Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens

READ: PSALM 139:7-12; LUKE 15:1-7; ROMANS 8:31-39

I spread mortar on the next brick. The thick sludge looks like grey toothpaste as I smother it on the porous red block. I set the brick firmly on …

READ: MATTHEW 7:1-5; JAMES 2:10; 1 JOHN 1:7-9

Are you ever tempted to believe that your sins are bigger or smaller than somebody else’s? It’s an easy lie to fall into. But in God’s sight, there ar…

READ: PSALMS 32:8; 91:15; 119:105; PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7

Imagine for a moment you’re in a car, driving. On and on you go, but soon you realize you’re absolutely, hopelessly lost. The narrow, dead-stra…

READ: MATTHEW 11:28-30; 1 PETER 5:6-7

Has a Bible verse ever hit you like a freight train—in a good way? I had that experience a couple months ago. I was going through a very stressful time in lif…

READ: PSALMS 34:5; 89:14, 30-34; ROMANS 8:1

When you were younger, did you ever get hurt while doing something you knew you weren’t supposed to do? Like, maybe as a toddler your parent told you no…

READ: PSALM 23; ISAIAH 53; MATTHEW 18:12-13

Remember when you were a little kid and would imagine what it would be like to be an animal? I do. I would wonder, What if I was a bird and I could fly?…

READ: 1 SAMUEL 30:1-31; 1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-27

God has given each of us a unique role to play in His kingdom. As Christians, we all have different spiritual gifts and different roles, and no one p…

READ: PSALMS 28:7; 33:1-3; 40:3; COLOSSIANS 3:16

While I was in high school, I wrote the first version of today’s poem as a song for my personal worship time. Although I can’t read or write music, I …

READ: JOHN 15:1-17; GALATIANS 5:22-23

When I was growing up, my family always had a garden. I would help plant the tiny seeds, water them, and tear out the weeds that grew around them. I became so…

READ: PSALM 32; ROMANS 3:23-26; EPHESIANS 5:8-14

How do you fix a typo? Will ignoring it fix the problem? Of course not! Then they’d never get corrected. But when we take the necessary steps, they…

READ: PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7; 2 THESSALONIANS 3:16

Life can be hard. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. Life can be very hard. We may find it pretty easy to love and worship God when things are going well …

READ: PSALM 73; EPHESIANS 2

"I know God is good, but why do they always seem to get the blessings and not me?” I asked as I sat with my Chinese takeout and tried valiantly not to dissolve into a t…

READ: PSALM 28:7; MATTHEW 14:13-21; JOHN 11:38-44

Do you still believe in miracles? I know the Bible mentions that Jesus fed over 5,000 people with only a handful of bread and fish (Matthew 14:13-…

READ: MARK 15:37-38; HEBREWS 6:19-20; 10:19-22

"Quick! This way!” Rhys yelled, motioning with his arm for the large group of people to turn down yet another oak-paneled corridor. Everyone followed…

Hey, this is Dylan here from Unlocked. And as you probably noticed, we have some new theme music, so I hope you like it. We might still change exactly what the theme music is, this might just be temp…

READ: EPHESIANS 5:1-2; COLOSSIANS 3:1-4, 22-24

Over the years, I’ve done a variety of tasks to earn money. One job I found online was trying beauty products at home and then writing reviews about …

READ: LEVITICUS 23:40; 1 CHRONICLES 16:33; PSALM 96:11-13

Leaves are tumbling,

twisting,

turning…

Limbs are blowing,

bending,

bowing…

Trees are bursting,

billowing,

blooming…

As the woods

comme…

READ: DANIEL 1:8-15; 1 CORINTHIANS 10:13; 2 CORINTHIANS 4:6-10

Have you ever used a pressure canner? It looks like a large pot with a lid that clamps on securely. When you can food at home, you pu…

READ: PSALM 23; JOHN 10:11-18; 14:1-21

I bent down to snatch a wildflower from beside the path and then hurried on. I rushed to catch up once again with my beloved family member—I’ll call him Nash…

READ: PSALM 119:11-16, 28, 103-105; JOHN 14:23-27

I love God’s Word, the Bible, and all that He put in it for us. I think it’s so important to commit Bible verses and passages to memory so that we…