The protagonist of Bread of Angels is Lydia. The jail-keeper asks what he must do to be saved, and Paul tells him that salvation for him and his household comes through believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Fearing that the prisoners have escaped, the jail-keeper is about to kill himself, but Paul reassures him that the prisoners are all there. There, Paul and Silas sing praises to God, and an earthquake opens the prison doors and the chains on the prisoners’ wrists are broken.
These men become upset at Paul, and Paul and Silas are thrown into prison. Paul casts a demon out of a woman, whose divination abilities had been exploited for the profit of certain men. God opens her heart to receive the Gospel message that Paul preaches. Every Sabbath, she gathered by the river for prayer with other women. Lydia was a worshiper of God, probably a Gentile. In Acts 16, we meet Lydia, who sold purple. See here to purchase the book.īread of Angels concerns the events of Acts 16. Tyndale Publishing gave me an Advance Reader Copy of Bread of Angels, but I was in no way obligated to write a review.Tessa Afshar. 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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