{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Family Dynasty Podcast","title":"Charlie Kirk Tribute","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":502,"description":"There’s no shortage of tributes and reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but I still felt compelled to add my voice.\nThe more I discovered about Charlie, the more I saw a man integrated around truth, goodness, and beauty. Charlie loved truth. He showed up with courage, living with a character that embodied truth expressed in love.\nAt Family Dynasty, one of our deepest desires is to see families thrive intergenerationally—if the Lord tarries—for centuries to come. We long for families to exert outsized influence for good, living as Scripture says in 1 Timothy 2:2–4: “that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”\nIt rips my heart out that Charlie’s family will not be able to live out their lives together as God’s ideals would dictate—cut short by the evil intent of a heart and a culture increasingly hostile to truth, goodness, order, and beauty.\nCharlie entered the public square with conviction and courage so that Americans might still have a future where families could live quietly and peacefully, just as Paul envisioned in 1 Timothy. Because of Charlie’s work, our nation is on a better course than it likely would have been without his cultural influence. Our nation—and our families—owe him a deep debt of gratitude.\nToday, I honor Charlie’s courage and conviction, and his willingness to sacrifice a life of peaceful contentment so that other families, like yours and mine, might still experience it.\nThis week, the documentary Truth Rising was released by Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. The timing is remarkable. In it, Os Guinness speaks of the “civilizational moment” we are living through: Is the Western ideal of freedom sustainable?\nCharlie believed with everything in him that it is—if our hearts and minds are reformed to truth, goodness, and beauty. He fought for the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fCwGDHmuWIU6PabPx3UcF24zHeQ2C0qjMJfJeAzmb_0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81ZmNm/MGI3Y2YyNWViMzcy/YTFjNTlhMjVjNjhh/ZTk4NC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}