Sorry everyone for abandoning my posting for a while! I am planning to get onto a more regular blogging schedule now, prioritizing it along with a number of other things!
I just finished reading Alex and Brett Harris's new book, Do Hard Things, and I will have to say that it has been one of the best books I have ever read. The Harris twins do such an outstanding job promoting God's intent for the teen years, and most importantly, the passion for the gospel that we are all commanded to have! I thought I would take a few weeks to do a series on my blog about how God has encouraged me in thinking about my youth years through reading this book. Please check here every Wednesday to see the new post from this series! For this post, I will just give a brief synopsis of this book, and next Wednesday I will start into the specific topics.
Do Hard Things, subtitled "A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations," is challenging teens about God's mission for their lives as teenagers. This book holds out that the world has low expectations for teens, but that God has a higher calling. Using I Tim. 4:12 "Let now one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity," Alex and Brett show us that God has a plan for us as teenagers. We don't have to wait until we are older for God's real plan to be revealed for our lives; He has a unique one for us now. They developed a movement to help youth apply this mentality, titled "The Rebelution." A mix of the words revolution and rebellion, the twins want teens to rise up and free themselves from the lies and low expectations of this world, and lead other teens to do likewise.
Check out www.therebelution.com, and come back next Wednesday for the next post in this series!
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Excited to hear your thoughts about this awesome book, Karen! Thank you for giving it to me; I'm definitely benefiting as well.
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