Fearless - Imagine Your Life Without Fear

New York Times Best-Selling Author Max Lucado has done it again. He's written another biblically sound book full of antidotes, personal testimonies, clever analogies, Bible verses and exegesis neatly woven together like a knit hat from Grandma. (Oh, he's so much better at those analogies than I).

Fearless - Imagine Your Life Without Fear is a solid book that's easy to read and a good pill for the faint heart to swallow. It's comforting, encouraging and only mildly convicting. Max does a great job in disrobing fear to make it seem like an every day issue for every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. "There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it." (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Fearless is a good summer sit by the deck read, especially with it's captivating front cover shot of a young boy airborne off the edge of a pier. What Fearless is not, is a hardcore, down and dirty manual on what the Bible says about fear and how to overcome it. If I had one criticism about Fearless it would be that it does not give a lot of practical "to dos" in overcoming fear other than the standard "read your Bible and pray" solution. In that sense it didn't deliver what I had expected.

What Fearless does do however is tackle some of life's most challenging questions concerning fear using sound and deep theology written in a way that anyone can understand. He address the fear of...not mattering, disappointing God, running out (worry), not protecting your kids, overwhelming challenges, worse-case scenarios, violence, the coming winter (finances), of life's final moments (death), what's next (the future) and the fear that God is not real. Each chapter could easily stand on it's own and used as a reference guide when any of these fear mounts.

I would even recommend Fearless as a gift to a person who may not be ready to delve into the Bible, but is an avid reader who appreciates good writing and a smile. Fearless has and gives both. All in all Max Lucado is an extremely talented author. I'm betting he could write a book on boredom and make it interesting. He's just that good. Hats of to Max (and his supporting staff and team) for another well read book.