UncommonTEEN for Christian Teen Girls

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! We are going to be doing something a little different with the UncommonTEEN Podcast in 2025. This year, I want to explore different people in the Bible who made a major impact for the Lord and lessons we can learn from them. This month, we are focusing on Esther.    Isaiah 43:16-19 says, “I am the Lord, who opened a way through the wa...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! 6 Words of Wisdom for 2025 and Beyond! You’ll never find peace living out of another person’s head. If you are constantly worried about what other people are thinking, you will never be free to be who it is that God created you to be or free to do whatever it is that God has called you to do. God’s not looking for ability, but availab...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Last week, in part 1 of this two part series on the UncommonTEEN Podcast, we began talking about how to throw away anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and insecurities for good!    God wants you walking in confidence, really embracing who it is that He created you to be! But how do we do that? 1.    It starts with truly understanding who it i...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Did you know that it is possible to not let anxiety, stress, overwhelm or insecurities rule your life?  Did you know that God actually doesn’t want you anxious, stressed, overwhelmed, and insecure?    He actually wants you to walk in peace, enjoying life as you walk out confidently who He made you to be!   I remember my senior year of...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Why is it so hard to motivate ourselves to do what we know we are supposed to do? Especially when we don’t feel like it?  Lack of motivation….complacency…it’s all the same thing.    Complacency is a weapon the enemy is using to get us to give up and not even try. When we live in a culture that is so based on our feelings, we don’t rea...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Your words are powerful. Proverbs 18:20 tells us that death and life are in the power of the tongue. Whatever you speak you will eventually see in your life. But just like the words that you speak are powerful…the words that you tell yourself internally are just as powerful. When you’re asked to do something big and new, do you instan...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! I remember when I first made Jesus the Lord of my life, I was on fire for God. Nobody was going to stop me from going all in. However, I had a problem. I didn’t know what it looked like to actually go all in with God. Nobody showed me how to practically live out the transformation God had performed in my life as a 17 year old.    I wo...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Today's Ask Me Anything question comes from Ellie. she says, "Sometimes I do feel uncommon as a believer, but your positive words help me get through tough situations. My parents are strong Christian believers who are both teachers. They are very knowledgeable about the world we are living in as teens. Through this, they are opposed t...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! On this week’s AMA episode, we answer, " Hi Jamie, lately I've been feeling like I'm disappointing everyone around me in my life. My parents with not being athletic enough (even though I work out), my entire family went to college for athletics, and I only play one sport and I'm only ok at that. I'm also not popular at school and not...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! When I think back to the life of King David as a young boy, I see someone whose circumstances weren’t the best. I see someone whose dad didn’t really even consider him as a son. He was forgotten about, made fun of by his brothers and other people. I see someone who could have been so insecure about who he was, because of the way he wa...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! On this week's Ask Me Anything, episode, we are answering the question, "Could you talk about fear of the future on the UncommonTEEN Podcast? I'm really scared of everything going on in the world. I know I should give all my problems to God, but I'm still so scared and don't know what to do. I feel like God isn't listening to me and i...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! AMA: Hannah-Does Evolution Fit with the Bible?   On this week’s AMA episode, Hannah says, “Recently I’ve been thinking about evolution. When I was talking to my friends about Jesus and God one of them asked me “so you don’t believe in evolution?” That question has stuck with me as currently we’re learning about evolution in science an...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! In part one of this series, we talked about how to keep ourselves from losing positions so that we don’t find ourselves in a low place asking ourselves, “How did I get here?”   As a teen, I found myself in these places so often. I didn’t give my life to Jesus until I was 17 and I had a lot of learning, a lot of shame, a lot of guilt,...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! I have heard so many stories from several of you ladies who were innocently scrolling on social media when a message popped up in your chat.  This super cute guy was messaging you either asking you if you'd like to be his friend or complementing you about how beautiful you are. It seemed innocent enough until you found yourself in the...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Anxiety…I remember being in this place…my heart began beating fast. It felt like there was a 1,000 pound elephant on my chest and I couldn’t breathe. I remember one time, and this was just earlier this year, I was in a crowd where I knew about 95% of the people there. In this crowd, we were asked to find someone and go talk to them. N...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Recently, one of you wrote in letting me know you got water baptized! Woohoo!! I’m so excited for you! Then, some questions came up about water baptism, so I thought this would be a great time to talk about it!    This was an area of my life where I was so confused. To a lot of churches, water baptism has become a ritual…something tha...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! We’ve heard it before, maybe many times…God loves you! For many of us, we grew up singing the song, “Jesus loves me!” and we were so excited…which we should be! I mean praise God for His love. But Just because we’ve heard it, just because we’ve sang the song a million times, doesn’t mean that we really know it. It doesn’t mean that we...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! God doesn’t cause bad things to happen, neither does he allow them to happen.    We may ask ourselves: what if someone close to me dies and they were believing for healing? This happened to me just recently. A good friend of mine was diagnosed with cancer about a year and a half ago. Their family was believing for healing, she was bel...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! AMA: I’m a junior in high school, but only just turned 16, which means I’ll move out to start college when I’m 17, and I still don’t know where God wants me. I’ve prayed for guidance and trust, but I just don’t quite know how to get through high school with so much ungodly anxiety.    I wanted to answer this question, because we are w...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Have you ever felt like God wasn't answering your prayers? Like, He's just not listening?  I have had several of you girls write into me lately saying that you don't feel like God is answering your prayers and it's making you question your faith. Today, we’re going to talk about Hannah. We can find her story in 1 Samuel chapter 1. Han...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! This week on the UncommonTEEN Podcast, I get the honor of talking to Pastor Joshua Knudsen and his teen daughter Ariella. Joshua has been a youth pastor for 15 years and for the past 3 years stepped into the role of generations and young adult pastor. He is passionate about seeing this generation become grounded in their faith knowing...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Last week, we began talking about 1 Timothy 4:12, how you are not too young to make an impact by setting an example for unbelievers in the way they talk, the way they act and the way they love. Today, we are on part 2 and are going to talk about how you can set an example in your faith and in your purity.    When we think of the word...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! Have you ever heard the phrase, “You are in the world, but not of it?” I was reading a blog the other day about a teen girl who was told that phrase time after time after time, but she was at a loss of what that actually meant. She said something along the lines of, “I would like to live like I’m in the world, not of it, but what does...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! This week, we talk a bit more about the Make a Difference Youth Bible, but we also talk about how you can make a difference for God today! God loves using teens to do incredible things! Will you let Him use you, as well? Check out the "Make A Difference" Youth Bible Here: https://makeadifferencebible.com/ Support the show Want a littl...

Have a question you want me to answer on the podcast? Ask Here! After 30+ years of nextgen work, Dr. Ken is balding in his hairline but still bold in his faith.  Ken is the NextGen Pastor at Wooddale Church, a ministry professor, and author. Ken is the “Blue Letters Editor” of the Award-winning Jesus-Centered Bible and has written numerous resources like the Make a Difference Youth Bible.  On toda...