rebelling against low expectations

Take Action: Help Andrew Cunningham

By Alex and Brett Harris
August 6, 2010
83 comments
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If there is one thing that rebelutionaries are good at it, it’s supporting the efforts of their fellow rebelutionaries. Here’s a chance to do that. Watch this video.

Seriously. Georgia-based rebelutionary Andrew Cunningham needs to finish in the Top 5 (in total views) in the 104.7 The Fish Opening Act contest on YouTube. If he wins, $10,000 will go to a student-led missions organization. That’s one big reason to watch. The other is that Andrew’s song is really, really good — plus, it has a truly rebelutionary message based on a passage in Matthew 7.

Watch it and share it. Use Facebook, email, Twitter, you name it. He’s 8,000 views behind the leader, but rebelutionaries won’t let that last for long. Soli Deo gloria!

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Alex and Brett Harris

are the co-founders of TheRebelution.com and co-authors of Do Hard Things and Start Here. They have a passion for God and for their generation. Their personal interests include politics, filmmaking, music, and basketball. They are both graduates of Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia.

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  • Holy cow! That was an AMAZING song! What a voice too! Way to go Andrew and I hope you make it!

    Thanks for sharing

  • Ooooorrrr….You could go to Pray for Peter Helms site on Fbook and do something a bit more significant….Join up and pray!

  • So, I LOVE the song, and I reposted it to Facebook, and I’m totally supporting his win, but I was just wondering, is there a particular reason the Rebelution is supporting Andrew and not another contestant?

  • Miriam: Yes! We have been (and definitely do) encourage people to join the Pray for Peter Helms page and keep him and his family in their prayers. You can find that here: http://bit.ly/aaworO

    Emily: Good question! First, Andrew is a self-identified rebelutionary who has read Do Hard Things. But second, his song is really good — and we think he deserves a wider hearing! 🙂

  • Alex Harris I agree with what you were saying to Emily and he does deserve a wider hearing

  • Being an aspiring musician myself, I feel empathy for young folks who write good music and do something with it. I’ll click on this a million times! He manages to sing well even while playing the guitar, and the lyrics are definitely rebelutionary. God bless, Andrew!
    ~Meg

  • What an amazing song! I sure hope he can win it! I’ll be listening to it all the time it has such a good message. I love when there are new good songs like that. God bless you, Andrew!

  • oh wow, he has a great voice, and his song!!! Oh my goodness wow. I needed to hear that definitly. I posted it on facebook, and I’m praying that he wins!! Thank you for sharing this guys!!

  • I love the song…. his voice is great too!!! Hope he does well!! good luck Andrew!!!

  • I really hope he wins because it would be that much more ‘advertisement’ for the rebelution… i was just reading an email that sickened my stomach. It was about little known facts about Minnesota. There was one about the Mall of America:
    The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota covers 9.5 million
    square feet and has enough space to hold 185,000 IDIOT TEENAGERS
    yapping away on cell phones.
    Well, at least not everyone is like this, but it still tells you that we still needs to work hard to raise the expectations.

  • That was great!!!! I love listening to it over and over again. I hope you win =].

  • Woah! Great job, Andrew! I absolutely love this song I would definately add it to my iPod if it became available.

  • Wow! What an awesome song, Andrew! I keep hitting the “replay” butten!

    May God bless,
    Bethany

  • Keeping viewing, everyone! And remember, you don’t need to listen to it all the way through to count as a view — just let it load enough to start playing. You can “view” it a lot more that way. 🙂

  • It’s great! I hope he wins. You can also “view” it more by having several windows or tabs open. I had 10 going at the same time at one point. 😀

  • I just hit ctrl “Watch this”, ctrl “Watch this”, ctrl “Watch this” until I hear ten Andrew Cunninghams talking at once, and then I do it again :D. Once again, great song. Curious: how did you find out about him? Does he have a blog or website or something?
    Soli Deo Gloria!
    ~Meg

  • Wow! He really is amazing, thannks for sharing this!! I hope he wins the contest!! 🙂
    Just sent out an email to my friends, with the link!!
    -Abigail <

  • Great job, Matthew! 🙂 Hope God blesses you as you use that talent for His glory! We’ll be praying for you! Just sent out an e-mail to all of my friends with the link! God Bless!

  • Just wondering… we can’t get YouTube on our computer because of some software… and I was wondering how Andrew is doing. Is he at the top yet? I hope he wins! Please let me know!

  • i just wanted to say hi from germany. i love your book! got it while my stay in the US! it’s so awesome!

  • Hey this was a great video keep it up andrew hope it keeps going well for you and i pray it does keep it up and Honor God the best you Can no matter what Honor God and endure

  • Wow. That was SO good. I would listen to that song in my free time because it’s so good. Good luck Andrew!

  • WOW!! LOVE that song! Good luck Andrew! Hope you win! It would TOTALLY be worth it!

    Do you know, can you buy that song on Itunes?

  • Wow this is such an amazing song! Thanks for sharing it! The lyrics are amazing too! I’ve already put it up on my facebook page and will be praying he will win. I really hope he wins!

  • This is awesome, especially since we also write music! It’s great to see other musicians our age.
    Ok, I am just toooooo curious….. Alex and Brett: if you actually read the comments, I’ve got a question for you. Did you ever at any point, but most likely somewhere around eight years ago, go to the Alabama homeschool conference in Montgomery? It might’ve been somewhere in Florida though….
    If so, were you the ones up on stage in front of like 80 or more 7-10 year olds? Because the three of us (my triplet sister and brother and I) were in that crowd, and it just now dawned on us that it may have been you… but we’re not exactly sure because we were so young.
    Whoever it was, I guess they made an impression on us.
    God bless,
    Emily from Colorado

  • I just wanted to let everybody know this. I was just on the website for this radio station and they have Andrew as unqualified to win this contest. They said they received about 30 entries from people under the age of 18 and you had to be over 18 to win. They have them all posted though in one place which is kind of a cool thing, you can watch a whole bunch of Rebelutionaries at once! This video is one of them listed. Disappointing, but its getting his name and music out to other people! Here’s the link for all of the under 18 contestants.

    http://www.thefishatlanta.com/Article.asp?id=1887765&spid=37173

  • I love this song and it stinks that Andrew was disqualified from the contest. The same thing happened to me, but my video is in the list that emily posted. Oh well…hopefully they will do a junior contest in the future. =)

  • Andrew did AWESOME!! Love the song too! Did he write that himself? I hope he wins the contest! 🙂

  • So who won??? I’m dying to know what the results are!!!!! Andrew did so well!!!!! I hope he wins!!!!!

  • So sorry that you got disqualified from the contest jsut because of your age…… your song was so amazing!!!
    Elisabeth

  • Andrew is AMAZING!!! Ihope he makes it.:] I am 12 yrs old and today is my birthday, and my parents got me your book and I was so interested that I read until page 25. I love the book because I have been having some hard times with God lately. God bless you all!

  • WOW!!! Andrew, I don’t even know you, but that was AMAZING!!! God has blessed you with some amazing talent!! Thank you for the song, it really impacted me 🙂 I will be praying for you as God closes this door and opens another… keep doing Hard things!!!! 🙂

    oh, and Jonathan, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

  • Can I share a few rebelutionists that I know???? Is there a good way to do that, Alex or Brett? I know several great people who are changing the world for good and are only teenagers. One is overseas in China. Another is on the homestead, but is still fighting for a good cause and is working to raise money for various charities. I’d like to share what they’re doing; I think it would encourage other Rebelutionists. Alex or Brett, any good ideas???? Let me know by posting under this comment as soon as you can. God bless! -E

  • Wow! What an amazing, rebelutionary song! I love that! God bless and write more!

    Jill: I LOVED Lexi’s song! It was so pretty and she has a great voice.

  • Godd job, Andrew! God has blessed you with some amazing talent!! You have such a good and clear voice. Those lyrics were awesome! They have such an impactful message! Continue to write!! God bless you!

  • unbelieveable.

    that was beautiful and absolutely amazing.
    i think i needed to hear that

    thank you for being such a blessing 🙂 I suppose i’m late for this contest by now but my goodness i hope you won!
    and if not keep at it.
    You sir, are going places.

    bless!

  • Wow Andrew! You truly have a gift!! (and btw you sound much like Shawn McDonald!!!) I love love love it!
    Thank you for encouraging a fellow songwriter. God bless you!

  • yeah I coulda wrote that better.. lol jk! I was really impressed with your blog and I must say, you are a pretty good writer my friend.

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By Alex and Brett Harris August 6, 2010
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