Family & Children

Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… The child that cannot trust its parent cannot expect to have the freedom from care which is childhood's dear inheritance. But the more fully we can rest …

Nearness To God

Ephesians 2:13

… The first illustration is from our first parent, Adam. Adam dwelt in the Garden, abiding with God in devout communion. The Lord God walked in the Garden in …

Every Man's Necessity

John 3:7

… The Spirit causes us to be born—that birth makes us children and our being children makes us heirs. If we are not born again we are not …

Fire—the Need of the Times

Luke 12:49

… There is a kind of sentiment connected with the sun, the great parent of light and fire, which casts a halo around the error which it cannot excuse …

Obtaining Promises

Hebrews 11:33

… rejoice." Be not cast down and troubled, as though the child of God had a cruel parent and a miserable home. Lift up your heads, for your redemption …

Simeon

Luke 2:25

… Child of God! Has not your Father come to you yet? Cry for Him! Cry for Him! Your Father will come! Nothing fetches the parent to the child …

The Throne of Grace

Hebrews 4:16

… Have you never seen the parent, when his child is trying to say something to him, and he knows very well what it is the little one has …

Dr. Rippon’s Prayer and its Answer

… The church in Dean Street thus became another offshoot from the parent stem, and with varying conditions it remains to this day as the church in Trinity Street …

Mature Faith—Illustrated By Abraham's Offering Up Isaac

Genesis 22:2

… Isaac, who had made his parents' hearts to laugh—the child of the Covenant—the child in whom the father's hopes all centered, for he had been …

Memorable Services at the Tabernacle, 1861-1874

… We feel this to be an evil upon the city, because of the taking away of a parent from his children, and such children, too,—princes, whom no …

Psalm 5

Psalm 5

… Nay, to assure us that meditation was the mother which bred and brought forth prayer, he calls the child by its parent's name, "Give ear to my …

Psalm 40

Psalm 40

… of the human family as his fellows. This is implied in the expression "toward us." He regarded himself as most intimately associated with the children of men. James …

Psalm 7

Psalm 7

… The child is worthy of its father, his name of old was,"the father of lies," and the birth doth not belie the parent, for he brought forth …

“Through Much Tribulation”

… one by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child. No one can guess at what age children become capable of conversion. I, at least, can bear my …

Early Criticisms and Slanders (Continued)

… Indeed, self is never out of sight, and is presented to the listener as a ‘little child’, a ‘babbler’, a ‘baby’, a ‘battering ram’, ‘little David,’ ‘this despised …

Psalm 83

Psalm 83

… A persecuting spirit ran in their blood, they perpetuated the old grudge between the child of the bondwoman and the son of the freewoman. Of Moab. Born of …

Psalm 14

Psalm 14

… There is a child in years, and there is a child in manners, aetate et moribus, saith Aristotle. So there is a fool; for fools and children both …

Psalm 23

Psalm 23

… about heaven," said a dying parent [The late Rev. Hugh Stowell, Rector of Ballaugh, Isle of Man.] to a member of his family. "We may not be spared …

Psalm 146

Psalm 146

… When the secondary fatherhood is gone the child falls back upon the primary fatherhood of the Creator; when the husband of earth is removed the godly widow casts …

How To Meet the Evils of the Age

… a sudden, it came to her mind that one of her children was missing. The child had been left in the burning house; and when the mother rushed …

Psalm 19

Psalm 19

… We are children, and must each confess, "I think as a child, I speak as a child." In the expanse above us God flies, as it were, his …

Psalm 69

Psalm 69

… children, while they regard their common father with indifference or terror, cling to their own mother with the fondest affection, as the only part, as the only parent …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… This verse may be the address of every Sabbath school teacher to his class, of every parent to his children. It is not without instruction in the art …

Psalm 25

Psalm 25

… The little child having begun to walk, asks to be still led onward by its parent's helping hand, and to be further instructed in the alphabet of …

John Ploughman's Pictures

… Coddle your children, and they will turn out noodles. You may sugar a child till everybody is sick of it. Boys' jackets need a little dusting every now …

Psalm 51

Psalm 51

… None but a child of God cares for the eye of God, but where there is grace in the soul it reflects a fearful guilt upon every evil …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… How eagerly do good men plead for their children. They can bear very much personal affliction if they may but be sure that their children will know the …

Saints In Heaven And Earth One Family

Ephesians 3:15

… Our Father which art in Heaven, You have lost none of Your children! We wept and went to the grave, but You did not, for Your child is …

Apart

Zechariah 12:12-14

… This family or that family was to mourn apart as a family, but then the individuals composing each family were also to be separate in their confession before …

Family Reformation—or, Jacob's Second Visit to Bethel

Genesis 35:1

… Someone asked this question, "If you knew that your children would be sick through the neglect of family prayer, would you not have it? If one child was …

A Pastoral Visit

… In many, very many cases, I fear there is such a neglect of family worship that it is not probable that the children are at all impressed by …

The Joy of Holy Households

Psalm 118:15

… Where there is no family prayer, we cannot expect the children to grow up in the fear of the Lord—neither can the household look for happiness. Perhaps …

Christ's 'New Commandment'

John 13:34

… It was a part of her regular family discipline, on Saturday evening, to catechize the children and the servants and, of course, the poor man in the kitchen …

Psalm 18

Psalm 18

… EXPOSITION Verse 1. "I will love thee, O Lord." With strong, hearty affection will I cling to thee; as a child to its parent, or a spouse to …

Too Little for the Lamb

Exodus 12:3

… You, my Friend, said that you had a large family, but you could not call your sons and daughters together and say, "My dear children, now that I …

Homage Offered to the Great King

Psalm 72:15

… family altar. I believe nine out of ten of such cases can be explained in that way without in the least touching the text, "Train up a child …

The Best House-visitation

Mark 1:29-33

… Your husband, your wife, your child, your friend, and the whole of your family shall be the better for your advance in spiritual things. Now, observe further, that …

March 5 — HOME BLESSINGS

Prov. 3:33

… 3:33 He fears the Lord, and therefore he comes under the divine protection even as to the roof which covers himself and his family. His home is …

Evening, July 11

Joe 1:3

… the child’s well-being as those who are the authors of his actual being? To neglect the instruction of our offspring is worse than brutish. Family religion …

The Call of Abraham

Hebrews 11:8

… Abraham’s family was originally an idolatrous one; afterwards some beams of light shone in upon the household, and they became worshippers of the true God; but there …