About Getting To Know God
Welcome to Getting To Know God, the podcast and daily devotional where we explore the scriptures to understand God's nature and His role in daily life. I'm Brandon, also known as Pastor b.Side, and I'm here to share my unique experience and perspective as a pastor and Bible teacher with a colorful background.
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A Little About Me & The Show
I grew up in the Los Angeles area of Southern California in the 1980s. I was a creative kid. I got into drawing and illustrations. I played around with drums and Latin percussion for a while. I took up DJing at a very early age. I got really good at that. I got to play deep house and drum and bass all over in some of the largest venues. I had some pretty cool experiences. Later, I got to work in recording studios and even built my own. I had the opportunity to work with some cool people, travel, and do some amazing things as a producer. Altogether, though, that life wasn’t helpful to my soul. I found myself in bad environments filled with darkness and bad influences. The dark times FAR outweighed the highlights. That life was rooted in selfish ambition and arrogance, and I felt every bit of separation from God. The outward success didn’t overshadow the dangers I was putting myself in or the inward emptiness.
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Thanks be to God, the saving grace of Jesus Christ changed my life. In one moment, God showed me that the life I was living, would not only lead to death, but hellfire! My success was a hoax. My money meant nothing. The friendships were worthless and vain. The first years of my marriage were miserable. In a moment, the LORD put all these truths in my face, and I had a decision to make.
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The day the LORD called me and redirected the course of my life – by force – He also called me to be a teacher of His Word. I had no previous desire to do so. I had no training. I had no resources. I hadn’t even read the Bible with any seriousness at that point. Still, the LORD made it clear. He was going to use a self-righteous hypocrite to teach His truth. Since then, He hasn’t been shy about reminding me of my true nature to keep me in check. Calling a person like me to ministry, handling His Word responsibly with fear and honor, has taught me so much about the extent of God’s mercy, grace, patience, power, wisdom, and righteousness. He’s done things in my life and used me in ways I still can’t understand. That was nearly twenty years ago.
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Many years later, the LORD is still putting up with me. Somehow, I’m still teaching the Bible. God has changed my heart and perspective to give me a strong burden to serve the practical and spiritual needs of those who struggle connecting with modern church culture, including youth, young adults, and even men and women who serve in the first responder community. Sure, I teach the Bible, but God blessed me with the opportunity to leverage my past creative skills to teach the truth in creative ways to people who think differently.
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So, not only will we get to learn about who God is through His Word, but also see how God reveals Himself in daily life. We'll talk about the issues we all deal with on a day-to-day basis through the stories and testimonies of others to learn how to recognize God's hand in moving in our lives. Certainly a cool way to learn and relate to God's Word. Amen?
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Why The Name b.Side?
I started DJing at age twelve using dual cassette decks, eventually upgrading to turntables and vinyl by age fifteen. So naturally, I’ve had a few DJ names throughout the years. When I started doing music production, a buddy of mine called me “b.Side” as a joke. When he explained his thinking, it made sense. My name is Brandon. The name b.Side starts with a “B.” That works. He said my style of DJ’ing and my music production reminded him of “B-side tracks” that you’d get on vinyl records. I wasn’t the “pop radio version” on the A-side. I was the track on the flip side. He said that concept matched my personality, too, since I was always interested in “zigging” while the world was “zagging.” Listening to him explain, I couldn’t argue with him. So, the name stuck. People started calling me b.Side.
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Since becoming a believer and servant of Jesus Christ, this name has come to have more personal meaning. Now, the concept of “the A-side” reminds me of the “natural” version of me. The selfish version of me. The version of me that lived as a bitter, rebellious, arrogant, and self-righteous jerk. I don’t want to be that guy. I want to be the b.Side version of that guy. I want to be the LORD’s remix of that first guy. So, where I used to spell my name “B-side” with a capital “B,” I now use the lowercase to remind myself that I must decrease so that the LORD can increase. I use a period instead of a dash to remind myself of an important truth. This new version of me has an end, and it isn’t about me. There is a distinction between me and the One who is making use of me. God has taken the DNA from my old “self” and flipped it. The version of me God is using isn’t a “popular single” that the world knows about and loves. The track God is making out of my life is a gem – a sleeper that only a few people know about. Still, God is putting it out there for people to hear, for His glory.
I am excited to share some more incredible content with you!
Wellington Church, the home church of Pastor Brandon, where he also serves as the student and family pastor. It is a church of ordinary people who have been transformed by an extraordinary gospel - Jesus Christ died and was raised from the dead to reconcile sinful men to holy God. This is good news that we desire to proclaim, live and share in the Central Kentucky community, and beyond.
Proper Knowledge Ministries is the umbrella organization for all of the ministry work that I do. Proper Knowledge Ministries is a legal 501c3 non-profit Christian organization. The podcast that I produce for Proper Knowledge is just one of a few ways I strive to share the Gospel globally and locally. Visit our website to see the other ways that we're striving to make Jesus Christ known to the world.
Continuous DJ mixes. Some are old recordings. Some are newly recorded. Some were mixed by some of my DJ friends. All of it is clean! Here, you'll find all kinds of deep house mixes, classic hop-hop mixes, downtempo mixes, jazz-hop mixes, and more. Whether you just want to vibe out at the coffee shop or dance like you're at the club...