The Gospel Is The ‘Power Of God To Salvation’
In Romans 1:16-17, we find two verses from the Apostle Paul that anchor this entire Congress—“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek,” and then, “For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, ‘the just shall live by faith’” (NKJV). Some consider those two verses to be the most important verses in the entire Book of Romans.
In fact, James Montgomery Boice said those two verses are the most important in all of literature itself. Why? Well, first, the theme of Romans is the righteousness of God. And second, those verses are at the very heart of Biblical Christianity. They tell people on Earth how they can have a right relationship with God in Heaven—that is, through the righteousness of God by faith.
In verse 16, Paul makes quite a statement—“I am not ashamed of the Gospel.” Think of all that Paul had been through up to this point because of the Gospel. After all of that, Paul is still eager to preach the Gospel in Rome, a city that would intimidate most people. Why was it that Paul was so bold and so unashamed of the Gospel?
The Gospel Is Good News
The first reason is because the Gospel is Good News. The very word Gospel means Good News. So why would anybody be ashamed of good news? I can think of a couple of reasons.
First, it would be easy to be intimidated by Rome itself. If you were living anywhere in the Roman empire, for you to go to Rome and look around, you would think these people don’t need anything. They have it all. Also, even though it means good news, not everybody saw the Gospel as good news. It was identified with a poor Jewish carpenter who had been executed, and there was no glory in that. And the Gospel is not good news to the unregenerate mind when it is first heard because it exposes man’s sin.
But when the Gospel penetrates a heart, it transforms the heart. It changes a life. If you once suffered with cancer and you are now in remission, you would tell people. If you were involved in a war and the war was now over, you would broadcast that—because it’s good news.
The Gospel Is the Power of God
The Gospel is also “the power of God to salvation.” Now, why on earth would anyone be ashamed of power? Rome loved power. Rome exuded power. But with all of that power, Rome was powerless to save one soul. They were militarily strong. They were morally weak.
But Paul writes to the Romans and says the Gospel is the power of God. Paul doesn’t say that the Gospel is about God’s power or that the Gospel is a source of power. No, the Gospel is power. The very Gospel is power. It is powerful enough to accomplish God’s purpose in a fallen world polluted by sin.
The Gospel Is Freely Given
There’s a third reason Paul was not ashamed: because the Gospel is given freely. It is a free gift.
No matter what background people come from, the Gospel is given freely. It is for everyone who believes. The Gospel was promised through the Jewish prophets who wrote Jewish Scriptures to a Jewish nation in a Jewish context predicting a Jewish Messiah—but it’s for the whole world, not just the Jew but also the Greek. What Paul is saying is: our Gospel is a non-discriminatory Gospel.
The Gospel is good for Greeks, it’s good for barbarians. It’s good for the educated, the uneducated, the high class, the low class. It’s for everyone who believes.
The Gospel Gets Us Right…..
A Church Stirred To Boldness And Courage
Charlie Kirk was an individual who took the opportunities that God set before him with passion and courage. The impact that he made in 31 years on this earth was incredible. After tragedy struck, many Christians have rightfully reflected on their own impact on society and the people around them, asking if they are truly being bold ambassadors and laborers for Christ.
As Christians living in the nearness of Christ’s return, I can think of no call to action more timely. It is the Holy Spirit operating within us that restrains the increasingly wicked world around us and plants the seeds of the Gospel. By God’s hand, Charlie was led by the Spirit to be an effective restrainer—using the truth of the Bible to reach out directly to the most hardened and ideologically deceived in our culture.
Until we die or are called up to heaven in the Rapture of the Church, each member of the body of Christ has been given a similar mission.
Jesus said, “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few” (Matthew 9:37). In the following verse, Jesus urges us: “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” Charlie Kirk’s death, while horrifying and deeply heartbreaking, is being used by God to answer this prayer—calling people to the fields and generating even more determination in those already laboring.
Franklin Graham, the son of the late Billy Graham and President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, recently made a comment that I found startling. In a post on social media, he explained that Charlie Kirk’s example has made him want to be “more bold.” What a statement to come from a man who has dedicated his life to sharing the Gospel and is one of the boldest voices for Jesus of our time!
However—unlike Graham, Kirk, and others—there are certainly many in the church who have been asleep, lacking boldness, courage, and urgency in this hour. Yet, in God’s infinite wisdom and foresight, He has used something as evil as the murder of Charlie Kirk and turned it to the good by stirring the last days’ church to wake up and toughen up…..
Watch: Humanoid robot displays natural gait, sense of direction to meet friends
PND Robotics released a new video on YouTube recently, showcasing its humanoid walking robot – Adam – walking down the hallway. The humanoid walks with a natural, human-like gait using reinforcement learning.
Programmed with a proprietary reinforcement learning algorithm, Adam followed the directions like a human being and entered a room full of other robots carrying out different tasks.
Through Adam, PND Robotics has specifically worked on simulation-to-real-world by using reinforcement learning to train its humanoids to walk and make movements like human beings.
The video follows Adam as he walks from the hallway into a room full of other similar robots, engaged in different activities. Adam walked into the room, naturally following the path to perfection.
It was also greeted by Adam-U, another one of PND Robotics’ crucial innovations. Adam-U is a robot built on a stationary platform, built in partnership with Noitom Robotics and Inspire Robots.
Adam walked across the room like a guide, showing other robots involved in different activities. Two robots can be seen grooving to a light dance routine. Another humanoid ascended and descended on a wooden plank in what seemed to be a daily training session.
Adam and Adam-U made a grand debut at the WAIC 2025, held in Shanghai from July 26 to July 29, amidst a knot of fervent admirers enthralled by their capabilities…..
Atlantic shock: US mysteriously test fires 130,000-pound nuclear missile from deep sea
Anuclear-powered submarine from either the United States or the United Kingdom appears to have test-fired a UGM-133 Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from Puerto Rico in the North Atlantic on Sunday night, according to various videos circulating online.
The missile carried an “unusual payload” or hypersonic glide vehicle and was launched deep inside the Atlantic Ocean.
However, neither the US Navy nor Britain’s Royal Navy, the only operators of the Trident II D5, has publicly confirmed the test.
A navigation warning was issued for the region between September 17 and 22, covering the same area where the launch was detected.
Videos posted on social media showed a bright object streaking across the night sky at about 11:25 pm UTC, with several clips recorded over Puerto Rico.
The Caribbean Astronomy Society described the event as a “military test” but did not specify which nation was responsible.
Footage tonight from all over Puerto Rico captured the launch of what is believed to be a UGM-133 Trident II Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) from either a U.S. or Royal Navy nuclear-powered ballistic submarine in the Northern Atlantic. No statement regarding any test… pic.twitter.com/j7KhgRyF0K
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 22, 2025
According to the US Navy, the SLBM Trident II D5 strategic weapon system (SWS) is the planet’s most lethal, accurate, and reliable sea-based strategic deterrent.
The UGM-133 Trident II D5 is the backbone of the sea-based leg of both the US and UK nuclear deterrents.
It is deployed on 14 Ohio-class submarines in the US Navy and four Vanguard-class submarines in Britain under the 1963 Polaris Sales Agreement.
Each Ohio-class boat carries 20 Trident II missiles, while the Vanguard-class carries 16.
With a range of about 4,600 miles (7,360 kilometers), the three-stage, solid-fuel missile can deliver up to 12 independently targetable warheads…..
Engineering Student Turns Red Solo Cups into Stylish Sweaters That Don’t Shed Microplastics
The process addresses every concern or question one might have, and is finding a second life for these hard-to-recycle cups.
Made by companies like Solo and Hefty, solo cups are a staple at American parties across the nation. God only knows how many are used and tossed every year, but many recycling facilities won’t have the equipment needed to process their plastic blend.
Enter Lauren Choi, an engineering student formerly at Johns Hopkins University, who founded the New Normal Collective after discovering a way that these cups could be turned into textiles.
She had long had an interest in sustainable fashion, but it was after she graduated in 2020 that she was able to secure grant funding to buy an extruder machine which can turn shredded plastic cups into thread. She had tried to build one of these machines herself in her parent’s garage during school years, and knew that they were the key to turning her vision into a reality.
Made by companies like Solo and Hefty, solo cups are a staple at American parties across the nation. God only knows how many are used and tossed every year, but many recycling facilities won’t have the equipment needed to process their plastic blend.
Enter Lauren Choi, an engineering student formerly at Johns Hopkins University, who founded the New Normal Collective after discovering a way that these cups could be turned into textiles.
She had long had an interest in sustainable fashion, but it was after she graduated in 2020 that she was able to secure grant funding to buy an extruder machine which can turn shredded plastic cups into thread. She had tried to build one of these machines herself in her parent’s garage during school years, and knew that they were the key to turning her vision into a reality.
Choi relied on two other engineering colleges to provide a non-toxic, natural material that would turn the icky, plasticy feeling thread into a soft and comfortable, knitwear-ready yarn.
Final solution ready, and missing only the machinery, Choi received further grant funding from none other than Reynold’s Consumer Products, the parent company of Hefty—one of the largest producers of plastic solo cups in America.
Her supply chain now is anchored in North Carolina and Virginia where the yarn is made from the shredded cups. It’s then shipped to a facility in Brooklyn where a 3D knitter creates the sweaters and beanies available on the New Norm’s collection in a single knit using filament yarn rather than spun yarn…..
Last night a violent left-wing terrorist murdered another innocent American…
The left is on a full-blown violence bender. Every time we turn around, there’s another attack, another attempted murder, another assassination. These are the same ghouls who claim to be the party of “joy” and “love,” yet they’re leaving behind a trail of death and destruction wherever they go.
We’re still reeling from the trans attack on a Catholic church where two innocent children were shot dead by a man pretending to be a woman. Not long after that, a trans-furry-obsessed radical left-winger assassinated Charlie Kirk in front of his wife, his kids, and the entire world during an event at a Utah college.
Not only that, but we recently covered another story out of Utah where two men attempted to blow up a local Fox News truck that was just doing their job and reporting on Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Just days after Charlie’s assassination, Utah was rocked again. Two Middle Eastern men in Salt Lake City were arrested by the FBI for attempting to blow up a news van with an incendiary device. The van was reporting on the Charlie Kirk assassination.
BREAKING: MORE LEFT-WING VIOLENCE IN UTAH
Two Salt Lake City men have been arrested by the FBI for planting an “incendiary device” under a news van, attempting to blow it up.
Anti-Trump flags seen outside of the home federal agents served their warrant, including “Is he dead yet?”
This happened less than 48 hrs after Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University.
What you just saw is the reality the legacy media refuses to talk about. The pattern is undeniable: violence, intimidation, and threats are coming from the left, and they’re escalating. But, instead of sounding the alarm and reporting the facts, the press runs cover, hides the connections, and pretends these are all “isolated” or “random”incidents. It’s not. Utah should be a warning sign for the entire country. There’s a lot of rage, hate and anger brewing beneath the surface.
At this point, the question is no longer if more incidents will happen. It’s how much longer will Americans be kept in the dark about what’s really driving this violent left-wing movement.
But sadly, there’s more… just days ago, a radical leftist opened fire on ABC studios in California after Jimmy Kimmel was fired for lying about Charlie Kirk’s assassination and mocking it on national TV.
Earlier today—On 9/20/25, Anibal Hernandez-Santana, 64, ex-legislative dir. for CA Fed. of Teachers, arrested in Sacramento for shooting into ABC affiliate bldg.’s window.
Faces charges: assault w/ deadly weapon, negligent firearm discharge, shooting into occupied bldg.
Incident followed ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show after backlash over Kimmel mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Nexstar’s broadcasting pres. Andrew Alford called Kimmel’s remarks offensive, citing political tensions.
Hernandez-Santana, suspected leftist, posted inflammatory online messages, incl. “rules don’t apply if election stolen” & urging to “fight like hell.” Investigators probe motive, suspect political grievances tied to ABC’s decision.
And that isn’t the end of it, folks. Not even close. As disturbing as all this was, the left’s thirst for blood isn’t quenched.
Yet another innocent American has now been murdered by a radicalized leftist.
The media wants you to believe that this violence is random. It’s not. It’s deliberate, political and it’s spreading.
Last night, a radical “pro-Palestinian” leftist stormed a wedding in New Hampshire and murdered a 59-year-old man in cold blood. Two more guests were shot, several others were injured, and a celebration turned into a bloody, hellscape of a nightmare. This is where Democrat indoctrination leads… innocent Americans gunned down while the media looks the other way and claims “MAGA” is the real threat to their precious “democracy.”…..
Violent chaos erupts in Milan as pro-Palestine protesters and strikers clash with riot cops and storm train station
Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors, including public transportation, trains, schools and ports.
Monday’s strike caused disruptions across the country, with long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome.
In Milan, tensions escalated when dozens of protesters dressed in black and armed with batons tried to smash the main entrance of the city’s central train station, throwing smoke bombs, bottles and stones at police, who responded with pepper spray and tear gas.
More than 10 people were arrested in Milan and around 60 police officers suffered bruising or more serious injuries, Italy’s ANSA news agency reported.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the scenes in Milan, Italy’s financial capital and co-host of the Winter Olympics next February.
‘(This was) violence and destruction that have nothing to do with solidarity and will not change the lives of people in Gaza by a fraction, but will have concrete consequences for Italian citizens who will end up suffering and paying for the damage caused by these hooligans,’ she said on X.
In Bologna, police used water cannons to disperse a crowd of demonstrators who blocked a highway….
Chaos in Italy: Antifa Clashes with Police at Milan Train Station Over Remigration Summit
Burberry Bandit’ with dozens of prior arrests walks free after latest blue city crime spree: report
A New York City felon known as the “Burberry Bandit” is back on the streets after being released from jail following a string of alleged bank robberies.
Cornell Neilly, 35, earned the nickname after he was caught on surveillance camera in 2012 wearing a similar pattern associated with the luxury brand, according to the New York Post.
Neilly was arrested on Sept. 15 after police said he robbed five banks throughout New York City over the course of one month, the outlet reported. In each case, Neilly allegedly passed a note to the bank teller demanding cash, the NYPD confirmed to Fox News Digital.
The accused bank robber’s spree allegedly began on Aug. 16, when he strolled into the Chase Bank at 27th Street and Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and handed the teller a note demanding $3,500, the Post reported. The teller reportedly handed him $1,000 before he made his escape.
Neilly allegedly asked for the same amount of money when he entered the Chase Bank on Park Avenue and East 26th Street on Aug. 25, where he ultimately walked out with $716, the outlet said.
Just two weeks later, on Sept. 9, Neilly is accused of entering another Chase Bank in Midtown and demanding $4,500 – but reportedly ran off when the teller sounded the alarm.
On Sept. 12, Neilly allegedly demanded $3,500 from the Chase Bank on West Fourth Street in the West Village. The next day, he allegedly made off empty-handed after handing a teller at the Chelsea Chase Bank a note that read, “This is a robbery. I want all large bills. Now. This is real,” causing the employee to trigger the bank’s silent alarm.
However, upon appearing in front of Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Jeffrey Gershuny, the suspected bank robber was allowed back on the streets on supervised release – despite having 34 prior bank robbery arrests – according to the Post. ….
Charlie Kirk Memorial Gets Over 100M Streams, Leftists Call it Nazi Rally | Tim Pool
The world is changing and we can not tolerate evil.
US Navy strikes speedboat with 2,200 pounds of cocaine
Authorities in the Dominican Republic say a joint operation with the United States led to the destruction of a speedboat carrying cocaine and the recovery of more than 2,200 pounds of the drug.
The U.S. Navy carried out an aerial strike against the vessel, which officials described as being operated by narcotraffickers.
Powerful Moments From Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service
Thousands gathered in Arizona to honor Charlie Kirk, and the night was nothing short of powerful.
CBN’s Billy Hallowell was there in person and shares what he witnessed at the emotional memorial service for the late Turning Point USA founder. CBN’s Dan Andros hosts.
Perino: This is one of the most remarkable speeches I’ve ever seen
Fox News contributor Guy Benson joined ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss his take on Erika Kirk’s memorial speech as tens of thousands of attendees gathered to honor Charlie’s legacy in Glendale, Arizona.
Turning Point USA’s Tyler Bowyer: We Pulled Off the ‘Largest Memorial in Known History’
“Our teams at Turning Point just pulled off the largest memorial in known history in a matter of a few days. It was the most attended, most attempted, most viewed,” he revealed.
“We had no issues. Glory be to God. We love you CK,” he added.
His update coincides with that of Turning Point USA’s national spokesperson Andrew Kolvet, who said Sunday night that their production and streaming partners tracked “over 100 million overall streams for today’s tribute to Charlie.”
“This is JUST what they know about. It’s likely much larger,” he said, revealing these are merely the preliminary figures.
“Over 100 million people just heard the Gospel proclaimed again and again by speaker after speaker. Truly remarkable. For Charlie ,” he added.
Indeed, that is something Kolvet predicted would happen, telling Breitbart News Saturday on the day before the memorial, “more people around the world are going to hear the gospel of Jesus live on TV, on streaming, than at any other time in human history, in one single fell swoop.”…
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