1. Prayer Items
• Finals
• Safety while traveling during winter break
• Zimbabwe
1) Pray for wisdom of the political leaders
2) For more unified churches
3) Courage and safety to the Christian organizations spreading the
Word in the country
• Others?
(Kyle closing)

2. Storage
Piano
Room
A-C
D-E
F-Je
College
Ji-K L-N
Career
O-S T-Z
A/V Cart (first names)

6. What does Jesus look
like to you?

8. Not Familiar

9. Not Familiar Too Familiar

10. FOUR PORTRAITS
of Jesus
advent 2008

11. 3
key themes

12. Salvation

13. Mary’s Song
And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior . . .”
-Luke 1:46-47

14. Zechariah’s Song
His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit
and prophesied:
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he
has come and has redeemed his people.
He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the
house of his servant David....
And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most
High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare
the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of
salvation through the forgiveness of their sins . . .”
-Luke 1:67-69, 76-77

15. Angel of the Lord
“Today in the town of David a Savior has
been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.”
-Luke 2:11

16. Simeon
Simeon took him in his arms and praised
God, saying: “Sovereign Lord, as you have
promised, you now dismiss your servant in
peace. For my eyes have seen your
salvation . . .”
-Luke 2:28-30

17. Jesus’ Ministry

18. Jesus’ Ministry
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to
this house, because this man, too, is a son of
Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek
and to save what was lost.”
-Luke 19:9-10

19. Jesus’ Summary

20. Jesus’ Summary
He told them, “This is what is written: The
Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on
the third day, and repentance and forgiveness
of sins will be preached in his name to all
nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”
-Luke 24:46-47

21. Salvation

22. Do we reflect this in
our Christmas
celebrations?

23. Do we reflect this in
our Christmas
celebrations?
B +

24. Poor

25. Leviticus 12:1-8

26. Luke 2:21-24

27. Jesus’ Mission
“He has brought down rulers from their
thrones but has lifted up the humble. He has
filled the hungry with good things but has sent
the rich away empty.”
-Luke 1:52-53

28. Jesus’ Teaching
Looking at his disciples, he said:
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is
the kingdom of God. . . .
But woe to you who are rich, for you have
already received your comfort.”
-Luke 6:20, 24

29. Jesus’ Teaching
Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a
luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends,
your brothers or relatives, or your rich
neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back
and so you will be repaid. But when you give a
banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the
lame, the blind, and you will be blessed.
Although they cannot repay you, you will be
repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
-Luke 14:12-14

30. Why?

33. Help Others
“Sell your possessions and give to the poor.
Provide purses for yourselves that will not
wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be
exhausted, where no thief comes near and no
moth destroys. For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also.”
-Luke 12:33-34

34. Do we reflect this in
our Christmas
celebrations?

35. Do we reflect this in
our Christmas
celebrations?
C-

39. 60
45
30
15
0
OCC Christmas Party

41. Nations

42. Simeon
“Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you
now dismiss your servant in peace.
For my eyes have seen your salvation, which
you have prepared in the sight of all people,
a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for
glory to your people Israel.”
-Luke 2:29-32

43. Genealogy
Luke 3

44. Jesus’ Teaching
“I assure you that there were many widows in
Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut
for three and a half years and there was a
severe famine throughout the land.Yet Elijah
was not sent to any of them, but to a widow
in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. And
there were many in Israel with leprosy in the
time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of
them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”
-Luke 4:25-27

46. Samaritan
Good Samaritan - Ten Lepers

47. Jesus’ Summary

48. Jesus’ Summary
He told them, “This is what is written: The
Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on
the third day, and repentance and forgiveness
of sins will be preached in his name to all
nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”
-Luke 24:46-47

49. Do we reflect this in
our Christmas
celebrations?

50. Do we reflect this in
our Christmas
celebrations?
D -

51. io n
la t
eve
R
rch
hu
C
c ts
A
uke

52. 2
suggestions

54. Announcements

55. Announcements
• Thursday, December 18:YASG Christmas Party

56. Announcements
• Thursday, December 18:YASG Christmas Party
• Friday, December 19: Candlelight Service

57. Announcements
• Thursday, December 18:YASG Christmas Party
• Friday, December 19: Candlelight Service
• Saturday, December 20:YG Christmas Party