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Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens
Unlocked is a daily teen devotional, centered on God’s Word. Each day’s devotion—whether fiction, poetry, or essay—asks the question: How does Jesus and what He did affect today’s topic? With daily devotions read by our hosts, Natalie and Dylan, and questions designed to encourage discussion and a deeper walk with Christ, Unlocked invites teens to both engage with the Bible and to write and submit their own devotional pieces.
Episodes
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensSomething Beautiful
READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 13:9-13; 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-7 Have you gone through something really hard lately? Maybe there’s been sickness or a death in your family…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensHow Much God Loves
READ: LAMENTATIONS 3:22-26; EPHESIANS 3:14-21; 1 JOHN 4:16 Ten or fifteen years ago, when I was a teenager and struggling through that often awkward and…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensWrestling with God?
READ: GENESIS 32:24-32; HOSEA 12:3-5; EPHESIANS 4:22-24 When I was an RA (resident assistant) in college, I had this resident who used to tell me she and God…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensWorth the Wait
READ: PROVERBS 25:15; 1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-8; 1 PETER 3:15-16 Have you ever heard of ginseng? It’s a valuable plant used in a lot of health foods. And those who…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensDoing Life Together
READ: ACTS 2:40-47; GALATIANS 6:9-10; EPHESIANS 4:1-16 Have you ever heard Christians talk about “doing life together”? It can be hard to understand exactly…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensWarrior
READ: EXODUS 14:14; 33:22; ISAIAH 42:13; ZEPHANIAH 3:17 “Go to the boulder!” He did not yell over the noise of the battle, but Rhyn heard, and without even…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensWell with My Soul
READ: PSALM 46 I never thought I would have to let go and say, “It is well with my soul,” like the old hymn. I never thought I would have to learn to be okay…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensImitators of Christ
READ: JOHN 13:1-17; EPHESIANS 5:1-2 Have you ever seen a child imitating an adult? It can be so cute to watch a small child try to mix pretend food in empty…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensRunning Out of Gas
READ: EXODUS 20:8-11; MARK 1:21-22, 32-38; EPHESIANS 2:4-10 Imagine this: Cars zoom by as you sit on the side of the road. You hope no one you know sees you…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensHealed
READ: PSALM 103:1-5; REVELATION 21:1-6 When was the last time you had a cold? Maybe you have one right now. They can be so annoying, but the process of healing…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensFear on the Lake
READ: MATTHEW 1:23; 28:20; MARK 6:45-54; EPHESIANS 4:2 As I stood at the lake’s edge, I was observing a genuine SOS moment. A young family member—I’ll call him…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe Power of Saying “Thank You”
READ: PSALM 116; LUKE 17:11-19; REVELATION 4:6-11 Have you ever considered how much difference the words “thank you” can make? The Samaritan healed of leprosy…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensChapel Visitors
READ: LUKE 5:27-32; 18:9-17; ROMANS 5:6-11; 1 JOHN 2:1 The small chapel was an inconspicuous building tucked along a side street off of Main. The leaders on…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensA Place in This World
READ: PSALM 139; PROVERBS 3:1-6 When you feel like you don’t have a place in this world because you don’t think you’re as talented as others or you aren’t sure…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensIt Is God
READ: JOHN 14:12-21; 15:1-17 Let me understand when it’s You, GodTelling me to goSpeak loudly to me, GodSo that I can knowLet me feel You with me, GodAs I…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensDoes It Pay?
READ: PSALM 37:1-9; 1 PETER 2:19-25; 3:8-18 Have you ever seen someone do something wrong and, instead of getting in trouble, they end up reaping a reward for…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensVirus Detected
READ: PROVERBS 3:5-6; 2 CORINTHIANS 3:5; EPHESIANS 2:8; 1 PETER 5:6-7 “UPDATE FAILED. VIRUS DETECTED.” Siren stared at the vile green letters on her monitor…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensEach Small Worry
READ: 1 PETER 5:6-11 Each small worry can quickly become a big worry. It expands from the place inside of me where a little thought pops up. I start to think…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe Gift the World Cannot Give
READ: PSALM 4:8; JOHN 14:25-29; 16:33 As a younger teenager, I was so interested in reading fiction. It provided entertainment, romance, adventure, comedy, and…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensEternity Has No End
READ: JOHN 3:16; 14:1-3; REVELATION 21:1-6 Time passes so quickly. We go from being children to adults. We see ourselves in the mirror and notice changes…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe Dark Chapters
READ: PSALMS 13:1-6; 37:23-24; 2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18 Are you going through a really difficult time? Do you wonder if there’s a way out? Perhaps you’re…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensIt Takes Practice
READ: 2 TIMOTHY 2:15; 3:14-17 Do you ever find the Bible confusing and frustrating? That’s totally understandable! The books of the Bible were written…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe Anticipation of Something Assured
READ: ROMANS 5:1-11; 15:13; HEBREWS 11 Hope is a four-letter word. Yet, between those four letters is a tremendous range of nuance. People can use hope to…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensWhere is My Holy Spirit Zeal?
READ: ACTS 2:1-14; ROMANS 12:4-21; GALATIANS 5:22-23 When people first hear that Christians all receive the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14), there can be a…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensA Well-Watered Garden
READ: ISAIAH 58:6-12; JOHN 4:14; 7:38-39; GALATIANS 5:13-23 “Look over there, Jett—under those tall weeds!” Kyra jumped over a stream as she and her brother…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensGrow and Change
READ: PSALM 139; ROMANS 8:28-29, 38-39; PHILIPPIANS 1:6 At times, growing up is hard. Change is exciting, but at the same time such a difficult thing to go…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensPerfect Sacrifice
READ: ISAIAH 53:4-12; COLOSSIANS 1:22; HEBREWS 9:11-28; REVELATION 5:12 You gave up Your life,You are the Perfect Sacrifice—God’s precious Son,The Holy, Just…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensDoes God Like Me?
READ: GENESIS 1:26-31; PSALM 35:27; PROVERBS 3:11-12; ISAIAH 62:4 If you grew up in church, you’ve probably heard over and over that God loves you. And He…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensLost Lunch Money
READ: EXODUS 34:6; PSALM 86; 1 JOHN 3:1 I stepped off the school bus and headed down the sidewalk toward my third-grade class. Sticking my hands in my pockets…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensWalking in Darkness
READ: JOHN 1:1-9; 8:12 Have you ever been outside during a cloudy night when you couldn’t see the moon or even the stars? The darkness can feel all-consuming…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensAmbassadors, We
READ: ROMANS 5:8-11; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:16-21; EPHESIANS 6:19-20 Would you like to be an ambassador to a foreign country and work in an embassy? You’d live in…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensListening to Advice
READ: PROVERBS 12:15; 15:22; 19:20; 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-27 I like to do things on my own. I never enjoyed group projects in school because it seemed like I was…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe List
READ: ROMANS 8; 1 PETER 2:9-10 My hands shook with my effort not to take The List out of my pocket. You can’t control me, I whispered through gritted teeth. I…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensChanging Things Up
READ: 2 TIMOTHY 3:14-17; HEBREWS 4:12 When you do the same thing over and over again, it’s easy to get tired of it. This can even be true of reading the Bible…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensHow Long?
READ: PSALM 13:1-6 How long, God? Why is it taking forever for things to get better? Why can’t my life turn around and be all that I hoped for? Why do you feel…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe God Who Goes Before Us
READ: GENESIS 28:15; DEUTERONOMY 31:1-13; PROVERBS 3:26 Have you ever read Deuteronomy 31:8? It says, “The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensCreation’s Praise
READ: PSALMS 19:1-4; 148:1-14; ISAIAH 55:12 A silver moon,a single star,shining in the morning dark.Waves are gentlyrolling in,riding on the restless…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensLike a Marigold
READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20, 35-38, 42-44, 54-57 Have you ever read verses in the Bible that talk about how we’ll be raised from the dead like Jesus was? It’s…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensGiant
READ: 1 SAMUEL 17; 2 TIMOTHY 1:9-10 Dear Mother, Grandfather’s stories are true. The giant smells. Now his stories feel like mine. But I suppose that’s the…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensTrusting God With the Worst-Case Scenarios
READ: ROMANS 8:31-39; 1 PETER 5:6-11 I have many tactics that I use to try to deal with anxiety, and it seems like I am always trying something new. Recently…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensA Broken Window in a Broken World
READ: MATTHEW 5:43-47; JOHN 16:29-33 My brother was selected to participate in his middle school’s play, so my family gladly showed up to watch the…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensSin Response
READ: MARK 14:66-72; LUKE 19:1-10; ACTS 3:18-22; ROMANS 2:4 What do you do after you sin? That probably wasn’t the question you were expecting. We all know…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensFriends of God
READ: JOHN 15:12-17; ROMANS 5:10-11 When you look around at school or at church, how can you tell which people are friends with each other? It’s pretty easy…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensCalming the Waves
READ: PSALM 107:1, 23-32; MATTHEW 8:23-27 My life lately has been more like a ship tossed around on a stormy sea than a little canoe making its way across a…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensStarfish
READ: ISAIAH 61:1-3; LAMENTATIONS 3:22-26; LUKE 4:14-21 Picture this. You’re standing barefoot on the shores of a beautiful ocean. As you walk along the…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensBelieving and Loving
READ: MATTHEW 22:35-40; JOHN 6:27-29; 1 JOHN 4:7-19 There’s so much pressure on me…I can’t do everything my parents want me to do. I can’t please all of my…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensGospel Sprouts
READ: MARK 13:11; 1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-9; 1 PETER 2:12; 3:13-18 Have you ever eaten sprouts—like bean sprouts with rice noodles or broccoli sprouts with salad?…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensMy First Bible Verse
READ: PSALM 23; ISAIAH 49:16; 2 TIMOTHY 3:16 As far as I can remember, the first Bible verse I learned was Psalm 23:6, “Surely your goodness and love will…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensJesus Wept
READ: JOHN 11:28-36, HEBREWS 4:14-16 Composed of just two little words, John 11:35 is recognized as the shortest verse in the entire Bible; John simply wrote…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensOlder Than a Fossil
READ: GENESIS 1:1-3; JOHN 1:1-18; COLOSSIANS 1:15-20; HEBREWS 1:8-12 Have you ever dreamed of being a paleontologist? There’s something awe-inspiring about…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe Sea
READ: PSALM 95:1-6 The ocean…the powerful water coming up to the beach and splashing against it. The beautiful color. The sparkling. The place for people to…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe Shadow of the Almighty
READ: PSALM 91; JOHN 15:1-5; ACTS 16:22-25; COLOSSIANS 3:15-17 Today, while I was getting the hose and sprinkler sorted, I stood in the sunshine. It was nice…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe God Who’s Here
READ: PSALMS 23; 46; MATTHEW 10:29-31; EPHESIANS 1:3 Though I walk through darkest valleysIn the shadows of my fearI can hold my head up highbecause I know…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensThe Maze
READ: PSALM 119:105; PROVERBS 3:5-6; ROMANS 12:1-21 Umar and Krish waited in anticipation. Today was the day they would go through the Maze, an important final…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensGod Will Catch You
READ: PSALMS 32:6-11; 91:15; 94:17-19; 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-5 Help! Someone help! You’re falling and there is nothing to grab onto to catch yourself. You awake…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensOne God
READ: PSALM 115:1-13; MATTHEW 6:7-8, 19-34; 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4-6 There is no one like God. There is nothing that could replace Him. Yet, all throughout history…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensJoy
READ: PSALMS 16:9-11; 94:17-19; JOHN 15:1-12 Rejoice, delight, jubilation, glee, ebullience, exhilaration…all of these words mean to have joy. Not only are…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensGod Sees You
READ: ISAIAH 43:1-7; MATTHEW 10:29-31; JOHN 10:1-18; 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27 Have you ever felt invisible? Like no one knew who you were? Sometimes it seems like…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensSugar and Salt
READ: ROMANS 8:1; HEBREWS 4:14-16; 1 JOHN 1:8–2:2 I’d just arrived in a new-to-me country on the other side of the world. I had left a sweltering summer in…
Unlocked: Daily Devotions for TeensHealing Tears
READ: PSALMS 6; 42; JOHN 11:1-44 When was the last time you had a good cry? I’m not talking about letting a few tears go and moving on with your day, but an…