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 Uk . Her official title is reverend Erika Biscoe but likes to be known as Erika. 

She is the founder and visionary behind a ministry called Cherish Ministry Uk which  is a charity that focuses on woman becoming the best version of themselves by recognising, through a 6 week course, who they were created to be, and what God's intended purpose for each one of them is.

With the story of Esther in the Old Testament the women are invited to tell their story in a unique and innovative environment. Using a Nail Bar Setting Erika invites them to chat and share their story. Within this non threatening setting Erika and her team  enable and facilitate healing through the holy spirits work within each and every attendee. Using  group work and individual one to one sessions they establish a safe place for everyone to be themselves and share their life journey. 

Erika is passionate about upskilling the women who attend an establishing connections between the ladies that engage both online or in person. She has even had Mothers and Daughters attending together, improving relationships all round. 

To find out more about Cherish Ministry Uk visit:

Cherishministry.org.uk 

email Erika on [email protected]. 

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 with those leading the Cretan church astray and that he should do this curtly, sharply.

Susan looks at the meaning of the word "Apotomos", used here to instruct the manner in which Titus was to correct the members of the church. 

With personal stories of storms that were unannounced in the Uk in 1987 she attempts to contextualise the Bomb that just landed on Titus's lap. 

Using Tim Chesters' book to explain Paul's sole Mission. Susan describes  how from Rome Paul continued to instruct from the standpoint of making disciples rather than converts. Gospel centred and mission based. 

Tomorrow Susan will be interviewing one of her good friends Reverend Erika Biscoe on her  Live Stream  at 9.00am.

A  Vicar Pioneer of Cherish Ministry Uk. Tune in to listen to Erika's story using the link provided in the show notes below. 

Join us live Friday 21/2/26 @ 9.00am  by clicking the link below

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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  identifying where we have perhaps been "padding" the message and making it less offensive and in so doing communicating a "boring, lacking in power" gospel. 

With personal applications Susan is able to explain what that might look like in each one of our circumstances and compares our lives to those of the early church founders. 

This episode digs a little deeper than yesterdays in order to provide more context and comparison for us listeners. 

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 explore the notion that the list Paul writes in Titus 1:5-9 may have been more like an identifying kit, characteristics that would have naturally surfaced  in someone that was following Jesus and understood their salvation was by Grace through faith instead of a legalistic set of requirements.

Likened to  a Godly fingerprint. 

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 citizenship and how that would have come about. Paul being from Tarsus a Free Roman City.

All this in order to give context to the letter and credence to the writer. She sites Biblestudy.org as her main source and is following a book by Tim Chester called Titus for you but has not used his material as yet. 

Susan invites us all to ask for God's revelation with regards to our purpose and the plans God has  prepared in advance for each one of us. She calls to attention our need to confess the use of any God given gifting that has been employed like Paul in ungodly works of the flesh. 

As Susan opens up this short book, she uses personal experience and occupational knowledge to bring us new insight into the apostle Paul and his conversion.  Explaining the side effects of Sun Exposure to his eyes, from an Optometric point of view. 

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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 allows us to understand the context of Davids words. 

With personal anecdotes and her own revelation of sins that needed to be confessed, Susan brings the psalm to life for us all to enjoy.

For  additional learning and instruction Susan recommends her local Church St Pauls Salisbury Uk, where today associate pastor Matt Harrison covers Galations 5: 13-25 the Fruit of the Spirit with new insight .

For the link to this talk follow:  https://www.adventworldwide.co.uk/

Talk Date 15/3/26

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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, moabites, woman as well as men are all included in the genealogy of Jesus. Which was not the norm at the time of writing. She indicates this is proof that Jesus came to save sinners, and that meant all sinners. 

Susan uses gardening analogies and life experience to bring God's promises to life for each one of us.

She finishes with a prayer for us all and a reminder that Jesus is the Messiah the annointed one,  promised from Abraham to today to all who will believe. 

This ends the series on Ruth for You. 

To contact Susan email: [email protected]

Visit Website: Adventworldwide.co.uk

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 book of Ruth?

Q2 How have you seen God's Provision throughout the Story?

Q3 Look at women’s praise in verses 14-15 what could you praise God for in a similar way?

Susan answers these questions with personal insights and stories of God's grace in her life. 

She begins to tackle the second half of "The son" section of the book in which there are three headings. 

With a view to keeping the podcast to the promised 20 minutes, Susan explores God providing a messiah for the world in today's time slot enabling a look at the short genealogy in this passage and the need for a Holy Reset in our lives.

To contact Susan email : [email protected]

To visit her website go to: Adventworldwide.co.uk

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 compares it to this day and age.

In addition she turns her attention to the Israel's need for a redeemer  as they were in darkness up to the end of the book of Judges. This redeemer is previewed, again using  literary poetic licence, in the mention of King David. 

To contact Susan email: [email protected]

Visit Website: Adventworldwide.co.uk

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 the one who gave it all to redeem us. Jesus who did it all because he loves us.  

To contact Susan please email  [email protected]