Sinclair Ferguson is writing a series of children’s books called “Heroes of the Faith.” The first three books highlight heroes of the first centuries:

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• sample PDFs,
• descriptions of each book, and
• Ferguson’s “personal word to parents” about his new series.

I read these three books to my 2.75-year-old daughter last week, and she enjoyed them (and has kept asking me to read the story of Polycarp to her again). But she got restless while I read them because there are a lot of words on each page and the prose is more at the level of elementary-school children.

Each book ends with a timeline that lists heroes of the faith that Ferguson apparently plans to write books about:

Heroes of the First Centuries

• Ignatius (?–117)
• Polycarp (70–156)
• Irenaeus (130/40–200)

Heroes of the Truth

• Athanasius (296–373)
• Basil of Caesarea (329–379)
• Gregory of Nyssa (330–395)
• Gregory of Nazianzus (330–389)
• Augustine (354–430)

Heroes of the Darkness and the Dawn

• Gottschalk (805–869)
• Anselm (1033–1109)
• John Wycliffe (1328–1384)
• Jan Huss (1373–1415)

Heroes of the Reformation

• Martin Luther (1483–1546)
• William Tyndale (1484–1536)
• John Calvin (1509–1564)
• John Knox (1514–1572)

Heroes of the Purifying

• William Perkins (1558–1602)
• John Owen (1616–1683)
• John Bunyan (1628–1688)

Heroes of Evangelism

• John Wesley (1703–1792)
• Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758)
• George Whitefield (1714–1770)

Heroes of the World

• William Wilberforce (1758–1833)
• William Carey (1761–1834)
• Henry Martyn (1781–1812)
• John G. Paton (1824–1907)
• C. H. Spurgeon (1834–92)

Heroes of the 20th Century

• D. M. Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981)