Book Review: Fearless
FearlessBy Max Lucado
Hardcover, 224 pp., $24.99
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Fearless is a pleasant inspirational book, and if you are afflicted by feelings of anxiety, insecurity, or apprehension about your life and relationship with God, it will be of some help to you.
If you are looking for practical steps that will help you overcome fear, keep looking. This book make you feel better (which is worth something) but will not arm you with strategies for coping with anxiety.
The best thing about the book (other than Lucado’s trademark prose, chocolate-rich with misty metaphors and peek-a-boo word-pictures that dispatch their sunshiny rays of grace-infused warmth to melt the icy fingers of dread from the doubting soul), is the catalogue of real-life fears that people face, each met with the biblical advice, “Fear not.”
If you are looking for practical steps that will help you overcome fear, keep looking. This book make you feel better (which is worth something) but will not arm you with strategies for coping with anxiety.
The best thing about the book (other than Lucado’s trademark prose, chocolate-rich with misty metaphors and peek-a-boo word-pictures that dispatch their sunshiny rays of grace-infused warmth to melt the icy fingers of dread from the doubting soul), is the catalogue of real-life fears that people face, each met with the biblical advice, “Fear not.”
The author identifies 13 of the common sources of anxiety and shows how our relationship with God should replace that fear with confidence. The aim is to make the reader feel better based on biblical truths, and that works.
The book includes a group discussion guide.
I offer the same advice on this book that Lincoln is supposed to have given in a book review: "People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." If you like Thomas Kincade paintings and songs like "Butterfly Kisses," you'll love this book.
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