to peacefully speak their views and opinions in an effort to “prove me wrong.”

And he desired to keep the conversations going because he knew when people stopped talking, then violence would take over.

He stood for peace and respectful dialog, not murder!

Like any Christian martyr, Charlie was killed for the effectiveness of his faith and his reach of souls for Jesus.

He was killed by the same evil that killed Jesus and the disciples and soldiers protecting our freedom!

We cannot ignore that! It must be talked about with righteous anger! We can’t be soft or weak during this time of division and win souls for the Lord!

Even Jesus had to flip tables!

If you cannot honor a man who gave his life for the Lord while exercising his freedom to speak because some people in your church didn’t like him or looked at him as “too political” or rude or mean or any other adjective used to justify their feelings getting hurt at his words, then that’s a leadership problem.

If you can’t set your personal differences aside and find the good and speak on that, then that’s a pride problem.

Love him or hate him, nobody deserves to be shot live for the entire country to see and not get prayer or some kind of reaction from the pastors and churches!

You can’t welcome the massive influx of souls to the kingdom if you refuse to acknowledge what just happened this past week.

The energy is on the scale of something like we’ve never experienced in our lifetime, and there are hearts out there that need comforted as they shift to this new place they were just awakened to.

Most people never believed that level of evil exists in the world, despite all they’ve seen in the last five years.

But evil showed its head… And the light devoured it!!!

Souls turned to their creator for love and protection!!

So many that if critical mass of souls plays a part of when Jesus returns… I think we are pretty close!

That is something to be celebrated, not ignored!

People are looking to be ministered to, comforted, and guided. That is the job of a pastor!

If you carried on with your normal sermon series and chose not to get involved out of fear, hate, politics, or pride, then you need to recognize the world you are pastoring in is an EVIL world and the people need the Light of Truth.

They need to understand how to put on the full armor of God. They need to join together in prayer with other Christians, rebuking the evil and welcoming the Holy Spirit.

A man cannot serve two masters.

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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My personal Facebook posts after personally ministering to many people in person and seeing the need of comfort:

September 19, 2025

Someone today at the announcement of Charlie’s passing said, “Does anyone else feel defeated?”

I said, “Not defeated! I was unable to think after seeing that graphic video. Puke or pray. The overwhelming need to pray was upon me for over an hour before it was announced he passed. If I stopped and tried to do anything else, it overcame me again.

I prayed the evil is bound in the name of Jesus.

That the Spirit of the Lord spreads across the earth and opens the eyes of those who refuse to see.

I pray his death may not have been in vain but that it too can be used for God’s glory.

I pray for the awakening and the freedom that only comes from our Lord and Savior.

Our God is bigger than their evil and He does not lose!!

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

God wins!”

Charlie was called according to His purpose and the Lord will work this for good. That I know.

We are at war and have been for quite some time.

The soul of our nation and our children and our families are under attack by a very real and evil enemy.

This is a spiritual battle and God does not lose.

Thank you Charlie for doing your part for the kingdom, reaching the youth they are trying to indoctrinate. Your family is in our prayers. 🙏🏼

Now is not the time to retreat, but to shine our lights brighter – the choice is yours. What will you choose?
You cannot serve two masters.

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September 13, 2025

God Is Love – 1 John 4:7-21

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

We love because he first loved us.

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.

And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”