3-Minute Devotions for Teen Girls: 180 Encouraging Readings

by April Frazier

Got 3 minutes? . . .
You'll find just the wisdom and encouragement you need in  3-Minute Devotions for Teen Girls. 

This practical devotional packs a powerful dose of inspiration into 3 short minutes.
Minute 1: scripture to meditate on
Minute 2: a just-right-sized-for-you devotional reading
Minute 3: a prayer to help you jump-start a conversation with God

Each day’s reading meets you right where you are and is a great way for you to begin or end your day. 

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2015

Reviews

[annabelle]

it ate obviously

[Lydia · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book had some very good devotionals in it, I might be a little older now than the age range but that’s mainly because i lost the book for a while after i started it and couldn’t find it again.
some of the pages annoyed me a little, a few were very romance central and the slight suggestion that everyone thinks about getting a boyfriend when they become a teenager slightly irritated me but other than that it was really good.
This book did help me, there were a some that came just at the right time in my life. so 3.8 stars

[Cynthia Gutzwiller · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book that melds the Bible and mean girls. It shows how the bible can help when the mean girls come into their lives. Every teen or older could use the information that this little book has to offer week by week. I received this offer as a donation.

[SIMH · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book gives extremely bad advice. If I was Christian it would make me leave the religion. Let me explain, first it tells people they should only date other Christians, it also says to be a good Christian to attract the "right" friends. It is also extremely heteronormative, it says over and over again how it knows the girls reading it want a boyfriend. Which leads me to the next problem, it tells girls to wait for a boyfriend, wait for sex, and don't enjoy any sexual media. On the boyfriend part it says "feeling lonely aren't the most productive feelings" it tells girls that their feelings are their faults and the solution to this is not to get the boyfriend they supposedly want. It completely ignores the fact that lust is a normal part of puberty and instead tells them lust is greedy. It says to wait for the "right one" but dose not say how to tell who is the "right one."

Another thing it dose is normalize trying to force the Christian religion on to people. There is a whole story about how the author kept pushing and pushing for a Morman friend to become Christian until it drives the friend away, the author dose not take a good long look at themselves but instead prays that the friend will become Christian.

A few last things and then I will stop, it also says worries mean you don't have enough faith, shame people for having normal human emotion much? It is contradictory in a lot of places, (ex. love others but only be around other Christians?) and at times seems like it is trying to get the readers to hate themselves with sentences like these:

"He never meant for us to have a life of laziness and leisure"
"How do you still need to grow and mature to be a girl worth pursuing?"
"Be careful not to make decisions based on how happy they will make you."

It could also lead to self hate because it compares saying something is unfair to whining and praises a man for letting others physically hurt him.

It also makes blanket statements like obey your parents, but it does not say what to do if the parents are abusive and ask for something horrible; or how it said broken promises are always lies but dose not mention if it was broken because of things out side of the person's control.

[Courtney Woodward · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book took me so long to finish, but I finally did it!! It was a really good book to be the first thing you read in the morning or the last thing you read before bed. I would definitely recommend it, and each of the devotional readings doesn't take that much time since each is only 3 mins.