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“Excellent- How Jesus chose ordinary persons & made them extraordinary.”
Ai T wrote this review Sunday, October 11 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This was a very good book by John MacArthur and it shows how Jesus took tewlve ordinary men and transformed them into men that was used mightily for God's Kingdom. These were ordinary men like you and me. Nothing special about them.”
John H wrote this review Monday, August 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Very good book about the lives of the Twelve Apostles.”
Mark Milwee wrote this review Monday, June 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“ It was lent to my husband at church, but I hijacked it from him and read it first.. haha!
Colleen wrote this review Tuesday, February 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
It's a fabulous book about Christ's 12 Apostles. Taking each in turn, MacArther provides a psychological and personality profile of them. I thought it was brilliantly done because it's based on logic and observations derived entirely from the scriptures, even for the Apostles that weren't prominently featured therein. He needed to reference historians only towards the end of each profile in order to speculate on how they may have died (excepting John and Judas Iscariot.)
It's an excellent dissertation on how God uses even the most flawed individuals to fulfill His plan. It also makes you think about the 12 Apostles in ways that you probably never considered before, leading to ponder your own relationship with Christ in ways that you may have never thought before. A very fascinating, yet personal book.”
“I actually read this book a few years ago, but I still added it to my shelf. It was definately one of those books that everyone should read. It does such a great job of making the disciples more real. This, in turn, puts you into a more proper context when reading about them in the Bible.”
Brant S wrote this review Tuesday, May 6 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Somehow I grew up thinking the disciples were these men that most others could never live up to, somehow up on a pedestal and exempt from the temptations you and I face. This book took them off the pedestal, and shows how God uses those of us who are at the bottom of the barrel for his great works.”
Robyn F wrote this review Wednesday, January 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Can you name the twelve apostles? Yes? No? Probably not. Most Christians are little acquainted with these twelve dynamic characters in that greatest of all stories. Their foibles, their strengths, their sorrows, their triumphs have almost been lost between the lines of history. How tragic that is, for in the lives of these twelve very ordinary men may be found the basis upon which Christ exercises His power in all of our lives.
K.M. Weiland wrote this review Saturday, December 1 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
MacArthur’s beautiful tribute to the lives of the apostles and, more importantly, the life of the One who molded them into saints that forever transformed our world, is a touching and eye-opening journey.
Beginning with Peter, ending with Judas Iscariot, Macarthur leads his readers through the New Testament in a search for greater understanding of these deeply flawed men and their flawless God. His insights, while sometimes little more than hypotheses, leap off the pages of these familiar stories and stun us with their clarity. This is certainly no heavyweight Bible study, but it leaves an indelible impact all its own.
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