Navigating Halloween as Christian Parents

COURAGEOUS PARENTING

Isaac & Angie Tolpin - CourageousParenting.com

Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity, Parenting, Relationships

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Should Christians celebrate Halloween? Should churches adapt something different on that day? How should Christian parents navigate halloween? These are all great questions and Isaac and Angie Tolpin take you to the scriptures in answering them with a compelling argument on why we shouldn’t participate in Halloween but instead see the opportunity to stand firm in the faith and look different than the world on that day. For your children to exercise the muscle of going against the grain with you while they are in your home even when Christians around you are doing things differently. There is a spiritual battle and the enemy wants to perpetuate spiritual confusion. The enemy rejoices in 65% or more of Christians celebrating halloween. Christians should be saying not me and my home!! But are there ways we can be evangelistic on October 31st? Absolutely and the Tolpins cover those as well. Be ready to be challenged and encouraged in this episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome for the Courageous Parenting Podcast. This is a really important topic and an important time.
0:05.2	We've done several episodes on this before, but this one's a little different about Halloween,
0:09.9	spiritual warfare. Buckle your seatbelt and get ready to agree or be offended because one or two are
0:16.0	going to happen. That's right. Beware of spiritual warfare on Halloween. Halloween is right around the corner for us.
0:22.5	But I think that this teaching could literally be impactful for you, regardless of what time of season of year you are in.
0:30.4	Even if you're in the middle of the summer or you're in the middle of May, this specific episode is going to be powerful. We have about seven or eight
0:39.2	Bible verses that we want to share with you guys just to prove a point in regards to spiritual
0:42.9	warfare. It'll also be helpful with your kids to use some of these scriptures. Yes. Well, I mean,
0:48.3	that's like equipping your children, right? And so oftentimes we talk about parenting here
0:52.1	on the courageous parenting podcast.
1:03.9	And one of the things that we have tried to impress upon you in the last seven years of doing this podcast episode is when you are parenting your kids, you don't parent over them.
1:09.7	You parent them in a way that is going to help them to understand the why behind the choices that you're making as a parent.
1:11.0	Parenting is hard.
1:15.4	There's a lot of decisions that you have to make every single day and every single year.
1:22.3	If you just lay down the law without the why, wow, woe to you as a parent. That's going to be hard. Now there are times, urgent situations where you got to do that. But most times you have to take more time.
1:29.1	And that's what parents feel like they don't have enough of. But we have to do it,
1:32.8	especially in these important topics, to help them understand. And you know what? You have the
1:37.2	best backup that exists. Don't just go into a meeting with your kids or one-on-one with your
1:43.9	children without your backup.
1:46.5	And your backup is the Word of God.
1:49.0	And if you're not using the Word of God, it's just your Word.
1:52.2	But if you have the Word of God backing you up and Scripture's ready, who can argue with the Word of God?
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