AnGELS BRING HOPE WHEN CHRISTMAS DOESN’T WORK

ANGELS OF CHRISTMAS, PART 3

DECEMBER 10, 2006

Power Point Sequence

Slide 1:

Text of Matthew 1:18-25

Slide 2:

What are, “hope substitutes?”

· Wishful thinking

· Blind optimism

· Ambitious dreaming

Slide 3:

Hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill His promises to us.

Slide 4:

We can have hope this Christmas because we’re redeemed from our past.

Slide 5:

“This I call to mind and therefore I have hope: because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.” Lamentations 3:21-23 (NIV)

Slide 6:

We can have hope this Christmas because we’re assured of our future.

Slide 7:

“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,

They will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:29-31 (NIV)