Fearless by Max Lucado

I recently read “Fearless” by Max Lucado as part of the Thomas Nelson Book Review Bloggers program. Max Lucado is an author in a league of his own. I have read many books by Max Lucado. Everyone of them is a joy to read.

Max Lucado has a unique style of writing and is the master of taking a general statement or sentence and turning it into a world of descriptive thought. His illustrations and stories always hit home and his interpretation of people and the bible is always spot on.

In his latest book, “Fearless”, Max Lucado takes you on a discovery to find a life that is fearless in the face of uncertainty, disaster, heartache and personal storms. This book is no different in style to other Max Lucado books and will leave you at the very minimum with a taste of feeling good about life at the end. In each chapter Max Lucado takes you through a different emotion of fear, through biblical accounts and the words of Jesus, Lucado begins to prove why there is no room to be fearful enough though that is the natural thing to do. Some of the fears include the fear of living a life of any significance which he illustrates through a brilliant story about a village called Stiltsville. Others include fears that God is not with us, of what the next season in our lives will bring to us or the fear that the worst will one day happen and our lives will see our nightmares become reality.

Fearless was not exactly what I expected when I first started to read it. It was not until the final three or four chapters that it actually dealt with a lot of the fears it describes on the cover of the book. I would not say this book changed my life nor would I say that I could not put the book down. I enjoyed the book and for many people this book may become a lifesaver. It may be the truth that will calm many personal storms. However, for me it felt too long. I am not sure if was because Max Lucado dealt with many different scenarios and many of them I have no reference of fear to, or if it could have been cut down to half the number of the fourteen chapters and got straight to the point. I would recommend this book; you can never go wrong with a Max Lucado book. However, if you have read many of his other books you may think he is repeating himself in some of the chapters. For example I felt some of the lessons were taken straight out of his book, “In The Eye of The Storm”

If you want a good read, go get this book; if you are fearful of different situations in your life or in the surrounding world you need to read this book. This book is a good conversation starter and also would be useful to use with the attached study guide to discuss with other people.

If you want to read a sample of this book then click on the link below.