Michael L. Brown is the founder and president of AskDrBrown Ministries and of FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, North Carolina, and host of the daily, nationally, syndicated talk radio show, the Line of Fire. He also hosts TV shows on GOD TV, METV (in Israel and the Middle East), and NRBTV.  He became a believer in Jesus in 1971 as a sixteen year-old, heroin-shooting, LSD-using Jewish rock drummer. Since then, he has preached throughout America and around the world, bringing a message of repentance, revival, reformation, and cultural revolution.

He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Denver Theological Seminary, the King’s Seminary, and Regent University School of Divinity, and he has contributed numerous articles to scholarly publications, including the Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion, the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis, and The Moody Handbook to Messianic Prophecy.

Dr. Brown is the author of more than 35 books, including, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the “Church” and the Jewish People, which has been translated into more than twelve languages, the highly-acclaimed five-volume series, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, commentaries on Jeremiah and Job , and numerous books on revival and Jesus revolution. His newest books are When the World Stops: Words of Hope, Faith, and Wisdom in the Midst of Crisis (2020), Resurrection: Investigating a Rabbi From Brooklyn, a Preacher From Galilee, and an Event That Changed the World (2020) and Jezebel’s War With America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide (2019).

Dr. Brown is a national and international speaker on themes of spiritual renewal and cultural reformation, and he has debated Jewish rabbis, agnostic professors, and gay activists on radio, TV, and college campuses. He is widely considered to be the world’s foremost Messianic Jewish apologist.

He and his wife Nancy, who is also a Jewish believer in Jesus, have been married since 1976. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.