Ladies and gentlemen, on September 8th, 2025, the final walk I had with Charlie Kirk

that night, we used to go on walks at night when I was in Phoenix and talk about any issue that was on his heart.

How can we better articulate it? How can we move the culture in the right

direction? How can I move the church in the right direction? And I said, Charlie, let's talk about

what's on your heart. You know, what are the issues that are really concerning you right now? And the

three issues he mentioned that we talked a lot about. One was the government, particularly with regard to Islam. He was worried that if Islam

takes over in the United States, we'll lose our religious freedoms. And that's what history shows us.

Also, our freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, all our First Amendment

rights go away. We talked a lot about that.

Then we talked a lot about the resurrection, because if God exists and Jesus rose from the dead,

game over Christianity is true. And so how can we best articulate the resurrection to college audiences

in particular, especially in a Q&A environment where you don't have a lot of time.

And then the third major issue, which we spent the most time on that night, was marriage and the family.

Because Charlie was lamenting the fact that although men appeared, young men in his generation appeared to be

wanting to get married and have kids. In fact, according to the survey after the last election,

Trump voters were Trump voting men, number one priority. Get married, have kids. Trump voting women?

About number five. Harris voting women.

Twelve out of 13 marriage and children.

So Charlie was lamenting that stat and trying to figure out how could we get young people to want to embrace marriage and children.

And in reflection, as I thought about that night,

Charlie was concerned about the three institutions that God had created, the government, the church,

and the family. Those three institutions God created for different functions, different reasons,

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