Recommended Resources

Welcome to our Recommended Resources page! Here is an index of our recommended books, family attractions, music, movies, and websites. We hope that they will be helpful to you, but please remember to use discretion. We do not agree with everything on/in our recommended sources, but have generally found them useful. We also recommend parents judgment on age recommendations!

If you have any resources that you have found helpful and would like to share, please contact us via email or comments!

Books:

Accelerated Distance Learning by Brad Voeller (15 years and up)

The Backyard Homestead (All Ages)

Beautiful Girlhood by Karen Andreola (Young Ladies 10 and up)

The Betrayal (13 years and up)

The Bible (All Ages)

Biblical Economics in Comics by Vic Lockman (15 years and up)

Business by the Book by Larry Burkett (15 years and up)

Christian Modesty and the Public Undressing of America by Jeff Pollard (13 years and up)

Courageous: A Novel by Randy Alcorn (15 years and up)

Crazy Love by Francis Chan (12 years and up)

Cut Your Grocery Bill in Half by Steve and Annette Economides (12 years and up)

The Devil in Pew Number Seven (13 years and up)

Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris (12 years and up)

Duncan’s War by Douglas Bond (All Ages)

Emotional Purity by Heather Arnel Paulsen (Young Ladies 13 and up)

The Essential Guide to the Short Term Mission Trip by David C. Forward (12 years and up)

The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler (15 years and up)

The Family by J.R. Miller (All Ages)

Glaucia the Greek Slave by Emma Leslie (Ages 10 and up)

gods at war by Kyle Idleman (16 years and up)

God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew (13 years and up)

Hostage Lands by Douglas Bond (All Ages)

How Should We Then Live? by Francis A. Schaeffer (12 years and up)

It’s (Not That) Complicated by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin (Young Ladies 13 and up)

Joyfully at Home by Jasmine Baucham (Young Ladies 12 and up)

Kingdom Journeys by Seth Barnes (Ages 16 and up)

King’s Arrow by Douglas Bond (All Ages)

Kisses From Katie by Katie Davis (Ages 13 and up)

Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends by Sarah, Stephen, and Grace Mally (All Ages)

The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen (Ages 15 and up)

Not a Fan by Kyle Idleman (Ages 13 and up)

Orphan Justice by Johnny Carr (Ages 12 and up)

Radical by David Platt (Ages 13 and up)

The Radical Question by David Platt (Ages 13 and up)

Rebel’s Keep by Douglas Bond (All Ages)

The Reverend Spy by David P. Denton (Ages 13 and up)

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore (Ages 16 and up)

So Much More by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin (Young Ladies 12 and up)

Unshaken by Dan Woolley (13 years and up)

Wait No More by Kelly and John Rosati (Ages 16 and up)

Walking in Broken Shoes by Susan Magnuson Walsh (Ages 14 and up)

When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert (Ages 12 and up)

Family Attractions:

The Creation Museum (Kentucky)

Movies:

180 (PG-13—Abortion and images from the Holocaust)

A More Perfect Union (G)

A Night to Remember (13 years and older—Mild Language and Thematic Elements)

Agenda (12 years and older)

Candle in the Dark (12 years and older—Violence)

Courageous (PG-13—Violence and Drug Content)

Divided (G)

Duck Dynasty (PG—Crude Humor and Thematic Material)

End of the Spear (PG-13—Intense Sequences of Violence)

Fireproof (PG—Marital Discord)

God’s Not Dead (PG—Thematic Material, Brief Violence, and an Accident Scene)

Homeschool Dropouts (G)

IndoctriNation (PG-13—Thematic Elements)

Last Ounce of Courage (PG—Thematic Elements and War Images)

Left Behind 1 (PG-13—Violence)

Left Behind 2 (PG-13—Violence)

Left Behind 3 (PG-13—Violence)

Monumental (PG—Some Mild Thematic Elements)

The Mysterious Islands (G)

Pamela’s Prayer (PG—Thematic Elements)

Pendragon (PG—Battle Scenes and Thematic Elements)

The Penny (PG-13—Thematic Elements and Violence)

The Perfect Gift (G)

The Perfect Stranger (G)

Return of the Daughters (G)

The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry (G)

Time Changer (PG—Thematic Elements)

Two Hats (G)

Underground Reality: Colombia (PG-13—Thematic Elements)

Underground Reality: Vietnam (PG-13—Thematic Elements)

Music:

You Deliver Me album by Selah (calming and quiet music with several beautifully arranged hymns)

Today by Brian Doerksen (worship songs sung in a classic style)

Peace Like a River by Chris Rice (beautifully arranged hymns with piano and vocals)

Michael W. Smith music (his albums range from pop, to worship, to instrumental. We love them all!)

Websites:

Visionary Daughters (encouraging website for young ladies)