Navy SEAL Sniper Opens Up About Jesus | Jared Hudson

A Navy SEAL sniper sits down and gets real about the one thing combat never prepared him for: Jesus.

In this Code Red Talk episode, Pastor Zach Terry sits across from former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson — sniper, law enforcement investigator, anti-trafficking warrior, and seventh-generation Alabamian — for one of the most raw, faith-filled conversations we’ve ever recorded. From the battlefields of the Global War on Terror to a single-wide trailer where he gave his life to Christ at age six, Jared shares the testimony, the scars, and the unshakable convictions that drive him.

This isn’t politics-as-usual. It’s two men of faith talking about spiritual warfare, fatherhood, the offense of the Gospel, what really happens to a man’s soul in the “dark places,” and why love will always outfight hate. Whether you came for the SEAL stories or the Scripture, you’re going to walk away challenged.

▶ Watch to the end — the answer to “how do you guard your soul?” will stick with you.

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⏱ Chapters / Timestamps

0:00  – Cold open

0:31  – Welcome to the Code Red Studio

0:45  – “The horse is made ready, but victory rests on the Lord”

1:01  – The challenge: rename a road “Code Red Boulevard”

1:45  – Seven generations of Alabama farmers

5:44  – The Davy Crockett bloodline

6:36  – “Sometimes the best weapon isn’t a bullet — it’s a ballot”

6:55  – SEAL Team 3, sniper school & the road to Green Team

7:13  – When a SEAL career ends

7:29  – How a Navy SEAL came to know Jesus

7:56  – The missionary years in Turkey

10:15  – Saved at six years old in a single-wide trailer

12:36  – Leading his own daughters to Christ

13:40  – “Jesus doesn’t have a number” — a 4-year-old’s faith

15:06  – Explaining the Trinity to a six-year-old

18:24  – God incarnate, NOT reincarnate (correcting the record)

20:22  – “The darkest place may not be the war zone…”

26:08  – Power doesn’t change you — it reveals you

27:15  – Why a bribe exposes the heart that was already there

35:45  – How he guards his soul in the dark places

37:50  – Bound by the blood of his fallen brothers

38:17  – The Daniel principle: staying rooted in any kingdom

41:45  – Hunting for demons in the halls of D.C.

44:45  – “I didn’t come to bring peace, but a sword”

45:26  – Sin is crouching at the door (the lesson from Cain)

47:27  – What he really thinks of the people who hate him

49:54  – Why screens make peop...