1. Dec 2, 2018

2. Upcoming… Daycare Concert Family Service & Communion December 3 @ 4pm
December 1pm @ Lynwood
Family Service & Communion

4. Psalm 130
Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you.

5. Psalm 130
I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.
I wait for the Lord, more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.

6. Prayer
Requests & Thanksgiving

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

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

9. Advent Prayer
Creator God, on this first Sunday in Advent you call us to waken and watch for your coming again. May we wait for Christ’s coming with hope in our hearts, hope that this Christmas your kingdom will come more fully in our lives. Amen.

10. Zechariah: Unbelievable Hope Luke 1:5-25

11. Where is our Hope?
Hope
A feeling of expectation & desire for a particular thing to happen
Looks forward to the future fulfillment
Looks backward at promises & visions

12. Where is our Hope?
Hope
A person or thing that can help or save someone
Grounds for believing that something good may happen

13. Barriers & Doubts

14. Malachi 3:1, 4:5
“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple”
“See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.” 

15. Barriers & Doubts A Perfect Opportunity 2 Corinthians 12:9
A hopeless time
A hopeless couple
2 Corinthians 12:9
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

16. Judges 13:3-5
The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.  …dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”

17. Matthew 11:13-14
 For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. 
And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. 

18. “How can I be sure?”

19. Filled with Anticipation

20. Filled with Anticipation

21. Filled with Anticipation
Luke 1:65-66 
All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things. Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?”

22. Acts 12:13-15
Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door. When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed, “Peter is at the door!”
“You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

23. Hope and Pray
Discerning problems
Feeling anxious
Desiring good things

24. Hope and Pray