Certainly one of the most popular Christmas carols is “Joy to the World,” underlining how much we hunger and thirst for joy, and we hear that joy will come to us as earth receives her king, as psychoanalyst Eric Fromm describes in his 1939 book, “Escape from Freedom”, the majority of citizens sought to escape from their suffering to find joy by welcoming a king-dictator.
Several years ago, I went with our church to do mission work in Ukraine. We have a missionary there from our church that teaches English using the Bible. While we were there, we were able to do some street evangelism, talked with people in nursing homes, taught our classes and immersed ourselves in the culture. It was an amazing trip.
We had a new church member “meet and greet” at our house last week and one guy asked, “How do we know how we are doing as a church? What’s a healthy, mature church look like?” This guy is smart, and I like him a lot and I loved those questions. How does a church know how they are doing?
Jail log lists all people charged with offenses through the county jail in Cameron.
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