{"id":1089,"date":"2009-09-08T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2022-10-24T19:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:28:43","slug":"fearless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/fearless\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Fearless"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasnelson.com\/Fearless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/brb.thomasnelson.com\/art\/_140_245_Book.72.cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"211\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasnelson.com\/Fearless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear<\/a><\/em><\/h3><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Max Lucado<\/h3><p>I guess I have to start with an admission: I have never before read a book by Max Lucado! I know, I know \u2013 where have I been? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxlucado.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Lucado<\/a> has authored at least a gazillion books \u2013 every one a best seller, right?<\/p><p>I have heard of him. People have highly recommended him. His books are all over the catalogs and magazines I read. And yet, until now, I have missed out.<\/p><p>And I say \u201cmissed out\u201d because, if <em>Fearless<\/em> is an example of his normal writing, I\u2019m sure it won\u2019t be my last. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, his writing style&nbsp;strikes&nbsp;me as very similar to that of my all-time favorite author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insight.org\/about\/chuck-swindoll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chuck Swindoll<\/a>.<\/p><p>In <em>Fearless<\/em>, Lucado makes his case simply: God\u2019s people do not have to live in fear. Within the first few pages he reminds us that \u201cGod has not given us a spirit of fear\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youversion.com\/bible\/net\/2tim\/1\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 Timothy 1:7<\/a>). He then crafts fourteen chapters addressing the things which we tend to fear most.He tackles our fears of:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>not mattering<\/li><li>not protecting our kids<\/li><li>worst-case scenarios<\/li><li>life\u2019s final moments<\/li><li>and many others<\/li><\/ul><p>Above all, he reminds us that <strong>\u201cfear corrodes our confidence in God\u2019s goodness\u201d<\/strong> (p. 9). When we remember that God is still in control and that he desperately loves his children, then we can live life&nbsp;<em>Fearless<\/em>.<\/p><p>You can get your copy of <em>Fearless<\/em> directly through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasnelson.com\/Fearless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Nelson<\/a> or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fearless-Imagine-Your-Life-Without\/dp\/0849921392\/2tim22-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear by Max Lucado I guess I have to start with an admission: I have never before read a book by Max Lucado! I know, I know \u2013 where have I been? Max Lucado has authored at least a gazillion books \u2013 every one a best seller, right? I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"gutentor_comment":3,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"widget-thumbnail":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Daniel Goepfrich","author_link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/author\/dgoepfrich\/"},"uagb_comment_info":3,"uagb_excerpt":"Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear by Max Lucado I guess I have to start with an admission: I have never before read a book by Max Lucado! I know, I know \u2013 where have I been? Max Lucado has authored at least a gazillion books \u2013 every one a best seller, right? 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