{"id":869,"date":"2010-10-31T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2011-03-10T20:40:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T02:40:23","slug":"redeeming-dark-day-halloween-reformation-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/redeeming-dark-day-halloween-reformation-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Redeeming a Dark Day &#8211; The Halloween or Reformation Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I gear up to watch Luther tonight to celebrate my denominational heritage and as I also gear up to take my daughter trick-or-treating and be prepared to hand out candy myself I continue to acknowledge the struggle that many Christians (including myself) have every time October 31 comes around. \u00a0I&#8217;m growing more and more of the opinion that because our God is a God of redemption we should do as much as humanly possible to redeem our culture.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure about this day: \u00a0Martin Luther took a stand in the midst of great opposition to do his best to redeem the culture he was a part of. \u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: italic;\">That <\/strong>is<strong style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/strong>grand and I&#8217;m glad to continue to be a part of the result of the Reformation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead of drafting an entire post on the issue I thought it would be helpful to send you to two places I&#8217;ve found helpful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Funny and helpful: <a title=\"5 Keys to a Sufficiently Christian Halloween | Joshua Skogerboe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jskogerboe.com\/?p=502\" target=\"_blank\">5 Keys to a Sufficiently Christian Halloween<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Logical and Helpful: <a title=\"Halloween Worries, Doctrine Apathy | Stand to Reason Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/str.typepad.com\/weblog\/2009\/10\/halloween-worries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stand to Reason Blog: Halloween Worries, Doctrine Apathy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What do you think about participating in Halloween? (and please only answer if you can use sufficient, in-context Scripture references to strongly support your opinion, don&#8217;t just say &#8220;because it&#8217;s evil&#8221; :-))<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/redeeming-dark-day-halloween-reformation-battle\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I gear up to watch Luther tonight to celebrate my denominational heritage and as I also gear up to take my daughter trick-or-treating and be prepared to hand out candy myself I continue to acknowledge the struggle that many Christians (including myself) have every time October 31 comes around. \u00a0I&#8217;m growing more and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}