This slim volume collects 25 small biographic sketches Shepherd wrote for Fellowship Magazine. Here are some of the people you’ll encounter:

• Francis of Assisi
• John Bunyan
• Charles Wesley
• Karl Barth
• C. S. Lewis
• Jacques Ellul

Theses profiles are no bed-time story fare. They’re realistic and, at times, downright uncomfortable. If you’re looking to be challenged towards deeper waters of discipleship (and you can find a second-hand copy somewhere), this is a moving book.

Shepherd, Victor A. So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: Profiles of 25 Christian “Greats.” Light and Life, 1993.