Bradley is a native of New Albany, Mississippi, where he spent all of his early life. He graduated from Blue Mountain College and is also a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. After serving for six years in the Mississippi Army National Guard, he married his best friend, Beth, and they have two daughters. Bradley has served in many different areas on church staffs across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. He has lived in Bartow County for the past 10 years and, therefore, has a deep passion to see God move in Bartow County that would change the people living here and that would reverberate throughout the known world.