As October 31st approaches, many Christians face the same question.
Hallows, harvest, or horror? It's the season of costumes and community,
but also genuine confusion about a holiday steeped in darkness.
Today we are not asking, should we celebrate? But we are asking,
how should we, as people committed to kingdom living, approach this night with
intentionality and light?
Today, the guys cut through the confusion. We will hear the facts on the holiday's
surprisingly Christian roots, break down the statistics on how believers are
responding, and find scriptural principles needed to move past fear and toward discernment.
Get ready to equip your family and your church to be a bright,
unshakable light in the neighborhood. Let's turn up the volume.
What's happening, dog? What's up, brother? Nothing.
How you doing? I'm doing good. Doing good. Yeah, did you have a good day?
I did have a good day. Yeah, it was relatively quiet today at work, which was good.
I did go and have me a Cousins Maine lobster roll at lunchtime.
Yeah, I've been waiting. We watched football last night. I watched the commanders
get their butts kicked. Yeah, they definitely did that.
And during the game, you mentioned you were going. So give us the review. Tell us about it.
I mean, it was lobster.
Like, they don't skimp on how much lobster they give you. Like I'll give them credit for that.
But I mean, I was expecting like some kind of like added seasoning or flavor.
I mean, it was lobster and it was good lobster. Don't get me wrong.
But for just like lobster on a roll for $28, I was just kind of like,
eh, probably won't do that again. No.
Yeah. You know what I had? What did you have? For lunch? For lunch?
Jambalaya. Oh, that Jambalaya was good. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, and then tonight for dinner, Tara messaged me like before I left work
and she was like, I really don't know what to make for dinner.
I said, well, I'll make something when I get home. What are you craving?
And I listed off a couple of things and she picked hot dogs. Okay.
I said, well, I'm going to make me some gourmet hot dogs. Tell me about them.
What'd you have on them? So I got some Hebrew nationals.
Did them on the grill, brought them in, and she had these mini tater tots that she had gotten.
Okay. So, I put some mini tater tots on top of my hot dog.
Oh, oh, on a split top Hawaiian roll. Oh, baby.
And then mac and cheese. Nice.
And some Cajun seasoning on that. That sounds delicious. It was amazing.
Delicious. And then I went and cut some trees. Nice. Yeah. So, it was good.
What about you? What did you get into today? I did lots of church admin stuff.
We're going to do baptism in December. So I was getting that together and we
have just some, you know, holiday season, like working through,
thinking through some of that stuff, did some phone calls.
For the most part, it was a pretty quiet day. I felt really,
really productive, which is, which is fantastic.
Good. And I stopped and had leftover jambalaya. Oh man, that was some good jambalaya though.
You can make that for me anytime. Yeah, it was good. It was good.
I hadn't made jambalaya in a couple of years, actually.
Oh, really? And so last night, it was definitely a lot better than the football game.
It wouldn't have been hard to be better than that football game.
You could lick the bottom of
your shoe and have been better than that football game. Oh, my goodness.
Yeah. So tonight, we're talking about Halloween. Yes, we are. Friday is Halloween.
Yep. And before we dive into the content, we took to Facebook.
Oh. And we wanted to know what people's favorite Halloween candy is.
Now, I asked the twins, and they wanted to know, is there a difference between
Halloween candy and regular candy?
Not really. Not really. Not really.
I mean, do you think there is? I don't think so, but, like, they were talking
about, like, some of the candy that, like, only comes out around Halloween,
like, you know, Reese's pumpkins or. But, I mean, it's still the same as a Reese's
cup. Yeah. Like, it's not any different. Yeah.
And, you know, just some, you know, candy corn, like the pumpkins.
Like, you can really only get those around.
Unless you go to Sharp Shopper. Unless you go to Sharp Shopper.
Then you can get them year-round. Yeah.
We had some good ones on the old Facebook page. Yeah, what we got? Let's see. Oh, Hannah.
Hannah Horse. Did she like Kit Kats? That would be Riley's pick.
Riley loves some Kit Kat. That's a dark horse.
Another one, Dixie Miller's is Paydays.
Okay. Okay. I'm not a huge fan of Payday, but we have a couple.
So we have Reese's Pumpkins and Reese's Cups. I'm going to put those together.
I'm going to put those together. Yeah. Reese's Cups or any other Reese's Shapes.
Yeah. Although if I'm given either a cup or a shape, I'm going to take the shape.
Well, because you get more peanut butter. Exactly.
Yeah. Let's see. Old RB talks about, oh, he brought up when he was little,
he liked the flavored Tootsie Rolls. Oh, yeah. The Fruities.
Yeah, he has vanilla and fruit flavors. Yep, yep, yep. Yep.
And again, he talked about how Halloween was the only time when he was little that you could either.
Now he says it's Nerds or Nestle Crunch. I do love me some Nerds. I like some Nerds too.
Probably, probably my favorite answer here is from Trudy Burgess.
She talks about how they had a neighbor who would make homemade caramel popcorn balls.
That's yeah. I could eat. I could eat a caramel popcorn ball. Yeah.
How much he was your favorite of the of the Halloween candy.
All right. So I separate you're going to I know we've talked about this before
and you and the boys both made fun of me because I separate my candy into you
have like the chocolate candy.
Types of candy or you have like the, the more like sugary gelatin based types of candy. Okay.
So if I'm picking a chocolate candy, I'm going to go with one that a lot of
people probably are not super duper keen on. Okay.
Fifth Avenue. Okay. I love a Fifth Avenue bar. Love it. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. I mean, just cause you're not cool as me, it doesn't, you know,
that, that, yeah, that's why. Yep. Okay.
Okay, so the other Chewy Spree. Dude, Chewy Spree. That's a dark horse pick. Oh, my goodness.
That's a dark horse pick. I've loved Chewy Spree ever since I was a kid. Yeah, Chewy.
The boys got â have you seen the freeze-dried Spree?
Oh, yeah. Don't do it. All the freeze-dried can. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They got them the other day, and I grabbed one. I felt like I was biting a green piece of Styrofoam.
Well, I mean, people freeze-dry this can, and they sell it for like five times
the price, and you're like, wait a minute, dude. Hang on. Yeah.
It's not even as good. Yeah. But anyway. Yeah. Yeah.
Or Snickers. I love a Snickers. Oh, yes. That's classic. Yeah.
All right. So I'll follow you. If we're going chocolate candy,
probably going to go to the Whatchamacallit.
Okay. I like a Whatchamacallit. Yeah. They're not as readily available as other ones.
Well, they can be if you know somebody who works in Stewart's Drafton. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. And the gelatin candy, gelatinous form.
Just give me give me Sour Patch Kids ooooh I do like some Sour Patch Kids yeah
we're not sweet as fish I'm I feel like we've talked about this before I'm not
a huge Swedish fish guy nah you're a hater okay are you so do you do you employ the dad techs,
Halloween candy? I don't call it the dad tax. I just take whatever I want.
Okay. That's cool. I mean.
That's cool. That's more like a dad tariff than tax. Pretty much.
Pretty much. Okay. The tariff changes depending on what kind of candy it is.
Now, here's the big question. Okay.
Candy corn. In or out?
I'm not going to seek out candy corn. I'm not going to throw it in the trash,
but like if there's candy corn sitting next to like M&M's, I'm not touching
the candy corn. I mean M&M's. Okay.
I'm a candy corn lover. Really? I love candy corn. I love it.
Not a lover. My candy corn lover. Bro, what about black licorice?
How about I lick the bottom of my shoe? Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
That stuff is disgusting.
That's disgusting. That's disgusting. Nasty. So let's talk about black licorice real quick.
Funny black licorice story. A few years ago, we did the Bean Boozled game with the jelly beans.
And black is either black licorice or skunk spray.
And I forget which one of the kids it was, but they popped one of those black
jelly beans in their mouth.
And I mean, started gagging like, and like, I looked over and I was like,
oh, is it skunk spray? They're like, no, it's black licorice.
Yeah, black licorice is nasty.
All right, that's a lose-lose. Nothing good about that. If you're thinking between
black licorice and skunk spray, I'm out.
So we're talking about Halloween. Halloween. You know, for a lot of Christians,
Halloween can be a bit of a tricky wicket. Yep. Oh, tricky, wicked.
Yeah, depending on, I know some Christians who don't celebrate Halloween and
are happy to tell you about it.
I know some Christians who do celebrate Halloween.
Did you celebrate Halloween growing up, Jeremy?
Funny story about that.
I told my mom that we were going to be talking about Halloween on the podcast.
And she was like, oh, yeah, I know there are some people who,
you know, are not, you know, don't let their kids do Halloween or they don't
do Halloween, whatever.
I know, you know, when you all were kids, we took, I'm like, what?
She was like, yeah, didn't we? And I'm like, no, no, no.
Like we played, you made us play games in the living room. Like we couldn't
go trick or treating. And she was like, really?
I know we took you to some people's houses. She suppressed the.
And I'm like, I'm like, okay.
All right. Well, maybe you did take us to some people's houses,
but like we didn't get dressed up and go trick or treating. Like that's hilarious. You know what I mean?
And she was like, oh, well, I just thought blah, blah, blah.
But yeah, I just thought it was funny because like in my mind,
like my memory is not Halloween's bad. We don't do Halloween. Okay.
Right. So that was my memory as a kid. Okay.
What about you? We didn't like trick or treat because we didn't really have
an area that trick or treated.
We dressed up and mom and dad would just like take us in the car and we would
go to relatives and close friends houses.
And I think maybe that's what my mom was remembering. Like, but I don't really
remember getting dressed up ever.
I found some statistics. Ooh, I like statistics. Yeah.
It talks about that nearly 45% of evangelicals see the fun aspects of Halloween,
but a sizable percentage, 28% of those surveys, choose to avoid the holiday completely.
Huh. Compared to Catholics.
71% of Catholics see no harm in it. Hmm.
So I actually would have pulled that the other way around. So now pair that
with that only 19% of pastors who they surveyed see Halloween as problematic.
Okay. So the number of Christians is much higher, significantly higher than the amount of pastors.
And in fact, many churches have kind of embraced like, you know,
the fall festival or the trunk retreat or. Sure.
Which we've done at our place, I guess, as an alternative.
So, you know, there's kind of a mixed bag. Like, you know, you got,
you got what, basically 49% of Protestants saying, saying it's okay.
And then 28% saying avoid it completely. I guess the other is kind of line between.
The tricky thing about Halloween is like, what are you actually celebrating? You know what I mean?
Right. There's not like a, like Thanksgiving, you know, we're celebrating the
death of a turkey. Right.
We're going back to like the pilgrims being thankful and celebrating the death
of a turkey. The death of a turkey.
Okay, fine. I'm celebrating the death of a turkey because turkey tastes delicious.
But anyway, you know what I mean?
And like most other holidays, you're celebrating something specific.
Right. Even if they're not a Christian holiday. Right.
So to be fair, we trace the roots of Halloween. Oh, yes. Okay.
And so I know the, so the original, like the original idea of Halloween is actually
a Celtic idea. It comes from a festival of Samhain and it's spelled S-A-M-H-A-I-N.
So it's pronounced differently than it's spelled. Yeah, it definitely does not.
Yeah, it doesn't look like that. But it marked the end of the harvest.
And the Celtic mysticism is pretty different than what we would go with.
But so Celtic mystics believe that the veil between the living and the dead was thinnest.
So that's what established themes of death and spirits and things like that,
that the veil between the spirit world and the... Became blurred. Yeah.
Interesting. That's an interesting thought, actually. Yeah. Weird.
Celtic spirituality. I know you kind of looked up some of the Christian roots. What did you find?
So, like, the first thing I said when we got here was All Hallows' Eve.
Yeah. Which I don't remember the details of when or how that started.
Do you have that there? Well, yeah.
So, you know, then morphed into All Saints' Day. Yes, that's right. Okay.
Right. So, which was actually, it was November 1st, and then November 2nd would
be the All Souls' Day. It was established by Pope Gregory IV on November 1st in 835 A.D.
To honor all the saints and martyrs. And then October 31st then became a holy
vigil of preparation to celebrate.
So, I mean, there are some Christian roots in this holiday, right?
And really, I mean, like most holidays, it's been, what do you,
what's the, what's the word I'm thinking of? Monetized or whatever. Oh, absolutely.
So like that, like trying to make money off horror films and all of the things scary, right?
Like that was, that was really brought, brought about more and more to make money.
Yeah. Well, and even the idea of candy actually finds its roots back to a Christian
practice for All Hallows' Eve. It was called souling.
Souling. Souling. So basically, it was a medieval Christian practice,
primarily in Britain and Ireland, when the poor often children would go door
to door on All Hallows' Eve or All Saints' Day and offer prayers for the dead
in exchange for a sweet little treat.
So they were known as soulers or soul cakers.
They would recite prayers, sing hymns, or give a blessing for the deceased family member.
In exchange, the homeowner would give them soul cakes, small round cakes,
often marked with a cross, specifically for this occasion.
It was a payment or a charitable donation for offered prayers.
That's very interesting. Yeah. I can't say I knew that. Yeah. It's, uh, yeah.
Souling. So, all right. So who's going souling on Friday night?
I don't know if I'm going to soul in, but I mean, I'll eat cake.
I'll eat cake. I'll eat candy.
I'll eat all of it. So what do you, what do you think is, what do you think?
How is we, how can we as Christians? I mean, most, most of Christians I know
do celebrate Halloween.
Same. How do we, how do we talk about that together?
I mean, I mean, obviously not embracing any of the darkness of Halloween is a good place to start.
You know, if as a Christian you're embracing like the evil and scary things, I mean,
that doesn't really fit in us sharing the light of Jesus with others, in my opinion.
So obviously kind of rejecting the darkness side of it is probably the first step.
But then, I mean, you can be the light. I mean, just like on Sunday morning,
we have those cards that we can give out for trick-or-treaters coming to our
house to invite them to church.
So, I mean, that's a great opportunity for outreach.
Absolutely. So as Christians, like, use it as an opportunity to share about
Jesus and, you know, hand out invitations to church along with the candy and just talk to people.
I mean, kids, a lot of times it might be the only chance these kids get to hear about Jesus.
Yeah. So. It made me think about 1 Corinthians chapter 10.
Okay. Verse 31. So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,
do it all for the glory of God.
Yes. You know, so Paul kind of enters this thing about, oh, should we eat food
sacrificed to idols? He's like, you're kind of missing the point.
You're putting a lot of energy in debating this thing.
Whatever you do, do it for the glory of God. Yep. Right.
And so I think the heart behind what you're doing is much more important than the practice.
Right. And so, yeah. So maybe the question isn't, is it a sin or is it not?
But how do I glorify Christ in the way that I respond to this thing? Yeah.
And, you know, like for a lot of a lot of Christians and people that I know
that and celebrate Halloween is like celebrating Halloween almost doesn't doesn't even fit.
Like you're not really celebrating any thing, in my opinion. Yeah.
Like we're getting together and having a meal and seeing the kids in the costumes
and like meeting all the kids that come up to the door and all those things.
It's more of an opportunity just to get together and be part of one another's
lives and share stories and all those good things that we like to do anyway.
It's almost like we use it as an excuse to do something we'd like to do anyway. Yeah, basically.
That's true. Well, and it's one of those things like is is participating in
Halloween by dressing up in a costume and walking around like,
is that the same thing is like running a Ouija board or, you know,
sacrificing images to a demon or something like that? Like, I just don't see.
I don't see the connection in the two. I think if you are participating in Halloween
in a way that glorifies darkness or glorifies evil, that's very different.
Agreed. The other thing I find interesting, and man, this could,
if anybody's listening to this with your kids, you might want to turn this off.
So, you know, Jess and I don't do, we don't do Christmas.
We don't do, I mean, we do Christmas, we don't do Santa Claus. Oh, same.
And I had this conversation with someone a few years ago because they were like,
well, why is it that you don't do Santa Claus, but you will do Halloween?
I'm like, well, first of all, Santa Claus and Halloween are not the same thing, in my opinion.
Second of all, when we do Santa Claus, everybody plays in this elaborate lie.
Sure. And Halloween, everybody knows we're all kidding. Yeah.
Like, nobody puts on a costume and they don't, like, actually make the kids
become something that they're not. Like, we're all playing a game together.
Yeah, we're all playing a game. And the whole Santa Claus thing,
like, you know, it's now become, like, this lie where adults dress up.
Very elaborate lie. Very elaborate lie.
Right. And so, I do think there's something, like, in the all good fun, you know.
I agree 100%. Yeah. I mean, we don't, our kids don't, like, dress up in anything
that's, like, demonic or nasty.
Yeah or anything like that like i guess the boys are doing it now
because they have girlfriends and the girlfriends want to dress up together it's like
one of them's curious george and the man in the yellow hat and the
other one's shaggy and scooby-doo you know
like we've never had like we don't let our kids do the
like vile gross stuff yeah
you know in fact man i
should see if i can find a picture last year ethan made his
own costume do you remember this yeah what did he make he was
a box of mcdonald's french fries that's right yeah it
was amazing it was amazing i still
gotta say one of my favorites is riley is wally when tara
made the wally costume that was awesome yeah yeah so
you know there is something to be said about and i guess that's the deeper question
here isn't just like should christians celebrate halloween but what does it
mean to be in the world but not of the world and is celebrating halloween part
of becoming like the world. I don't think so.
I really don't think so either, because even when you think about people that
aren't Christian that are celebrating or participating in Halloween,
maybe participating is a better word, participating in Halloween,
even a lot of the people today that do it don't do it with any evil or Satan-worshipping
or demonic things in mind.
It's literally just a fun time to dress up and eat candy.
It's literally an excuse to dress up, have fun, and eat lots of candy.
Yeah. Essentially. To most people, that's what Halloween is.
So, I mean, I do those things almost every day anyway.
I kind of dress goofy. So you're participating in Halloween daily.
Yeah. I kind of dress up goofy.
I hang out with my friends. I eat candy. I am Halloween. I am the embodiment. Reach. of Halloween.
And so, here's a hot take for you. Ooh. I actually don't, I don't like churches doing chunk retreats.
Oh, really? I don't, I don't like it.
Interesting. Okay. I don't, I think we are missing a really good opportunity.
I mean, I've always done them because our church has done them.
This is like the first year that we haven't done one in a long time.
I actually don't like it. Okay. Because I think you will have more impact if
you're at home welcoming kids in your own neighborhood.
Okay. That's an interesting thought. Yeah, like handing out the invitations
or having conversations with your neighbors.
Because nine times out of ten, I mean, maybe your church is in your neighborhood, right?
Lots of the people who we want to minister to aren't going to church for a chunk or treat.
Like, you know, I would say that, you know, most of the folks who really,
really need Jesus there. That's a very good point.
Yeah. So I think we have an opportunity to have like in our congregation,
you know, we have we have 100 plus families.
We have 100 plus people in their own neighborhoods handing out candy to be able
to talk to their neighbors.
And we now just put them all in a church parking lot and said,
well, we'll make them come to us.
Yeah. I just I think that. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Never thought of it that way.
Yeah. And I mean, I've never really like, that's probably the first time anybody's
ever heard me say that because I'm just like, Hey, if the church is going to
do it, like I want to support the church is about, but I actually like what we're doing this year.
We, we printed out and provided some little invitations to church that people
could put in their home bags.
Yeah. One of the ladies in our church brought that up, but I don't know.
I just think, I think we have an opportunity where literally people are coming
maybe for the only time all year.
Somebody might knock on your door and you might get to talk to them and tell
them about Jesus, and it might be your neighbor, and it might be your friend, and.
Yeah, I mean, think about it. What other time do you have people coming to you
and you have the opportunity to share with them?
Yeah, yeah. And that doesn't mean like, oh, hand out tracks and put the tracks
in there, pumpkins, or make sure you have the fall for Jesus napkins or whatever.
Like, okay, that's your style.
But it's more just about like build that relationship and, you know. Plant that seed.
Plant the seed. And like nine times out of ten, like you can find a place in
the conversation to bring up faith, you know, if you look hard enough.
But, I mean, if you're at the church doing the harvest party thing and your
neighbor's knocking on your door and you're not there, you've missed an opportunity.
I don't know. That's just a very valid point. I have to say,
I've never, never thought of it
that way. And I'd imagine a lot of people listening haven't either. Yeah.
And it's, I mean, it's just like, why did churches start doing trunk or treats?
Well, I think it was because of they don't know how to interact with Halloween.
And so the easiest thing we can do is just kind of grab it, grab it and try
to holify it. Holy fight.
Is that a word? Is that a word? I just made a new word. Holify it. Holification.
Sanctify it. Try to sanctify it. All right. If it's not a word,
it's going to be tomorrow. I like it.
Holify. New holified. New word on the Life on 11 podcast. I like it.
I love it. Yeah. So we, we will be, we'll be doing some Halloween festivities.
Yep. It'll be, it'll be fun.
Absolutely. Always is. Yeah. Kids are going to, kids are going to enjoy it. Oh yeah.
You know, just seeing all the kids get together. Oh man, I'd love it.
Love it. Yeah. Well, and, and it's interesting because I mean,
I would say if you push the idea of Halloween to the oomph degree,
then we wouldn't celebrate any, any holidays.
True. Yeah. That's, you know, absolutely true. I mean, even cause I could,
if we're going to use, if we're going to apply the same logic that we apply
to Halloween to everything else. Mm-hmm.
You know? Yep. You're right. Absolutely.
All that to say, you know, I would, I would say avoid anything that is overly demonic or overly dark.
Absolutely. Don't, don't practice those things. Yeah.
I mean, not because, and so here's the next thing, not because you're like going
to get demonically possessed or something like that, but just, yeah.
Refer back to that podcast.
Yeah yeah yeah i did
you see the clip of like the televangelist who was like make sure
you don't buy your clothes from the goodwill because it could have a demon on it
and you bring it to your house oh no i did not see that it's pretty funny
i was like what i'm gonna have to see that that sounds funny
yeah yeah it was it's like a video and it's like the guy's like oh
the scriptures say don't live in fear then there's this guy he's like
don't suffer the goodwill the shirt could
have a demon on you bring it to your house what just
happened i don't understand and so when we
say we don't don't celebrate halloween we're not it's not
because we're afraid you're going to catch something but merely
because you know celebrate halloween
and stay away from the other stuff because it can desensitize
us to what really is you know i think that's the other side like maybe maybe
that's maybe that's something to think about you know if we if we take our kids
and we let them dress up like little demons all the time then And then demons
become funny little characters and not something serious and supernatural that
we need to think about. Not something serious or dangerous or, yeah.
You're right. But that could be true about it really all time.
I mean, anytime. Not just Halloween. Oh, absolutely.
Especially with all the junk that's on the old television and YouTube and all that stuff. What? What?
And I mean, we didn't unpack the whole, like, you know, all the roots,
but there's some really interesting reading out there. Yeah,
there definitely is. Yeah.
You know, about the roots of these whole holidays.
Yeah. And eat candy corn. Yeah.
I'm really hoping that I'm going to have some peanut butter M&Ms.
Ooh, solid choice. I do like some peanut butter M&Ms.
We need to find out who around us is doing the full-size candy bars.
The place we're going is doing the full-size candy bars. Okay, done.
Like, if you want to be the light of the world, give out full-size candy bars.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Everybody will be at your house.
Yeah. I'll be at your house. An invitation to church and a full-size candy bar?
Bro. That's a job well done.
You are setting the standard right there. Yeah.
Kids will be talking. Full-size candy bar and an invitation to church.
Have you ever been to one of those houses that, like,
sets up, like, the full, like, haunted house or something out in
front of their house i've been by yeah that's crazy yeah
yeah that is that is crazy yeah okay so
oh snap before we go oh no do you feel like i feel like i feel like like lately
past few years like there's really been a rise in decorating for halloween was
that a thing when we were little like when we were honestly i don't remember
it when i was a kid yeah because your your mom made you stay in the stay in
the living room all right true it is true,
Mom, I'm sorry if you're listening to this, but that's what I remember.
You might remember it different.
But that's what I remember. But no, you're right.
I've seen a lot more people decorating for Halloween with spider webs going
up to their house with fake spiders and lots of orange lights and stuff.
Oh, dude. There's a guy on the way back to the church. He has a whole horror
movie scene in his front yard. For real? Oh, yeah.
I know the house now. because like the first year he did it like he had a dude
and like when you went by your headlights would catch it it looked like a guy
standing in his yard with a chainsaw,
yee yeah like that's a good way to have somebody run up in your yard try to
save your life and realize it was a
pair of jeans and a sweatshirt stuffed with hay you gotta watch out for that
stuff dog yeah that's true that makes me think about a hilarious one for Christmas
though have you seen the ones like where somebody like puts a ladder up and
like they have the ladder falling over oh yeah there's like a dude hanging from
the gutter yeah but it's not really a dude yeah yeah that's hilarious I love that Yeah,
we had some members of our church back last year when the elections were going on.
They had a life-size cardboard cutout of Donald Trump on their front yard.
And one night, like, I left the church and my headlights happened to hit it.
And I called him the next day and I was like, I was about to fall into,
like, ninja pastor mode.
Like, I thought somebody was trying to break into your house.
Donald Trump's breaking into their house.
I was ready to call the cops and, like, whip up your driveway and be like,
hey, that's my friend's house.
When I got close enough I realized it was just Donnie I wish you would have
That would have made for a great newscast Local pastor arrested After assaulting
a Donald Trump cardboard cutout A Donald Trump cardboard cutout,
Oh, man. You can't make it up. Yep.
Oh, man. All that being said, however you're going to celebrate Halloween or
not celebrate Halloween, we hope you do it as best you can.
Bring out Jesus and take the opportunity to share your faith with others.
And Jeremy, I guess I'll see you next time. Yeah, brother. Have a good night. Later.
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