Today's saint, St. Lydia Purpuraria, was the first Christian convert in Europe, a businesswoman who dealt in luxury goods. She is the patron saint of cloth dyers. Saint Lydia was born during the first century in Thyatira, a town famous for its dye works in Asia Minor, famous for its dye works, (hence, her name which means purple seller). She was a seller of purple dye and was St. Paul's first convert at Philippi. The following is from the Acts of the Apostles: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. ~Acts 16:14-15 She was baptized with her household. Thereafter, Paul made his home with her while in Philippi. Lydia was a woman of hospital...
Rev. Piper, I agree with everything you have said in here and strongly support you except for one item.
ReplyDeleteYou said you "wept for joy at his inauguration". In honesty, I just wept. You see, I knew what kind of person the white house occupant is, I knew his history from Illinois. The drive by media, a.k.a. the propaganda news (CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and all the far left newspapers), did everything they could not to tell the truth about him so he could be elected. Now, we need to fight to regain control of our own country.