Book Review - Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear by Max Lucado
Category Book Review Max Lucado Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear
Max Lucado writes some great Christian inspirational works, and his latest is no different... Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear. In Fearless, he looks at all the fears we commonly live with... joblessness, money matters, violence... and examines them in the light of biblical promises. And he does this with a humility and honesty that is refreshing in today's society.
Contents:
Why Are We Afraid?; The Villagers of Stiltsville - Fear of Not Mattering; God's Ticked Off at Me - Fear of Disappointing God; Woe, Be Gone - Fear of Running Out; My Child Is in Danger - Fear of Not Protecting My Kids; I'm Sinking Fast - Fear of Overwhelming Challenges; There's a Dragon in My Closet - Fear of Worst-Case Scenarios; This Brutal Planet - Fear of Violence; Make-Believe Money - Fear of the Coming Winter; Scared to Death - Fear of Life's Final Moments; Caffeinated Life - Fear of What's Next; The Shadow of a Doubt - Fear That God Is Not Real; What If Things Get Worse? - Fear of Global Calamity; The One Healthy Terror - Fear of God Getting Out of My Box; Conclusion - William's Psalm; Discussion Guide; Notes
Lucado has captured all my major fears in life, as well as a few I don't (yet?) struggle with. For instance, I struggle with job loss and financial security. What happens if there's no income? It's easy to get focused on the immediate circumstance without stepping back and realizing that God is still in control. Or the other extreme of thinking of thinking that I have everything financially lined up, and that all is secure. It would only take a single incident (loss of job, medical condition, etc) to show me that I really have nothing under control. Lucado has a knack for cutting through the formality and loftiness so often associated with "sermons" and make these situations real and applicable. He also is able to use Scripture effectively to show how one's perspective needs to change in order to get back on the right track.
I'd like to think (and hope) that I won't need to reread any of these chapters as I don't and won't have to deal with any of these issues. But that's not reality. I'm quite sure I'll be revisiting Fearless at a number of points in the future. Lucado has again come up with a classic, and I'm happy to have had the opportunity to read and contemplate his words. I finished the book far more encouraged than when I started.
Max Lucado writes some great Christian inspirational works, and his latest is no different... Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear. In Fearless, he looks at all the fears we commonly live with... joblessness, money matters, violence... and examines them in the light of biblical promises. And he does this with a humility and honesty that is refreshing in today's society.
Contents:
Why Are We Afraid?; The Villagers of Stiltsville - Fear of Not Mattering; God's Ticked Off at Me - Fear of Disappointing God; Woe, Be Gone - Fear of Running Out; My Child Is in Danger - Fear of Not Protecting My Kids; I'm Sinking Fast - Fear of Overwhelming Challenges; There's a Dragon in My Closet - Fear of Worst-Case Scenarios; This Brutal Planet - Fear of Violence; Make-Believe Money - Fear of the Coming Winter; Scared to Death - Fear of Life's Final Moments; Caffeinated Life - Fear of What's Next; The Shadow of a Doubt - Fear That God Is Not Real; What If Things Get Worse? - Fear of Global Calamity; The One Healthy Terror - Fear of God Getting Out of My Box; Conclusion - William's Psalm; Discussion Guide; Notes
Lucado has captured all my major fears in life, as well as a few I don't (yet?) struggle with. For instance, I struggle with job loss and financial security. What happens if there's no income? It's easy to get focused on the immediate circumstance without stepping back and realizing that God is still in control. Or the other extreme of thinking of thinking that I have everything financially lined up, and that all is secure. It would only take a single incident (loss of job, medical condition, etc) to show me that I really have nothing under control. Lucado has a knack for cutting through the formality and loftiness so often associated with "sermons" and make these situations real and applicable. He also is able to use Scripture effectively to show how one's perspective needs to change in order to get back on the right track.
I'd like to think (and hope) that I won't need to reread any of these chapters as I don't and won't have to deal with any of these issues. But that's not reality. I'm quite sure I'll be revisiting Fearless at a number of points in the future. Lucado has again come up with a classic, and I'm happy to have had the opportunity to read and contemplate his words. I finished the book far more encouraged than when I started.
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