I often listen to the TV programs of Dr. David Jeremiah, pastor of the Shadow Mountain Community Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, Calif., located in the outskirts of San Diego.

Dr. Jeremiah has a busy schedule, pastoring his own church, hosting a radio program heard around the world as well as the “Turning Point for God” TV ministry. I think he also has some other social media program but I haven’t seen or heard it.

It’s quite a load for a man almost 85 years old but he seems to relish it.

A major emphasis of his broadcasts is a “promise of Heaven.”

He believes Heaven exists and is ebullient in saying so. He also believes there is an entity called “Satan” active in the world.

A lot of people, including some Christians, have quit believing a Satan exists but the problems here in America and worldwide suggest he (it) does exist.

In a recent program Dr. Jeremiah said that Satan operates a three-pronged war against Christianity. The three prongs of Satan’s attack, as I understood him, are these: Deceive, Divide and Destroy.

He cited a series of events that cause these assaults to be successful, including infiltration, ignorance, interference and intimidation, which I interpreted to mean an incremental plan for taking over.

I thought that sounds a lot like the chaos we’re experiencing today thanks to the socialist Left.

Anyway, he thinks the resplendent lifestyle available to Americans is allowing evil to gain a foothold in the nation. (People are so comfortable they give too little thought to their spiritual lives was my interpretation.)

He also says that early Christians believed that the world was a battleground between Christianity and Satan. Apparently, it still is.

He emphasizes that to have the hope of Heaven, Christians must gain a knowledge of who God is by study, prayer and, I presume, church attendance where there are fellow believers to strengthen their faith.

I am far from a theologian but I am a believer. The Jeremiah sermons reminded me of the division and strife in our nation today.

One historical note Jeremiah included in one of his recent services regarded the “Jefferson Bible,” a work of Founder Thomas Jefferson, which was given for years to new members of the U.S. Congress.

Jefferson’s condensed composition excludes all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine.

The messages caused me to think again of American political activist, Charlie Kirk, 31, who was killed by a sniper’s bullet during a recent event at a Utah college where he was presenting his beliefs.

A memorial service attracting an estimated 200,000 to the memorial site in Arizona provided a message that jolted those attending or watching on TV.

Turning Point Action Chief Tyler Bowyer shared a screenshot of an old Charlie Kirk tweet from Sept. 25, 2013, when Kirk was just 19 years old.

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive,” Kirk wrote more than a decade ago.

The timing couldn’t be more profound – or more painful, Bowyer pointed out.

Kirk was barely out of his teenage years when he understood something that escapes most adults their entire lives.

The post has already racked up over 553,000 views and thousands of shares as conservatives across the country remember the young man they lost.

But Kirk’s own words from 2015 show he understood forgiveness on an even deeper level.

Kirk’s wife, Erika, who has taken the leadership of Turning Point USA, provided another insight into Christianity.

She publicly forgave her husband’s killer during the memorial, saying it was what Christ taught and what Charlie would do.

How difficult that would be for the woman left alone with two small children to raise on her own.

The Left, which made multitudes of snide comments about Kirk’s death, simply can’t understand Kirk’s movement.

Kirk’s crusade was more about Christianity and moral belief than about politics. He reached young people more effectively than most preachers. For years, Christian people were jeered out of college events, if they could even gain entry.

Erika Kirk has pledged to continue her husband’s work.

Some comments from the service follow: “I went to many of Charlie Kirk’s rallies, my wife spoke at his rallies, I spoke on campus with him,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in an interview Sunday on NBC. “He was an incredible young man, I think—articulate, thoughtful. And if you really see the people who came up to him who had a different viewpoint, he would hear them out... He’ll be remembered for that and also be remembered [as] a guy that was trying to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., personally attended Kirk’s memorial service in Phoenix, Arizona, and remembered him with an X post, which cited Psalm 37:5-6: “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who joined 57 other Democrats in voting against a ouse resolution honoring Kirk, said on CNN that she finds it jarring “that there are so many people willing to excuse the most reprehensible things that he said.”

Omar added that his legacy “should be in the dustpan of history, and we should hopefully move on and forget the hate that he spewed every single day.”

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, responded to Omar on X, writing, “The Cross – and those who carry it – are never left in the dust bin of history. Those who hate America, on the other hand, have a history of ending up there.”