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. 97 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Mormon Ch. 7-9
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Ep. 97 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Mormon Ch. 7-9

(November 4th - November 10th) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” for teens episode for insights and principles from Mormon Ch. 7-9. Principles and insights to help us better understand how we can face the trials of mortality, especially when life seems unfair. How even in the most difficult of times we can still believe that God is a God of miracles and how we can begin to see those miracles more in our lives. And finally how much of a miracle the Book of Mormon really is and how it can help us through our challenges by anchoring us to Christ, to Prophets and to His Church! We have been shown by God to Moroni and he knows our doing and these are the answers he gives us to face the world we live in today!

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Ep. 96 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Mormon Ch. 1-6
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Ep. 96 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - Mormon Ch. 1-6

(October 28th - November 3rd) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” for teens episode for insights and principles from Mormon Ch. 1-6. Principles and insights to help us better understand how we can, like Mormon, survive spiritually in world where a “continual scene of wickedness” is before our eyes. Principles about how to become more “quick to observe” the most important parts of the gospel and of life. And finally we’ll take a look at what it was that completely destroyed the Nephite Civilization, which led Mormon to exclaim, “Oh ye fair ones! How is it that ye are fallen!”

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Ep. 95 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - 3rd Nephi Ch. 26-4th Nephi
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Ep. 95 “Come Follow Me” for Teens - 3rd Nephi Ch. 26-4th Nephi

(October 21st - October 27th) Listen to this “Come Follow Me” for teens episode for insights and principles from 3rd Nephi Ch. 27 - 4th Nephi. Principles and insights to help us better understand what it means to take upon us the name of Christ and how this can help us find direction, purpose, self worth, and strength in navigating life’s challenges. Principles centered around those things that will be of “most worth” to us in mortality and how to cultivate a desire for those things in our hearts. And finally principles and truths about the differences that exist and will be experienced in the lives of those who allow the Savior in and those who keep him out. We don’t have to wait to experience Satan being bound in the Millennium and the joy that will follow having Christ to rule and reign…we can begin to experience the millennium today!

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