Family & Children

Preaching for the Poor

… and grow thereby, but with sand of controversy, and of logic, which no child of God can ever receive to his soul’s profit. “The poor have the …

Messrs. Moody and Sankey Defended; or, A Vindication of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Galatians 5:24

… Criticisms upon their style of speaking and singing, and so on, are so unimportant, that nobody has any need to answer them, "Wisdom is justified of her children …

Healing Leaves

Revelation 22:2

… Have we earthly sorrow? We dare not despair because of it, for we know who has ordained it! Why should a child of God complain who knows that …

Sounding Out the Word of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 1:8

… Your orphan children are growing up—oh, that they may be a seed to serve the Lord! Your peddlers are going from door to door with holy literature …

Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church

Zechariah 6:13

… Oh, when you get to heaven, ye children of God, will ye praise any but your Master? Calvinists, today you love John Calvin; will you praise him there …

Pardon and Justification

Psalm 32:1

… Alexander Fletcher, when speaking to children, tell them a simple anecdote in order to illustrate the joy of a man when he gets delivered from sin. He said …

Particular Redemption

Matthew 20:28

… all Judea, or all Jerusalem baptized in Jordan? “Ye are of God, little children,” and “the whole world lieth in the wicked one.” Does “the whole world” there …

Christ's Ambassadors

2 Corinthians 5:20

… It was all very well for him to talk as he did, but he has not a wife and children to provide for. He has no poverty to …

Quiet Musing!

Psalm 39:3

… And so it is a mark of a true child of God that he understands how to chew the cud of meditation. Why is it that some people …

For or Against?

Matthew 28:4-6

… Just as the pillar of cloud which came between the Israelites and the Egyptians, was dark to the Egyptians but gave light to the children of Israel, so …

Real Grace for Real Need

Luke 9:11

… stepped in and made him, in the fullness of time, to become a child of God. There would have been no difference between the best and the worst …

Washed to Greater Foulness

Job 9:30

… It will make mercy the more precious, it will excite horror of sin in the future—burnt children dread the fire, it will teach you patience, for no …

A Sermon From a Sick Preacher

1 Peter 2:7

… Christ there is in that ministry! It is an evil thing for a child of God to be enchanted by mere rhetoric. As well might you choose a …

Our Lord's Triumphant Ascension

Psalm 68:18

… If you, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that …

God's Glory and His Goodness

Exodus 33:18-23

… Oh, how they caricature God as a Moral Governor! Oh, how they burlesque the Gospel as a proclamation of good tidings to the children of men! The love …

"Is God In the Camp?"

1 Samuel 4:7

… with any such, love them and cherish them as a father does his child. I cannot speak longer. Your hearts must tell you what to do. Go on …

Baptism Essential To Obedience

Mark 16:16

… Gospel, then, is for "every creature." Wherever there is a man, woman, or child—an intelligent creature—the Gospel is to be preached to such a person. You …

'The Lamb of God'

John 1:29

… appointed means of salvation, may be illustrated by the old story of the children of Israel and the serpent of brass. [Other Sermons by Mr. Spurgeon upon this …

Making Light of Christ

Matthew 22:5

… of bread because it is the food which God gives to all his children? Dost thou think the less of water, when thou art thirsty, because every rill …

Israel's Hope—Or, The Center of the Target

Psalm 130:7

… only because you have, by faith, received Jesus, and so have become a child of God. Whenever you rejoice in a mercy, take care that you do not …

A Blow at Self-Righteousness

Job 9:20

… beat the drums that they might not hear the screams of their own children. These loud blasphemies, these braggart boastings, are only a noisy way of drowing the …

Come, My Beloved!

Solomon 8:14

… but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like He; for we shall see Him as He is." Well may the child of God say …

The Redeemer Described by Himself

Isaiah 50:2-6

… From the day when, as a Child, He said to His parents, "Know you not that I must be about My Father's business?" till the hour when …

Two Pauls and a Blinded Sorcerer

Acts 13:12

… or apology, addressed him, "O full of all subtlety and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert …

What Had Become of Peter?

Acts 12:18

… by the death of a companion, or by the loss of a dear child, or by great trouble and need. Well, if your souls are saved, you will …

Independence of Christianity

Zechariah 4:6

… Many of those at whose feet we have been prepared to sit as little children to hear their wisdom, confessed as ministers, that when they reviewed up their …

The Glorious Gospel

1 Timothy 1:15

… Though a child should tell you of it, the subject might well excuse him, for it is so important. Man it is not your house that is in …

Cured At Last!

Luke 8:43

… And yet no nearer eternal life than when, as a lad, you used to attend the House of God and wish to become a child of God. Was …

Christ's Death And Ours

John 12:23-24

… While you have light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did hide Himself from them

Psalm 1

Psalm 1

… Every child in Bethel will mock Elisha (2 Kings 2:23), and be bold to call him "bald pate." Here is an original drop of venom swollen to …

A Triumphal Entrance

Psalm 24:9

… the spirit that works in him is the "spirit that works in the children of disobedience"—he is deceived by Satan and made a willing slave to that …

Thoughts on the Last Battle

1 Corinthians 15:56-57

… this were somewhat; but to meet those men, those women, and those orphan children, face to face; to hear them saying, ‘Art thou become like one of us …

Strengthening Words from the Savior's Lips

2 Corinthians 12:9

… O child of God, I wish it were possible to put into words this all-sufficiency, but it is not. Let me retract my speech—I am glad …

Christ with the Keys of Death and Hell

Revelation 1:18

… you"—therefore fear not! That is the lesson from the text to the child of God. One other word to the Believer of God. Should not this contemplation …

Grace Abounding Over Abounding Sin

Romans 5:20

… The children of sin are many and each one causes lamentation. We cannot attempt to fathom the dark abysses of sorrow which have opened in this world since …

Invitation to a Conference

Isaiah 1:18

… dying Christian, setting up in his bed, leaning on the pillow, with his children round him, and saying, "My dear boys and girls, beware of the Christian religion …

Jesus Interceding For Transgressors

Isaiah 53:12

… Then again, when my spirit has revived, and I have said, "But yet I am a child of God and I know I am born from above," then …

The Preparatory Prayers of Christ

Luke 3:21

… Moses would never have been able to control the children of Israel as he did if he had not first been in communion with his God in the …

The Blood Of Abel And The Blood Of Jesus

Genesis 4:10

… of Jerusalem had already gone, "His blood be on us, and on our children," was registered in the tablets of Justice, and before long Jerusalem became the treasure …

Faith and Life

2 Peter 1:1-4

… but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” “And if children, then heirs, heirs of …