Biography of Jim Horsley

Jim's presentations are based on a career that has included 200 missions as a highly decorated Navy combat pilot in Vietnam and over Jim Horsley, in his book "A Different Kind of Courage" (Word Publishing 1998), relates his journey as a Navy Blue Angels pilot obsessed with things, power, and prestige -- to father, husband, and servant. Near the end he concludes, "I've discovered that, like it or not, we're all hard-wired for relationships. And that begins with my relationship with the One who created me. I've found that if I'm not right with God, it doesn't work very well for me anywhere else. ... (At the end of my life) I wouldn't want to be in a position to have Jesus ask me, 'Jim, why should I be in a relationship with you for eternity when you wouldn't make room for Me on earth?'" 150 air shows with the world famous Blue Angels.