Religious Gifts for Women Who Just Came to Faith: What Lydia Did Next

Read Time:6 Minute, 54 Second You were there when she said it. Maybe it was over coffee, maybe in a church parking lot, maybe in a text at 11 at night: she has started to believe. Or she was baptized on Sunday, and now you are standing in a store holding a mug that says “Blessed” and wondering whether anything on the shelf is actually right for this moment. Most religious gifts for women are made for someone who has been in the faith for decades. A woman who started last month does not need a plaque about a life she has not lived yet. She needs something that helps her begin. What Lydia Did Right After Her Baptism Acts 16 gives us one of the only close-ups of a woman in the first hours of her new faith. Her name was Lydia, a seller of purple cloth from Thyatira.

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