UncommonTEEN for Christian Teen Girls

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! What is integrity?  Albert Einstein says, “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”  Martin Luther King Jr. says, “The time is always right to do what is right.”  To me, integrity is: 1.   Doing the right thing when nobody else is looking. 2.   Doing the right thing even when it’s...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Candace Cameron Bure, Mark Wahlberg, Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, Chip and Joanna Gaines, Tim Tebow, Simone Biles, Lecrae, Sadie Robertson….what do they have in common that makes them the influencers that they are?  The answer…they are all people who are extraordinary at something that they do…so much so that they have made a mass...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! When thinking of someone who had a reason to feel shame and guilt, I think back to the story of King David in 2nd Samuel 11. King David had slipped so far down into sin and he didn’t even realize how far he had gone. He cheated on another man’s wife, got her pregnant, tried to cover it up and then had some of his best warriors fightin...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Recently, at UncommonTEEN, we have received several emails from teen girls talking about the shame and the guilt that you are feeling for past mistakes, and I wanted to share my story with you to let you to know that I have been right there with you. I get it. I held on to so much shame and so much guilt over the years. The only one w...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Today, we have a very special guest, Ashli Townsend!  Ashli lives outside of Nashville, TN and was actually a student in our youth ministry. I met Ashli and her family when she was 2 years old and it has been such an honor to get to see her grow in her walk in the Lord and trust Him with her life. Ashli started youth ministry in 6th g...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Today, we have a very special guest, Ashli Townsend!  Ashli lives outside of Nashville, TN and was actually a student in our youth ministry. I met Ashli and her family when she was 2 years old and it has been such an honor to get to see her grow in her walk in the Lord and trust Him with her life. Ashli started youth ministry in 6th g...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Did you know that God loves you so much and there’s nothing that you can do about it! It’s so true! When the world says things like, “I will love you if…” or “If you do this one thing, I will love you,” God says, “I love you…period!” There’s nothing that you can do to get Him to love you any more and there’s nothing you can do to get...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Okay, so we talked all about the first season of dating , the season of growth, but what do when we get to the season where we feel like God is moving us into the direction of dating? This next season is going to be the season of discovery.  In the season of discovery, you have developed a strong personal relationship with Jesus. This...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! With dating being so prevalent today, it seems like it’s just normal to have a boyfriend and if you don’t then there has to be something wrong with you. If that’s something you have believed, I encourage you not to believe that lie.  I had a friend in high school whose sole purpose in high school was to get a boyfriend. She felt like...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! All right, so this week we are continuing our two part series on Crushes, Flirting and Dating…are they okay? Last week, we talked all about crushes…we talked about what crushes are, if it is a sin to have a crush, and what we should do when we do have a crush. If you missed last week’s episode, I highly encourage you to check it out....

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Crushes, Flirting and Dating…Is It Okay? Part 1 When it comes to having crushes, flirting and even dating, I think I have heard it all! These can be such confusing topics.  Think about it, our parents tell us one set of rules, our friend’s parents have a different set of rules, our youth pastors may tell us yet a different thing…and I...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! According to Statista, did you know that digital advertisers plan to spend over $455 billion dollars a year on marketing to teens and kids? The reason for this is because teens will spend over $143 billion dollars on their products every year if the companies can get them to buy in. They have been sending out messages your whole life...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Have you ever heard of the quote, “You are your own worst critic?” There so much truth to that statement! So many times, we tend to pick out all of the things we don’t like about ourselves: our hair, our skin, our nose, our weight, our personality…even our laugh. I want you to take a little test. If you have a pen and paper, go ahead...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Cliques…oh yes, that oh-so-lovely word that we all just have warm, fuzzy feelings about, right? Haha…you are probably thinking, “Yeah, right!” And I am totally with you! I don’t think that the majority of you see cliques in a positive way. Honestly, I don’t really either. I mean, it’s great to have people who you really connect with a...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Don’t let rejection define who you believe that you are.  As a Christian, there will times in our lives when people or things try to come at us and we have the opportunity to feel rejected or unwanted, but it’s up to us whether or not we are going to let what others say about us define or do to us define who we we think we are!  When...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Have you ever felt rejected or unwanted? I think most of us can probably say that we have. I know I have. I remember being in 6th grade and there was a girl, Rachel, who made it her life goal to make my life miserable. I remember one time one of the most popular boys in my grade came up to me and confronted me in front of the whole cl...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! On our episode 17, we talked about how the Bible is historically accurate and how it is scientifically accurate. If you haven’t listened to it yet, I highly recommend it! It answers so many questions that the world is trying to throw at us today. In Episode 18 ,we are going to talk about the prophesies that are in the Bible. A prophes...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! More and more today, the Bible is coming under attack more than I have ever seen or heard before.  How do we know that we can trust the Bible? Besides knowing that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time and has changed more lives than any other book, and that so many people bank their lives on the Bible and will even die for i...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! All right, we are jumping back into our series we’re calling Questions. In episode 16 we talked about why bad things happen to good people. So, you may be thinking…okay, I’m starting to see this, but what about this question,  “Okay, so maybe God didn’t cause it to happen, but didn’t He allow it?  That’s exactly what we are going to t...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! There are so many questions that are in the hearts and minds of many teens (maybe even you), so through this series, I want to help answer some of those questions for you or for those who are around you, so you can help them, too. Through this series, we’re going to be answering several questions like why do bad things happen to good...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Join us this week for an incredible interview with J.Camille, the host of the Shift Podcast. The Shift Podcast was created to help us transition effectively through challenges. We all experience "shifts" at some time in our lives, whether it be going from middle school to high school or high school to college. Sometimes those shifts a...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! In part 1 of “What’s Your God-given Gift,” we talked about how God has given every single one of us a gift that will help us fulfill our God-given destiny…and let me tell you, you really were created on purpose, with a purpose, for a purpose! I also shared 3 questions for you to answer that will help you discover what your God-given g...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! God made you unique for a reason. You matter! You have a God-given gift hidden on the inside of you that will lead you to your life’s purpose. It is a God-given gift, a kingdom purpose that only you can fulfill. Sometimes I think we struggle with discovering our gifts, because our gift and our purpose is so engrained in who we are, we...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Have you ever lost something that was valuable to you? Maybe it was a homework assignment or money or your purse, a housekey or maybe it was a piece of jewelry that meant a lot to you.  For me, when I was in high school, I lost a necklace that meant a lot to me. See, growing up I didn’t have a lot of money so when someone got me a gif...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Our words are so powerful. Sometimes I don’t think we realize just how powerful the words coming out of our mouths are.   Did you know that on average we speak anywhere between 10,000 and 25,000 words per day?  That’s a lot of words! That’s also why God talked so much about the words coming out of our mouths as much as He did. Because...