[BONUS] The Faith Journey of a Navy Seal (with Chad Williams)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Why would a Navy Seal come to faith? How would he reconcile questions about the use of violence with his Christian beliefs? These are just a few of the questions Sean explores with Chad Williams, former Navy Seal. This bonus episode was first recorded on Sean's YouTube channel, but falls right in line with typical content we have on the Think Biblically podcast. Chad Williams is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, CNN News Room, Anderson Cooper 360 and more. He draws from his experien...

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0:00.0	Welcome to ThinkBibically, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from Taub School Theology,
0:07.8	Biola University.
0:09.4	I'm your host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics.
0:12.8	Today we've got a very special bonus episode for you.
0:16.0	I had a chance to catch up with my friend
0:17.6	Chad Williams, who is a Navy SEAL.
0:20.4	He's got a remarkable story about coming to faith during his work as a Navy SEAL and it
0:27.4	radically changed in his life and now he's a minister and he's a Christian
0:32.0	apologist. I interviewed him on my YouTube channel so the
0:36.0	setup is a little bit different but those of you who listen to Think biblical podcast are just
0:40.3	going to love the content, love his stories, love some of his encouragement, and
0:44.6	some of his insight.
0:45.8	So as usual, we hope you love it and we'll consider sharing it with a friend.
0:50.6	All right, friends, we have got a fun one for you today. I'm here with my friend Chad Williams, who is a former Navy SEAL.
0:59.0	We're going to talk about his Navy SEAL training, what they did as Navy SEALs, life lessons he's learned along the way,
1:06.6	talk about his journey to faith, interestingly enough while he was a SEAL, and I want to ask
1:11.9	him some of the thorny apologetic questions that because he's a seal he may have a unique
1:17.2	perspective about like Old Testament violence things like why is they're evil and how does he make sense of just war and the teachings of Jesus.
1:26.1	And then we're going to take some live questions at the end and give away a signed copy of
1:30.9	Chad's book which is called Seal of God.
1:34.4	Chad, thanks so much for joining us.
1:37.3	Pump to be on here.
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