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Here’s another excellent book discovery! The title is Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear by Max Lucado. Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and minister of writing and preaching. He has written more than 50 books with 28 million copies in print and 65 million sold. This book caught my eye for obvious reasons. Who wants to live in fear? Many people do, but I doubt that they desire to live that way. When I saw the book, I thought, great just what I need. With all that is going on in this world, we all need the words of wisdom and encouragement found in this book. I read where the author indicated that he began this book 2 years before it was published not knowing the things that we would be facing. Nearly every fear scenario that you can think of is covered. Here is the synopsis:

Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror. Fear, it seems, has taken up a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversized and rude, fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

Imagine your life, wholly untouched by angst. What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? If you could hover a fear magnet over your heart and extract every last shaving of dread, insecurity, and doubt, what would remain? Envision a day, just one day, when you could trust more and fear less. Can you imagine your life without fear?


You can either read the entire book, or skip right to the chapter applicable to your life situation. A few of the chapters are Woe, Be Gone – Fear of Running Out, My Child Is in Danger – Fear of Not Protecting My Kids, This Brutal Planet – Fear of Violence, Shadow of a Doubt – Fear That God Is Not Real, and What If Things Get Worse – Fear of Global Calamity, and others. The book also includes a moving first chapter, Why Are We Afraid?

I love that the book includes Jesus' statements about fear. The author gives the antidote to the fear epidemic. He says that if we trust God more, we can fear less. Words to live by!

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