Good day. It's Monday, September the 22nd, 2025, the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere.

We're glad you've joined us for Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's daily article, written by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. My wife and I watched the entire memorial service for Charlie Kirk yesterday afternoon.

Never in my life have I witnessed such an event.

Between the stadium and the adjacent overflow areas, approximately 90,000 people were in attendance.

The service was broadcast across every major

U.S. television network as well, according to White House Communications Director Stephen Chung.

The president and vice president spoke, as did the White House Chief of Staff and four other

cabinet officials. Chris Tomlin, Brandon Lake, and several other nationally known Christian

recording artists led in worship. The service, including worship, lasted much of the day. But the moment

in the service that most struck many of us came when Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, announced

that she forgave her husband's alleged killer. She explained, I forgive him

because it's what Christ did and it's what Charlie would do. There is an eternal world of meaning

in her decision for our nation and for our souls. After Robert Redford died recently, his long

time creative collaborator wrote a New York Times article about a conversation that he had a few years ago about death.

According to J.C. Shander, Redford did not obsess over death for this reason.

When he laid his head down at night, all he needed to know was that he had given everything he had to all that he loved.

As long as you give them everything you had, you could be confident meeting whatever is waiting

for us all on the other side."

Is this true?

If we base such confidence on our works, how can we know whether we've done enough?

What about our mistakes and failures?

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