{"id":5680,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/happy-hallowday\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:01","slug":"happy-hallowday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/happy-hallowday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Hallowday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon for Halloween \/ All Saints Day.                    1 Thess 4:13-18<\/p>\n<p>                              ===============<br \/>\n                              HAPPY HALLOWDAY<br \/>\n                              ===============<\/p>\n<p>     I. The night of the living dead.<\/p>\n<p>    II. Original meaning of Halloween.<br \/>\n         A. Pagan festival in autumn, called &#8220;sowein.&#8221;<br \/>\n         B. Adapted by Christians.<br \/>\n         C. Important themes are involved in Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Honoring saints.<br \/>\n         A. Meaning of saint.<br \/>\n         B. Exemplary examples.<br \/>\n         C. Who are we influencing for eternity?<\/p>\n<p>    IV. What happens when we die?<br \/>\n         A. Everyone wants the dead to come back.<br \/>\n         B. Teaching of Bible on death.       Luke 16:19-31; 1 Thess 4:13-19<br \/>\n         C. Establishing your destiny.<br \/>\n         D. Saving your family.<\/p>\n<p>     V. Evil is real.<br \/>\n         A. Proof in human history.<br \/>\n         B. Evil should be confronted.<br \/>\n         C. Jesus has ultimate victory.     Colossians 2:15; Revelation 15:2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon for Halloween \/ All Saints Day. 1 Thess 4:13-18 =============== HAPPY HALLOWDAY =============== I. The night of the living dead. II. Original meaning of Halloween. A. Pagan festival in autumn, called &#8220;sowein.&#8221; B. Adapted by Christians. C. Important themes are involved in Halloween. III. Honoring saints. A. Meaning of saint. B. Exemplary examples. C. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312,649,1848,1807,725],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}