Family & Children

Three Sights Worth Seeing

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… Then we have a third thing which is exceedingly interesting, namely, new converts exhibiting the family likeness, turning out to be very like the believers of older churches …

The Hiding of Moses by Faith

Hebrews 11:23

… When Pharaoh had given orders that all the male children should be destroyed, was it not natural enough that a mother should try to preserve her child's …

A New Song For New Hearts

Isaiah 12:1

… The family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart. The family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart. The family of the …

Going Home—A Christmas Sermon

Mark 5:19

… Make it a free grace story around your family fire. In the next place, this poor man’s tale was a grateful story. I know it was grateful …

Titles of Honor

… So is it with those who are of the household of faith, the family of God. Their experiences may vary even as one child in the home differs …

The Double Cleansing

Zechariah 13:1

… And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart …

The Gospel Cordial

Proverbs 31:6

… Grace in anyone and then left it unfinished! He never adopted a child into His family and then cast him out to perish! The Lord Jesus Christ never …

The Last Census

Psalm 87:6

… The Lord will make up His jewels; He will count His sheep; He will remember the children of His family, to see if they are there who were …

Job's Sure Knowledge

Job 19:25

… DYING FAMILY. All his children were dead. We cannot easily estimate the full force of that blow upon the Patriarch's heart. The loss of one child is …

Lydia, the First European Convert

Acts 16:14

… Family prayer and the pulpit are the bulwarks of Protestantism! Depend upon it, when family piety goes down, the life of godliness will become very low. In Europe …

'No Root in Themselves'

Mark 4:17

… in our own royal family, an example of it. Wherever it happens, it is always a cause of very terrible danger to the children. But do you not …

The Lily Among Thorns

Solomon 2:2

… the child of Nature, however finely dressed, is not the living child and the Lord will not acknowledge the dead thing as belonging to His family! Ah, you …

Departed Saints Yet Living

Luke 20:37

… come back to the simple child's talk which Wordsworth so sweetly turned into rhyme—"Master, we are seven," and in our family we shall number brothers, sisters …

Rare Fruit

Isaiah 57:19

… This should be the fruit of renewed manhood at every age—the lips of little children can compass prayer and the mouth of the aged may not fail …

Saving the Lost

Luke 19:10

… Because you are lost, we long that you may be saved! Suppose there is a little child in the family—not a very pretty child, not always quite …

The Great House and the Vessels In It

2 Timothy 2:20

… What a swarm there is of the Lord's children and yet not one of the family remains unfed. The Church is a great house wherein thousands dwell …

No Compromise

Genesis 24:5-8

… He had to journey far, over lands without track or road; he had to seek out a family which he did not know, and to find out of …

Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:9

… I suppose that she had no family, most probably no children, and that her relatives may have come to feel as if she was not one of them …

Intercessory Prayer

Psalm 141:5

… It is incumbent upon every child of God to pray for the rest of the sacred family. Does not Nature, itself, teach us this? I mean not the …

"Speak, Lord!"

1 Samuel 3:10

… The child Samuel was favored above all the family in which he dwelt. The Lord did not speak by night to Eli, or to any of Eli's …

Jacob Worshipping on His Staff

Hebrews 11:21

… Ephraim was a child then I loved him and called My Son out of Egypt." This is how faith leads Believers to bless their children. We are of …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… father receives the fond homage of his children, as a brother when he is held in honour by all the family circle—so tenderly, and even more tenderly …

God's Love Shamefully Questioned

Malachi 1:2

… who are in the Lord's family are very strange individuals. I would not speak evil of dignitaries—and every child of God is a priest and a …

The Lord,—the Liberator

Psalm 146:7

… And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart …

The Glory, Unity and Triumph of the Church

John 17:22-3

… Our children are not uniform, but they make one family. Sons born at the same birth may exhibit a remarkable difference of character and yet the father may …

The Duty of Remembering the Poor

Galatians 2:10

… Very few of them wear crowns; very few ride in carriages; only a proportion of them have a competence; a very large multitude of his family are destitute …

God Fighting Sin

Isaiah 63:10

… He calls them "rebels." They were not merely children that made a mistake, children that fell through folly, but "they rebelled." Does the child of God ever get …

Two Choice Benedictions

Numbers 6:23-27

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1867. "Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, on this wise you shall bless the children …

The Family Likeness

Romans 8:14

… The first active Grace we ever exercised was by the leading of the Holy Spirit! We were then, for the first time, recognized as the children of God …

Psalm 133

Psalm 133

… He is so pleased to see his dear children happy in one another that he fails not to make them happy in himself. He gives especially his best …

The Poor Man's Prayer

Psalm 106:4

… Make bold to appropriate the sacred joys, for if you are the least child in the family, yet the heritage of God's children is the same for …

Psalm 113

Psalm 113

… Elevation to the peerage of heaven; or, the Royal Family increased. Verse 9. For mothers' meetings. "A joyful mother of children." 1. It is a joy to be …

Corn in Egypt

Genesis 42:1

… Couldn’t you give me some for my family?” Perhaps Dan appealed to Simeon, “Haven’t you some? my child is starving this day; cannot you help me …

Even Now

John 11:22

… I trust, also, that we are diligent in looking after individuals, especially those who are among our own family and friends. This is what Martha did—her whole …

Ruth Deciding for God

Ruth 1:16

… So I beg you, if you have been sorrowful because of any deaths in your family circle, pray God to outweigh that sorrow with a greater measure of …

The Cholera Year in London

… Family after family summoned me to the bedside of the smitten, and almost every day I was called to visit the grave. At first, I gave myself up …

The Covenant

Psalm 111:5

… The woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return there. They were not fit for traveling, yet God, in His great …

Christ's Curate In Decapolis

Mark 5:17-19

… family? You must not go yet, Father—those boys still need your example and your influence. Christian Mother, you must not go yet—I know that your children …

Fourfold Satisfaction

Jeremiah 31:14

… But when God makes a man His child, He puts him among the princes of the blood royal of Heaven, the imperial family of the skies! The peerages …

Meeting Of Our Own Church

… A MEETING, in which it was designed to set forth the independency, harmony, and family character of each Church, was held on Monday evening, April 8th. The Rev …