Kerygma · For families
Family Bible trivia, around the dinner table.
A quiet, structured way to spend ten minutes a day in Scripture as a family — without turning it into a chore. Two to eight players on one phone, kid-friendly difficulty, the actual verse open after every answer.
What family devotional time usually looks like
Most family devotional plans either fall into the "read a chapter aloud and discuss" routine (which works for some kids and falls flat for others) or vanish entirely after a few weeks of trying. The activation energy is high. Mom or dad has to plan it. Different ages need different depth. Someone always wants to be doing something else.
What works better, in our experience, is a low-friction shared activity that pulls everyone in without any setup, and that gives you the actual text of Scripture as part of the game itself.
How Kerygma fits
Pick Together mode, enter two to eight names, choose a category and a difficulty, and start. The phone holds the question. One person reads it aloud. Everyone takes a turn answering. The right answer flips the screen to the actual verse — ESV — with a one-paragraph commentary that ties the passage back to the question.
The questions are freshly generated every round, which means you can run the same category three nights in a row and never see the same question twice. The Acquainted difficulty tier is written for younger players: familiar stories, clear answers. Conversant suits middle-schoolers and adults working at narrative grasp. Profound is for the parent who wants to be challenged after the kids are in bed.
What it looks like in practice
A common pattern: Sunday night after dinner, ten minutes of Together mode on Old Testament or Jesus Christ, Acquainted difficulty for everyone. The phone passes around the table. Whoever doesn't know an answer hears the others reason through it; the verse comes up; one parent reads it aloud; the round moves on. Twenty minutes a week, no preparation, the Word in front of everyone every time.
Road trips do well with Multiplayer mode (each kid on their own phone, hosted by mom or dad's room code). Younger kids stay on Acquainted; older kids run Conversant or Profound; everyone sees the same question on their own screen, and the leaderboard at the end is its own conversation.
What it isn't
Kerygma isn't a daily streak app. There's no badge for showing up seven nights in a row. Miss a week and there's no guilt screen waiting. The point is the Word, not the engagement.
Categories that tend to work for families
Try a family round, free for seven days.
No credit card required to start. Two to eight players on one phone, kid-friendly difficulty, every answer paired with the verse.
Start your free trial →Apple rates Kerygma 4+. Available on iPhone & iPad.