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Dear Friends, Here is the link to today's sermon on YouTube, and the manuscript is attached. Hope you can join us on Zoom next Sunday! Sermon - January 24, 2021, "Nick at Night" Blessings, Pastor Chris -- Sermon – "Nick at Night" – John 3:1-21 January 24, 2021 Chris Coon, PBPC Introduction In his commentary on the gospel of John, N.T. Wright shares about the experience of losing his birth certificate in the process of moving from one home to another. Many of us have had this experience, and often we only realize that it is missing when we really need it, as when we're renewing our passport; then the there's the mad scramble to order another one and hope that it arrives in time. Of course, the one thing that a birth certificate isn't needed for is to prove that a birth took place. Here I am; obviously I have been born. The fact that at the moment I can't prove when and where is a minor detail. N.T. Wright makes the point that sometimes w...

PBPC Worship Service on Zoom - Sunday, January 24 at 11:00 am  "Nick at Night"   - John 3:1-21 CLICK HERE  to join the service (link will be live at 10:50am):   To dial in:   +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) Meeting ID:  878 2520 8402 Giving to PBPC - online or by mail Please continue your giving to the church during this season, as you are able. Mail your check to Park Boulevard Presbyterian Church, 4101 Park Blvd., Oakland CA 94602.

Dear Friends, Here is the link to today's sermon on YouTube, and the manuscript is attached. Hope you can join us on Zoom next Sunday! Sermon - January 17, 2021, "No More Business as Usual" Blessings, Pastor Chris Sermon – "No More Business as Usual" – John 2:13-25 January 17, 2021 Chris Coon, PBPC Introduction I used to attend a huge youth ministry convention every year. It was a great time, a gathering of men and women who shared a passion for Jesus and for reaching out to young people with the gospel. One of the best elements of the conference was the large group time, when over a thousand of us would be gathered together to hear some great speakers and to have a time of incredible musical worship together. We would usually then move out from this time, on kind of a spiritual high, into the convention hall, which was filled with hundreds of tables of vendors for all kinds of youth ministry organizations, publishers, and mission groups. We would be given...