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    The Church History ABCs: Augustine and 25 Other Heroes of the Faith
    The Church History ABCs: Augustine and 25 Other Heroes of the Faith
    The Church History ABCs: Augustine and 25 Other Heroes of the Faith
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    The Church History ABCs: Augustine and 25 Other Heroes of the Faith

    By Stephen J. Nichols and Ned Bustard

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    Dramatically converted on the stormy seas, a slave-trader-turned-abolitionist penned the best-loved hymn of the Christian faith. A church father was arrested and martyred for teaching the truth about Christ's incarnation. Captured by pirates and shipped off to Ireland, a priest baptized thousands of pagans, from paupers to princes. Now who ever said church history was boring?
    The Church History ABCs is a fun way for kids to learn about great figures in Christian history. Twenty-six heroes of the faith march through the alphabet, boldly telling their stories in language children can understand. This wide range of characters—men and women from across the centuries, from all over the globe—reflects the breadth of church history and reminds children that these great figures of the past were living, breathing people who lived and died for the glory of God.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateJun 14, 2010
    ISBN9781433524660
    The Church History ABCs: Augustine and 25 Other Heroes of the Faith
    Author

    Stephen J. Nichols

    Stephen J. Nichols (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) serves as the president of Reformation Bible College and chief academic officer of Ligonier Ministries. He has written over twenty books and is an editor of the Theologians on the Christian Life series. He also hosts the weekly podcast 5 Minutes in Church History.

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    The Church History ABCs - Stephen J. Nichols

    301

    G is for Grace,

    and so is this book

    S. N.

    L is for Leslie,

    my lovely historian

    N. B.

    The Church History ABCs: Augustine and Twenty-five Other Heroes of the Faith

    Copyright ©2010 by Stephen J. Nichols and Ned Bustard

    Published by Crossway

            1300 Crescent Street

            Wheaton, Illinois 60187

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

    Book design and illustration: Ned Bustard

    First printing 2010

    Printed in Singapore

    Trade paperback ISBN:     978-1-4335-1472-2

    PDF ISBN:                          978-1-4335-1473-9

    Mobipocket ISBN:             978-1-4335-1474-6

    EPub ISBN:                         978-1-4335-2466-0

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Nichols, Stephen J., 1970-

        The church history ABCs : Augustine and 25 other heroes of the faith / Stephen J. Nichols, Ned Bustard.

          p. cm.

        ISBN 978-1-4335-1472-2 (hc)

        1. Christian biography--Juvenile literature. 2. Church history--Juvenile literature. 3. English language--Alphabet--Juvenile literature. I. Bustard, Ned. II. Title.

        BR1704.N53 2010

        270.092’2--dc22                              2009043263

    Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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    INTRODUCTION

    You probably enjoy hearing stories of your parents or grandparents. Of course, everybody walked to school back then and it was always snowing! You even like to hear stories about your friends. You know, like the time Jack fell off the boat and got all wet.

    You enjoy these stories because the people in them are very special to you. You also like these stories because these stories tell you something about you.

    The people of church history are also very special to you. Their story is your story. Their story also tells you something about you. The Bible tells us that we all belong to one big family, the family of God. And there are a lot of stories to be told in this big family. In this book, we can only tell the story of twenty-six of these people because there are only twenty-six letters in our alphabet. But there are many more stories that could be told.

    In fact, this story hasn’t even ended yet. Someday you will be adding your own story to it.

    So open these pages and meet your new friends. They all have a great story to tell.

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