Up from Dust

Martha's Story

De: Heather Kaufman

Narrado por: Rachel Botchan

Martha of Bethany is no stranger to adversity. After her mother’s untimely death, Martha shoulders the responsibility of raising her siblings—quiet and studious Lazarus, and wild and rambunctious Mary. She finds solace in friendship and the beginnings of first love, but just as Martha begins to imagine a new future, hardship strikes again and her dreams crumble into dust.

Ten years later, Martha’s friend pleads for the new teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, to come and heal her husband. When Martha discovers that the carpenter-rabbi is connected to her past, she’s not sure she can trust him with her future. But as he continues to perform miracles, the invitation to believe becomes harder to resist, renewing Martha’s hardened heart, even as she faces an unknown future.

“A biblical story with a heart for today’s world, pulling out an array of joy and hope, sorrow and loss.”—Mesu Andrews, award-winning author

©2024 Heather Kaufman (P)2024 Recorded Books

Love of Jesus

My heart is full and I feel hope, faith and relief from strain. A story of not just human love, but that of our God and Father. I admire Martha’s strength and reading about her encouraged me to strive to be mindful of my own strifes to overcome. To not worry so much. To let the pain go.

Beautifully written to teach the reader more about Mary and Martha and how their lives could have been

I loved this book and how Mary and Martha were portrayed. Beautiful women of God.

always love too hear from Rachel Bachchan

thanks be To God For the inspiration given To his servant, with leaps and bond's I waited for this Beautiful written book, gives me a yearning for G_D's word thank you for this long awaited book It's exceeded my expectation, Always love to hearing from Rachel B,. Love has she puts it into character and how she positive to words.

Grateful

That we are all human and even in His presence, due to the pressures of life, we experience doubt. Give ourselves grace and be thankful He bore it all, already, just because of love.

Interesting background story for Martha Lazarus Mary

I thought the story presented an interesting and plausible scenario for the first half but by the end I almost turned it off.
One big turn off was how it ended trying to mix a love story with Jesus last week on earth, including the crucifixion -

Up from Dust

Outstanding book and narration. Great details. This is a book I will listen to again. Looking forward to the next release. An auto pre order author for me. Highly recommend.

Fresh light on familiar story

I really enjoyed this new illumination of Martha’s story. I realize we don’t know too much about Martha from scripture, leaving the author much room to imagine and extrapolate; but I have always related to this faithful, hardworking woman and was thrilled to theorize the motivations behind her action and get a deeper view of her character and possible life. The rich relationships between Martha and Her siblings, surrounding characters and Jesus himself were intriguing, emotionally tugging and in the end encouraging and faith-building. Wonderful book, hard to put down. Excellent reader, too!

Beautiful story and biblically accurate. Helped me think about all that the characters must have gone through in life.

I loved this story. It was delightful to see Martha and Mary and Lazarus in a new light. Beautifully written and I will no doubt read more by this author.

Up from Dust

I loved the voice of the narrator. The story of Martha’s life was truly interesting and full of hardships.

Great Christian based fiction.

This is the first book that I have read by this author, but I love this genre. I liked her eye to detail her emotions and her characters. I will definitely be reading more of her books.