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Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You | 
| Author: Erwin Raphael Mcmanus
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 14448
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 078521495X
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
EAN: 9780785214953
ASIN: 078521495X
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
Renowned speaker and church visionary Erwin McManus unfolds the eight essential attributes needed to achieve the life of your dreams. Shuffling and half asleep, so many people coast through the day. From class to class, home to work, and stuck in traffic in between, many have yet to tap into a passionate reason for living. It's not that this life is bad, but it's not the life of their dreams. In Wide Awake, Erwin McManus opens readers' eyes to see the eight crucial attributes of those who achieve the life of their dreams. It is every person's responsibility to discover and develop the gifts given to them by God. McManus writes, "The future is not waiting for us, it is waiting within us." The world is desperate for the best each person can offer-if they would only relentlessly pursue and achieve it. The eight characteristics are: Dream, Explore, Adapt, Create, Invest, Enjoy, Focus, and Expect.
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 Christianity Reframed - Mediocrity Challenged! July 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Erwin McManus was a special guest professor in the very first course I took at Bethel University - Seminary in St Paul, MN. He set a very high standard for all who followed. I have quoted from and recommended his book "Seizing Your Divine Moment" for many years.
In "Wide Awake" McManus calls Biblical Christians (not mere religious church attenders but genuine followers of Jesus of the Bible) to seize the challenge of a life of purpose in partnership with the God of creation and the One who loves and values them like no other.
He is no mere motivational speaker, no puffed-up politician spewing platitudes and promises they have no ability (let alone intent) to keep, and no legalist or televangelist who has lost sight of the true message of the Bible. McManus is the real deal; humble, humorous, and transparently human.
Our church is filled with broken people; divorced, recovering from addictions, survivors of abuse and neglect, unemployed and underemployed, orphans and castaways, struggling with their relationships with others and with God. This book speaks the hope of God into their lives as no government program or rah-rah political rally or secular motivational pep talk could ever do - it is the pure truth of God!
God sees every man, woman, and child as filled with opportunities to make a positive difference out of the abundance of love He wants to pour into (and through) them - no matter their temporary circumstances.
The change that matters will never come from a politicians campaign rhetoric or some musicians magical-thinking song or a manipulative commercial - the change that matters comes one heart at a time as we turn away from "chasing the wind" and live the intentionally inspiring "Wide Awake" dream that God longs to place in each of our hearts.
Thank you Irwin for another great book - it is a word from God through your writing.
Amazing. July 9, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book is for the depressed. This book is for those who feel they are trapped in the mundane. This book is for those who feel they are just slogging through life, not really experiencing, not really living. McManus inspires, pushes, compels, and challenges you to dream, explore, create, adapt, and live your life.
In Wide Awake, McManus connects living life to the fullest to the teachings of Christ. So often we think that our Christian lives should muted, reverent, holy, and that we should just step back and let God control our lives. McManus reminds us that Christ came to bring life, and life more abundant, and that we could be living our life to the fullest.
The author does challenge some commonly held ideas in mainstream Christianity. Even if you don't agree with everything McManus says, Wide Awake will challenge you to rethink your philosophy of life and your purpose for living.
A must-read for every Christian!
 Archaic Bible Stories July 6, 2008
1 out of 26 found this review helpful
The author is a pastor in Los Angeles. The book reads like a sermon to young people complete with bible stories on each page. According to the dust cover, I will learn how to unleash untapped potential and live the impossible. Instead I found simplistic religious answers that God will take care of everything for me if I do what the bible says.
I was hoping for a book based on cognitive behavior therapy to help me eliminate self-limiting behaviors or at least a Tony Robbins style exciting book to propel me to new reaches.
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