Halloween has grown from a Celtic high holy day celebrated quietly by pagans and wiccans to the second highest retail holiday next to Christmas. Spiritual lines between evil and righteousness have been blurred to the point that many who dress up in costumes, go trick-or-treating, or visit haunted houses actually say they aren’t celebrating Halloween! There are some who admit to being pagan and are proud to celebrate in every way imaginable from orgies to sacrificing animals and children.
Take off the mask … Celebrate Life!
Take off the mask … Celebrate Life is a little booklet I created in 1990 when my first two children were young – 18 months and 3.
Hallowe’en Should Christians Be A Part?
Like so many pagan festivals that were conveniently adapted for Christian usage, Hallowe’en is today accepted as Christian in origin and practice. But the darkness that permeated the minds of those within the Roman Church at that time resulted in the taking of that which was consecrated to Satan and the pagan gods of nature, and offering them to God. We have numerous Scriptures that tell us such a practice is an abomination to God, punishable by death. That’s how much God detests such practices, regardless of whom one says they honor.
Proverbs 9:1-2 – Carving the Weekly Pillars
As I considered these two women, Ma Ingalls and my own mother, I saw that they had created a pattern for accomplishing their work and then resting. In their own way, they had “carved out their seven pillars.” Although both of these women rested on Sunday and not the seventh-day Sabbath as commanded, it was an illustration for me to begin to “carve out my own seven pillars.”