1. Christmas Concert & Potluck
Sunday, Dec. 4pm

2. December 10, 2017

3. Week 2: LOVE

4. Kids’ Minute
Junior Church for kids up to 12 years old

5. Gatherings Christmas Concert & Potluck Sunday, Dec. 17 @ 4:00pm
Gifts for Victoria Women’s Transition House

6. In Foyer Prayer Calendar Christmas Letter
Psalms & Scriptures for December
Christmas Letter
Reflections & Thanksgiving for 2017

7. Prayer
Requests & Thanksgiving

9. Offering
Online giving now available on website:
Parkdalechurch.ca

10. Advent: God’s Gift of Christ
Week 1: Hope – Matthew 1:1-17
Week 2: Love – Matthew 1:18-25
“God Comes Near”

12. Love: God Comes Near Who is in Control?
Based on what God has done…. What is He like?

13. Love: God Comes Near Who is in Control?
The God of Philosophy & Religion
Plato – God is perfect, detached
Goal – try to escape from this world
God = destination

14. Love: God Comes Near Who is in Control?
The God of Philosophy & Religion
Aristotle – God is unmoved mover
Goal – try to control this world
God = source

15. Love: God Comes Near Who is in Control?
The God of Philosophy & Religion
God as destination…source…
What is missing?
What does Christianity say?

16. Love: God Comes Near Do Not Fear
Matthew 1:16
…and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.

17. Love: God Comes Near Do Not Fear
Luke 1:34-35
“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

19. Love: God Comes Near Love Casts out Fear
Jesus = Joshua = “The LORD Saves”
Psalm 130:7-8:
Israel, put your hope in the Lord,     for with the Lord is unfailing love     and with him is full redemption. He himself will redeem Israel     from all their sins.

20. Love: God Comes Near Love Casts out Fear
Immanuel = God with us” (Isaiah 7:14)
Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given…And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

21. Love: God Comes Near Love Casts out Fear
Isaiah 57:15 For this is what the high and exalted One says he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

22. Love: God Comes Near Love Casts out Fear
1 John 4:9, 18
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,

23. Love: God Comes Near Communion: Love One Another
1 John 4:11, 19
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
We love because he first loved us.

24. Love: God Comes Near Communion: Love One Another
Matthew 28:20
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age
Ephesians 2:22
And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

25. “This is my body,
which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.  This cup is the new covenant
in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

26. “Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks
a participation in the blood of Christ?
And is not the bread
that we break a participation
in the body of Christ?