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. 88 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Helaman Ch. 7-12
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Ep. 88 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Helaman Ch. 7-12

(September 2nd - September 8th) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” for teens episode for insights and principles from Helaman Ch. 7-12. Principles and insights to help us better understand why remembering God is so important! While also recognizing how easy it is, if we are not careful to forget Him! Ironically being blessed by Him also seems to be one of the surest ways to forget about Him. We’ll also look at principles and truths to help us navigate the uncertainties of our day and recognize why we never need to fear the unknown and the deceptive practices of secret combinations! It is getting harder and harder to know what is truth and what isn’t…and with the rise in Ai it will only get worse. However in this lesson we are clearly taught the answer for all of it!

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Ep. 87 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Helaman Ch. 1-6
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Ep. 87 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Helaman Ch. 1-6

(August 26th - September 1st) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” for teens episode for insights and principles from Helaman Ch. 1-6. Principles and insights mean to help us with many of the unique challenges of our day. In the Book of Helaman which comprises the final time period just prior to the Saviors coming to the Nephites we will find many parallels to our day and time as we prepare for and approach Christ’s second coming. We’ll see principles about how to overcome contention and pride. Principles about the value of name and how to ensure that our name means something and helps lead others to God instead of away from him. Principles and truths about the Role of Prophets and how they help us to look up to God. And finally how to ensure that we build our lives on the only sure foundation their is, the foundation of the Rock of Our Redeemer, who is Christ!

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Ep. 86 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Alma Ch. 53-63
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Ep. 86 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Alma Ch. 53-63

(August 19th - August 25th) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” for teens episode for insights and principles from Alma Ch. 53-63 The second half of the war chapters of the Book of Mormon! Principles and insights to help us fight the spiritual battles we face. We’ll look at the similarities between the youth of the church and the 2000 stripling warriors. We’ll identify characteristics, attributes, principles and truths from them and their battles to help our youth today better see how to become like them. Most importantly you will be better able to help them see that this story is their story and that they have the power to stand just as strong, just as firm and just as powerfully against the forces of evil as the 2000 stripling warriors did against the forces of the Lamanites!

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