Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Book Review: FEARLESS by Max Lucado


“Imagine Your Life Without Fear”

That’s the subtitle to Max Lucado’s new book FEARLESS that hit the streets today. Max talks about some real fears that ALL of us as humans deal with such as; Fear of not mattering, Disappointing God, violence, not having enough money, death and many more. FEARLESS is packed with truth from the Bible and scriptures that resonate with me. Max states in the book Jesus’ most common command, he states it like this: “His most common command emerges from the ‘fear not’ genre. The Gospels list some 125 Christ issued imperatives. Of these, 21 urge us to ‘not be afraid’ or ‘not fear’ or ‘have courage’ or ‘take heart’ or ‘be of good cheer’’’. Max’s choice for a subject is wonderful and Thomas Nelson did a fantastic job with the publishing.

What would our lives look like if we would fear less? This is something that I have asked a lot over the past eight months of my life. If we could grasp the consequences of fear and just how much fear affects the deepest fibers of our being and walked by the Spirit with less fear we would come closer to living the lives that God has intended for us.

2 comments:

  1. Hello,
    My name is Shannon and I am working with Pastor Andy Deane who recently wrote the book: Learn to Study the Bible – it teaches 40 Bible study methods. We would love to send you a free copy to see if you would review it on your site. Recently we’ve received some exciting endorsements from Dr. Catt (pastor of church that produced the movie FIREPROOF) and Pastor Bob Coy (9th Largest church in USA). If you are able to blog about this new Bible study book please send me your mailing address and also let me know if an internet ebook version would be possible for you to read (saves us money to do that).

    TITLE: Learn to Study the Bible
    AUTHOR: Andy Deane
    ISBN: 978-1-60791-576-8

    PUBLISHER: Xulon Press
    BOOK WEBSITE: http://www.LearnToStudyTheBible.com

    Book Summary:
    Pastor Andy Deane's new book teaches you forty different step-by-step Bible study methods to help you discover, apply and enjoy God’s Word. Each practical method has a handwritten example to demonstrate it and make it easy for you to follow the steps. Learn how to study the Bible with so much variety that you'll never get into the rut that routine brings ever again. Learn to Study the Bible has more Bible study methods than any other book out there!

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  2. I’d rather walk in faith rather than in fear and I’d rather have faith over my life that fear. Thank you for sharing your review on Max Lucado’s book Fearless. I will get a hold of this book soon and start my own reading. Have you also read He Did This Just for You? also by Max Lucado? It is an excellent way to introduce the gospel to our non-believing family members, friends and acquaintances. The book is recommended at http://booksforevangelism.org. Maybe you can check out that site too! Great collection of books are listed there which I really found great!

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