THE BIOGRAPHY AND WRITINGS OF KENT BRANDENBURG

The Biography of Kent Brandenburg

Kent and Bridget Brandenburg were married two weeks in 1987 when they boarded a small U-haul truck with no furniture and little money to drive across country to evangelize and start a church in the San Francisco Bay Area, population eight million. Kent had heard in a sermon that if God didn’t destroy San Francisco, He would need to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. Their two sets of parents were first generation believers from very meager backgrounds, who turned to devoted service of Jesus Christ in Baptist churches, leaving that legacy to their children. Kent and Bridget had both just finished college and graduate school and sent by a Baptist church, he got a job at a sporting goods store and her as a bank teller. They began in the multipurpose room of an elementary school, but after a year and a half obtained a building and Bethel Baptist Church was founded in El Sobrante, California, just north of Berkeley in the East Bay. The church grew almost entirely through new converts, very few transfers of membership, door-to-door evangelism, evangelistic Bible studies, thirty week discipleship, and expository preaching through every book of the Bible. Several men with the desire of the office of a bishop were trained, and the Brandenburgs left one of them to pastor, David Sutton, as Bethel sent them out again this time as missionaries, first in Southern Oregon, in Jackson County, population 220,000. They took with them Kent’s two eighty year old parents to move already at the beginning of July 2020. In the first year, they will both evangelize, plant the church, and raise support from other like-minded churches. One of the trained men, ordained in November, will join them with his family next summer. Their sights are set to do the same in England at some future date. [You can read a biography post of Kent Brandenburg here.]

Kent Brandenburg graduated from 8th grade at Calvary Baptist Christian School in Watertown, WI in 1976, from high school as salutatorian at Maranatha Baptist Academy in Watertown, WI in 1980, from college, magna cum laude, at Maranatha Baptist Bible College (now Maranatha Baptist University) in 1984 with a major in Pastoral Studies and Biblical Languages and a minor in Speech, from graduate school at Maranatha Baptist Graduate School of Theology with a Masters in Bible in 1985 and a Master of Divinity in 1987, and from Fairhaven Baptist College with a Doctor of Divinity in 2004. He pastored Bethel Baptist Church in El Sobrante, CA and preached or taught through every verse of the Bible over thirty-three years. He taught history and Bible at Bethel Christian Academy for 31 years.

The Writings, Publications, and Works of Kent Brandenburg

Kent Brandenburg has written or contributed toward or edited three published books. In 1996 he wrote, Sound Music or Sounding Brass: A Biblical Theology of Godly Music (at Amazon). In 2003 he was general editor and author of Thou Shalt Keep Them: A Biblical Theology of the Perfect Preservation of Scripture (at Amazon). In 2012, he was general editor and author of A Pure Church: A Biblical Theology of Ecclesiastical Separation (at Amazon). He has written two other books that are presently unpublished, but completed: Fashion Statement: A Biblical Theology of Appearance and Clothing and Lying Vanities, which explains why the apostasy of this age (at this link is his Amazon author page). Kent Brandenburg has also written Disciplines for Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, a thirty week discipleship program for his churches, Basic Bible Study, a five week evangelistic study, and several tracts and pamphlets in print.

You can hear sermons from Kent Brandenburg on audio here. You can read blog posts by him from years at Bethel Baptist Church here. You can read new blog posts at Jackson County Baptist Church here. You can watch a gospel presentation by him here.

THE BIOGRAPHY AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS ROSS

Thomas Ross grew up doubting the existence of God, but during his freshman year of college, shortly before his sixteenth birthday, he turned to Jesus Christ in repentance and faith and was born again.  He subsequently joined a Bible-beliving and practicing Baptist church and continues to serve his Redeemer in that kind of a church today, recognizing that it constitutes the type of church found in the New Testament.  He earned a B.A. from the University of California at Berkley, an M. A. from Fairhaven Baptist College, a Masters of Divinity degree from Great Plains Baptist Divinity School, a Masters of Theology from Anchor Baptist Theological Seminary, and should complete his Ph. D. this year. He served as professor of Ancient Languages at Baptist College of Ministry and Theological Seminary for a number of years, as well as teaching at the Mukwonago Baptist Bible Institute, a ministry of Mukwonago Baptist Church in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, and now teaches college and seminary classes in conjunction with Bethel Baptist Church of El Sobrante, CA.  He has taught college classes internationally in Africa and Asia and debated advocates of non-Christian worldviews, such as atheism and Islam, in the United States and internationally. In addition to studying his King James Bible, he regularly reads the Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old Testament as part of his devotional studies.  He has read through the Greek New Testament multiple times, read the Hebrew Torah, and translated the Aramaic portions of Scripture.  He can translate at sight large portions of the Greek New Testament and much of the Hebrew Old Testament, and has recently started reading the Bible in Latin as well.  He has written a number of book. Many of his compositions, and other works defending and explaining Biblical Christianity, and also contrasting the case for Biblical Christianity with other ultimate commitments, are available on his website, faithsaves.net. His testimony of conversion to Christ, My Journey from Unbelief to the Truth, is available online here, and more about his educational background is available here.

Thomas Ross started writing at What Is Truth in 2012 and stopped in July of 2024.