Kendra Dahl

Let’s prepare our children for life in a world that screams at them to strive by teaching them that Christ’s yoke is easy, and his burden is light.

The family gospel doesn’t save anyone. But it’s an important context for the true gospel of Christ to take root in our children’s hearts.

Besides the personal encounters and miracles that happened during Jesus’ public ministry that weren’t recorded, he lived 30 years in obscurity before emerging into the public eye.

Though I often felt without friends, the Lord became my nearest companion. He used his word–and my loneliness–to teach me to pray.

Core Radio went LIVE this week, and I sat down with Pastor Adriel to hear more about what it's like to answer listeners’ questions on the air.

As a young mother and new believer, I might have claimed Proverbs 22:6 as my life verse: "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." Parroting the unhelpful parenting literature I consumed in excess, I declared to patient friends: "This is a promise."

These pandemic days have me reliving my early years of motherhood. Though my children are older now, their never-ending company leaves me freshly aware of how much motherhood requires of me. As I try to pound out coherent thoughts on the keyboard, I do so with the sound of sibling arguments echoing in the background.

When I first returned to church after leaving my faith in college, my attendance was spotty. Most weeks, I was weary by Sunday. The remnants of my life apart from Christ still held me with a firm grasp, and at the end of a week of waging war, I was exhausted.