Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens

READ: ISAIAH 53; LUKE 2:1-21

Listen. Can you hear it? That whisper of hope on the horizon? The echoes of an infant King born in a manger. The culmination of hundreds of years of prophecy born in a…

READ: JOHN 14:6; TITUS 2:10-14

Have you ever helped decorate a Christmas tree? In many families, this is a yearly tradition, especially in the United States of America. Some families even like to …

READ: MATTHEW 7:1-5; JAMES 4:11-12

It’s such an easy temptation. How quick we as humans are to make judgments by pointing a finger at someone else instead of looking at the problems in our own liv…

READ: LUKE 1:26-56

At the time of Jesus’s birth, most Jews would have known the prophecies concerning the coming Messiah, including a young virgin from the town of Nazareth named Mary. Then one da…

READ: GENESIS 2:2-3; EXODUS 10:8-10; DEUTERONOMY 5:12-15; HEBREWS 4:9-11

Have you ever felt guilty for resting? I know I have. When my body tells me I need to take a break and slow down, I always …

READ: NUMBERS 24:17, 19; ISAIAH 42:1-4; MICAH 5:2

The world-famous superhero, the Black Panther, was played by Chadwick Boseman. Every day while filming was in progress, I imagine he would get up,…

READ: MATTHEW 1:18-25; 28:16-20

Recently, I was looking up verses about Jesus being with us, and I noticed something really cool. In Matthew’s Gospel—his account of Jesus’s life— Matthew includes …

READ: JOHN 14:15-31; GALATIANS 5:22-26; PHILIPPIANS 4:4-9

Advent takes place during the four weeks before Christmas, and it’s a time when some Christians prepare to celebrate Jesus’s first coming …

READ: ROMANS 8:12-17; PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11; COLOSSIANS 1:15-20

Do you have any siblings? And if so, are you the oldest, youngest, or somewhere in the middle? In biblical times, birth order mattered …

READ: PSALM 86; 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-9

Have you had a very bad day recently? The kind of day when you’re late to school or work, forgot your lunch at home, and realized you didn’t turn in an importan…

READ: PSALM 1:1-3; JEREMIAH 17:7-8; JOHN 7:37-39; 15:4-17

Minutes before sunset was my favorite time of day. I sat on an outcropping of rock, dangling my bare feet above a crystalline spring of wa…

READ: EXODUS 29:38-45; MATTHEW 27:45-53; JOHN 19:30

When I’d hear the bell go off in school, I knew that class was done. Because we heard the bell every day, we were conditioned to react to this p…

READ: PSALMS 32:6-8; 86:1-7; 120:1

Lifeguards are pretty amazing. Even when they’re stationed at a crowded beach or a noisy pool, their eyes and ears are trained to see people in trouble. Before a…

READ: PSALM 116:1-7; MATTHEW 11:28-30

Lord, I need Your help

Come

I don’t know where else to go

Come to me

I’m so tired

All who are weary

This burden is more than I can handle

READ: PSALM 19:1-6; JOHN 1:1-14; COLOSSIANS 1:15-20

Have you ever gone to an art gallery? For a graphic design class I took this year, I went on a field trip to a large art gallery, and it got me …

READ: EXODUS 16:4-16; JOHN 6:1-15, 25-59

Where I live, making homemade bread was more of a trend during the earlier days of the pandemic, but I’m a little late to the trend. I’ve started making my…

READ: MATTHEW 6:19-34; 22:36-40

What’s your greatest treasure on earth? Maybe it’s a prized collection of vintage postcards, or a beautiful and rare electric guitar, or maybe it’s a sizable bank a…

READ: PSALM 104; COLOSSIANS 1:15-23

I love seeing the fall colors as the trees turn in autumn, the white snow that falls to the ground in winter, the new sprouts and flowers that come in spring, a…

READ: PSALM 102:25-28; HEBREWS 13:5-8

It can be comforting to have something in your life that always stays the same. You might have dinner with your grandparents every weekend, or you might have …

READ: DEUTERONOMY 30:1-10; JEREMIAH 29:4-19; MATTHEW 28:18-20

Imagine being exiled from your home where you’ve lived all your life and forced to move to a faraway land…for seventy years. Would you…