Twelve Ordinary Men

This was a great book describing the lives of each disciple based on scripture. [author: Dr. John F. MacArthur] stuck almost exclusively with scripture and mostly relied on the gospel accounts to describe the disciples. This does provide a firm foundation, but in many cases gives very little understanding into the disciples.

In some cases there are disciples who are only known because of their name being mentioned in a list. At this point some loose connections are made to essentially create an understanding of the disciple in question without convincing facts to back up the understanding.

That being said, there is a clear message that even in the lesser known disciples, they were all ordinary people just as we are today. They had faults and were used because of those faults.

The descriptions are engaging and will provide some solid background when discussing the disciples in a group.