Family & Children

The Parent's and Pastor's Joy

… the parent sees his child surrendered to the people of God, having first given his heart to the Christ of God! The Baptism of our believing children is …

The Believer Not An Orphan

… They were all happy and safe enough whilst the Master was with them; He walked in their midst like a father amid a large family of children, making …

The Conditions Of Power In Prayer

1 John 3:22-24

… child would be to encourage rebellion in the family and render it impossible for him to rule in his own house. It is often incumbent upon the parent …

Order Is Heaven's First Law

Joel 2:8

… A harsh parent has said, "My children shall not carry out their religious convictions." In such cases we have had to occasionally recommend the child to wait until …

David's Sublime Consolation

2 Samuel 23:5

… There are, no doubt, multitudes of cares and trials connected with a family of little children, but every parent knows that the trials connected with little children are …

An Anxious Enquiry for a Beloved Son

2 Samuel 18:29

… she made her first visit to her eldest son, who had a family of children around him, and when she began to tell him about her conversion and …

Psalm 128

Psalm 128

… Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel." Sometimes a good man can take no content in his family mercies because of the church …

Our Expectation

Isaiah 53:10

… The parent's life is in the child. From the parent that life has been received. It is Christ's life that is in every true Believer—"For …

The Believer Not An Orphan

John 14:18

… He walked in their midst like a father amid a large family of children, making all the household glad. But now He was about to be taken from …

'The Old Testament 'Prodigal'

2 Chronicles 33:12

… He was the child of his parent's desire—an heir born after the father had expected to die childless and, therefore, it is not at all unlikely …

Glimpses of Essex and Cambridgeshire Life, 1853

… good man has prayed for his children, and when I have seen them rise up from their knees, and kiss their parent for the night, I have thought …

The Lord Chiding His People

Psalm 103:9

… a parent crushes a child's spirit, as is sometimes done, and the child is made obedient and stupid, too. God will not thus injure His children and …

"I and the Children"

Isaiah 8:18

… clearly the idea of charge and responsibility. Children are always a charge—a comfort sometimes. No parent has a child without being under obligations to God to take …

A Solemn Enquiry Concerning Our Families

Genesis 19:12

… What parent is not glad to see his children in good health? We will watch with them all through the weary night when they are ill and can …

Psalm 127

Psalm 127

… without his will there would be no children to build up the house, and without his grace there would be no good children to be their parent's …

A Promise For Us And For Our Children

Isaiah 44:1-5

… I do not know that the parent needs to say much to his child about Baptism or the Lord's Supper, except, sometimes, a gentle word as to …

The True Apostolical Succession

Psalms 45:16

… The father and the mother are walking in the faith, and their children going on pilgrimage with them.” We might turn to another family, and say, “There are …

Accomplices in Sin

1 Timothy 5:22

… The rod is not for strangers, but for the children of the family. Yet the Psalmist began to envy these people because, said he, "they are not in …

God'S Strange Choice

1 Corinthians 1:26-29

… God adopts sinners who were heirs of wrath, even as others, into His family. Who is to have authority in the matter of gracious adoption? The children of …

Infant Salvation

2 Kings 4:26

… What shall we say to parent who have living children? We have spoken of those that are dead, what shall we say of the living? I think I …

The New Nature

1 Peter 1:23-25

… That child too, so fondly the object of its mother’s love may one day vex or break its parent’s heart. Are not children doubtful mercies? Bring …

The Good Man’s Life and Death

Philippians 1:21

… There the mother meets her infant, there the father meets his children, there the venerable patriarch greets his family to the third and fourth generation, there brother clasps …

Household Sin and Sorrow

… Oh, for a family in which there is constant prayer—family in which every child may safely follow the father's example—a family in which the parent …

The Sin of Unbelief

… As the black cloud is the source of many rain-drops, so dark unbelief is the parent of many crimes. It is a sin which should be condemned …

A Consistent Walk for Time to Come

Colossians 2:6

… There are two children of one parent and the father says to the two children, "On such a day I intend to give you both a toy which …

Noah's Eminence

Genesis 7:1

… Spurgeon, upon verses 1 and 7, is #1336 in, Volume 23—A FAMILY SERMON.] GOD keeps His eyes upon the sons of men and He searches among them …

Morning, September 17

Mk 9:19

… the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in faith obeyed the Lord Jesus’ word, “Bring him unto me.” Children are a precious …

David's Dying Prayer

Psalm 72:10

… children, and when we have seen them rise up and kiss their parent for the night we have thought, “Well, if this is the kind of family that …

Morning, March 6

Jn 3:7

… If you have then, been “born again,” your acknowledgment will be, “O Lord Jesus, the everlasting Father, thou art my spiritual Parent; unless thy Spirit had breathed into …

Evening, February 18

Lu 15:18

… But if, with a child’s sorrow at offending so gracious and loving a Parent, I go to him and tell him all, and rest not till I …

Evening, July 5

Is 26:4

… A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so little confidence …

Morning, June 11

1Jn 4:19

… Love, then, has for its parent the love of God shed abroad in the heart: but after it is thus divinely born, it must be divinely nourished . Love …

Evening, July 8

Ps 25:5

… Lord, he asks to be still led onward like a little child upheld by its parent’s helping hand, and he craves to be further instructed in the …

Chastisement

Hebrews 12:5

… child to his parent: and as a son he may be chastised on account of sin. Folly is bound up in the heart of all God’s children …

The Christian—A Debtor

Romans 8:12

… If we, the children of God, are not valiant for truth now, if we maintain not the great standard of God’s omnipotent truth, we shall be traitors …

Medicine For The Distracted

Psalm 94:19

… You have been a child. You have been a parent. You have been a master. You have been a servant. You have been honored. You have been slandered …

Christians Kept In Time And Glorified In Eternity

… Then sang Moses and the children of Israel, saying, "I will sing unto the Lord for He has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider has He thrown …

Who Are The Elect?

1 Samuel 16:12

… It sometimes happens, (but O how wrongly!), that one in the family is overlooked, even by his parent in his hopes and prayers. The father seems to think …

The Barley Field on Fire

2 Samuel 14:29-31

… God doth never punish his children in the sense of avenging justice: he chastens as a father does his child, but he doth never punish his redeemed as …

Heedlessness In Religion

2 Kings 10:31

… How necessary this is to the parent! Because if the parent falls into an error, his children will imitate him in his vices far sooner than his virtues …