{"id":533,"date":"2019-10-28T21:13:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=533"},"modified":"2019-10-28T21:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:14:31","slug":"light-darkness-halloween-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Light &#038; Darkness :: Halloween Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance Church on 10\/27\/2019 by Pastor Steve Shields<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Off and on, I have taken this time of year, Halloween, to talk to you about spiritism, the occult, and such things Not because I think Halloween is bad. \u00a0But because I think the occult is real \u2013 and bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I basically use this holiday as an excuse to address these\nissues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving some thought to the difference between Christian\nfaith and paganism you might realize that a big part is the difference between\nlight and darkness. Christian faith is light. Paganism, spiritism, the occult,\nwitchcraft \u2013 not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LivingInLight-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LivingInLight-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LivingInLight-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LivingInLight-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LivingInLight.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, historically, these things are referred to, by\ncritics and practitioners alike, as the dark arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dark arts. Darkness. Spiritual darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the danger of paganism, spiritism, the occult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And this podcast addresses these very things.<\/strong><br>-Pastor Steve<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_686\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-533-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2019\/20191027HalloweenLightAndDark.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2019\/20191027HalloweenLightAndDark.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2019\/20191027HalloweenLightAndDark.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2019\/20191027HalloweenLightAndDark.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=533-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2019\/20191027HalloweenLightAndDark.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20191027HalloweenLightAndDark.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented at Curwensville Alliance Church on 10\/27\/2019 by Pastor Steve Shields Off and on, I have taken this time of year, Halloween, to talk to you about spiritism, the occult, and such things Not because I think Halloween is bad. \u00a0But because I think the occult is real \u2013 and bad. I basically use this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Light &#038; Darkness :: Halloween Message&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,151],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-halloween","tag-http-bible-com-events-4598770"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-8B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}