by Jim Welch | Apr 12, 2024 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
This week, my thoughts have been on prayer. Linda was out of the office a couple of days celebrating her and Lloyd’s 50th wedding anniversary (congratulations you two!). And that meant I was on “prayer chain” duty for a couple of days, as I am on the weekends. But...
by Jim Welch | Mar 15, 2024 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
There is no place like home. We had a wonderful trip exploring God’s creation. We spent time with some former Peninsula folks who blessed us amazingly. They pre-dated our time at the church, but we swapped stories and went through her 1991 church directory. That was a...
by Jim Welch | Feb 16, 2024 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
Today is a bit of a day of infamy. This morning marks the first Sunday in over twenty years that a Wickline has not been part of our church family. And by that I mean, with a home in the South Bay and regular access to worship here. At one point, there were eight of...
by Jim Welch | Feb 9, 2024 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
There are many issues which divide churches these days. It’s an election year, so there are more on the horizon. But some of those issues force me to examine my own willingness to live the grace of God and share Jesus as Savior and King. The debacle at the southern...
by Jim Welch | Feb 2, 2024 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
I am in a season of life that seems more reflective. Maybe I am just tired. But I have a couple of songs rattling around in my heart and mind these days which may explain things. I am a lover of Christian music (and I do have my favorite song writer, of course). What...
by Jim Welch | Nov 10, 2023 | Blog, Pastor's Blog
War is raging in the Middle East. The future seems so uncertain. And the present is more divided than ever. And I really didn’t think that was possible. Antisemitism is on the rise, even here in SoCal….outside the Museum of Tolerance. How ironic is that? I think...
