Kenneth E. Lamb

 

Mr. Lamb is a native of St. Petersburg, Florida, where he attended private and public schools. He graduated from St. Petersburg High School in 1969.

 

He fulfilled his obligation as a citizen to the nation’s defense after graduating by volunteering for the U.S. Navy’s Silent Service, which is the nickname given to America’s submarine fleet. When he attended Submarine School at the Groton Naval Submarine Base, Mr. Lamb set a record high score for academic achievement, and was named the school’s Honorman.

 

He learned the skills required to be a Torpedoman’s Mate at the Orlando Naval Training Center. He was ordered to sea duty aboard the U.S.S. Dogfish (SS-350) during the Viet Nam Era.

 

Upon completing his 6-year active-duty and reserve enlistment, he was awarded an Honorable Discharge by the Secretary of the Navy in 1976.

 

His university-level education began at St. Petersburg Junior College, where he graduated Cum Laude. He transferred to the University of Florida and majored in Food and Resource Economics.

 

Mr. Lamb’s journalism career began three decades ago at the University of Florida. He wrote for the Independent Florida Alligator, the university’s campus newspaper.

 

Since then, his credits include the New York Times, the St. Petersburg Times, the Miami Herald, the Pensacola News Journal, the Pensacola Business Journal, the Pentecostal Herald, the Jewish Information Network, the Portal (a high-tech magazine), and Northwest Florida Business Climate magazine. In addition to his writing, he led others in his role as the publisher of the Centerville (AL) Press, a 5-county regional weekly covering suburban Birmingham, Alabama.

 

Mr. Lamb expanded his interests into broadcasting while writing, entwining news reporting with on-air interviewing. Today, he hosts CyberSmart Saturday™, a radio call-in, networked computer talk program, and Sunday Morning with Kenneth E. Lamb™, a radio news-interview program produced by NewsTalk 1370 WCOA and the Pensacola News Journal.

 

In addition to those currently active programs, he hosted the radio news-interview program This Evening with Kenneth E. Lamb™, and the television program Birmingham Today.

 

In the 2000 national elections, he created and led USPolitics.Net as its president. He authored Political Update Weekly™, an emailed World Wide Web news report reaching more than 7,000 of the country’s top political leaders. He continues to write as a “stringer” for various publications including the New York Times and the Pensacola News Journal, as well as columns and articles focusing on the interaction of society and theology for the Pentecostal Herald, published in more than 127 countries.

 

Today, Mr. Lamb owns CyberSmart Computers, Inc. It is a full-service computer manufacturing and services company located in Pensacola, Florida. He opened it after retiring from his several manifestations of full-time journalism. The community recognized his business ethics with a seat on the Board of Directors of the Better Business Bureau of Northwest Florida.

 

To prepare himself for theological research, Mr. Lamb pursued the Master of Divinity (M. Div.) degree at the Birmingham Theological Seminary (Presbyterian Church in America), located in Birmingham, Alabama.

 

In 1992, he began attending the First Pentecostal Church in Pensacola, Florida. There he was mentored by three notable leaders in the Apostolic Christian movement:

 

1) The Rev. D. L. Welch, a nationally recognized scholar, debater and church-planter who helped pioneer the Apostolic movement. When the Rev. D. L. Welch went home to the Lord, his accomplishments were recognized internationally in the Associated Press’ Deaths of Note dispatch.

 

2) The Rev. Paul H. Welch, who grew First Pentecostal Church into one of the Top 3 pulpits in the Apostolic movement. He now serves as its senior pastor. The church enjoys an active membership of more than 1,500 congregants..

 

3) The Rev. Brian Kinsey, former Youth President, and Home Missions Secretary, for the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI). Today, he is in service to the Lord as the pastor of the First Pentecostal Church.

 

Mr. Lamb’s in-depth theological studies focus primarily upon Early, Middle, and Late Classical Judaism. This timeline is defined as beginning with the Patriarchs, and ending when Judaism evolved into Rabbinic Judaism around 325 C.E.

 

Through his studies, Mr. Lamb discovered massive historical documentation validating Apostolic theology and doctrine. This crystallized his Apostolic framework for understanding Christianity.

 

Mr. Lamb soon recognized the need for a unified presentation of Apostolic Christianity to Apostolic believers, non-Apostolic believers, non-believers, and other scholars. His long-term scholarly work is authoring an Apostolic study-Bible.

 

Concurrently, a Bible-study series built around the study-Bible will serve as an educational tool geared for understanding Scripture in its original Jewish first-century C.E. context. It was then, in that cultural environment, where the apostles wrote and preached on the manifestation of God in flesh, Jesus the Christ.

 

From that context and culture, it can be seen that those who knew Jesus personally and spent years in His presence – the Apostles – taught their followers that if you are a Christian, you believe that:

 

1) God is singular in His nature. Teaching that “God” is a conglomeration of three people – the unbiblical “trinity” of Father, Son, Holy Ghost – never appears in their writings or oral teachings. The conglomeration of three people into a so-called monotheistic “God” is not only logically repugnant, it is the unchristian rejection of God’s revelation of Himself to humanity completely out-of-line with the apostles’ First Century C.E. mainstream Jewish belief system;

 

2) The apostle’s absolute requirement that to be saved from The Second Death – having one’s soul cast into The Lake of Burning Sulfur described in the Book of Revelation - a person must be “born (again) of water and the Spirit.” Two actions must both occur to bring a person to the point of being “born again,” and thus eligible to avoid The Second Death so long as the person practices the moral standards defined by the Apostles after these two events:

 

A) Baptism is an absolute requirement to become a Christian. Baptism is defined by the actions of the Apostles as being fully immersed under water and brought back up from the water in the Name of Jesus, and

 

B) Receive the promise of The Gift of the Holy Ghost, which is solely evidenced by speaking in a language unknown to the person prior to the Holy Ghost giving that person the ability to speak in that language. The first time this event occurs, it is for the purpose of creating a spiritual experience which provides an unshakable belief the Holy Ghost is a reality, and that this “mind of Christ” became part of their body and soul.

 

In Pensacola, Mr. Lamb’s civic activities included chairing the Pensacola City Council Citizens’ Task Force on Adult Entertainment Issues, and membership on the Escambia County (FL) School District’s Task Force on Diversity. Mr. Lamb’s current non-profit civic project creates economic opportunities for small businesses to begin life and prosper in northwest Florida.

 

His wife, Jane Elizabeth, passed in 2001 after a courageous battle with inflammatory breast cancer. He is survived by his son, Andrew, a student at the university level, and daughter, Kelly, whose career included work as a television journalist in the Tampa Bay area. Mr. Lamb is blessed with multiple grandchildren.

 

Mr. Lamb attends the First Pentecostal Church in Pensacola, Florida. It celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2003. The church is an inclusive congregation in fellowship with the UPCI.

 

His current web site is the confluence of his various journalistic achievements and intellectual interests.

 

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