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I LOVE Halloween

Pete Wilson — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:05:52 +0000

I love Halloween. Can I say that? Can I admit that? I do. Not in the way I love Christmas or Easter but I do love it.

Usually this time of year there are all kinds of debates about “should Christians celebrate Halloween?” As soon as I twittered something last night about heading out with my kids I immediately started getting the “you celebrate Halloween?” tweets back.

One tweet said, “This is an admonition pagan culture -Deuteronomy 18: 9-14 – do u really celebrate this day?”

Please note, I believe this is a personal decision. If you and your family don’t celebrate Halloween, then I totally respect that decision.

Our kids dress up, we carve a pumpkin and take ALL the candy we possibly can from our neighbors. You could say we celebrate Halloween but I think we celebrate our kids, friends and neighbors.

1) My kids. My kids love to dress up. Jett was Satan, Gage, an evil spirit, and Brewer, the angel of death. Just kidding!! They were fired up all weekend about designing their pumpkins and running around the neighborhood. We had a blast.

2) My friends. We usually have two other couples and their kids come over and enjoy the evening with us. We’ve actually gone trick-or-treating with one couple for 11 years in a row. It’s kind of become our little tradition.

3) My neighbors. This is an awesome chance for me to build a bridge with my non-Christian, non-church going neighbors (In fact I met a lady last night who just moved to Nashville and visited Cross Point last week). Think of it as Tuesday night visitation, only this time they’re coming to you. Many will drop by the house and we’ll get a chance to talk about all kinds of things that might serve as a bridge to future conversations and future opportunities to build relationships . I’m probably not going to drop a “Christian tract” in their kid’s bag, but I do want to drop a little sincere Christian love their way.

So if you did a little trick or treating last night, you might end up with a cavity, but I don’t think you’re going to hell.

I know I’m probably opening a can of worms but what do you think about Halloween? Did you have fun last night?

Bats, Laughs, & One Cool Costume

Pete Wilson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:51:44 +0000

In honor of Halloween I’ve got a few videos for you. The first one is one of the stupidest videos I’ve ever seen but for some reason I can’t stop watching it. I saw it the other day and it makes me laugh every time I think about it.. Please know in advance there is absolutely no spiritual significance at all to this clip. It’s just stupid….and funny.

I’m trying to come up with some kind of idea to scare the kids in the neighborhood tomorrow night. I might have to find a costume like this and get up on the roof or something.

The second video I stole from Brad Ruggles. Just praying my kids don’t see this costume. It totally blows away the costumes we’re wearing tomorrow night.

How about you? What are your kids wearing?

My Halloween Favorites

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:28:58 +0000

We had an absolute blast yesterday. I thought I would post a few of my favorite pictures from the day. Enjoy…

Do You Celebrate Halloween?

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:43:06 +0000

Usually this time of year there are all kinds of debates about “should Christians celebrate Halloween”? Of course if you’re a really good Christan it seems you will simply have a “fall festival” where you will do exactly what everyone else does on Halloween (costumes and candy) except you’ll only invite Christians which somehow makes it OK.

Please note, I believe this is a personal decision. If you and your family don’t celebrate Halloween, then I totally respect that decision.

As you can probably tell from last years Halloween picture, we do. Our kids dress up, we carve a pumpkin and take all the candy we possibly can from our neighbors. You could say we celebrate Halloween but I think we celebrate our kids, friends and neighbors.

1) My kids. My kids love to dress up. Jett’s going as Satan, Gage is going to be an evil spirit, and Brewer the angel of death. Just kidding!! They’re going to be a biker, a power ranger, and an Indian. They’ve been fired up all week about designing their pumpkins and running around the neighborhood. We’re going to have a blast.

2) My friends. We usually have two other couples and their kids come over and enjoy the evening with us. We’ve actually gone trick-or-treating with THIS COUPLE 8 years in a row. It’s kind of become our little tradition.

3) My neighbors. This is an awesome chance for me to build a bridge with my non-Christian, non-church going neighbors. Think of it as Tuesday night visitation, only this time they’re coming to you. Many will drop by the house and we’ll get a chance to talk about all kinds of things that might serve as a bridge to future conversations and future opportunities to build relationships. I’m probably not going to drop a “christian tract” in their kids bag, but I do want to drop a little sincere Christian love their way.

So have a Happy Halloween, or happy fall… or just have a nice weekend!

Pete

So what do you think about Halloween? Any exciting plans?