Vilonia United Methodist Church – Encountering, Loving, and Serving Co...

I’m sure everyone is aware at this point, but there is still no dislike button on Facebook. Just this week, Facebook released the next greatest thing for the site, the ability to add an emoticon in response to a post. Before, people could only “like...

I have a friend of mine who loves to jokingly say about my wife’s and my anniversary, “You’re halfway there.” I too have picked up on this and often find myself saying the same to other couples.  In one way, when he says it, it often makes me feel a...

In his book, Calendar: Christ’s Time for the Church, Laurence Hull Stookey helps us recall the importance of spiritual discipline during Lent.  Often he says, we are encouraged to give up something temporarily during the season.  While this may in some...

“Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near…Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and with...