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 ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Lydia Dictionary Thesaurus Wikipedia Lydia , in the Bible Lydia(lĭdˈēə), in the New Testament, Christian convert at whose house in Philippi Paul stayed. She was from Thyatira. ...
The Lydians belonged to a race of people strongly influenced by the Hittites. Much of this empire's history is primarily known only from the ancient Assyrian texts, though other ancient texts such as the Bible, Greek mythology, and Homer's Iliad all mention Lydia. In the Bible, the ...
The girl leaned against the door each morning, in the single room that had become her new home—her prison. She repeated to herself, in case she forgot: My name is Amanda Barnes. I’m twenty-six years old. I was born in 1980. I don’t belong here. But then she looked at her bo...
Halimah Marcus: The first time I readA Children’s Bible, I felt upset to no longer be a child. The young people in this story are so much more appealing than the adults. They’re not corrupted by a lifetime of responsibility and mistakes. They’re smarter, they’re savvier, they’re...
I could tell how much it hurt my dad. But he never got angry. He would tell me that it’s easier to let it go than to hold all this hate in your heart. He knew what he was talking about, because he’d been one of the first Aboriginal people in Western Australia to be allowed...
For a long time, I thought that was the only musical I liked, but I eventually found a few more of them that appeal to me. The sorts of musicals I enjoy these days are generally the ones that are aware of how silly it is to suddenly burst out into song in the middle of conversati...
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 in...
It reminded me of books I read in highschool that shaped my worldview。 It gets a bit preachy at times, and maybe a little heavy handed with the allegory, but it's so well written and real and raw you can't put it down。 This was something else。 Probably not the best idea to ...
One woman named Lydia listened to us. She was from the city of Thyatira, and she sold red cloth. She worshipped God. He worked in her heart and she