Ghost Stories: What’s Up with Halloween?

The Holy Spirit activated the first disciples of Jesus to take the Good News beyond Jerusalem and one of their first stops was Samaria.  Philip took the gospel there but it was Peter and John that laid on hands and brought the Holy Spirit into the midst of the Samaritans.  It takes an authentically repentant…

Acts 2:1-8 describes in exciting detail what happened on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was first received. But not too many years after that the Apostle Paul made a contrast between being filled with the Holy Spirit and being drunk with new wine in Ephesians 5:18.  Our command is to be filled…

Looking into Acts for the stories of the Holy Spirit coming into our midst, but Jesus promised the Holy Spirit upon specific instructions to his disciples to WAIT in Jerusalem to RECEIVE the Holy Spirit and then RUN to the uttermost parts of the world.

We are nearing the annual cultural celebration of Halloween where kids dress up and go door to door begging for candy and gleefully exclaiming, “Trick or Treat!” But from where did the Halloween traditions come? And, are these traditions evil? As believers in Jesus, what should we do with Halloween and how should we encounter…

Nearly half of Americans and 40% of Christians believe in ghosts, but are they real? And what does the Bible say about ghosts? Using the filters of scripture, reason, tradition and experience, we answer those questions and more in order to inform and empower us over the forces of evil deception.

The Bible is full of paranormal activity starting right at the beginning of Genesis chapter 1! We’ve been trying to explain that for millennia! One of the great mysteries of our faith is how our one God exists in three forms: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. There are many ways to describe the Trinity but in…