The story of Lydia in the Bible offers a helpful model for Christian leadership, influence and right living. Lydia came from Thyatira, a city in the western province of Lydia in Asia Minor. Her name originally might have been the designation of her home, “a woman of Lydia.” At the ...
Story #1 There was a wooden box in the foyer of the church my family attended. I saw someone put money into it when I was about 3 or 4 years old and asked my parents what that person was doing. ”They’re giving it to God,” was the reply. As God was somewhere up in the sky...
Why the Ending Was Fantastic: I loved how much room it left for a sequel while still tying up nearly all of the important conflicts in the storyline. The fact that romance was not part of this storyline was also refreshing to me. We need more books that focus on non-romantic relationsh...
Decent Essays 254 Words 2 Pages Open Document The source of Sarah and Lydia connection was they both were in need. By the world’s standards their connection didn’t make sense because they were very different from one another. Sarah was disabled and Lydia was lonely they both needed connecti...
Lydia Millet’s newest book isAtavists: Stories(April 2025). She has written more than a dozen novels and story collections as well as a work of nonfiction calledWe Loved It All: A Memory of Life(2024). Her novelA Children’s Bible(2020) was a finalist for the National Book Award...
In June 1916, Cuba y América published an old Japanese story—“Leyenda de la bella corte-sana Otzumi y del monje Itsari” (Legend ofthe beautiful courtesan Otzumi and the monk Itsari), with illustrations by “L.C.” Although the magazine does not identify the translator, the style and...
feeling like I could have done it like this or just as well like that. It’s so much more comfortable when you’re writing a story and you see there’s only one way to go with it, but when you see that there are all these forks in the road and you’re not sure you’ve taken...
. It is the story of an Indian woman who follows the practice of Suttee, or joining her husband on his funeral pyre. Sigourney does not pull her punches. She makes it clear that the people in her community approve of what she is doing and that she is not doing it out of love. ...
Olivia Lane - "Woman At The Well" I heard a story from the Bible When I was just a little girl About a broken hearted woman Who met the savior of the world Thought it was just another story One that the preacher man would read But... We The Kingdom - "The Plans" When I am an...
How do seemingly unrelated details in different books of the Bible come together to form undesigned coincidences that strongly support the eyewitness nature of these books and the overall accuracy of the Bible? Bible Gateway interviewed Lydia McGrew about her book, Hidden ...