Radical - Taking back your faith from the American Dream - Author David Platt challenges us to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences, often making it "another gospel."  Jesus called his disciples to a radical faith where giving up everything was normative.  In the safe zone of the American dream accumulation and self protection as core has inoculated us from living life on the edge.  We want all the privileges of a follower of Jesus, without the sacrifice.  Don't read this book if you are comfortable with your life as it is because it will no doubt make you uncomfortable.

The Hole in our Gospel - Author Richard Stearns argues that in our good attempts to make the gospel understood, we have narrowed and simplified it, focusing on saving people from hell in the next life. This has short-changed our discipleship and our participation in God's redemptive work, which changes and challenges everything in our fallen world. Stearns desires to broaden our understanding of the gospel and of evangelism as we proclaim the gospel in the world. Specifically, he wants to see American Christians active in not only preaching eternal salvation but bringing Christ's victory to the oppressed and relief to the poor in the world.