How do you live a fearless life?

Max Lucado is a writer that for me sometimes borders on the syrupy, but his poetic, gentle approach is often the right way to get across an important message. Deeper truths lie beneath the easy words.

I saw this new release (Sept/09) advertised on Facebook and the topic caught my attention. As Believers, fear shouldn't be a problem--you'd think. Backed by the Creator, nothing should worry us. Nothing should paralyze us. Nothing should make us shrink into the corner. "Fear not" should be our motto. We should be full of courage and worried about nothing.

But in reality we deal with fear all the time. I found Don Miller's comment interesting...it speaks to my category of fear: taking a risk.

"If there is an emotion that leads to a life of boredom, it's fear. Consider this book a pep speech in the corner during a boxing match. It's you against all your imagination can throw at you. Thanks Max for giving us the courage to actually live!" - Don Miller, best-selling author of Blue Like Jazz

From Publisher's Weekly:
"Lucado, called by some 'America’s pastor,' offers his faithful base a timely primer on living fearlessly. The author, whose sales exceed 65 million books, provides those within the Christian faith (and without) an inspirational can-do appropriate for the turbulent times Americans are facing. Citing key common fears—violence, overwhelming challenges, sickness and other worst-case scenarios—Lucado offers welcome wisdom about those solely internal battles individuals face daily.

"People are afraid their lives don’t matter; they’re afraid of disappointing God; they’re afraid of an afterlife; and they’re even afraid God is not real, Lucado says. Skillful as a surgeon, he discerns and identifies the cancer of fear that touches every human being, and with like precision speaks healing words that cut right to the heart. While there exists no fast fix or simple cure for the fear-bound individual, Lucado’s tempered counsel and faith-driven remedies will offer day-by-day spiritual medicine of the most potent kind." (Sept.)

Look for it in stores in September.