10 September 2025, Charlie Kirk was murdered on the campus of Utah Valley University. A single bullet silenced a 31-year-old voice that loved Jesus and loved America. Sixty-seven days later, on Sunday 16 November 2025, the same courtyard was packed again… this time with 5,000 people singing “Holy Forever” at the top of their lungs. That night was the Hope for America Crusade with Greg Laurie, Chris Tomlin, and Phil Wickham. And what the devil meant for evil, God turned into one of the most powerful gospel meetings I’ve ever watched.
Here’s what happened: The worship was electric.
Tomlin and Wickham performed the songs the younger generation already know by heart – “Our God,” “Battle Belongs,” “House of the Lord.” Teens and twenty-somethings who grew up with these tunes were now raising holy hands at the very spot where blood had been shed. That, brothers and sisters, is redemption in real time. Greg Laurie delivered “Home Before Dark” directly from Luke 15 – the story of the Prodigal Son. He intertwined his own pain (losing his son Christopher) and Charlie Kirk’s favourite verse: “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God…” (Romans 8:28 NKJV).
Greg looked at the crowd directly and said, “Don’t wait until your heart becomes hard like concrete. Come home tonight." When he extended the invitation, over 2,100 people accepted Jesus, many of whom were students who pass by that campus daily. Hundreds more joined online. This was a moment of beauty rising from ashes, right there in Orem, Utah.
I sat in a dreich Scottish living room watching it live, fighting back tears. Because I saw the same thing I’ve seen for years, watching online at Calvary Chapel and Harvest meetings: Worship softens the ground, the Word does the planting, the Spirit brings the harvest. Charlie Kirk is home with the Lord. But his death opened a door that politics never could. And through that door walked thousands of young people who now belong to Jesus. So, keep praying for America, but also for the UK and here in Scotland. Keep praying for the next generation. And if you ever wonder whether modern worship and straight Bible preaching still work …
Just watch what happened on 16 November 2025 at Utah Valley University.
Just dropped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_gyjnJ73lw
The devil took a shot. Jesus won the night. “And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” (John 1:5 NKJV)
Peter
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