I love the Bible and I love to read about men and women in
the Bible to see how God used them and to learn from their stories. So I was excited to read John MacArthur’s
book “Twelve Unlikely Heroes.” MacArthur
is a good author and I was intrigued to see his take on some Bible characters…
and he didn’t disappoint.
The twelve people that are highlighted aren’t obscure Bible
characters and there isn’t some new outside source of information that has been
used to dive deeper into the hearts and minds of these men. These are characters that I would honestly
hope all Christians are familiar with. Macarthur
takes men and women who I would say were more reluctant than others. Men and women who if they had had their
druthers would have lived a quiet and simple life, but God meant them for more
and they answered the call.
I enjoyed MacArthur’s approach of simply taking what the
scriptures say about these men and then meditating on them. Going beyond dry words on a page and delving
deeper to ruminate on what they may have written down in their journals. Then to correlate this with other scriptures
in an easy to read application so we as readers can connect with them. I would recommend this book as a fine
addition to a character study of these men and women in the Bible.
I received this book free from the publisher through the
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