Wednesday, May 2, 2012

CREDIT FOR OSAMA GOES TO NAVY SEALS


Seal of God: The Path is Narrow…
but the Reward is Great

Biblical Economics Image Days before Chad Williams was to report to military duty in Great Lakes, Illinois, he turned on a television and was greeted with the horrifying images of his mentor, US Navy SEAL Scott Helvenston, being brutally murdered in a premeditated ambush on the roads of Fallujah, Iraq. The footage was forever imprinted in his mind: his hero, set ablaze and hung upside down from the Euphrates River bridge while an Iraqi mob rejoiced on live television.

Steeled in his resolve, Chad followed in Scott’s footsteps and completed the US military’s most difficult and grueling training to become a Navy SEAL. One of only 13 from a class of 173 to make it straight through to graduation, Chad served his country on SEAL Teams One and Seven for five years, completing tours of duty in the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Iraq. There, his jounrey came full circle when his team was ambushed by enemy machine gunners -- close to the same road where his hero had been slain 5 years earlier.

Since finishing his military career in May of 2010, Chad has used the experiences and discipline he learned while operating as a SEAL to communicate the gospel in many places -- from the streets of Huntington Beach, CA, to the Holy Land of Israel.

Part memoir, part evangelism piece, SEAL of God follows Chad’s journey through the grueling Naval Ops training and onto the streets of Iraq, where he witnessed the horrors of war up close. Along the way, Chad shares his own radical conversion story and talks about how he draws on his own experiences as a SEAL to help others better understand the depths of Christ’s sacrifice and love.

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