Imagine if we had to face our tempter and accuser on our own! But we know that Christ not only stands beside us—he sends us his Spirit to dwell within us.
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As long as I can remember, I’ve heard the warnings. Reading the Goosebumps books, playing Magic: The Gathering, or even dressing up for Halloween have been presented as open doors to the demonic.
The audience watching the first episode of season 4 of Netflix’s Stranger Things is apparently familiar enough with this “fundamentalist logic” to scoff along with Eddie Munson as he reads a Newsweek article that gives into this sort of “Satanic panic”:
