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• Christmas, the cute deception

  Shane VaughnDeuteronomy 12:29-32Series: STANDALONE BOOK

  This booklet examines the origins of Christmas and argues that the holiday is rooted in pagan practices later absorbed into Christianity through Roman religious transformation. It contrasts Christmas with Yahweh’s appointed Feasts and presents Sukkot as the more biblically

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• TABERNACLE AMONG US

  Shane VaughnSeries: STANDALONE BOOK

  dating affects multiple generations: Truth vs. Error: Teaching children accurate biblical history Worship vs. Syncretism: Pure worship versus mixed pagan-Christian cele- bration Covenant vs. Culture: Following biblical covenant versus cultural accom- modation Conclusion: The Word Made Flesh ... repeated throughout church history: Gradual Introduction: Pagan practices were not imposed overnight but introduced gradually through cultural accommodation and missionary prag- matism. Religious Justification: New Christian meanings were assigned to existing pagan celebrations, making them appear biblically legitimate. Institutional Authority

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• Echoes of Israel (Part 8) Pagan Holidays; Sunna, Ishtar, Oestra, Easter 4/18/25 - Zoom Bible Study

  Shane Vaughn2025-04-18Deuteronomy 12:29-32Series: Echoes of Israel

  Falling Away that followed the apostolic era and presents Constantine's reforms as a major catalyst in blending pagan customs with Christianity. Throughout the lesson, emphasis is placed on restoration, separation from Babylon, recovery of biblical holy days, apostolic faith

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• Pagan Festivals Treatise

  Shane Vaughn

  made festivals FHMI stands firmly that: ✔ Romans 14 concerns fast days, not worship days. ✔ Colossians 2 concerns pagan judgment, not Christian liberty. ✔ Neither text grants permission for believers to adopt or defend pagan observances. We do not build doctrine ... says the opposite. For over 300 years after Yahshua, the followers of The Way: refused pagan feast days, refused Christianized pagan days, refused Roman innovations, refused solstice festivals, refused the worship customs of the Empire, refused mixing the sacred with

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• Rom 14:5 Proves Why We Shouldn't Keep the Sabbath — Doesn't It?

  Shane VaughnRomans 14:5

  This teaching addresses the common objection that Romans 14:5 abolishes Sabbath

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• in 10 minutes: Why We Don't Celebrate Christmas in our ministry

  Shane Vaughn2024-12-24No scripture reference explicitly cited in the transcript.

  from pagan customs and faithfulness to Yahweh’s appointed celebrations. It presents Christmas as a later blending of pagan traditions with Christianity and contrasts that with the Sabbath and annual holy days given by Yahweh. The teaching concludes that rejecting

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• The Holy Days have no part in the modern church today, right? Part 3

  Shane Vaughn2016-04-17Colossians 2:16–17Series: Holy Days in the Church

  In the concluding message of the series, Dr. Vaughn addresses the principal

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• MOnthly Newsletter October 2026

  Shane Vaughn2026-10-21

  secret even in the earliest days. Tertullian, two hundred years before, was already grieving over Christians who had joined the pagan calendar: “The Saturnalia and New-year's and Midwinter's festivals and Matronalia are frequented by us!... Oh better ... itself!” — Tertullian, On Idolatry, ch. 14 The pagans would never keep a Christian feast. But the Christians were keeping the pagan ones — and calling it liberty. The church did not stumble into the pagan calendar by accident. It walked

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• A Spring Fling - Sermon About the Spring Celebrations

  Shane Vaughn2023-03-18Romans 1:25

  Pastor Vaughn teaches that Western Christian holidays (Easter, Christmas, Lent) originate from ancient Babylonian pagan worship centered on Nimrod, Semiramis ... Tammuz, and that keeping these holidays constitutes spiritual adultery against Yahweh. He argues that Christians unknowingly celebrate a 6,000-year-old pagan wheel of time rather than Yahweh's biblical calendar, and calls believers to abandon these traditions

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• A More Glorious Gospel

  Shane Vaughn2024-08-142 Corinthians 4:4

  “A More Glorious Gospel” contrasts a gospel of fear, escape, and eternal

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• Holy Halloween?

  Shane Vaughn2023-10-31Romans 11:16

  witchcraft celebration focused on necromancy (communicating with the dead) and demands that covenant believers separate themselves from all pagan customs and choose the Tree of Life (obedience to Yahweh) over the Tree of Death (rebellion and worldly participation). The sermon ... believers must teach their children the biblical difference between holy and profane, warning that participating in Halloween—even under Christian alternative names—constitutes rebellion against Yahweh's explicit commands

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• Open Letter Concering The Counsel of Nicea

  Shane Vaughn2026-03-28Series: Letter

  being controversial. We are being BIBLICAL. We are refusing to bow to a doctrine that was forced on Christianity by a pagan emperor at the point of a sword. When we observe the biblical Feast Days—Passover, Unleavened Bread, Shavuot ... standard for redeemed people. 4. BIBLICAL FEAST DAYS - We celebrate Yahweh's appointed times (Leviticus 23), not pagan holidays rebranded as Christian. 5. THE SACRED NAME - We honor the name of Yahweh and His Son Yahshua, not generic substitutes

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• The Book of Colossians

  Shane Vaughn2016-06-01Series: STANDALONE BOOK

  find out in the next few verses if Paul was referring to Jews or pagans as those who were trying to seduce these young Christians away from their liberty. Was it Jews that was trying to get them to return ... think without thinking. Paul is making it as plain as day what men he is referring to; Pagans from whom these Gentile Christians came from. Paul goes on to talk about these Pagans who were “intruding into things which

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• The Plain Principles of Paganism

  Shane Vaughn2023-12-16John 4:23

  Pastor Shane Vaughn teaches that pagans are worshippers but not true worshippers

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• Shane Vaughn Preaches "No More Pigs On The Altar" an explanation of Hanukkah

  Shane Vaughn2017-12-18John 10:22–24

  In No More Pigs on the Altar, Pastor Shane Vaughn explains Hanukkah

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• The Lies of Lent and the Truth of Mardi Gras

  Shane Vaughn2023-02-26Ezekiel 8:14

  Pastor Shane Vaughn exposes the pagan origins of Lent and Mardi Gras, tracing their roots to pre-Christian Babylonian and pagan religious practices rather than biblical instruction. He argues that the Catholic Church incorporated these pagan celebrations into Christianity

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• Pastor Shane Vaughn exposes the LIES OF LENT and the TRUTH of MARDI GRAS

  Shane Vaughn2023-02-26Ezekiel 8:14–15

  Vaughn's interpretation of the historical development of Christianity. He contends that as the institutional church expanded, pagan customs were incorporated into Christian worship to accommodate converts who wished to preserve their former celebrations. Vaughn presents Mardi Gras ... ancient worship of Tammuz. Vaughn interprets Ezekiel 8:14–15 as evidence that practices resembling Lent existed in pagan religion before Christianity and were subsequently incorporated into church tradition. The teaching concludes by emphasizing the observance of Passover

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• The story you were never supposed to know

  Shane VaughnSeries: STANDALONE BOOK

  goal was unity — not truth. He saw the spring festival of Ishtar as an opportunity to merge pagan and Christian populations. In 325 A.D., the Council of Nicaea officially decreed that the celebration of the resurrection would no longer coincide ... Yahweh’s own house. And He called it an abomination. FROM BABYLON TO ROME When Constantine fused paganism with Christianity, he faced a dilemma. The ancient forty-day mourning ritual for Tammuz was so ingrained in the empire that abolishing

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• Part 2 - The Great Falling Away & The Anti-Christ - Pastor Shane Vaughn

  Shane Vaughn2024-02-09Daniel 7:25Series: The Great Falling Away & The Revealing of the Antichrist

  This teaching explains how the “falling away” developed after the apostles through the introduction of Romanized Christianity, the Trinity doctrine, pagan traditions, and the rejection of Torah and sacred time. Using Daniel 7, Deuteronomy 6, Mark 12, Exodus 31, Leviticus

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• Shane Vaughn Teaches: The Dark Side of the Year - Holidays Explained

  Shane Vaughn2017-11-18Jeremiah 10:2

  customs of pagan nations, emphasizing that believers should not participate in religious practices he considers incompatible with the worship of Yahweh. The final portion of the teaching contrasts biblical holy days with modern secular and Christian holidays. Vaughn challenges listeners

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