Staff Blog
Oh, Conscience!
What mayhem we will see when conscience is broken, “Do ‘right’ in your own eyes.” This mantra, now spoken. No restraining presence, like no brakes on a car, Plummeting down the hill, “It’s a thrill ride for all”??? A broken conscience, bad, but another step worse, When conscience becomes blind, we’ll live under that…
Celebrating 40 years of God’s Faithfulness at PCI- Join Us May 23rd, 2026
Please RSVP for our 40th Anniversary Dinner- May 23, 2026. 4:30-7pm This year Pacific Church of Irvine celebrates 40 years of God’s Faithfulness and Pastor Seth and Mindy’s love and faithfulness to Pacific Church and all the people who have walked in it’s doors over the years. We hope you will join us for a…
FEELINGS
“If I don’t feel something, it really isn’t real.” Oh, fickle feelings, me, a slave to what I feel? Feelings can come and go, like offshore winds at sea. Feelings are wind gauges of what’s inside of me. My feelings can be fed by my thoughts, words, and deeds! New feelings can be built…
“Oh, Conscience!!!”
What mayhem we will see when conscience is broken, “Do ’right’ in your own eyes.” This mantra, now spoken. No restraining presence, like no brakes on a car, Plummeting down the hill, “It’s a thrill ride for all”??? A broken conscience, bad, but another step worse, When conscience becomes blind, we’ll live under that…
PROTECTED? HOW?
Life in a fallen world. Things don’t work like they “should.” That is certainly true. Oh, don’t you wish they would? Sometimes its winter storms, sometimes wretched sickness, Sometimes human badness, sometimes man’s stubbornness. How does God protect us? Not from every trouble. (Sure I’ve been protected, but life’s not a bubble). But…
“I Was Wrong”
“I was wrong,” words so rare, like extinct dodo birds! When was the last time you heard someone say these words? Admitting this is “hard.” Why must it be so “hard”? Proud and defensive, we; self is always on “guard.” Other words fill our minds! “But you don’t understand.” “I was wrong; so were…
Christmas Fix
The human dilemma’s incurable disease, Fraught with conflict, drama, maker of misery. Not positive thinking, nor resolutions new, Can overcome the sin that lies in me and you. We put on happy fronts, “Everything is OK.” “Great things are happening.” (At least, that’s what we say). But something’s in the heart that makes a…
A FOOLISH MAN, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Solomon’s book, Proverbs, I read at twenty-three, Launched me on a journey: wise, I wanted to be. God’s word, like a mirror, preparatory school, Revealed my starting point: I saw I was a “fool!!” “Foolish,” “fool,” and “folly,” all three indicated, Marks that were true of me, though all three, I hated. “Prefer the…
Our Fallen World
Once we did have Eden, garden of paradise, Dreams of utopia, Adam and Eve were nice. Lands of milk and honey, Love’s creation gave birth, Beauty, majesty, life, rejoiced through all the Earth. Creator created, such wonder filled the sky. Sun and moon, clouds and stars, birds majestically fly. Beauty of a garden, orange…