As Paul traveled and talked to people about Jesus, individuals like Lydia placed their faith in Jesus and became Christians. The Bible says Lydia sold purple fabric. This craft will help remind children about Lydia's conversion.
Lydia was a worshipper of God but she did not know about Jesus. So Paul told Lydia about Jesus. Jesus was God's Son and he had died on the cross for her sins. Lydia learned that after Jesus died he was buried and then rose again on the third day.
Keeping Sight of a Life Bigger than Ourselves
While there are countless Biblical stories about giving, money and wealth; Lydia challenges us to reflect on our role of being prepared for the moment, seeking something bigger than ourselves, and being willing to invite others to experience what we have experienced.
Lydia's Influence Made a Mark on Generations to Come
She was seemingly the first Gentile convert in Europe and the first believer to open her home as a worship center for European Christians.
Lydia, a wealthy woman who sells purple cloth, listens to paul tell about Jesus and becomes a Christian. She in- vites the men to stay at her home while they are preaching in her town. Lydia serves God by caring for paul's needs and the needs of others. ServiCe We serve by giving to others.
Luke calls her “a dealer in purple cloth” and a God fearer or worshipper of God. Lydia was a successful businesswoman who sold luxury textiles dyed purple. It was only the wealthy who wore garments dyed purple or had purple furnishings in their homes.
Jairus had only one daughter. She was 12 years old, and she was dying. While Jesus was on his way to Jairus' house, the people were crowding all around him. A woman was there who had been bleeding for 12 years.
The Jewish Place of Prayer in Philippi
Among the worshippers was Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth.
The name Lydia is primarily a female name of Greek origin that means From Lydia, Greece. In the Bible, Lydia was a businesswoman who was the first person baptized by Paul. Also a place name, a kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in western Turkey.
Lydia was intelligent, perceptive, and assertive to compete in business. Her faithful pursuit of God as a Jew caused the Holy Spirit to make her receptive to Paul's message of the gospel. She was generous and hospitable, opening her home to traveling ministers and missionaries.
Acts 16:11-20
13 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14 One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God.
Lydia also means “beautiful one” or “noble one.” In the Bible, Lydia is described as a woman of hospitality and generosity, which aligns with the meaning of her name.
Lydia, who traded in purple cloth, was a God fearing woman, which could mean either a righteous Gentile or one of the “God-fearers,” Gentiles who were attracted to the Jewish religion. She heard Paul's message and was soon baptized, along with the rest of her household.
It was there that Paul and Silas met her and talked with her about Jesus, and there she became the first convert to Christianity in Greece. Convinced of the truth of the Christian gospel and believing that it was for everyone, she bore witness to her entire household and with her, they were all baptized.
Lydia is the first recorded person in Europe to become a follower of Jesus Christ. She was Saint Paul's first baptized convert at Philippi.
This is where Lydia lived. She was a business woman and a dealer of purple cloth. This meant she sold garments dyed with tyrian purple, a dye that is created by boiling marine snails that would create the dark reddish-purple hue.
New Testament narrative
Acts 16 describes Lydia as follows: A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
Lydia is described as having “high animal spirits and a sort of natural self-consequence.” She is attractive and charismatic, but she is also reckless and impulsive.
It was by the river at Philippi that Paul is said to have baptised Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, between 49 and 50 AD – an iconic baptism because it is believed to be the first baptism on the continent of Europe; by performing it, Paul supposedly laid the foundations for a Judeo-Christian European civilisation ( ...
As Lydia receives the Spirit and is baptized along with her household, the spirit of generosity leads to extending hospitality to a group of missionary men. Verse 15 goes on to say that not only does she offer her home, but almost insists they come and stay with her.
The only female judge, the only one to be called a prophet, and the only one described as performing a judicial function, Deborah is a decisive figure in the defeat of the Canaanites. This is a victory told in two accounts, a prose narrative in Judges 4 and a poem, known as the Song of Deborah, in Judges 5.
Some wish the ceremony that celebrated the beginning of the alleged marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to be viewed as a "holy wedding"; and Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and their alleged daughter, Sarah, to be viewed as a "holy family", in order to question traditional gender roles and family values.
Aramaic is best known as the language Jesus spoke. It is a Semitic language originating in the middle Euphrates. In 800-600 BC it spread from there to Syria and Mesopotamia. The oldest preserved inscriptions are from this period and written in Old Aramaic.
Gideon had 70 sons from the many women he took as wives. He also had a Shechemite concubine who bore him a son whom he named Abimelech, which means "my father is king". There was peace in Israel for 40 years during the life of Gideon.