Hey guys, I want to welcome you to the Mosaic podcast.

I'm Pastor Erwin, I'm Phil McManus, and just wanted to thank you for listening.

In case you didn't know, I just released a new book, it's called The Genius of Jesus,

the Man Who Changed Everything, and you can order it today at TheGeniusOfJesus.com.

Given I, we live right down the street from here, and we've lived in our present space

for the last 12 years, and one of the things that really surprised us when we first moved

in was the way our neighborhood celebrates Halloween.

I didn't know, it was such a huge holiday, in fact, if you based the importance of a holiday

based on communal cooperation, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year.

All the houses down all the streets where we live, decorate, they go to the max.

There are Halloween lights, and Halloween decorations, and then in our neighborhood, which is

just an amazing thing, people bring their kids in cars and vans in buses, and probably

at least a thousand kids walking through our neighborhood every Halloween, and even though

we're not the biggest fans of Halloween, we love it.

If you just love seeing all those little kids all dressed up coming up and giving them

candies so they can all have diabetes, it's just like an incredible contribution to their

lives, and it's always interesting to me how some kids are very specific, we only want

these. I'm gluten free, and only in our neighborhood, Halloween is huge, but then we get

the Christmas, and Christmas, our neighborhood is dark.

Our neighborhood just goes dark, you think everyone is at a town?

But not our house. Our house is in the corner, and it is lit. It is lit up, and every year

I try to outdo myself, I only compete against me, and Tim Allen, and Kim's always nervous

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