Some of the most faithful people in the Bible are also some of the easiest to overlook.We remember Moses, David, Elijah, Jeremiah, Paul, and the great events surrounding their lives. But standing just outside many of those familiar stories are men and women whose obedience mattered more than most readers ever notice.In The Unknown Faithful, Joe Soares takes readers into the lives of twenty lesser-known people preserved in Scripture.Meet the midwives who feared God more than Pharaoh. See Hur standing beside Moses when his hands became heavy. Follow Obadiah as he hides one hundred prophets from Jezebel. Watch Jehosheba rescue a child from Athaliah's slaughter. Meet the wise woman who saved an entire city, the Ethiopian who pulled Jeremiah from the dungeon, the believers who opened their homes to the gospel, and the faithful servants Paul trusted when others had turned away.Their stories are different, but together they reveal a powerful truth:Importance in the purposes of God has never depended upon prominence.Some of these people appear in only a few verses. Some are remembered by little more than a name. Others remain unnamed altogether. Yet Scripture preserves what they did because quiet obedience is not invisible to God.Carefully grounded in the King James Version and written without inventing motives, conversations, or events where Scripture is silent, The Unknown Faithful invites readers to slow down and see familiar biblical accounts from a perspective they may never have considered before.This is Book Four in Joe Soares's continuing biblical series, following In His Name, The God They Knew, and When God Speaks.If you have ever wondered whether ordinary faithfulness matters when no one seems to notice, this book may change the way you read Scripture.
