Family & Children

Secret Drawings Graciously Explained

Jeremiah 31:3

… A mother's prayers come up—perhaps her dying words are heard again—or the death of a little child touches the parent's heart as nothing else …

Forty Years

Deuteronomy 2:7

… to confide in the Lord as it is for a child to trust in a tender parent. Is it so? I fear not. Our long-tried confidence in …

A New Order of Priests and Levites

Isaiah 66:21

… When their own Messiah came, it was not with a devout faith, but with a profane imprecation, they said, “His blood be on us, and on our children …

Life From the Dead

Ephesians 2:1

… No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. "You has HE quickened," is true of all who are quickened! It is …

The Prayer of Jabez

… Although she had lived to see her child grow up to be a man, it would have been infinitely better for her had the child died, and infinitely …

The Silver Trumpet

Isaiah 1:18

… It is a great aggravation of our sin when we sin under the rod; if a child disobeys its parent the moment it has been punished, it is …

Renewing Strength

Isaiah 40:31

… We wait upon God as the birds in the nest wait upon the parent bird, expecting from her their food. Before she comes, you hear their cries, but …

Encouragements To Prayer

Psalm 81:10

… Open your mouth wide; be not afraid to speak." Am I addressing some child of God, or rather, one who hardly knows whether he is a child of …

Freshness

Job 29:20

… If your children are round about you in good health, be not too sure of them, for they may be carried to an early grave—and the parent …

Christ Set Forth As A Propitiation

Romans 3:25

… So with any child who has been chastened by his parent—if he thinks that his father is angry with him, he will not, if he is a …

Christ's Love to His Spouse

Ephesians 5:25

… The husband's love to his wife is not the love of a parent to a child. It is not the love of the philanthropist to the object …

Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves

Acts 10:14

… You, Thomas, who used to be so thoughtful and careful—and somewhat particular and nerv- ous—you are a child of God, but you are still Thomas! And …

The Lord Leading—David Following

2 Samuel 5:24

… How different it is where God has been at work with the hearers! A child has been taken to Heaven. The mother's heart is breaking with sorrow …

Very Singular

2 Samuel 17:23

… it represents A CAREFUL PARENT. Many who may not have been included under other descriptions will be mentioned here. You love your children well and wisely. As far …

The Glorious Master and the Swooning Disciple

Revelation 1:17-18

… To know that he is not ashamed to call us brethren is a wellspring of comfort to a tried child of God; to feel his presence, to perceive …

Vanities and Verities

2 Corinthians 4:18

… a parent of an immortal! Such a thought must be a dream, since your little one may be taken from you as well as the child of another …

The Oft-Repeated Invitation

Revelation 22:17

… When a child sins and does wrong, a wise parent uses correction to see whether he cannot overcome the evil tendencies, but alas, there is no correction that …

The Hexapla Of Mystery

1 Timothy 3:16

… They were messengers to His foster parent to warn him of intended evil to the Child. And they waited on the Redeemer in the desert of His temptation …

The Works of the Devil Destroyed

1 John 3:8

… He describes men as being the children of God or else the children of the devil and tells us how the two classes are made manifest (see verse …

The Thorn in the Flesh

2 Corinthians 12:7

… My dear Friend, if the Lord shall make you the spiritual parent of a score of souls, will you feel no exultation within your spirit as you shall …

Spiritual Knowledge and Its Practical Results

Colossians 1:9

… Some live to please their wives; some to please their children, and some live as if they wished to please the devil! But our business is to please …

Christopathy

Isaiah 53:5

… It was not in human nature at the first. "God made man upright." Our first parent, as he came fresh from the hand of his Maker, was without …

The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ

2 Corinthians 4:6

… nurse with her child, for here you see the tenderness and gentleness of God and the love of the great Father towards His erring children. You read of …

Sincerity And Duplicity

1 John 2:3

… True children of God have knowledge, but they have under their knowledge practice. And you have no good proof that you are a child of God because you …

Love To Jesus

Solomon 1:7

… the parent by constantly picturing before it the idea of a mother—and attempting to give it the thought of a mother's relation to the child. Indeed …

The One and the Many

Romans 5:16

… When he, who committed it, fell— "Then I, and you, and all of us fell down." Inasmuch as he was the parent of us all, he communicated to …

Travailing for Souls

Isaiah 66:8

… Do any of you desire your children’s conversions? You shall have them saved when you agonize for them. Many a parent who has been privileged to see …

Love at Its Utmost

John 15:9

… More surely than parent or child, or husband or wife, or the best tried friend, Jesus loves his blood-bought ones! O my soul, he loves thee! Be …

Accepted In The Beloved

Ephesians 1:6

… He ordained that the Seed of the woman—the Child that was born in Bethlehem and laid in the manger—should become the Body and the human soul …

The Real Presence, the Great Want of the Church

Solomon 3:4-5

… Seek to live the life of a trueborn child of God, lest you hinder the church's usefulness, and deprive her of her Lord's presence. IV. This …

Fearing and Hoping

Psalm 147:11

… For instance, when any mother takes pleasure in her child, she likes to thinkof her child, she likes to look at her child, she likes to speakto her …

The Power Of Prayer And The Pleasure Of Praise

2 Corinthians 1:11

… Melancthon, it is said, derived great comfort from the information that certain poor weavers, women and children, had met together to pray for the Reformation. Yes, Melancthon—there …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… As sin is so frequent, the rod never rests long together; in God's family the rod is not spared, or the children would be spoiled. Verse 33 …

Hands Full of Honey

Judges 14:8

… natural in a parent, at once, to wish to tell his children of Divine Love—have you all done so? You pray for your children, but many of …

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

… his children; he bestirs himself, wakes up his manhood, overthrows the enemy, and sets his beloved in safety. A puff is too much for the child to bear …

Jesus At Bethesda—or, Waiting Changed for Believing

John 5:1-9

… into the place of Christ Crucified! A child ought to hear its parent's command, but what if the child puts hearing into the place of obeying? God …

How Faith Comes

John 4:39-42

… Whether it is little faith or great faith, it is equally of Divine origin, and wherever it is found— whether in the child of pious parents who was …

Fear Not

Revelation 1:17

… with timorous dread, but draw near to Him as confidently as a child to its parent, or a wife to her husband. It is one of Satan's …

A Sermon From A Rush

Job 8:11-13

… that it is only kept from him as a tender parent would keep poison from a child. Our life is the life of liberty. And we find, of …

The Heart Full and the Mouth Closed

Ezekiel 16:62

… If Adam will keep that Covenant, he and all his children shall be blest. Alas, our foundation was too frail! Our first parent was not able to bear …