OM DENNE EPISODE
Keith Golightly grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas, with no connection to faith, no
knowledge of his grandfather except through a handmade leather wallet sent from
prison, and no warning before his family fell apart. He is now an associate pastor
at Grace Church in Southern Pines, North Carolina, a former US Army special
operations intelligence officer, and one of the most clear-eyed people you will
find talking about what God does with a broken family and a hardened heart.
Keith's story runs through a father's suicide attempt on a Dallas highway overpass,
a chance invitation to a college campus ministry, and more than half a decade inside
JSOC running counter-ISIS intelligence operations that fed reports to the White
House. He deployed to Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. He ran Bible studies downrange. He
resisted the culture of chest-reading and ego that runs through special operations
while staying fully inside it, understanding himself not as a soldier who happened
to be a Christian but as a Christian who happened to be a soldier.
The turning point came on a Thursday night at Sam Houston State University, when
Keith walked to an altar for the first time and prayed the first prayer of his life.
The years that followed were a sustained process of God refining what had been hard
-- the bitterness toward his mother, the distance from his father, the pride that
special operations culture rewards and God does not. His final OER from a squadron
commander who was not a believer read: "You're a friend to the squadron." The Holy
Spirit reminded him of John 15. That was enough.
Listeners will come away with a sharper understanding of what it costs to carry
faith into a culture that runs on ego, what forgiveness actually requires, and what
it looks like when a man's deepest ambition shifts from building a career to building
a family. Keith closes with the last verse of the Old Testament and why it is the
thing he wants most to get right before he leaves the earth.
knowledge of his grandfather except through a handmade leather wallet sent from
prison, and no warning before his family fell apart. He is now an associate pastor
at Grace Church in Southern Pines, North Carolina, a former US Army special
operations intelligence officer, and one of the most clear-eyed people you will
find talking about what God does with a broken family and a hardened heart.
Keith's story runs through a father's suicide attempt on a Dallas highway overpass,
a chance invitation to a college campus ministry, and more than half a decade inside
JSOC running counter-ISIS intelligence operations that fed reports to the White
House. He deployed to Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. He ran Bible studies downrange. He
resisted the culture of chest-reading and ego that runs through special operations
while staying fully inside it, understanding himself not as a soldier who happened
to be a Christian but as a Christian who happened to be a soldier.
The turning point came on a Thursday night at Sam Houston State University, when
Keith walked to an altar for the first time and prayed the first prayer of his life.
The years that followed were a sustained process of God refining what had been hard
-- the bitterness toward his mother, the distance from his father, the pride that
special operations culture rewards and God does not. His final OER from a squadron
commander who was not a believer read: "You're a friend to the squadron." The Holy
Spirit reminded him of John 15. That was enough.
Listeners will come away with a sharper understanding of what it costs to carry
faith into a culture that runs on ego, what forgiveness actually requires, and what
it looks like when a man's deepest ambition shifts from building a career to building
a family. Keith closes with the last verse of the Old Testament and why it is the
thing he wants most to get right before he leaves the earth.
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