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Host Susan Downie reads Titus 2:9–15 and unpacks Paul’s teaching to bond‑servants in its first‑century context, explaining how faithful, humble service points others to Jesus. The episode connects the biblical call to be self‑controlled and trustworthy with Jesus’ example of servanthood and offers a modern application: live as a visible, godly witness wherever God has placed you. To contact Susan ...

Join Your host Susan Downie who invites listeners to a 15–20 minute quiet time exploring Palm Sunday, Exodus 14–15, and the name Jehovah Rapha (the LORD who heals). She reflects on miracles, human tendency to complain after blessings, physical and spiritual dehydration, and how the cross provides healing and spiritual refreshment. She advises we spend some time thinking about our own situations an...

Join Susan Downie for a 15–20 minute morning devotion as she reads and reflects on Titus 2:4–5, focusing on how older women can mentor younger women in faith, family and daily life. She explores the historical context, practical meanings of loving husbands and children, self-control, household responsibility, kindness and submission, and closes with personal questions and a prayer. To contact Susa...

Join Susan Downie your host as she expands further on the role of Titus in the early Cretan Church. Susan looks at the dynamic of peer to peer mentoring within the church. Reading from Tim Chesters book Titus For You published by The Good Book Company,and the sources online, she manages to bring a fresh understanding to the struggles that Titus may have faced when trying to teach and encourage his...

Join Susan Downie your host as she continues in the book of Titus tackling the subject of mentoring within the early church, as Paul instructs Titus. Today we see the dynamic that Paul is advising for Older women with respect to leading the younger women within the context of house hold gatherings. Comparing her own family dynamic or patriarchy, that of her husbands matriarchal set up,  she allows...

Join Susan Downie your host as she begins to unpack how Titus was to set up a discipleship programmes within the Cretan Church. With Paul as his metaphorical Gym Spotter and Titus as the Weight lifter Susan explains further the dynamic  that was advised by Paul in order to produce Gospel Truth Based Godliness. Using Gym analogies of different groupings within any gym setting today Susan is able to...

Join Susan Downie your host as she revisits the verses in Titus 1 :10-16. Using the book by Tim Chester called Titus for you published by the Good book company. She invites us to consider our position. What do we stand for. Do we stand for Godliness or Rebellion.  Susan looks further into the call on Titus by Paul to put in order that which is yet unfinished. Looking deeper into the meaning of reb...

Join Susan Downie your host as she reflects on Psalm 139 and uses practical analogies of her family events on Saturday evening with her eldest grandson. She invites us all to understand that God is everywhere and that he knows the end from the beginning. Standing at the finish line of all our lives he was there even before you were formed.  She explains how the writer of the psalm uses craftsman t...

Join Susan Downie your host as she continues to explore the topic of Godliness and Truth alongside Tim Chester from the book ,Titus For You published by the Good Book Company.  She rewinds the tape today in order to give us practical applications of Gods Election. Revisiting the opening verses of this book she invites us into an imaginary game of pass the parcel. Using this creative  analogy for t...

Recorded Live, Join  Susan Downie your host as she chats live to her good friend and  mentor and one of her spiritual mothers Ericka Biscoe. Erika is a Daughter Sister,  Wife mother of three Boys and one Girl all now grown up. She has a  background in retail management and beauty therapy, and as of the last 10 + years  she has been a vicar leading a thriving church Emmanuel Bicester in Oxfordshire...

Join Susan Downie Your Host as she continues in the book of Titus using a commentary called Titus For You by Tim Chester published by the Good Book Company. Susan explains further the role of Titus in the Cretan Church. Likening the advent of disrupters and deceivers to a storm within the church that Titus may not have seen coming.  Pauls letter is explaining to Titus that he must deal directly wi...

Join Susan Downie your host as she continues in Paul's Letter to Titus, using the commentary Titus for you by Tim Chester from the Good Book Company. She expands on yesterday's instruction by Paul to Titus to appoint leaders,  elders, overseers within the Cretan Church.  Susan invites us all to live a Gospel centred life and look at conducting an inventory on our own lives with a view to  identify...

Join Susan Downie your host as she journeys through the book of Titus. Using personal stories and experiences too bring to life the Island of Crete and the mediterranean culture. Susan helps us relate to the trials and difficulties that Titus may have been facing at this time.  Susan compares the Cretan church too the Galatian church suggesting that they may have had similarities.  Inviting us to...

Join Susan Downie your host as she introduces us to the book of Titus. Here she begins the journey with a brief but interesting overview of the origins of the writer of this letter, the apostle Paul. She explains his heritage and his command of both scripture and language identifying his relationship with the Greek translations of the old testament the Septuagint. Susan informs us of his Roman cit...

Join Susan Downie on this Sunday, for more Sabbath rest.  Exploring the Psalms after a restful mothering Sunday in Uk. Today Susan walks us through Psalm 101 and parts of Psalm 121. She invites us to use Psalm 101 as a framework of confession and personal and emotional inventory. To align ourselves with God and decide on our non negotiables.  Her review of when this psalm may have been penned allo...

Join Susan Downie your host as she wraps up the book of Ruth ,using notes by Toni Merida from his reflection called Ruth for You. Susan finds that genealogy and  lineage points to  future events. She describes her disappointment with her gardening skills as the polar opposite of the promises that God gives us in the book of Ruth.  Exploring how jews and  non jews, Murders,Adulterers, prostitutes,...

Join Susan Downie your host as she comes into land on the book of Ruth. Following the book Ruth For You by Toni Merida a reflective practitioner of God's Word, Susan explores topics of Redemption and God's Providential Sovereignty in the Messiah, Jesus Christ.  This episode continues from yesterday's,  beginning with some questions that Toni puts to his readers: Q1 What has captivated you in the b...

Join Susan Downie your host as she expands on Toni Meridas Book, Ruth for you looking today at four headings as follows: 1. God has not forgotten his people.  2. God provides a Son for Boaz and Ruth. 3. God Provides a Redeemer for Naomi . 4. God provides a King for Israel. Susan takes an honest approach  surrounding the way writers depict pregnancy and childbirth alongside personal stories and com...

Join Susan Downie your host as she revisits Ruth Chapter 4 verse 11 and 12. The prayers that the witnesses prayed over Boaz. Here we see a three fold prayer which covers Ruth Boaz and their future offspring.  In this complex love story she compares the  deception seen in Tamar versus the transparency and integrity of both Boaz and Ruth. Susan goes on to  challenge us all to live lives worthy of th...

Join Susan Downie your host as she delves into the reasons we decline to help those that God has asked us to help. Following the notes in Toni Merida's book Ruth for You published by the good book company, she asks us all to consider the reasons we do not help the poor.  Looking into the anonymous redeemer in this chapter of Ruth we see motives and we see mission both in "Mr So and So" ,as he is d...

Join Susan Downie as she reflects on her Sabbath rest day, Sunday. Susan invites us all today  to take a break, to understand the dynamic of Godly rest.  Looking at Psalm 99 Susan expands our view of God using the text in the psalm helping us see the LORD Yahweh through the eyes of the Psalmist. Tackling subjects like Maslow's Hierarchy of needs , sanctification and Jehovah Mekoddishkem , she is a...

Join your host Susan Downie as she looks at the way in which business transactions were conducted in the days of Ruth, within the Israelite community. Susan explains that within this short chapter there are five main sections. The location, the ten elders, the timing, the opportunity the declaration. Susan goes on to  invite us to think of missed opportunities in our own lives and examine where we...

Join Susan Downie your host as she unpacks the price of redemption,  looking at the method employed by Ruth, under  Naomi's  instructions  to ask for Boaz to be her Kinsman Redeemer.  Susan discusses the implied but unverified intimacy and use of euphemism in ancient texts.  We see that Jesus like Boaz has means and is willing to redeem both widows.  In this episode the nature of rights and refusa...

Join your host Susan Downie as she explores the subject of Kinsman Redeemer, looking at the life of Ruth Naomi and Boaz. She encourages the listener to look through Boaz to Christ as our redeemer.  She invites us all to take stock of our need for redemption, and exploring the psychological tool called the Johari Window , she explains our innate need to accept we  all have blind spots and unknown p...

Join Susan Downie as she revisits the verses of yesterday in Ruth, where she explores topics of satisfaction in the Lord and paying  it forward.  Alongside the commentary by Tony Merida from his book, Ruth For you, Susan uses personal life experiences as examples of how the Lord has satisfied her needs and how that has promoted a desire to pay it forward.   We also see Naomi move from bitter to Br...