Fearless, by Max Lucado
In Fearless, Max Lucado takes on our fearfulness straight up.
He enumerates all of the reasons we have to be fearful, and then boldly asks, “Can you imagine a life with no fear?” He then builds the case for a life of courage based on Jesus’ most common command recorded in scripture, “Fear Not!”
Lucado doesn’t sugar coat the difficulties all of us face in life. But as he addresses many of our major fears, he helps us understand how we can face them with more courage and less fear. “The promise of Christ and the contention of this book are simple: we can fear less tomorrow than we do today.”
I’ve been looking forward to the arrival of Fearless since before I heard about it. I’ve witnessed the effect of fear on people struggling with unemployment, with other life circumstances. I’ve wished for an effective tool to help them deal with their fear, to find courage. Fearless fills that bill.
But as I read the book, I was surprised by how much it also spoke to my life. I found encouragement for being less fearful, for being more courageous. I believe you’ll find the same.
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by Jim Hughes
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