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.
We do. - Alex and Brett
A generation stands on the brink of a "rebelution."
A growing movement of young people is rebelling against the low expectations
of today's culture by choosing to "do hard things" for the glory of God.
And Alex and Brett Harris are leading the charge.
Do Hard Things is the Harris twins' revolutionary message in its purest
and most compelling form, giving readers a tangible glimpse of what is
possible for teens who actively resist cultural lies that limit their potential.
Combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility,
the authors weave together biblical insights, history, and modern examples
to redefine the teen years as the launching pad of life. Then they map
out five powerful ways teens can respond for personal and social change.
Written by teens for teens, Do Hard Things is packed with humorous
personal anecdotes, practical examples, and stories of real-life rebelutionaries
in action. This rallying cry from the heart of an already-happening teen
revolution challenges a generation to lay claim to a brighter future, starting
today.
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Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Paperback from Walker Large Print
ISBN: 0802724701
This very personal anguished story of the death of Lewis's wife is reissued
with a foreword by Madeleine L'Engle. The celebrated author shares an intenseaccount
of the meaning of death with wit and insight.
C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of
cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem
like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for
the first time after his wife's tragic death. A Grief Observed contains
his epigrammatic reflections on that period: "Your bid--for God or no God,
for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity--will
not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover
how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high," Lewis writes.
"Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely
verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly
before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only
under torture does he discover it himself." This is the book that inspired
the film Shadowlands, but it is more wrenching, more revelatory,
and more real than the movie. It is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest
record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in
the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings. --Michael
Joseph Gross
