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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, and Tammuz, and that keeping these holidays constitutes spiritual adultery against Yahweh. He argues that Christians unknowingly celebrate
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TABERNACLE AMONG US
Shane VaughnSeries: STANDALONE BOOK
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- …ature in specific ways: • Sensual Gratification - Pagan holidays often involve excessive eating, drinking, and entertainment • Self-Centered Focus - The…
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- … to Saturday evening • Annual Calendar: Replace pagan holidays with biblical feasts and ap- pointed times • Educational Focus: Teach children the bibli…
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
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- Title: Echoes of Israel (Part 8) Pagan Holidays; Sunna, Ishtar, Oestra, Easter 4/18/25 - Zoom Bible Study Summary: This lesson uses Deute…
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Are Birthdays Pagan?
Shane VaughnDeuteronomy 4:2Series: STANDALONE BOOK
This doctrinal treatise examines whether birthday celebrations are pagan and concludes that the charge is unproven. It argues that celebrating life can rightly become thanksgiving to Yahweh, the only Giver and Sustainer of life. The document warns against adding commandments ... Torah and rejects the creation of burdens Yahweh never imposed, while still maintaining FHMI’s rejection of holidays with demonstrable pagan religious roots
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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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The Story That You Were Never Supposed to Know
Shane Vaughn2020-10-18Deuteronomy 12:2-8
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- …need a clear understanding of how God feels about pagan holidays and when we leave this place tonight you're going to have a clear understanding because s…
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- …were well and saw no evil before we started doing pagan holidays Israel said we were blessed but the minute we started baking cakes to Ishtar we saw evil …
Shane Vaughn Teaches The Celebrations Of The 7th Month
Shane Vaughn2019-09-15None
teaching, Vaughn contrasts the appointed festivals with secular holidays. He particularly criticizes Halloween and encourages believers to identify with the sacred celebrations of Israel rather than with traditions he considers pagan. He concludes by encouraging listeners to remember the biblical
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The story you were never supposed to know
Shane VaughnSeries: STANDALONE BOOK
years.” — Genesis 1:14 The Hebrew word seasons is moedim — meaning appoint- ed times. They are not man-made holidays but divine ap- pointments, written into the cosmos itself. Yahweh’s calendar is anchored by three great pilgrimage feasts, which ... century, he did not abolish those pagan customs — he absorbed them. He simply gave the sun god a new name — Christos — and the feasts of Baal and Tammuz were rebranded as Christian holidays. “He abolished none of their ancient festivals
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A Spring Fling - Sermon about the Spring Celebrations n 3/18/23
Shane Vaughn2023-03-18Romans 1:25
Pastor Shane Vaughn examines the spiritual significance of annual religious celebrations, contrasting Yahweh's appointed times with holidays he associates with ancient pagan traditions. Using the metaphor of a "spring fling," he describes participation in religious customs outside Yahweh
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MOnthly Newsletter October 2026
Shane Vaughn2026-10-21
believe you do. The question is: "Did HE ask for this — or did men?" 2. What Is Wrong With Paganism? Let us start with the Satanists themselves, because they tell on themselves. The modern Church of Satan does not believe ... into the pagan calendar by accident. It walked in on purpose — and wrote down why. ◆ WHO GAVE MAN THE AUTHORITY TO CHANGE THE WORSHIP OF YAHWEH? ◆ 8. Halloween — The Night of the Dead Start with the holiday on the calendar
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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.
The message explains why the speaker and his congregation do not celebrate Christmas, emphasizing separation from pagan customs and faithfulness to Yahweh’s appointed celebrations. It presents Christmas as a later blendi…
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Part 2 - The Return of Elijah - The Spirit of Elijah
Shane Vaughn2018-08-05Malachi 4:5–6Series: The Return of Elijah, The Spirit of Elijah
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- … did he started tearing down Pagan altars (35:49) pagan holidays Pagan celebrations Pagan Sundays Pagan everything that was contrary to the ways of Israel…
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10 Minutes of Truth - Why Do You Celebrate Easter?
Shane Vaughn2016-03-14None
The speaker explains why his ministry at First Harvest does not celebrate Easter. He argues from the sign of Jonah that Yeshua had to be in the grave three days and three nights, or 72 hours, and that a Friday burial wit…
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The Story You Were Never Supposed to Know
Shane Vaughn2016-03-29Genesis 1:14
Rev. Shane Vaughn presents the biblical narrative beginning with Genesis 1:14
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"The Feast of Tabernacles 2020"
Shane Vaughn2020-10-10Leviticus 23:34
This message teaches the meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles as a commanded holy festival for the House of Israel. The speaker contrasts Yahweh’s festival of light with pagan celebrations on the dark side of the year, th…
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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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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
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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 torment with a message centered on Yahweh’s coming Kingdom and the restoration of the earth. The teaching traces what it describes as a loss of apo…
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Pagan Festivals Treatise
Shane Vaughn
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- …f granted liberty. 4. NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER TO PAGAN HOLIDAYS Romans 14 has: no Christmas no Easter efore no man may enforce them. Thus, Paul grants l…
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- …f granted liberty. 4. NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER TO PAGAN HOLIDAYS Romans 14 has: no Christmas no Easter no Saturnalia no solstice feasts no worship days a…
Dancing on Mt Sion
Shane Vaughn2026-05-12Series: STANDALONE BOOK
Atonement (Yom Kippur) • Tabernacles (Sukkot) • The Last Great Day (Shemini Atzeret) We do NOT celebrate: • Christmas (a pagan holiday with no biblical basis) • Easter (another pagan holiday masquerading as Chris- tian) • Halloween (obviously demonic) • And a myriad of other pagan ... based holidays that have infiltrated the church For a comprehensive examination of the pagan origins of these holidays and how they entered Christianity, see Pas- tor Vaughn’s book “The Story You Were Never Supposed to Know” These appointed times