Suiting Up: What Fighter Pilots Can Teach Us About Spiritual Readiness
When people hear the phrase “spiritual readiness,” they might imagine Bible study or prayer time—but few picture a fighter pilot gearing…
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Drawing on years directing fighter pilots, David Reed translates cockpit discipline into everyday faith. In Training To Be A Top Gun For God, practical steps—daily prayer, Scripture drills, supportive wingmen—equip readers to stay calm, alert, and purpose-driven when life’s unexpected dogfights roar overhead.
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David Reed, retired Air Force officer and pastor, invites you into My God Stories, a collection of true accounts ranging from snake-filled Kentucky barns to overseas lines and lively pickleball courts. Each moment shows God quietly steering ordinary choices toward unexpected grace.
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After losing Jeannie, his partner, following forty-nine years of marriage, David Reed transformed grief into a roadmap for new love. Hands of Love walks readers through first impressions, character checks, and commitment, proving second chapters can bloom without compromise.
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David Reed
David Reed is a Kentucky-born Air Force veteran, pastor, and Christian author whose real-life “God stories” animate his writing. Over a 22-year military career, “Shadow” graduated from Fighter Weapons School, directed Red Force F-5s against Blue Force F-15s throughout the Pacific Theater and led The Weapons Control Team to victory at the 1982 William Tell air-to-air meet, and he headed a Central-American air-defense modernization task force to great success. His rise from rural Kentucky farmhouses to Top Gun Radar Scopes grounds a message that disciplined training and humble prayer win earthly and spiritual battles. After 49 years of marriage, Reed lost his wife Jeannie; her final exhortation inspired the Hands of Love model for discerning lifelong partners.
Vision
To inspire hearts worldwide by sharing authentic God-stories that reveal Christ’s love, strengthening families, guiding discipleship, and igniting communities to live purposefully for eternity.
Mission
To equip believers through teaching, resources, and service opportunities, fostering disciplined faith, compassionate outreach, accountable partnerships, and lifelong spiritual growth grounded in biblical truth.
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Training To Be A Top Gun For God
Training To Be A Top Gun For God fuses David Reed’s fighter-pilot experience with a practical guide to spiritual warfare. Bearing his call sign “Shadow,” Reed shows believers how elite aviators’ vigilance, discipline, and teamwork translate into Christian combat readiness against Satan. He recalls radar-controller training, Fighter Weapons School victories, and the William Tell championship to illustrate preparation, humility, and camaraderie.
Cockpit tactics become scripture study, prayer drills, fasting rhythms, and accountable partnerships that form tight spiritual squadrons. Specific temptations—lust, pride, anger, fear, deceit—are met with tactical counter-moves, while personal “God stories” demonstrate the transformation and recruit new “Top Guns” committed to Christ’s mission in churches, homes, workplaces, and online.
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Hands of Love
Hands of Love chronicles pastor David Reed’s journey from devastating widowhood to hope-filled remarriage through a God-revealed dating framework. Grieving the death of his wife Jeannie after forty-nine years, Reed confronts despair before sensing a divine call to keep living purposefully. In prayer, he receives the “Hands of Love” model: five fingertip attractions open courtship, nine Spirit-filled virtues bridge hearts, and interlocking palms signify covenantal bonding.
Applying the process, Reed finds a new wife and offers readers a biblically grounded roadmap for healing, discerning partners, and building lifelong, Christ-centered marriages rooted in mutual service and eternal hope for both souls.
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My God Stories
My God Stories traces David Reed’s life through vivid vignettes revealing divine fingerprints on ordinary and extraordinary moments. Childhood prayers rescue puppies; Air Force adventures forge “Shadow,” a Top Gun controller who learns vigilance, discipline, and mission-focused faith. Marriage to Jeannie, miraculous house hunts, Honduran deployments, and chance encounters—like with golf prodigy Inbee Park—show God weaving relationships across decades.
Pickleball courts become fresh mission fields after Jeannie’s passing. Each chapter exhorts readers to recognize Satan’s divisive tactics, plant gospel seeds daily, empty their “love basket,” and chronicle personal testimonies that prove, again and again: “I didn’t know, but God did,” at every turn.
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