Peril and Peace: Chronicles of the Ancient Church (History Lives series) Paperback – January 20, 2014

This is an awesome book- It has short chapters that give information about the historical church followed by chapters on the lives of certain ancient church fathers. The biography chapters are written in really wonderful prose style- perfect to capture a child's interest. Perfect book to acquaint a child with the history and people of the early church.

This book would be an appropriate introduction to Church History for a bright 13 year old, but in general might be more helpful to a 14-15 year old. The stories are written in an engaging manner, with short chapters interspersed that teach some of the concepts that were important to certain periods in church history.

This book is absolutely wonderful! I use it with my kids (ages 6-14) for church history studies. It is written in such a way that all of them can understand (although it really is probably best suited for about age 10 and up). It is so well-written and so very interesting that even I enjoy reading it. Absolutely LOVE this book.

This entire series has proven to be helpful for my family. We began reading these stories to our son in the evening as part of his bedtime routine. He is only 7 months old, so his comprehension is lacking, but for my wife and I, these stories have been encouraging and helpful. We teach a Jr. High Sunday school class and I gave my kindle to one of my students so that he could read them. He loved them. These books will teach your children about church history, and will do so in a way that keeps their attention. I would highly recommend the whole series.

Got this to read with my boys as an intro to church history. We are only a few chapters it but I really like it! My nine and six year olds both are enjoying listening to it, but it’s probably a little more on my nine year old’s level.

Fun, exciting, and dramatic stories of our early church fathers. Engaging for ages 7 and up! Great for anyone wanting to learn about what happened after the early apostles began building the Christian church.

If you are looking for a history of the Christian church book series that will excite your children to want to learn more then this book and the other four volumes are the best you can buy! As it says in the back of the book -"Let history come to life - just the way it should do". I have been looking for these kind of history books to teach in my homeschool and my kids are loving it!

According to my 13 year old, this was a great book with interesting background information into leaders of the early church. The stories are short, but interesting and full of information. He gives it a 4 because "it was great, but not earth-shattering or anything." I guess his standards for five stars are pretty high;)

peril and peace is a very interesting book, jam packed with facts to learn about aerly christian believers and the lives of martyrs, early popes and christian pioneers that changed the world for the better. I would reccomend it if you like learning history through fiction style written stories.