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Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens

Keys for Kids Ministries

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.

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00:04:36

Unequally Yoked

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2025/10/03

READ: MATTHEW 11:28-30; 2 CORINTHIANS 6:1–7:4 One of the things I like most about autumn in New England is the county fairs. They have something for everyone. Blue ribbons for quilts and pies. Unusual poultry breeds and lop-eared bunnies. Giant pumpkins. Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, skateboarding, and live bands. Pigs racing for Oreo cookies. And food. Lots of food. Caramel apples and barbecued chicken and warm apple crisp. But for me the most

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00:04:24

Jesus Saves the Unexpected

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2025/10/02

READ: LUKE 5:31-32; 19:1-10 Ever feel like people don’t like you? That loneliness feels horrible. Even worse? When people say you deserve that loneliness because of something you did. That’s what Zacchaeus must have felt every day. He cheated people out of money, so his whole town shunned him. When Jesus came into town, Zacchaeus didn’t stand in the crowd to watch Him. He climbed a tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus. And as the Savior passed that way,

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00:04:43

Searching for Identity

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2025/10/01

READ: ROMANS 6:6-14; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-21; GALATIANS 3:26-29 Who am I? I wrestled with this question quite a bit during my teen years. I often felt lost, and I sought to define myself through lots of different things: friends, hobbies, how I dressed, my athletic ability, my looks, the size on my clothes…the list could go on and on. And, from conversations I had with friends, I knew I wasn’t the only one. As teens, we struggle with identity so

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00:03:42

Book of Tears

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2025/09/30

READ: ISAIAH 25:8; HEBREWS 5:7; REVELATION 21:1-5 You say you keep all my tears in a bottle, keep track of them in your book. Do you write some of them small, for the tears I cry in private? Are others BOLD AND BIG for the tears that escape with intensity, with audible, soul-shaking sobs? Do you change the font, from broken-hearted to empty, from fearful to raging? Do you include each tear’s backstory or do the tears stand alone, telling their stories

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00:04:06

Flipping for Attention

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2025/09/29

READ: ZEPHANIAH 3:14-17; EPHESIANS 2:1-9 Although my family hosted many guests in our home when I was a kid, the most memorable ones were strangers from Australia. Our house sat near a highway in a rural area. One afternoon, we spotted a young man and woman walking down the road. They wore heavy-duty backpacks and hiking boots. We said “hello” from our front yard, and my dad struck up a conversation. He invited them to eat with us, and as we made

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00:05:16

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

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2025/09/28

READ: LEVITICUS 27:30-34; MATTHEW 6:19-34; 2 CORINTHIANS 9:7 Have you ever looked at someone, maybe in youth group, and thought, “I wish I believed like they do” or “I wish I loved God and church as much as they do”? First of all, comparing our walk with Jesus to someone else’s is rarely helpful because we can never know what is going on in another person’s heart or relationship with God. However, the desire to grow closer to God, to be more in love

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00:05:16

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

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2025/09/28

READ: LEVITICUS 27:30-34; MATTHEW 6:19-34; 2 CORINTHIANS 9:7 Have you ever looked at someone, maybe in youth group, and thought, “I wish I believed like they do” or “I wish I loved God and church as much as they do”? First of all, comparing our walk with Jesus to someone else’s is rarely helpful because we can never know what is going on in another person’s heart or relationship with God. However, the desire to grow closer to God, to be more in love

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00:04:27

How Do I Love God?

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2025/09/27

READ: MATTHEW 22:36-40; JOHN 14:15-27; 2 JOHN 1:5-6 If you often go to church or read the Bible, you’ve probably been told over and over again, “Love the Lord your God.” But what does that mean? How do we do that? Should we just try to create positive emotions toward God and maintain that happy feeling for Him all the time? No, of course not! While feelings are an important part of love—and we will have times when we feel lots of love for God—love

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00:06:09

God of Summer

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2025/09/26

READ: RUTH 2:12; PSALMS 46:1; 57:1 In the summer, she knew God. Basking under burning sunrises, she knew His warmth. Dreaming in fields of wildflowers, she knew His freedom. Walking through forests while sunlight danced around her, she knew His joy. She reveled in her God of summer, who breathed life from His lungs and bled beauty from His veins. But autumn came, and she could not find Him. Leaves burned bright as fire, just to curl and

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00:04:29

We Are Seed Planters, Not Growers

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2025/09/25

READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-9 When I was in middle school, I made friends with a girl name Mackenzie. We were complete opposites—I was pretty reserved and she was super outgoing—but we were immediate friends. We were in most of the same classes and extracurriculars together, and we hung out a lot. We were besties. But there was one thing that bothered me in our friendship: Mackenzie wasn’t a Christian. I desperately wanted her to know the love of Jesus

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00:04:22

The Bible Is for Everyone: John Wycliffe

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2025/09/24

READ: PSALMS 19:1-14; 119:11-16 How many times have you been told to read the Bible? Imagine sitting down in church and hearing the pastor say, “Don’t you dare read the Bible! Unless you’re a church leader, you are unworthy to study God’s Word.” And what if, on top of that, the only copies of the Bible you could find were written in a language you didn’t understand? That was the world John Wycliffe was born into in the early 1300s in England. He

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00:04:32

From Riches to Rags: St. Francis of Assisi

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2025/09/23

READ: COLOSSIANS 3:1-3, 16-17 Few Christians throughout history have taken Jesus’s call to drop everything and follow Him as literally as St. Francis of Assisi. His faithful service to God was so influential that his way of living is still followed by one order of monks, the Franciscans, almost 800 years after his death. St. Francis was born in Italy around 1181 AD. The son of a wealthy merchant, Francis did not know God as a teen. He threw wild

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00:03:53

What God Created

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2025/09/22

READ: GENESIS 1; MATTHEW 6:26-33 As the trees start to change colors each year, I am in awe of all that God has created. Why did He choose to make the leaves turn different shades of orange, yellow, and red? Why didn’t He just make all of them turn a single color? Why did He choose to make maple trees, oaks, and palm? Why not just make a single type of tree? I think of old-school video games where you see the same tree repeated over and over again

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00:03:53

What God Created

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2025/09/22

READ: GENESIS 1; MATTHEW 6:26-33 As the trees start to change colors each year, I am in awe of all that God has created. Why did He choose to make the leaves turn different shades of orange, yellow, and red? Why didn’t He just make all of them turn a single color? Why did He choose to make maple trees, oaks, and palm? Why not just make a single type of tree? I think of old-school video games where you see the same tree repeated over and over again

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00:04:29

When You Can't Find the Words

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2025/09/21

READ: LUKE 11:1-13; ROMANS 8:26-27; EPHESIANS 3:14-21 Have you ever tried to pray, but couldn’t seem to find the right words? Perhaps a friend was hurting, or you were going through a difficult season, or maybe you wanted to thank God—but for some reason, you couldn’t figure out how to express what you wanted to say. Prayer is essential in our walk with God. He calls us to pray at all times (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18). However, God understands that

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00:04:19

Lonely Times

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2025/09/20

READ: PSALM 139:1-12; MATTHEW 1:23; 28:20 Ava sat in her room all alone. She tried to ignore the voices from the party downstairs. No one had sent Ava to her room, but the room called to her. She felt too worn out to deal with everyone tonight. Then her dad opened her bedroom door. “Aren’t you going to come downstairs? Your grandpa’s asking about you.” “I’m tired,” Ava said. “I think I’ll just stay up here.” Ava loved spending time with her

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00:03:45

Rest for Your Soul

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2025/09/19

READ: PSALM 46:10; MATTHEW 11:28-29; PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7 Anxiety A tidal wave Pain showing through the cracks of my heart Can’t think, can’t breathe yet breathing too much Can’t speak, yet speaking incessantly Grasping for sanity, for peace, for air My heart pounding like a bass drum Can’t catch my breath, fix myself, calm these nerves Yet through the chaos, tears, torrential fear, He whispers: BE STILL Fear not, My beloved, for I have redeemed you; I

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00:04:34

Learning to Trust God with My Life

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2025/09/18

READ: PSALM 139; MATTHEW 28:20; COLOSSIANS 1:22-23 Every Christian has a different testimony, or story of how they came to put their trust in Jesus. For some people, it could be really dramatic. For others, it may be really simple. Yet God works in each and every person’s life. This is the personal story of how God worked in my life. My parents were missionaries in Japan, so I grew up learning about God both directly from them and by hearing them

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00:04:28

Hanging Out with Sinners (Part 2)

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2025/09/17

READ: MATTHEW 9:9-13; LUKE 7:34-50; 1 PETER 3:15-16 Have you ever noticed how Jesus often spent time with people who were doing some pretty bad stuff? You may have wondered, “If that’s how Jesus acted, what should I do—especially if I’m supposed to avoid sin?” Sometimes Christians even ask, “Can I be friends with non-Christians?” The answer is, “Of course!” In fact, one of the ways people come to know Jesus is through friendship. God will help you show

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00:04:23

Friends of God (Part 1)

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2025/09/16

READ: JOHN 15:9-17; ROMANS 5:6-11; 1 JOHN 4:11 Relationships of any kind—with family or friends—are important to God. From the beginning, God made us to live in community. Shortly after He created Adam, the first human, God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him” (Genesis 2:18). So God made Eve, Adam’s wife and the first human friend in history. Besides Adam and Eve, there are lots of

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