rebelling against low expectations
This morning I was reading a post I made earlier this year about 17-year-old Jaime Colman, who collected over 4,200 pairs of shoes for the people of Karogoto. If you haven’t read it, go read it now — and even if you have, it won’t hurt to read it again. Brett and I love coming across young people with stories like Jaime’s. We love sharing them because they inspire and challenge...
© 2009 GizaraArts.com Zac Sunderland has received a lot of attention for his holy ambition — attempting to become the youngest person ever to solo-circumnavigate the globe. But what most of the mainstream media coverage doesn’t mention is that Zac is a strong Christian, homeschooled, and a true rebelutionary — with terrific fashion sense. A few days ago, Zac was asked about his collection...
Caution: The BBC3 documentary “Deborah 13: Servant of God” includes Deborah’s introduction to the “real world” of dance clubs and college parties, so viewer discretion is encouraged. Deborah Drapper is a true rebelutionary. At thirteen, the homeschooled Christian girl from Dorset, England, has an inspiring passion for God and for evangelism. After getting an email...
When are you going to get your stuff done? Procrastination can sabotage more than a day’s work. Too many of us also procrastinate in much bigger areas of life — things like growing in responsibility, maturity and in our relationship with Christ. For young people this can be expressed in the phrase: Life starts later. Life begins after high school, after college, later, someday, but not now...
Brett and I have received a lot of emails about this video (and rightly so). Despite being threatened with disqualification for her controversial topic, 12-year-old Lia chose to deliver this speech for competition at her public school in Toronto — and won! Now her eloquent defense of life has been viewed almost 400,000 times on YouTube — and even saved a baby’s life. Read more about this...
The fourth installment of our Not Too Young to Die series has been a long-time in coming, but I’m happy to announce that we are now back on track. If you haven’t read the first three installments, use the links at the bottom of this post to catch up. In our last installment, Your Life Story, we discussed three marks of a tragically wasted life. Today’s post looks at the first: a...
In December, Brett and I were invited to attend a White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives round table discussion of young social entrepreneurs. The Rebelution was well-represented. Zach Hunter (our host), Conner Cress, and Jack and Leeland Mooring were all panelists. But what was even more exciting was to hear the stories of other teens, like them, who God is using to bring hope to a...
Maxine Callie Terhune is proof that you don’t have to be a teenager to “do hard things.” She has read Do Hard Things three times — at 97 years old! Ann Olsen, Mrs. Terhune’s daughter, had this to say about her mom: “Mom, I know that you knew how to do hard things from your earliest years; growing up on a self-sustaining farm with three sisters, marriage and surviving...
I am convinced our lives will be no better than our view of death. In Luke 9:23-25 Jesus spoke the following: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.” Jesus makes it clear that depending on how we think about death we will either save our...
Death is a morbid subject. Death is scary and depressing. People shouldn’t think about death. Young people definitely shouldn’t think about death. After all, we’re young, we’re invincible, and we’ve got our whole lives ahead of us. Right? Wrong! My goal throughout this series is to show that thinking rightly about death is the key to living rightly (and fully) before...
rebelling against low expectations
