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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In light of the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, Jim Daly speaks with Brant Hansen and Gabe Lyons about what this means for our culture and the Christian response to violence and hate. The conversation points to Scripture for the answers in this cultural moment, emphasizing our responsibility to share God’s truth, love, and peace to the chaos of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.3 | We must as Christians continue to stand up in the public square, speak truth and love, but address these areas where we see the demise of our |
| 0:39.0 | society because we love and were broken for human beings who we see suffering from the |
| 0:44.2 | consequences of horrible ideas. |
| 0:47.9 | Well, that's Gabe Lyons, our guest last time addressing our need to engage others and to share |
| 0:53.8 | the love of Christ in our culture. |
| 0:56.6 | We're continuing the conversation today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly and I'm John |
| 1:01.3 | Fuller. John, last time we had a great discussion with our guests, reflecting on where the |
| 1:06.0 | culture is and how we can reach it for the cause of Christ. That's what our goal is as Christians, to persuade, to give information to, to ask the right questions, |
| 1:17.0 | to help people think through what it is they believe. |
| 1:20.0 | But it can be difficult, and we're certainly seeing that with what happened last week |
| 1:23.8 | with Charlie Kirk, who was doing this on campuses effectively. |
| 1:27.3 | He was a 31-year-old man, married two young children, and somebody decided his voice should be |
| 1:34.2 | silence, and they shot him and killed him. |
| 1:38.0 | And now we're facing the repercussions of that. |
| 1:41.4 | What is it we need to do as Christians in this moment? Do we respond out of our anger? |
| 1:46.7 | Do we respond with the heart of Christ, knowing these people, as Christ hung on the cross, |
| 1:51.4 | which Brant, our guest mentioned yesterday and said, forgive them for they know not what they do? |
| 1:56.7 | That is superhuman. I'd say that's only inspired by the Holy Spirit in us as Christians that can do that. |
| 2:04.1 | And I'm looking forward to continuing the discussion today. |
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