Pastor Mike's Blog
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Hello, My name is Michael Whitman and I am the Pastor at Louisville Baptist Church In Louisville Alabama. The reason I started this website was to share Jesus with as many people as I could and to hopefully answer, or find answers to questions about the Bible. I hope that this site will bring encouragement to people in a troubled society.
Pastor Mike's Blog
1y ago
As a Christian, I think we sometimes forget that God Himself has brought us in to what it is He is doing. We ask what the future holds forgetting that the Book of Revelation is all prophetic, and it is through the words of this book that God tells us what is to come.
As God’s children, He has given us insight and knowledge to things that has not been revealed to those that are lost, and for good reason, God reveals His truth to His people through His word. But in order to understand His word, we must have to understanding of the Holy Spirit that will come to us only through salvation.
We then ..read more
Pastor Mike's Blog
1y ago
The other day as I sat looking at just a few of the headlines in the news, I remember asking myself, “how in the world did we get here?” I’m more than sure that I am not the only one who has asked that question, but more significant than this, where are we headed.
As we celebrated Father’s Day this past Sunday, I like many visited with their fathers, but my visit took place at Post Oak Baptist church where my father was buried in 2020. These visits always tend to bring with them a few tears accompanied by the comfort of knowing that dad is with the Lord.
As I looked around at the church and ce ..read more
Pastor Mike's Blog
2y ago
2 Kings 21:12–16 (NASB95)
12. therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
13. ‘I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14. ‘I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;
15. because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoki ..read more
Pastor Mike's Blog
3y ago
Most all of us know what a compass is. It is that devise by which ships, planes and those on land plotting courses have navigated by for centuries. One thing that has always amazed me is the fact that no matter where you are in this big world, a compass will always point north. Even in these days of modern technology, when all of the advanced forms of navigation fail, you can always pull out a compass and it will work as prescribed.
So what exactly does a compass and navigation have to do with the Church? A LOT! The church, the Body of Christ at one point used the Bible exclusively as our comp ..read more