Susandoodles

Susandoodles

Love God, love life, love one another.

Susan is trained in journalism, teaching and ministry;
now retired, the blog provides a means to continue sharing thoughts.

Category: Religion

  • Telling the Story: Noah and the Great Flood

    given on Sunday, January 15, 2012 Telling the Story:  Noah and the Great Flood Genesis 6-9   Reading through today’s Bible story this week, I have discovered a second lesson that surprised me.  I needed to hear this lesson because I have failed to use it. Noah’s story has always…

  • Telling the story: Cain & Abel

    given on Sunday, January 8, 2012 Telling the Story:  Cain & Abel   Background:  We are moving into a calendar time known as the Sundays after Epiphany:  January 6, 12 days after Jesus’ birth, the day the Wise Men arrived.  The Christmas Story now becomes the story of Jesus’ development…

  • The Wise Men’s Gift of Faith

    given on Sunday, January 1, 2012: Have you opened enough gifts this week?  I expect you have.  I certainly hope you have opened up your own gift of faith, too, as we have reviewed how the Christmas story depended on the faith of the prophets, Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, and…

  • God’s Gift of Faith

    given on Sunday, December 25, 2011:  Christmas Day! “A gift of faith,” you might ask.  Today, of all the days in the year, gifts are those packages all wrapped up under the tree.  The boxes and bags in such bright colorful wrappings, the ribbons curling and dipping around, bows on…

  • The Shepherd’s Gift of Faith

    given on Sunday, December 18, 2011:  the Fourth Sunday of Advent “I wonder as I wander . . . “             “I wonder as I wander. . .” probably is one of the most appropriate phrases for me, personally, as any other I might try to apply to myself.  Those…

  • Advent: A Mother’s Gift of Faith

    given on Sunday, December 4, 2011–the 2nd Sunday of Advent “I am bursting with God-news”             Today really throws us into the hubbub of Christmas season.  Watching the news, we plan our weekends, check the sales ads, and keep adding to our calendar.  How easy it is to overlook the…

  • A Prophet’s Gift of Faith: Zechariah’s story

    given on Sunday, November 27, 2011–the first Sunday of Advent Scripture basis:  Luke 1: 5-20     The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold (from the NIV)  5 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife…

  • Are you wearing a costume?

    given on Sunday, October 30 2011: Knock, knock, knock.  The doors open and the cries of “trick or treat” ring through the night.  Kids of all ages and sizes eagerly crowd around in costume hoping for the treats to fill their bags. Part of the night’s fun is figuring out…

  • Joining God in Healing

    given on Sunday, October 23, 2011: Scripture:  John 5:2-9, 14-15                                                                                    the NIV 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of…

  • A conversation with God? How?

    given on Sunday, October 16, 2011 Sounds like a great book title.  Wait, I think it has been a book title:  there it is on Amazon, with a subtitle—If you could ask God anything, what would it be?  The author is Alton Gansky.  Sorry to say, but I am unfamiliar…