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The Teen Faith Shelf - Real Books for Teenagers Who Want a Faith of Their Own
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items Teenagers can spot a watered-down book from three shelves away. This shelf respects them: a call to do hard things, real theology written by a teenager, martyrs' stories told straight, and a KJV Bible that is actually theirs.
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Faith of Their Own
Their Bible and Their Journal
Stories That Cost Something
Faith of Their Own
The formation books teens pass hand to hand.
Do Hard Things is the Harris brothers' rebellion against low expectations - written by teenagers, for teenagers, and still the movement's founding document. It treats teens as capable of consequence.
Do Hard Things
This Changes Everything is Jaquelle Crowe's systematic theology for teen girls - justification, sanctification, the church, all of it, written when she was a teenager herself. Proof the shelf respects its reader.
This Changes Everything: How the Gospel Transforms the Teen Years, (Hardcover)
Jesus Freaks gathers martyr stories from Voice of the Martyrs, framed by dc Talk - teenagers who died for Christ, told without softening. It rearranges a young reader's priorities permanently.
Jesus Freaks: Stories of Those Who Stood for Jesus (Paperback) by D C Talk, Voice of the Martyrs (Contributions by)
Defined, from the Kendrick brothers, anchors identity where teenagers actually lose it - who God says you are over who the feed says you are. Built on the Overcomer film's theme, and its identity message speaks directly to teenagers.
Defined: Who God Says You Are
Their Bible and Their Journal
A KJV Bible of their own, and the paper tools of a private faith.
The KJV Teen Study Bible - the translation verified on the product page, because teen Bibles default to other versions and only the King James belongs on this shelf. Study features in the text they will keep for life.
Kjv, Teen Study Bible, Leathersoft, Brown, Comfort Print, (Hardcover)
A KJV gift Bible with a cover a teenager will carry without embarrassment - the translation verified on the page, in a flexible cover made to be carried. Many first adult Bibles start exactly here.
KJV Holy Bible, Gift Edition for Girls/Teens King James Version, Faux Leather Flexible Cover, Teal Butterfly (Hardcover)
A plain prayer journal gives a teenager a private, unposted place to talk to God - weekly pages, no affirmations, no slogans. The screen stays off; the conversation stays open.
The Simple Prayer Journal: A Notebook for Men & Teen Boys, (Paperback)
No-bleed highlighters make marking a first Bible safe - eight colors, zero bleed-through on thin pages. The toolkit that turns reading into studying.
Mr. Pen- Gel Highlighter, 8 Pack, Sunshine & Smiles, Bible Highlighters No Bleed, No Bleed Highlighters, Bible Highlighter, Bible Markers
Stories That Cost Something
A ministry founded by a teenager, a smuggler's daring, and survival with faith intact.
Kisses from Katie is Katie Davis's story - eighteen years old, moved to Uganda, adopted fourteen daughters, founded a ministry. Teenage readers finish it asking better questions about their own plans.
Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption, (Paperback)
The Young Reader's edition of God's Smuggler follows Brother Andrew behind the Iron Curtain with a car full of Bibles and a prayer for open eyes. Adventure that happens to be entirely true.
Pre-Owned God's Smuggler, 9780800798055, 0800798058, Paperback, Young Reader's edition
The young adult Unbroken tells Louie Zamperini's whole arc - Olympic runner, POW, and the Billy Graham crusade that saved him after the war. Endurance literature with the redemption left in.
Pre-Owned Unbroken (the Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to (Hardcover) by Laura Hillenbrand