Our church in Hutto, TX hosts block parties on Halloween! We believe that it’s the one day people come to your door so we have a responsibility to be a bright light on a dark night. At the block parties we hand out food, candy, and fliers for our church and we don’t serve alcohol or have scary displays. I just love the idea of reaching people who you normally couldn’t reach ❤

My family LOVES your family! It's always such a joy when yall have a new podcast or video out. Personal convictions are different from things that God hates. Christians cannot sprinkle a little Jesus on something that is dark and demonic in origin and think God is going to be okay with it. We can learn a lot from the Israelites while waiting on Moses when he was on the mountain. We are suppose to be set apart. Be in the world but not of the world... we have to remember, God is never changing! Much love ❤

My best friend growing up lost his dad ( heart attack) I remember my friend calling me a day asking did I think his dad went to heaven he was a good guy .I told him unfortunately hell is filled with good people there is only one way but I would pray with him.a couple weeks later my friends dads brother called him and told him I thought you should know that your dad spoke with me this past Thanksgiving about God and was able to lead him in prayer of salvation.

I’m a 67 year old grandmother and I remember struggling so vividly with the whole Halloween issue as far as letting our children participate, neither my husband nor I grew up in Christian homes so participating was the norm for us but receiving Jesus Christ as our Saviour in the mid 70’s we had many questions back then. I do think it’s best to go with your convictions. So God bless you for taking this topic on.🌻

I love your comment concerning AA. I have taught Celebrate Recovery, and the fact is in any addiction we must get healed through Jesus Christ and walk daily with the Holy Spirit. We must get connected through the Church and use James 5:16 (the whole verse not just part B). I have been a pastor since 1993 and truly believe many look to systems and not to Christ. Thank you for your voice and stand strong in your conviction!!!

Thanks for speaking on the failures of the church. We can only do better when issues are acknowledged. YeeYee ❤️❤️❤️

Halloween is NOT a holiday.

May the Lord bless you both from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! We don't celebrate Halloween here because it's focused on witchcraft and magic We celebrate life in Jesus not death. Thanks for sharing this episode!

Great video! Love that Amber was the guest. Ya'll are an awesome team!

The podcasts with amber are the best. Thank are for putting these out every Monday. God bless

I am blessed to be part of a church family that supports and promotes Celebrate Recovery.

Love You Guys so much and always appreciate your viewpoint/convictions. I understand the struggle some feel about Halloween. As a Christian store located in a mall- the mall has a candy giveout from all participating stores. After much prayer we have a great peace about giving out "Jesus Loves You" gift bags every year with a few pieces of candy and at least two little toys with cross/scripture and the response is overwhelming. Last year we ran out of candy and as I said-" I'm sorry we ran out of candy but I have these little crosses and a small motorcycle with message". they all said "that's so much better". Sometimes-just be the Light in the darkness.

Granger and Amber, I really appreciate your response to the Halloween question. My wife and I have been having similar discussions. My wife has been more on the page of making Halloween more fall festival like you guys did and it’s taken me time to come around but your response was what really helped me make a decision. Thank you for your examples of what it is to be true followers of Jesus Christ.

Grace & Peace to you and Amber. Hot Button topic for sure today! AA and Al-Anon Programs and Fellowship, have given our family 36 years of sobriety and a new way of living. I am willing to have a conversation with you directly about how these programs work in and out of Christian community. It's not just knowing the 12 steps, but a complete surrender to God, as we understand Him, that leads to acceptance of our powerlessness over the effect of alcoholism.. Thank you for all you do on this platform. I hope this particular topic will not cause your message skew in an unintended direction. Tracy, a grateful member of Al-Anon.

Love you guys together on the podcast! God Bless! ❤️🙏❤️

Thank you for this 😭🙌🏼🙏🏻♥️ PLEASE MORE ON FORGIVING YOURSELF!!!(or on how we can’t)

Amber is one of my favorite guests!!! I remember growing up as Catholic as a little girl. We always had to go to mass for All Saints Day before we would get to go trick or treating. 🤪 I am no longer Catholic for many other reasons but I do understand not celebrating the demonic aspect of it. Ya’ll are so good together!!! ❤

I like that thing about conviction. Going through the narrow gate can be difficult. Great episode! Yee Yee

My friend we can’t retrospectively pray for someone’s salvation. When someone dies that’s it. And that’s why it is so gravely important to share the gospel while they are ALIVE!😊

Conviction is from the Lord. He don't change. If he Convicted you about something. That is forever

Lol, my granddaughter is almost 10 she is just now beginning to love her daddy. ❤ He gets so excited when she says I love you daddy

You Two Have Great Answers on this Issues 😊😊😊😊

Some churches have Fall festivals. It's a celebration of Fall not Halloween.

Once you look into the dark history and see the symbolic meaning of Halloween you won’t look bad at saying no for your family. Even pumpkins and carving is part of the dark art of Halloween. We celebrated for years but had to stop.

Our church has a Fall festival and shares the gospel with the neighborhood. I usually leave out candy and tracts for kids who may come by our house. We've also started celebrating Reformation Day at home and it's been fun to learn church history and have themed treats. I agree about personal conviction. I let my kids dress up for harvestfest but they know that anything that celebrates the occult/death is off limits. Also, we don't watch horror movies or engage in anything that glorifies death or fear. 🙏 I don't think my kids have ever missed out...there's so much innocent Fall fun out there. Also, the Biblical Feast of Tabernacles and Trumpets are so much fun in the Fall and can teach kids Biblical history. 🍁🍂

When our kids got to be about 7 or 8 years olds. We got conviction on halloween so we started renting a couple clean family movies and bought pizza, pop and their favorite candies. They were fine with that. Trying to give them an opinion instead of saying you can't go trick or treating. This was back in the 90's. Thank you for all the great content you have on both channels.

Great podcast

Well, I’m going to guess that today’s responses will bring about some strong responses, but I do hope fold will step back for a bit and really ponder what y’all said. What they thought they heard you say at first may not be a true representation of what you really meant. I know I’m going to need to digest this a bit. You gave us much to consider. As always, love it when Amber is on with you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I struggled for a few years as well on the Halloween issue. Being the mom who says no, while all the other kids talk about all the fun they are going to have and how they will dress up on Halloween makes it hard. Sin is sin and mingling in darkness is not to be tolerated. Adonai put it on my heart to not partake of things of this world, especially the demonic, and explaining that to my daughter was so hard, especially since her heart is so inncocent. We are to train up our children in the way of Adonai, not of this world. That is something I have to remind myself when it comes to "celebrations" rooted in the demonic (including the distorted celebration of Christmas, aka buying a bunch of things and celebrating Santa Clause, instead of focusing on the birth of our Messiah, celebrating the Easter Bunny, ect), music, and entertainment that destroys the mind and blots out our Creator. This world idolizes everything but our Creator!

Wow! Some awesome things to think about. We can pray for loved ones who have passed kinda like a time machine idea. I get it. And I never heard that people who end up in hell will not be repented. That opens my eyes too.

Granger I couldn’t agree more with you on how so many local churches have completely failed at having a biblical leadership structure therefore completely failing to shepherd their flock. Unfortunately too many churches are more worried about numbers on a tally sheet and being appealing to the world when they should be focused on shepherding the flock. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying evangelism and reaching the lost is not important but too many churches aren’t align like the Bible prescribes and the flock suffers. Love you two and I appreciate this ministry. I will be adding y’all and your family to my daily prayers. God bless you both!

It’s my birthday… so I’m good with it! I have lots of fond memories of my Halloween birthdays. Trick or Treating, having good laughs with our neighbours and treat givers, as well as our family. Listening to some folks, I must be demonic for being born on Halloween. Seriously, it’s not a demonic holiday at all. It’s a harvest celebration. One problem with religion is that you allow an organization to interpret and attach meaning to events and people are not allowed to question or challenge it. There could be a distortion of the original concept. There could be misrepresentation based on organizational or personal bias. Having said this, there’s a place for religion in society (the world needs it more than ever) as it brings hope, and develops faith in people. It gives people strength and courage. These are wonderful blessed things.

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

I feel that way too. My Son Son said to me please Mommy don't take this away from me. So I am Convicted about it.

Listening to all the podcasts and hearing the way you speak about church... I see you guys having a Christian ranch in the future the helps people! My cousin owns milestone ranch in Blum tx. I see you guys having a place similar to that. I see you bringing the addiction help you speak of, into your church and help people at your place... hints why I think you guys started with building out the barn 🤷 Just my opinion, but super awesome!

What’s up man haven’t watched these in forever

Granger!! Saw you in Albuquerque! Much love! I will email you for some stuff I have goin on in life! God bless y’all! ❤

I grew up without Halloween and didn't miss it. We traveled or went to our church's harvest party

Our church and another church in our area have harvest parties. Nothing goulish or evil related. We have games and trunk or treat where candy is passed out. The trunks have themes like candy land or fish bowl. There's a chili cook off & contest. Cake walks, crock pots full of soups and casseroles to share. The community is invited. It's a fun alternative.

We lived in the San Antonio area at one time and our church always had a fall party on halloween. The youth would put together booths in the class rooms and in the activity hall there were lots of games and food going on. Out side the parents had their trunks decorated and the kids got to go around trunk or treating. It was awesome because that was it. Our kids did not go around to the neighbors or around town trick or treating. The rule was that no one could paint their faces and no one could dress up in evil costumes. It was a blast, innocent and satisfying for the whole family.

We had an alternative to Halloween when we were raising our children. Our church put on a harvest festival for the kids where they could dress up appropriately and play game and win candy. They had fun and did not miss out. 😂

At our preschool in Georgetown TX we have a fall fest. Our kids dress up as Bible characters and this year story book characters. Our teachers have mixed views as well.

When it rains it rains on the just and the unjust. Wow! Love that.

Thanks Griz,,🙏🙏

My brother was murdered on Halloween 1982 so as I grew up I hated it,then I grew up and had my own kids, and I let my kids celebrate,and it's ok to let your kids have fun there's so many ways to enjoy this Holiday,It doesn't have to be demonic my goodness,all these things exist and to not celebrate it with our families is wrong,we've celebrated it for hundred thousands of years❤

Growing up, I never once went trick r treating. I never dressed up. I'm 28 now, and I never felt like I was missing out. Idk about yall, but my church always had harvest festivals on the night of Halloween, and it was always a great time games for the kids, pot luck, white elephant.

I agree that’s it’s all about each individual persons conviction. If you let your kids dress appropriate and do it all in fun. It ok. My family has a memorial tradition. We take the kids out early and all meet to eat supper together. My husband was a baptist preacher. He loved to watch the kids dress up. Get the candy. Then when we got older. He loved to sit on the porch and pass it out. He’s been gone 18 months. I still get sad at Halloween. Because we made great memories. All in fun.

Our Halloween has slowly changed to more of a harvest celebration because it's just become so much more evil in the last few years. When my granddaughter was little she loved Curious George Boofest so now she's 9 and we still fill the yard with pumpkins and and we have a fire in our firepit and eat smores. I think we will add the " candy extravagandy" this year! 😅

I can understand why he would react that way. Many times when someone says they have to give something up, it's often followed by them telling you why you shouldn't do it either.

That is a BIG NO on Halloween for my family. The demonic holiday has never been part of our family.

Our church has an Oct 31st party for our community. We have seen many saved through this outreach. BUT I also believe you must follow your own convictions that are from God. I also believe that the local church needs to get involved in recovery program. We have churches in our Area that have wonderful programs that are for the whole community. One has a men's and women's home. Good discussion today.

Celebrate Recover > AA ❤️

Any holiday is what you make it. In every home in America each holiday is a little different. We each have our own traditions.

I grew up in rural Indiana where my father farmed. Fall was so special because it meant harvest of all of his hard work. We celebrated Halloween more as Fall and even had a special family night. We even pulled taffy and had games. I never once thought of demons. I taught my sons the the same. This comes from a midwest farmer's daughter who got spanked for playing tag in the sanctuary. My Father meant business!❤

Honestly, I wait till all the candy is on sale the next day. 🤪

I wouldn’t celebrate Halloween as a Christian. You have to ask what it is you are celebrating and or for what purpose. To have a good time ect. All seems like worldly reasons to celebrate not to mention the demonic influence. This holiday is not of God. Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John2:15

We go to a Missionary Alliance church that hosts a great pumpkin party every year. Numerous bounce houses, carnival games, a hay ride, Photo Booth, and lots and lots of candy being given out. People dress up in family friendly costumes and everyone in the community is welcome to this event. Numerous families start attending our church, because of this event. Our children LOVED going every year. They have outgrown it as our youngest is in middle school. As a family on Halloween we all dress up in family friendly costumes and go visit the Grandparents, aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles, and very close friends. Our children get unbelievable amounts of treats and gifts by just stopping at those 10-15 houses. To me this eliminates the yuckiness that can be associated with Halloween.

I have a family member who is a Captain with the Fire Dept. he told me he see's unspeakable things happen around Halloween, we raised 5 children without Halloween because I refuse to celebrate a day where people are hurt. We had a family night with movies and our kids never felt deprived. My convictions may not be others and that's fine.

Would love to hear your thoughts on Christians celebrating Christmas and Jeremiah 10

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Listen to the Holy Spirit. Hold firm to your convictions. We are not missing out on anything,we are gaining everything. We do not celebrate Halloween or any kind of party on Oct. 31st. We do celebrate the Lord's feasts,which is a commandment

in my family we just get Halloween candy when it is on sale

I am Lutheran and we celebrate reformation Day on Oct 31.

I think Halloween should be a teaching tool and used for that to explain the difference between good and evil. I do believe if you treat it like I did that you dress up as good---princesses and cowboys and such and keep it in perspective then Halloween is ok. We do a trunk or treat at our church with families getting together and dressing up as someone biblical. We use it as a teaching tool like that. Also each kid can tell the trunkers a bible verse and get an extra candy. It is treated more as a celebration for fall and the harvest. Also a lesson for kids to learn about the bounties of this time of year. We also bring in a ton of pumpkins representing the harvest. If taught and kept in perspective, I feel like it is ok. I also see keeping things from kids puts more emphasis on what you are trying to keep from them. I would rather use it as a lesson. My best friend use to keep candy from her kids. When they did get to have it they wanted to gorge themselves with it. One of her little girls would wake up out of a sound sleep if she heard a candy wrapper being opened. When she finally did let them have candy, it became not such a big deal and their interest in it became a whole lot less. I call it the apple syndrome. If adults couldn't resist, how do you expect kids? Just lose it as a teaching tool and why it is wrong to dress as demons and such. Love you guys! You're Texas neighbor in the hill country!

For me personally as Christian I do not do anything on Halloween, I was convicted years ago from The Holy Spirit. however I have not and will not judge people who do things differently then I do. I believe it is a personal decision and we should respect each other’s beliefs/convictions.

The best thing people can do is totally ignore all social media, it has ruined the world.

I agree totally. We also didn’t have our son believe in Santa Claus ever. It is Jesus Birthday.

We do Halloween with cute things and lots of pumpkins and yes candy. We don't have things that are scary or gross. We just treat it like it's Fall and Thanksgiving.

We just love free candy.. lol

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Granger Smith I have a question my church is having a fall festival candy and all decorations on cars candy is that a sin

Remember the thief on the cross . I know there will be some people in heaven that cried out for forgiveness just moments before they died. But you are true only God knows who is in Heaven and I am so thankful that he is my one true judge because so many people judge people unjustly everyday. But My God is a Fair and Just God. He truly is my Best Friend❤

The best thing to someone’s question is direct them to what the Bible directs such as 1 Cor 10:21. Or simply ask what would Jesus do. Then you’d answer your own question. Kids can’t make decisions because they are still learning from us parents.

My church does a fall festival with decorated car trunks, and it's called trunk o treat. There's games, and hot dogs and hot chocolate. This gives the kids an opportunity to enjoy the fall and fun of being with kids of like belief and not missing out of fun of treats.

I gave up Halloween, Christmas, and Easter 3 to 4 years ago...sadly my mother who is Christian thinks im taking away from my son and he doesnt understand sincr hes Autistic and sees friends in school celebrating.

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Celebrate Recovery is a Christ centered 12 step program a good alternative to AA

Had this discussion with a friend the other day. He doesnt know the Lord and thought it was crazy that we didnt celebrate Halloween. I also told him though, just becasue i dont, doesn't mean you cant. It os just my conviction for my family.

I didn't grow up in a Christian Home and we have always done Halloween. My kids dress up and go trick or treating. Costumes are not anything scary and we give out candy, hot chocolate and coffee. Every other year our church does a fall festival. Everyone's convictions are different. I have friends who do not participate at all.

I think the only thing Christians should do is like some do just hand out fliers but I think there should be a group of people doing worship and having prayer night over the people on Halloween.. to get more info watch the Richard T. Railey videos about Halloween on his page

Lots of churches have trunk or treats kids can go to

Don’t fast late specially, with your kids

What is the status on the truck

Do you do Santa in your house? Recently I have felt convicted about not lying to my children about Santa. If I lie about something simple, how can they trust me with bigger things? They still get the same amount of stuff. We still have imagination and stories about Santa. But we don’t say “Santa came into our house and dropped off these presents.” What are your thoughts?

What about Christian’s having tattoos? Will London not being doing her YT channel?

This isn't necessarily something that married couples with dual incomes consider. I just think Halloween is a tremendous waste of money. You go to multiple parties, maybe 3-4 over a Halloween weekend. Each one is themed differently so you're supposed to buy a new costume for each or tailor a costume and it's like $40 per. I know people in dire financial straits who own many halloween costumes, it's absurd.

I think it can be used to glorify God. Churches put on trunk or treats and halloween events all the time and its all fun and innocent. The original Christmas tree was used in a pagan ceremony. as long as were not dumping blood on the Christmas tree and worshipping Satan I think a Christmas tree is innocent. its just a tree. Just like halloween is just a chance for your kids to dress up like their favorite character. As far as my family goes my kids will never dress like demons or killers. It will be a day for candy and imagination to be their favorite super hero and we'll celebrate at church events. this is all IMO obviously. Love y'all!

I don’t think so

One I think it is okay that you are reading old questions not previously responded to from your Amber questions folder. When I grew up and I'm older than Granger to me halloween was just a night of dressing up in a costume to get free candy and yes when I was young I believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny but I also new from a young age that Christmas was Jesus' birthday and Easter was a celebration of his resurrection. To the man who wrote in about the struggles he and the wife had conceiving before being blessed I know of a couple she being about 20 years younger than her husband who is my age and they live off the taxpayers and they have 7 kids and expecting 2 more any day now. It makes me mad that they keep popping out kids and live off the government and when I was younger and wanted children I was only ever blessed with one. Back then I was mad that I couldn't have more, mad that the one I was blessed with came at a very bad time of my life. Now that I am older and my life is different I am glad my one and only was the only one cause more would have kept me connected to those I would not want in my life now but also I would not have connections I have now. Does it still anger me of this couple that keeps popping out kids yep but I also know there is nothing I can do about it so I just try to move on and soon I will really be moving and start building new friendships in the new neighborhood and church in the new state that will be home.

I understand resentful of folks still having their kids after losing my daughter when she was 7 months and the bonding part. My little girl bonded more with me in the short time we had her and i think my ex resented that a bit even though she had her daughter from her forst marriage, my ex stepdaughter which i was more a father than her biological father but she was poisoned against me after losing my baby girl cause she went back to her family cause her mom was convicted. I felt convicted and kind of jealous that i lost my daughter but the ex's ex got to keep his and he never took care of her

We celebrate reformation day

What about the rich man in hell? He wanted to send Lazarus to warn his family about hell so he knew it wasn't a good place. I'm assuming he regrets how he lived?

Of course it’s not okey

A lot of the things we celebrate blindly have evil roots. Some ppl dont think we should be celebrating thanksgiving either. Its all about perspective in my opinion. Ppl will and honestly should do what they think is best instead of blindly doing what some celebrity or church leader says. Pray and ask for guidance.

If you research Halloween you’ll find even the candy had an original purpose for Halloween.

You nailed it as far as convictions, I allowed mine to dress up for Halloween and we did Santa and I personally see nothing wrong with either but that is me. I was brought up in a Christian home as we raised our child in a Christmas home. We are for sure to be apart from the world but have to tread lightly when children are younger. It can come across that being a Christian takes out the fun. I love what you all did last Halloween. My child is grown and I help with Fall Festival at my church on Halloween night. We use it as a time to minister and meet people in our small southern town.

Is Granger reading comments today? ✋

Halloween is awesome. Y’all are hilarious

We hate Halloween at our house. Our church doesn’t celebrate it and we call it fall harvest festival.

We don’t want to do Halloween we feel convicted