The focus of this book is fear…or rather, freedom from fear.
With many examples and illustrations, Max Lucado demonstrates for us the inevitability of humans feeling fear and the harm it does a human to feel fear. Max Lucado uses his signature gift with words to demonstrate for us the need for humans to live fearlessly.

Of course, you mustn't take all of his illustrations literally, Max is the kind of writer who imagines and exaggerates in order to share a deeper truth. For example, on page 167 he doesn't really mean that Moses and Elijah's portraits are really hung in the entry wall to the Hebrew Hall of Fame, he is merely illustrating for us just how important those prophets are to the Hebrews, and just how awestruck Peter, James and John would have been to see them in their day and age.

My favourite example of fear taken to devastating lengths is the quote Max includes on page 9 regarding the perception Martin Niemoller had of Adolf Hitler in 1933: "I discovered that Herr Hitler is a terribly frightened man." Max uses this quote as an illustration of how fear releases the tyrant within.

This was an enjoyable book with an excellent message. It really is important for us to learn how to live our lives without fear, while remaining aware of the risks and dangers being fully alive proposes.