Review of Fearless by Max Lucado

We live in a world where fear seems to always be right around the corner. What if I lose my job? Are the kids safe? Will I have put enough money away to retire? Wouldn’t it be great to live in such a way that fear didn’t run our lives. How do we learn to trust more and fear less…that is the topic of Max Lucado’s new book FEARLESS. Max shares with us that thru embracing the truths of Jesus’ teaching we can learn to fear less in this world and be people of courage.

I loved this book. It spoke to my heart in areas like the fear of not having enough, the fear of not pleasing God, the constant fear that I don't measure up to other people or the fear that maybe I really don’t matter. This book was truly a refreshing source of truth in an area that I would not have thought I was even in need of encouragement. But isn’t that life…we get so caught up in living day to day that we don’t even realize that fear has taken hold of us and is robbing us of the peace and joy that Jesus intended for us to experience.

I completely recommend this book. I don’t know too many people who couldn’t use the encouraging reminder that Jesus tells us over and over again…”Don’t be afraid. I am here.”

Review of Between Wyomings:My God and an iPod

We all go through those moments when God draws us into a time of deepen our faith and our relationship with Him.

Between Wyomings: My God and an iPod by Ken Mansfield contains the personal story of the author as he travels across the country in his van in a search for that deeper, intimate faith. His book contains many flashbacks to his days in the record industry working with icons such as Dolly Patron and the Beatles. Mansfield spent his career as a famous music producer for some of the biggest names in the industry.

The title of this book caught my attention and I was excited to get reading it. Unfortunately I had a hard time getting into it. I found myself enjoying the recounting of his interactions with those in the music industry, but those moments were too spread out to hold my attention. I wasn’t really sure what to take out of the portions that seemed more of a soul searching private journal than a book to be read by others.

Overall, if you enjoy reading journals or personal memoirs this book may be just for you. Ken definitely had some memorable moments during his music career. If you are looking for a fast paced page turner then I would take a pass on this book.

Book Reviews

Well I have been obviously absent from here in recent days, but am planning to change that in the near future. I will soon be doing a regular book review post on here to tell you about what I have been reading and what I think about it. I recently started doing book reviews for Thomas Nelson publishing and will be posting my reviews for them here on my blog. I will also be sharing with you my thoughts on other books that are a part of my summer reading. Sometimes I read a book that changes my "Way of thinking" and transforms my life and sometimes I read a book and I wonder "What was I thinking" wasting my time on that...In those moments I wish someone would have told me not to waste my time...so I will do that for you. Aren't you lucky?

So I'll be back soon.