Recommended Reading

The Great Awakening
By Jim Wallis

What will it take to solve the biggest issues of our time: extreme and needless poverty, global warming and environmental degradation, terrorism and the endless cycle of violence, racism, human trafficking, health care and education, and other pressing problems? While Washington offers only the politics of blame and fear, Jim Wallis, the man who changed the conversation about faith and politics, has traveled the country and found a nation hungry for a politics of solutions and hope. He shows us a revival is happening, as people of faith and moral conviction seek common ground for change.

Wallis also reminds us that religious faith was a driving force behind our greatest national reforms, such as the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement. These “great awakenings” happened periodically at crucial times in our nation’s history to propel us toward the common good. The time is ripe for another movement that will transform this country. With The Great Awakening, Wallis helps us rediscover our moral center and provides both the needed inspiration and a concrete plan to hold politics accountable and find solutions to our greatest challenges.


Wide Awake
By Erwin Raphael McManus

“Maybe you have been asleep.  You have never lived up to your potential. You have unfulfilled dreams and longings. If you’re dead, let Jesus raise you up to new life. If you have been sleepwalking, it’s time to wake up and start dreaming wide awake.”

Amid his miracles, his sacrifice and his world-changing resurrection, it’s easy to forget Jesus changed the way his followers engaged life. His spirit, His influence, and His example launched a movement that unleashed previously untapped potential in those who believed in Him.  With Jesus as their leader, His disciples began to live the impossible.  They began to perform the impossible and before they knew it, Jesus’ disciples were playing their role in helping turn the world on its head.

They were living wide awake.

And now, leader, visionary and author Erwin McManus is challenging you to wake up and rediscover your dreams, hopes, and passions. Like the disciples in Jesus’ time, you have so much to offer the world. Break the monotony, shake the sleep out of your body and live the life God intended. For, as McManus writes, the future is not waiting for us. It is waiting within us.