My pastor recently read the opening paragraph from Alex and Brett Harris’ book, “Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations.”  The title alone is a brain-bend.

Some of you may have heard of Joshua Harris (who wrote the popular book, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”). Alex and Brett are his younger twin brothers. And they, like their older brother, have a gift for writing – the kind of writing that can inspire young readers to live life outside the Boring Box.

I read the book a day or so ago in one sitting. I don’t always read 230-page books in one sitting. But when you are stuck in a plane on a runway for three hours, you don’t have much of a choice! My opinion is that this is a fantastic book and even though it is written by teenagers, for teenagers – I was tremendously blessed and convicted by nearly every page.

The book is a challenge for teenagers to see their teen years, not as a prolonged decade of childhood to be squandered playing video games and watching TV, but to be harnessed and used to do hard things – great things – that can change the world.

Bret and Alex have a website TheRebelution.com. Check it out!

Here is the first paragraph of their book, “Do Hard Things.”

Most people don’t expect you to understand what we’re going to tell you in this book. And even if you understand, they don’t expect you to care. And even if you care, they don’t expect you to do anything about it. And even if you do something about it, they don’t expect it to last.

Well, we do.