Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens

READ: MATTHEW 28:16-20; JOHN 20:19-31; 1 PETER 1:5-9

Doubt can be so sneaky. It could be that our whole lives we feel like we’ve had rock solid faith, and then one day we find ourselves asking, “I…

READ: LUKE 23:50–24:12, 36-48; JOHN 20

The resurrection is vital to the Christian faith. It proves that Jesus is both fully God and fully human. But did Jesus really come back from the dead? Or di…

READ: MATTHEW 20:17-19, 28; 27:27-54; JOHN 19:16-37

One of the questions people often ask about Jesus is, “Did He really die? Or did He just pass out and revive later on? Did He fake it so He coul…

READ: MATTHEW 27; ROMANS 10:9-13; 1 JOHN 1:7–2:2

"His blood is on us and on our children!” the people shouted. This quote comes from Matthew 27:25. The people are gathered around the Roman governo…

READ: MATTHEW 26:14-56; 1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-25; HEBREWS 4:14-16

Have you ever been betrayed? From large betrayals to small disappointments, betrayal is a hard thing to bear. And yet, it is so comm…

READ: 1 PETER 2:22-25

It seems so unfair, how Jesus was taken to the cross. He is perfect. He never did anything wrong, much less anything deserving of death. It seems so confusing that He would a…

READ: ROMANS 8:1; GALATIANS 6:14; HEBREWS 12:1-3; 1 PETER 2:23-25

When I see a cross, I don’t think much of it. People use the shape of a cross on jewelry, t-shirts, tattoos, logos, books, and chu…

READ: ISAIAH 53:3-5; 1 PETER 2:24; REVELATION 21:4

Throughout human history, a wide variety of cultures have had rites of passage where individuals had to endure something painful to be seen as an…

READ: JOB 40:15-24; PSALMS 57; 142

The young man leaned heavily against the cave’s wall. He gasped for breath, clutching a wound at his side where blood seeped through his shirt and stained his fi…

READ: PSALM 10:11-18; EPHESIANS 6:18; HEBREWS 4:14-16

I accidentally tapped “emergency call” on my phone today. Immediately, I felt my heartbeat speed up. I had never done that before, and I wasn’…

READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20-28, 54-57; REVELATION 1:17-18

Today, we’re going to revisit yesterday’s poem. Not only does Jesus’s death and resurrection give us victory over sin, but it also gives us …

READ: EPHESIANS 6:10-18; 1 PETER 5:6-10; REVELATION 12:10-11

One year in college, I struggled with an onslaught of repeated failures in my walk with Jesus. Although I confessed these failures, I w…

READ: PSALM 119:9-16, 97-104; MATTHEW 5:13-16

Have you ever been told you were too young to do something or go somewhere or hang out with certain people? Maybe nobody told you with words, but thei…

READ: JOHN 10:1-18; 14:26; 1 JOHN 4:1-21

Have you ever heard someone talk about what God is “telling them” and felt frustrated, wondering, “Why isn’t God talking to me?” I remember feeling that wa…

READ: ROMANS 12:1-21; GALATIANS 2:19-20; COLOSSIANS 3:1-4, 16-17

The life of Macrina the Younger shows the profound influence we can have on others by faithfully following Jesus. Born around 330 A…

READ: MATTHEW 28:16-20; 1 CORINTHIANS 3:3-11; 12:4–13:8

I was in a discipleship class, and I felt confused. How was I supposed to be a disciple-maker, to teach and support other Christians in thei…

READ: ROMANS 8:28-39; EPHESIANS 2:1-10; PHILIPPIANS 1:3-11; 2:13

Have you ever watched a carpenter at work? My grandfather is a skilled woodcarver, and as a young child I thought it was so cool to…

READ: PSALMS 8:3-4; 19:1-4; 90:1-2; 139:5-12

"Do you ever get tired of it?” Clara asked her best friend Harriett as they watched the acrobats flip through the night sky. Fire cascaded in fountains…

READ: MATTHEW 11:28-30; ROMANS 3:23-24; GALATIANS 2:11-21

Youth group camp had just finished, and as we all settled in with pillows for the long bus ride home, my friend (who I’ll call Samantha) s…

READ: MATTHEW 4:1-11; 1 CORINTHIANS 10:13; HEBREWS 4:14-16

It’s happened again. You promised yourself you wouldn’t sin in that way, but you have. For weeks you’ve been struggling with combating th…