Showing posts with label Man's Duty. Show all posts
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Should Christians Celebrate Halloween? > Amazing Facts > Inside Report

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Please check all that apply. This year for Halloween, I'll probably:
1) Dress the little ones up in costumes and escort them around our neighborhood to collect candy.
2) Check out the local haunted house.
3) Get together with some buddies to watch a scary movie.
4) Dress up in a devil suit and scare the neighborhood kids that knock on the front door.
5) Turn off the porch light and hope nobody finds me eating the three bags of Snickers bars I bought for trick-or-treaters.

Most people see nothing wrong with the activities listed above. They consider Halloween festivities to be a harmless way for their children to have an evening of "fantasy and fun."

But does this standard hold true for Christians? Is dressing up like ghosts, goblins, and witches really "no big deal"? Or is it glorifying and empowering Satan?

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Man's Duty

The Story Book : Character Building Stories for Children"The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light." Luke 11:34-36.

This privilege is presented before every soul. Each may have heaven's light to guide him. If we discern the truth, and obey it, our whole course of action will be in accordance with the truth; for the truth sanctifies the receiver. But if men refuse to search for the truth as for hidden treasure, if the mind is pleased with the theories of error, the soul will remain in darkness. The course of the life, the development of the character, will be corrupted by false sentiments. Error never sanctifies. It can do no good. And how full of darkness is the soul that receives error as truth, and shapes his course of action in accordance with it.
By: Ellen White

August 23, 1898

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