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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, through a unique set of circumstances, I've been able to spend quality time with Navy SEALs,

which is awesome because they have incredible stories, particularly about the training they do when they're in the States.

I think much of what they do in preparation for their work, a lot of people in this room would love to do on a daily

basis. So while you're in your office shooting emails back and forth, they're in helicopters

shooting hogs, right? I remember once what I was calling a buddy of mine. I was in the middle

of finals, and he said, yeah, I got a final coming up, too. And he said, what are you studying? And I was like, it's in my Greek class. We're studying participles. It's very hard. He said,

yeah, that sounds hard. I said, what are you studying? And he said, how to stalk a guy?

I was like, and he was showing

me a video from one of their latest training schools called Halo School. Halo School. Halo is an

acronym. It stands for high altitude, low opening. It's a parachuting school. And it's not just

for seals. All branches of the military use it, but it's a very intense school.

They spent maybe half a day in the classroom, and then the next day they're shoving these guys out airplanes.

And so when the video starts, it looks hilarious.

All the guys bring kind of these baby blue outfits.

And I remember when the first guy leaves the plane, like, even if you've never parachuted,

you know that if you jump out of a plane, you're supposed to, you know, face the earth.

This first guy out of the plane, bless his heart, as soon as he leaps out, he just starts running.

And you're watching them going, there's no traction up there, man, lean!

You know, but other guys didn't do that, but they would open their mouths which made their lips flap and they just

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