Halloween Ideas

Post by **_Anonymous** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:19 pm

STEVE7150 wrote:How does everyone here feel about Christmas and Easter? Oh and celebrating your birthday.

My wife just had my family over for my birthday, i hope that was'nt idolatry
I think celebrating Jesus's birth and resurrection day are good things although i know every day should be about Christ, i think it's good to have special remembrances about these events. Of course if it were up to me i would call Easter "Resurrection Day" and Christmas would actually be about Christ and not Santa.

I agree and Happy (belated) Birthday!

Post by **_chriscarani** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:10 pm

STEVE7150 wrote:How does everyone here feel about Christmas and Easter? Oh and celebrating your birthday.

My wife just had my family over for my birthday, i hope that was'nt idolatry
I think celebrating Jesus's birth and resurrection day are good things although i know every day should be about Christ, i think it's good to have special remembrances about these events. Of course if it were up to me i would call Easter "Resurrection Day" and Christmas would actually be about Christ and not Santa.

Happy 30th

Steve!!!!

I like Halloween myself, and I think it's harmless fun for kids, even though it's a pagan celebration, and couldn't we classify all of these other holidays as pagan too, especially the birthday deal? Maybe I am off base here.

Post by **_Jim** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:22 am

I don't celebrate halloween but I did suggest to my wife we should completely decorate our house for the Glory of God, do not glorigy evil etc. , and Christian music playing.

She said, "Are you crazy, you are just asking for trouble!"

Post by **_glow** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:59 pm

Hi

We finally ended up having nothing to do with halloween. But before we did we gave out candy wrapped in a trac. They were written in cartoonish pictures( code) that the kids had to decipher and basically was the message of salvation.

My kids really liked carving pumpkins so we would carve a face on one side, and on the other side of the pumpkin they carved a cross and light them up, They remember that to this day....the cross they put on there fondly.

I would let them stay home from school ( the few years they were not home schooled)the day of the halloween party etc. and we would have a candy "hunt" in the house instead. I would give them a map or clues to go around the house to find some candy. They seemed to enjoy it.

It was some what of a hassle though when in public school at that time they were to write "scary" stories and do math projects etc. with witches. I would end up writing their teachers to explain to them we didn't get envolved in that part so I would ask them for another assignments. Some were fine with it, others took it neg. I always wanted to put up a figure of Christ coming out of the grave on halloween on my front lawn.. with a sign that said he was truely the only one "raised" from the dead, giving eternal life....

But to many folks I knew thought that was to "weird" so I never did. I quess I am to weird some times for "others. I still kind of wished I did it..... Glow

Post by **_STEVE7150** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:56 pm

Thanks Michelle and Chris, btw i have some leftover cherry pie if you're interested. And Chris how did you know it was my 30th?

Post by **_Derek** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:13 pm

Happy 30th Steve!!!!

Hey Steve,

Happy B-day!

I'm hitting the big 28 tomorrow so we have close birthdays I suppose. I'm gettin old!

God bless,

Post by **_STEVE7150** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:24 pm

Hey Steve,

Happy B-day!

I'm hitting the big 28 tomorrow so we have close birthdays I suppose. I'm gettin old!

Derek, thanks but i only wish i was 30, Chris was just kidding, and a happy one to you too!

Post by **_Anonymous** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:28 pm

My birthday is on Saturday. 28 is a very faint, distant memory. 8)

Post by **_STEVE7150** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:35 pm

My birthday is on Saturday. 28 is a very faint, distant memory.

Happy birthday to you too Michelle. Another day older and deeper in debt

, just kidding but at least another day closer to Jesus

Post by **_Derek** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:46 pm

Happy Birthday Michelle!!