Millenia of history may separate us from characters we read about in the Bible, but it doesn't take a PhD in imagination to apply the principles and example of their lives to draw inspiration for our own daily journeys.

FACE2FACE looks into 21 Old and New Testament lives. It was birthed through the ongoing grappling in my own life between what I see with my eyes and feel in my emotions, and what I understand in my head and believe with all my heart. The longer I have spent with these heroes, the more I have grown in admiration and love for them.

There will be plenty to chew over, as we meet in that great and glorious day when we will see, face to face, our Maker, our Redeemer and our forebears in person. For the time being we must look and see them but partially, as in a mirror.

Simon Ward MBE is a worship leader at his home church in Surrey, the creator of PsalmSongs, and presents the Sunday morning show, Worship at Home with Premier Christian Radio. His first book, Riding the Tide, a collection of reflections on 15 Psalms, was published in 2013. In 2015, he published In the Footsteps of the King, a year in Luke's Gospel, and in 2016, The Character of Fashion - If God was boss where I work, how might He run things?

Until 2016, Simon's day job was as Chief Operating Officer of the British Fashion Council, with responsibility for running London Fashion Week. Simon is married with two adult children, a growing collection of grandchildren and enjoys time with his family, walking the hills, gardening, and taking in tv detectives, films, theatre and music.