Brian Cornett

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

There is a massive American flag hanging over the exact spot Charlie Kirk was assassinated right now.

A man from Detroit drove all the way to Utah to bring a cross to the site.

They didn’t silence him, they made him a martyr.

📸: @MattFinnFNC

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

I invite all of you to join us in a moment of silence at 12:23pm MT.

Pray for the Kirk family.
Pray for our country.
Remember how Charlie lived.

[Brian Cornett @Menion32]

@Meldougherty77 Beautiful tribute, thank you. 🙏

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Prayer is not just something you do flippantly before a meal or before an event

Prayer is a direct conversation with God, a chance to unburden yourself before him

Jesus prayed daily as a way to grow closer to the father

There is divine power in prayer

#NationalPrayerDay

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

Someone asked me how I can be a Christian and support Trump.

Well first of all, I DON’T support everything Trump does, or has done. I don’t know anyone that does. But that’s beside the point.

Trump is a counterweight and not a savior. As a Christian I’m constrained to ask “which outcome restrains what I believe is more harmful?”

So, the real question is NOT “Can a Christian support Trump?” The real question is: What is the Christian ultimately placing their hope in?

My faith doesn’t find a determining factor based on who’s in the Oval Office, but rather Who is on the throne of Heaven. Contrary to today’s postmodern thought I can support certain things, dislike others, and find my identity in none of it.

The moment you start acting like your political position is the litmus test for Christianity, you have already stepped outside the heart of the Gospel. Arrogant pseudo-spirituality that judges and criticizes based on political decisions in 21st century America is lazy at best.

You can support Trump. You can oppose Trump. But if you can’t love your brother while doing it, then don’t pretend this is about Jesus.

[Brian Cornett @Menion32]

@MattWalshBlog Praying for you and your family.

[Brian Cornett @Menion32]

@RealJamesWoods I could barely watch it even with the sound off.

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

Why should American pastors have mentioned Charlie Kirk today? “He’s not in the Bible!!!”

Here’s why:

Silence in the face of martyrdom is cowardice. The church has always remembered its martyrs. Stephen was stoned, Polycarp was burned, the apostles were executed, and their names were spoken with honor because their deaths preached louder than most sermons.

Hebrews 13:3 does not say ignore those mistreated, it says remember them as if you were suffering with them. Revelation 12:11 does not celebrate silence, it celebrates those who did not love their lives unto death. To stay quiet when a brother is murdered for his testimony is to betray both Scripture and your flock.

Pastors who avoid Charlie’s name because they fear political backlash are teaching their people that cultural comfort matters more than costly obedience. That is not shepherding, it is self-preservation dressed up as wisdom.

Charlie Kirk stood boldly for truth and paid the ultimate price. To dismiss that is to dismiss the very gospel he lived and died proclaiming. If you cannot weep with those who weep (Romans 12:15), if you cannot honor those who suffer for Christ, then what business do you have standing in a pulpit?

Silence is complicity. Speak their names. Honor the martyrs. Anything less is faithlessness.

Love y’all.

[Brian Cornett @Menion32]

@WatchChad Thank you for this, very well said. 🙏

[Brian Cornett @Menion32]

@WatchChad Amen

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

Join me in a prayer for courage in the shadow of violence today.

Heavenly Father,

We come before You brokenhearted and heavy with grief. Today we mourn the loss of Charlie Kirk, Your servant who was unashamed to stand for truth in the public square. Lord, You tell us in Psalm 116:15 that “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” We cling to that promise now, believing that Charlie’s life and his faith were not wasted, but have entered into eternity with You.

Father, we confess our anger, our fear, and our sorrow. We watched evil raise its hand against one of Your children, and our hearts cry out for justice. Yet You have said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay” (Romans 12:19). So we lay our rage at Your feet. We pray that You, the righteous Judge, would act in Your perfect timing and bring justice upon every force of darkness that seeks to silence Your truth.

Lord, we also pray for Charlie’s family, his friends, and all who grieve. Wrap them in Your comfort, surround them with Your peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7), and remind them that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). Let his wife, his children, his colleagues, and his brothers and sisters in Christ know that Charlie’s labor was never in vain, but is crowned with eternal reward.

God, we ask that Charlie’s legacy would not be silence, but a shout. That his death would not end a movement, but multiply it. That his courage would ignite courage in countless others who will carry the torch of truth. Let his voice echo in the hearts of believers everywhere as a reminder that freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and freedom of faith are worth defending, even unto death.

And Father, strengthen us. We cannot shrink back in fear. We cannot allow the bullet of an assassin to decide the future of a nation built on liberty. Give us the spirit of boldness, not of fear, for You have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).

We ask all this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the King who was Himself unjustly condemned and crucified, yet who rose victorious, guaranteeing that evil will not have the final word. May that same resurrection hope fill us now as we honor Charlie’s life and continue the work to which he gave his own.

Amen

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

This was what mattered the most to Charlie Kirk. May his murder lead millions to follow Jesus -- which would truly change this broken and sick world.

[Pastor Mark Driscoll @PastorMark]

Every pastor retweet this post and let his biggest post be what he cared about most.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

It’s all about Jesus.

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

After a conversation I had tonight…I need to say this. I despise progressive leftism with my entire soul.

I despise progressive leftism because it is a parasite that feeds on freedom while pretending to defend it. It dresses itself up in compassion and justice, but underneath, it is a machine that breeds weakness, division, and dependency.

Progressives reading this far are already melting down. Continue.

Progressive leftism is not about lifting people up. It is about dragging everyone down. It tells you that you are not responsible for your life, that someone else is always to blame, and that the government can be your savior. But the truth is this: when government becomes your provider, it also becomes your master. And I was not born to be ruled.

I despise progressive leftism because it cannot survive without lies. It denies biology, rewrites history, and pretends morality is just a matter of personal preference. It silences truth under the excuse of “safety” and “inclusion,” but what it really wants is control. A nation built on lies will collapse, and progressivism is laying the dynamite at America’s foundation.

I despise progressive leftism because it thrives on division. It does not see Americans as individuals; it sees us as categories: black or white, rich or poor, male or female, oppressor or victim. It does not unite; it fragments. It does not heal; it infects. It cannot build a future, so it manufactures grievances and keeps people chained to bitterness.

I despise progressive leftism because it destroys prosperity. It punishes success, rewards dependency, and strangles innovation. It takes from the builders and gives to the bureaucrats. It teaches people to envy rather than to earn, to demand rather than to create. The result is always the same: decline, stagnation, and despair.

I despise progressive leftism because it corrupts culture. It mocks faith, it dismantles family, it ridicules patriotism. It replaces virtue with vice, courage with cowardice, conviction with conformity. It promises liberation but delivers emptiness. A society without truth, without family, and without God. That is not freedom, it is slavery of the soul.

Progressive leftism is not just another political view. It is an acid that eats away at the bones of a free nation. To despise it is not hatred; it is survival. To oppose it is not extremism; it is duty.

I choose freedom over control. Truth over lies. Responsibility over victimhood. Prosperity over dependency. Faith over nihilism.

That is why I despise progressive leftism. And that is why I will fight it. Always.

[Brian Cornett @Menion32]

@MikhailaFuller @jordanbpeterson Praying for a quick recovery 🙏

[Brian Cornett @Menion32]

@WatchChad Amen

[Brian Cornett @Menion32]

@WatchChad Amen

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

It literally says “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” right there in the first sentence of the 14th Amendment. Michigan Senator Jacob Howard, one of the framers of the Amendment, made it clear at the time the intent of this wording was to stop individual states from doing an end-run around the federal government by refusing to provide equal protection for newly freed blacks by treating them as non-citizens since their slave ancestors were not treated as citizens. But since they were brought here under the jurisdiction of the United States, and they were born here, they were citizens.

This is why the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were ratified as a package following the Civil War. And are known as the “Reconstruction Amendments.”

Illegal aliens are not under the jurisdiction of the United States, hence the term “illegal alien.” Instead, they have violated the jurisdiction of the United States by coming here unlawfully.