A Note From Alex & Brett

Dear Rebelutionaries,

Please encourage your parents and grandparents to sign up for our dad’s new Households of Strength Seminar when it comes to your area.You will be glad you did because the seminar is all about doing hard things together as family and friends.

Ever since we started our blog in 2006, and especially after Do Hard Things was published in 2008, we’ve gotten tons of emails from parents who want to know what our parents did to raise us kids. Our response is always that we’re far from perfect, but by God’s grace — and largely through decisions our father and mother made before we were born — we’ve seen God use our family in ways we never could have dreamed.

Our dad is our hero. Nobody has influenced us more than he has — both in what we’re doing today, as well as how we think about life. So we’ve encourage him (for a long time) to put his best ideas and insights into a new conference for parents and teens. This year it’s called Households of Strength, and it’s all about doing hard things together as family and friends. It’s more like a strategy session with our dad, who brings a boatload of biblical wisdom and 36 years of practical experience raising us and our siblings in a strong and godly household.

For any of you who have attended one of our Do Hard Things conferences, you know what a powerful and paradigm-shifting speaker our dad is. For all of you, his latest seminar is a terrific opportunity to find out for yourself. There will be ten conferences scheduled in ten major cities across the United States each year for the next three years — beginning in Sarasota, FL in April and ending in San Diego in December of 2011. (See full schedule as it finalizes in the sidebar.)

You probably noticed that this seminar is for both parents and their teens. Not only that, but it is for family and friends. There’s a reason for that — and it’s very similar to the reason why we encourage parents to attend our “teen” conferences every year. As young people you probably live with your family. And being a rebelutionary is a lot easier when you’re doing hard things with your parents on board. They can give you wise advice, provide needed resources (and snacks), drive you around as needed, and generally help you keep going. Well, the opposite is also true.  Teens can be a great support and encouragement to their parents in living boldly and adventurously for Christ.  Do hard things together!

We’re excited about how God will use our dad’s new seminar to get parents and teens excited about doing hard things together. And when you add a few like-minded families to the mix it gets even better. A small cluster of households can make history together. Your job is to let your parents know about this new seminar — and encourage them to make it a “family and friends” event! You’ll be glad you did.

Soli Deo gloria,

Alex, Brett

P.S. A Note from older brother, Joshua Harris, I’m really excited about this new series of seminars that my father is doing for Christian families. I can’t improve on the description that my brothers Alex and Brett shared above. I’m always challenged by my dad’s teaching and know you will be as well. — Josh

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What People Are Saying About Alex & Brett Harris & Do Hard Things

“Do Hard Things is so important. It is challenging teenagers to rebel against the low expectations placed on them, not the least of which are low spiritual expectations. And the voices that are asking teens to rise to meet this challenge are voices from their own generation. That thrills me. If you’ve got a teenager — or if you have a grandson or granddaughter — I want to encourage you to pick up a copy of Do Hard Things. It would make a great graduation present or summer reading. And don’t just give them the book; make a point to ramp up your interaction with the teens God has put in your life. Become a spiritual mentor and help them rebel against low expectations. Help them become rebels with a good cause, seeking more out of life than mindless channel-surfing.”

Chuck Colson
Founder of Prison Fellowship
Best-selling author of How Now Shall We Live?

“Adult expectations for youth are too low. And these twins are out to raise them. Don’t adapt to the low cultural expectations for youth. Set high ones. Youth can become examples for adults. Think that way. Dream that way. Or as the Harris brothers would say, “Rebel against low expectations.” May God give us a vision for the next generation that glorifies the gospel of Christ, and leads thousands of young people to the cross where they find forgiveness of sins, and broken-hearted humility, and Christ-exalting courage to rebel against low expectations and “do hard things.”"

John Piper
Desiring God