Determination and serendipitous acquaintances-along with her father's precious dye-help her become one of the city's preeminent merchants. Then unbearable betrayal robs her of nearly everything.With only her father's secret formulas left, Lydia flees to Philippi and struggles to establish her business on her own. And along the way, she changes the world.But before she was Lydia, the seller of purple, she was simply a merchant's daughter who loved three things: her father, her ancestral home, and making dye. One woman rises up to take the reins of success in an incredible journey of courage, grit, and friendship. The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men.
And along the way, she changes the world.But before she was. Tyndale Publishing gave me an Advance Reader Copy of Bread of Angels, but I was in no way obligated to write a review.Purple. And shes a truly wonderful person and a delight to know. She has an MDiv from Yale and has spent the last seventeen years in full-time Christian work in New England. She was voted New Author of the Year by the Readers Choice Awards for Pearl in the Sand. Tessa Afshar is a newly married, award-winning author of several volumes of historical biblical fiction. Luke come alive on the pages of Bread of Angels. Biblical characters like Epaphroditus and Syntyche and Paul and Silas and Dr. You will so enjoy getting to know Lydia as told through the eyes and pen of a talented storyteller. Rebekah has taught her that in her time of greatest need, God will provide bread of angels to sustain her-not physical food, but situational or spiritual aid to surmount the difficulties. But she perseveres with Rebekahs help along with that of Rebekahs God. Lydia struggles as a woman alone, attempting to run a business in a culture where women are nothing unless married or under the protection of a man. Tessa gives Lydia a friend, Rebekah, who stays with her after Lydia takes care of her when she is homeless and hungry. She weaves Lydias story from when she was a girl in Thyatira, telling of the circumstances of her upbringing and the reason she set sail for Philippi. But Tessa begins far before that event takes place.
Bread of Angels, the story of Lydia, the first convert in Asia, is such a story. Tessa Afshar writes such beautiful, believable biblical fiction. Debs Dozen: Lydia, maker of purple, friend, benefactor-first convert to Christianity in Philippi.
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