I didn't like this on as good as Vol. 1, but there are still some amazing stories in this one. Would have given it five stars if I had read this one first.

Great stories from Christian history by Toby Mac and Michael Tait of DC Talk.

Much the same as the first one. Powerful and sad, but inspiring too.

The individual stories of people who suffered or died for their Christian faith are compelling. Between each story you can find inspirational quotations and relevant Bible passages from various translations and paraphrases. Some of these accounts were familiar to me (for example, Martin Luther, Telemachus and Corrie tenBoom), but others were about lesser known or even unnamed people who experienced God special grace to remain true to Him.

This book will definitely impact people in different ways, but for me, I felt like I would have gotten a lot more out of it had it looked into fewer stories more deeply, rather than the quantity that we were given.

The stories ranged from about a page to five pages per story, and I just felt like that didn’t really do a lot of the stories justice. I wanted full length novels or novellas or at least a few more pages out of most, if not all of the stories shared. And yes, I know that it would be fairly impossible to tell all these stories at length in their own novel, so I get why the book did that... I just don’t necessarily like the super short story style I guess.

While reading this, I continuously thought that this would be perfect for a newer Christian who wants to get a glimpse at the history and persecution of Christians going as far back as the time of Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Overall though, I still enjoyed hearing about all of these different time periods, and names that I’m familiar with like corrie ten boom mixed with random names more recently.

Happy reading! :))

Very very good. Amazing stories of the faith and sacrifice early Christians, and even Christians now make across the world to share the Gospel. Definitely inspiring.

Amazing stories. I feelt so useless the first time that I read this book but now my commitment is different. Every christian need to read this if wants to do God's will. Totally awesome!

Ann Miner collection.

It's just not for me. There's nothing wrong with it. Just, I really hate performative religion.

This is a great book! i recommend everybody reading it. These stories about martyrs made me think about how i am living for Jesus

I read this book a *very* long time ago, and thought it was very impactful and important. I recently found my copy of it, and decided to read it again, and guess what? It's still amazing. Reading all these stories, right now, really comforted me during this, if they can do that, then surely I can handle what's going on in my life. Wonderful book.

A very good read.Deep comittment and faith by the subjects in this book.

Read this when I was a teenager and then read over and over again-Never gets old. Full of powerful stories of people who loved God with everything they had-literally. Think of this as a modern rendition of Foxes Book of Martyrs.