Faith-centered devotionals and teaching resources designed to help parents and leaders guide teens in applying the gospel to real life.

A podcast based on the Come, Follow Me curriculum, created to help parents and leaders guide teens in applying the gospel to real life.

Who This Is For?

Come Follow Me for Teens is created for parents, teachers, and leaders who want to help teens grow spiritually, ask better questions, and apply gospel principles to real-life situations—without feeling overwhelmed or underprepared.

  • Parents teaching at home

  • Sunday School & Youth Leaders

  • Seminary Teachers

  • Anyone guiding teens through faith and growth

What You’ll Find Here

Teaching teens today can feel challenging. Questions are deeper, distractions are louder, and traditional approaches don’t always connect. These resources are designed to meet teens where they are—while giving adults the confidence and structure they need to guide meaningful conversations.

Why These Resources Exist

Teaching teens today can feel challenging. Questions are deeper, distractions are louder, and traditional approaches don’t always connect. These resources are designed to meet teens where they are—while giving adults the confidence and structure they need to guide meaningful conversations.

  • Weekly devotionals aligned with Come, Follow Me

  • Teaching guides designed for discussion, not lectures

  • Resources that emphasize application, not just information

  • Content teens actually engage with and understand

How These Resources Are Used

These materials are used in a variety of settings—from home study to Sunday lessons and youth discussions. They’re designed to be flexible, simple to use, and easy to adapt based on your group and time constraints.

Created With Real Teaching Experience

I’ve spent years teaching and working with teens and families. These resources reflect real questions, real conversations, and real growth—designed to support adults as they guide teens through faith, identity, and application.

  • Individual or family study

  • Sunday lessons

  • Youth group discussions

  • Seminary or small groups

Explore the Resources

Individual Teaching Guides

Downloadable weekly resources designed to support meaningful discussion and application.

Subscription Access

Ongoing access to teaching guides, devotionals, and supporting materials for parents and leaders.

“The greatest yardstick of success is to see how much your daily walk can be like Christ’s—how closely you can walk each moment in His steps.”

RECENT PODCAST EPISODES

These episodes are part of the Come Follow Me for Teens teaching experience — listen for practical insights that support your study and guidance.

Ep. 79 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Alma Ch. 17-22
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Ep. 79 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Alma Ch. 17-22

(July 1st - July 7th) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” episode for insights and principles from Alma Ch. 17-22. Principles and insights about how to become an instrument in God’s hands! These are the missionary chapters of the Book of Mormon! In these chapters we’ll learn principles and insights about how to best share the Gospel with others. We’ll look at what it takes to teach with power and authority. We’ll look at how important it is to teach by example and how to find comfort when we face the fear and anxiety that is a part of missionary service. We’ll look at what it means to “win the hearts” of those we teach and the sacrifices that are required as a part of accepting and living the Gospel!

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Ep. 78 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Alma Ch. 13-16
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Ep. 78 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Alma Ch. 13-16

(June 24th - June 30th) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” episode for insights and principles from Alma Ch. 13-16 about who you are and who you were in the pre-existence. Principles to help you make sense of why God allows for pain and suffering in mortality. Why he allows for bad things to happen to good people. And why some are healed and delivered from their trials while others are not. Sometimes as important as it is to have the faith to be healed, it may in the end, be even more important to have the faith “not” to be healed!

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Ep. 77 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Alma Ch. 8-12
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Ep. 77 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Alma Ch. 8-12

(June 17th - June 23rd) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” episode for insights and principles from Alma Ch. 8-12 about the power of gratitude and how to cultivate it in even when facing disappointment and discouragement. Principles about the blessings that “receiving” the Lord’s anointed can bring in our lives and to our families. Principles about the Savior’s power and ability to save “every man” through repentance regardless of what has been said, done or thought. And finally principles about the significance of the “Why” behind God’s commandments and the importance of tying the things of life and of God back to the plan of redemption, the plan salvation, and the great plan of happiness!’

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