Date: June 24, 2023
Time: 10 AM – 1PM
Location: 20 Glebe Road East
We’ll be on the lawn with games and activities: live music, a bake sale and a rummage sale! The Larkman Room will have tables set up for you to browse for books, clothes and small household items.
Welcome Summer! Glebe Road United will be open for regular Sunday Services at 11:15 AM online and in-person for the months of June and July. Services are paused for the month of August, and will resume September 10th.
Link for online service: on Zoom.
Cynthia O’Connell One of the things my best friend and I share is an interest in MLM documentaries or Multi Level Marketing Companies, particularly the stories of corruption, controversy and exploitation that have in recent years made for compelling television. Read more
There’s a great older lady at St. Bartholomew’s United, the congregation I’ve been serving in Brampton. Her name is Jan but I call her “Two Bits” and she calls me “Shave.” Some time ago I said something in a sermon that prompted her to share that, in times past, phrases like the one I’d used would be followed with “Shave and a haircut – two bits!” It was a popular tagline and I was familiar with it. Ever since, we’ve been “Two Bits” and “Shave” occasionally prefaced by the stamp of a foot and thrust of the arm.
By Cheryl Stenson My parents separated when I was five years old. It was a very acrimonious split. My mom and I went to live with my grandparents but my dad was allowed to take me out on Saturday afternoons. Read more
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his Read more
Join us Saturday November 26th, 2022 at 2 PM to help us decorate the Sanctuary for Advent and Christmas. There will be cookies and crafts — families welcome! Come on out and get into the Christmas Spirit.
Luke 20:27-38The Question about the Resurrection Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, ‘Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, Read more
Luke 18:9-14, NRSV The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax-Collector He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, Read more
This is not a feel-good story of healing and restoration, is a story of rebuke for the way we as humanity treat the poor.
This is a story that seeks to name the trouble in Jesus’ time and in our time; poverty.
If you came looking for grace in this scripture, you will not find it. What you find is an indictment of our way of life and the chasm between rich and poor that we allow to perpetuate.
