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The WallBuilders Show

Forgive to Be Free

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Nazarene Fund Mercy can move a mountain. We unpack how a single act of public forgiveness—offered to a killer on a global livestream—ignited a wave of healing and curiosity that’s drawing young people back to church, rekindling faith in unexpected places, and reminding all of us that grace is stronger than grievance. Along the way, we share Tim Allen’s surprisingly tender turn toward Scripture after decades of unresolved grief and talk about why forgiving doesn’t erase the past—it unchain...

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0:00.0

This is the intersection of faith and culture. Thank you for joining us today on this

0:10.3

Good News Friday. Always enjoy the good news that David and Tim have collected over the last week

0:15.3

or so, sometimes for months ago, and we just didn't have time to get to it. So I have no idea

0:19.1

what they've got for us today, but I know you're going to enjoy it. Be sure to check out our websites, wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders. The dot show is for the radio program itself, just to catch up on shows, and then wallbuilders.com for everything else. So check that out today and be sure and check out also making that one time our monthly contribution helps us to get this

0:38.1

truth into more hands and to really take advantage of this moment. I mean, this is just an

0:42.2

incredible moment, guys, where the winds that are back and so many people are listening now.

0:47.2

And I think the good news, you know, is going to spur them on even more, right? So if we talk

0:52.7

about some of these victories that are out there, all these new people that are saying, what can I do? What can I do? These would be great

0:57.8

examples of ways to engage in the culture. So let's get started. David, what's the first piece of

1:01.8

good news today? Well, this is still continuing positive effects following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

1:08.5

And there's just some striking things happening still in the culture that are downstream of that assassination. And it's, there's just some striking things happening still in the culture

1:12.6

that are downstream of that assassination that have produced a very positive fruit. And you go back

1:18.8

to what Erica Kirk did there at, at the, you know, on, I want to say national TV, but it was

1:26.0

bigger than that. It was global live stream

1:28.1

that went to 100 million, so it's much more than anything TV would have covered. And at the point

1:33.5

that she specifically called out the assassin and said, I forgive you, you know, Jesus had a

1:40.0

teaching to his disciples there at the end before he departed and he said guys whoever sins

1:46.1

you remit will be remitted but whoever sins you retain will be retained and that's a powerful

1:51.1

statement that jesus gave the disciples on the power of forgiveness uh that it can affect not only you

1:57.4

when you forgive but it can't even affect those that you do forgive,

2:04.3

releasing God's power and the Holy Spirit to work on them.

2:09.8

And so with her saying that, you know, that was necessary for her for sure.

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