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Psst...Are You Awake?Hi Raquelle, When was the last time you found yourself wide-awake and fully aware of everything going on around you? I know we’re usually awake during the day, but how aware are we?
Some days I leave home, my mind already occupied with the daily to-do lists. Call this publicist, write this review, read this article, and don’t forget lunch with Joanne. Read and answer all the emails. Before I know it, I’m parking my car. What did I miss on the way?
I have one life. One chance to live out my God-given dreams and passions. One opportunity to make the most of every moment.
Erwin McManus (Crave) has a gift for digging deeply into our souls with a simple question or two. He tells us there are eight crucial attributes of those who achieve the life of their dreams.
The short vignettes found in his new series Wide Awake will challenge you to examine your reason for living and find your passion. Are you ready?
With God, anything is possible. Do you believe it? Can you live it? I believe it, and I want to live it. My dreams are big, but God is bigger.
From the screening room,
Angela Walker
ChristianMovieNews.com
Erwin Raphael McManus Presents: Wide Awake - DVD  Five compelling short films, Ten thought provoking moments with Erwin McManus, One chance to live the life of your dreams. Shuffling half asleep most people coast through the day from class to class, home to home and stuck in traffic in between without tapping into a passionate reason for living. Erwin Raphael McManus Presents Wide Awake, a companion film to his book of the same name. Each of the three short vignettes will deepen the viewers' insight and awaken their passionate reason for living as McManus walks through what is deemed the eight crucial attributes of those who achieve the life of their dreams.
Awaken Your Dreams
Made by, for, and about dreamers, these films may awaken the dreamer within you. A girl's dream of the theater, a passion to make us laugh, a producer's dream to teach her students, and a pastor's dream to reach the world beyond his church.
Industry Interview
Christians in Cinema: Erwin McManus
by Angela Walker  A gifted and passionate communicator, Erwin McManus is the lead pastor for Mosaic, a community for people of faith in Los Angeles. Two weeks after encountering Christ through his family and people surrounding him, he threw himself wholeheartedly into sharing this Jesus he knew with his friends by organizing outreaches.
From the beginning of Mosaic, he has intertwined the arts with his storytelling. For several years, he and his staff created films for their own use, and have recently produced DVDs for wider distribution. In love with the city of Los Angeles and its inhabitants, he believes the world can be reached and changed from Hollywood if we can reach out and love Hollywood just as it is, and love those who call it home. CC.com: What made you decide to produce films for distribution beyond what’s used on a regular basis at Mosaic (Erwin’s church)?
Erwin: We’ve been making films for 10 years here at Mosaic in Los Angeles. We interweave dance, film, and art in the middle of my talks. So on a typical Sunday in Los Angeles I’m accustomed to speaking on Sunday using all kinds of mediums as part of the storytelling process.
We didn’t start with this, but decided to take what we’ve been creating here at home and make it available as a resource to people across the country. People have seen our films as we’ve traveled the world, and they’ve been asking for it. But we’re more of the artists than we are the economists. We’re much better at the creative process than the economic process of saying, “Ok, how do we get these films out there?”
It takes an immense amount of work, and we finally thought if we’re going to continue having a conversation with the people that really matter to us, people who are maybe not being reached by traditional approaches to telling stories, and connecting people to their own spiritual journey, we had to do broadly what we’re doing here in LA. So it’s a perfect match.
“Soul Cravings” is a book that really speaks to the intrinsic longings that every human has. It’s sort of a human story. And Crave Films are three films that unwrap each one of those cravings, our craving for meaning, our craving for intimacy, and... [ Read more... ]
School Funded by Will Smith to Use Scientology Methodsby Joshua Kimball - Christian Post A new private school founded by popular actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith has set off a Hollywood media frenzy over its alleged ties to the controversial “Church” of Scientology.
The New Village Academy in Calabasas, Calif., which the Smiths have poured nearly $1 million into building, will open Sept. 3 and use teaching methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. [ Read more... ]
"The Way of a Man with a Maid:" Real Romance in WALL-Eby Dr. Marc T. Newman, Ph.D. The Earth has become an enormous refuse heap. Toiling tirelessly amid the rubble is a little anthropomorphic trash compactor named WALL-E. With a cockroach as his only companion, WALL-E has been humming along for hundreds of years, cubing and stacking the endless sea of stuff that humans have used up and thrown away. The dust storms that arise from time to time seem bent on choking out whatever remains of life on this bleak, once-blue p***t. Such a barren, post-apocalyptic world hardly seems to be a fertile setting for romance. [ Read more... ]
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" Speaks About Godby Angela Walker Bob Gersztyn, a taxicab-driving blogger for The Wittenburg Door recently posted an interview with Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman. He got the interview with Chapman because he told him that, in his druggie days, he had sniffed more tubes of Testors (airp*** glue) than Chapman had. If you've watched "Dog the Bounty Hunter," you've seen his bounty-hunter prayer circles and the poignant moments when he tries to help perpetrators he's taking to jail.[ Read more... ]
Television Special Tackles Attacks on Christianityby Allie Martin - OneNewsNow A television special, billed as an answer to modern critics of Christ, is set to air this weekend. The special by Coral Ridge Ministries, called "The Attack on Jesus," is a half-hour documentary designed to answer the assault on classic Christianity that comes from both pop culture and academia.[ Read more... ]
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