Family & Children

Unparalleled Loving Kindnesses

Psalm 89:49

… All God's children are a praying family and His only-begotten and well-beloved Son sets a noble example in this respect as well as in everything …

Martha and Mary

Luke 10:41-42

… Stood, did I say? Mary sits down at His feet and Martha, having listened for a little while, remembers that she has many family cares. The dinner must …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… We therefore all of us feel a true union of heart towards you, and devoutly pray that every covenant mercy may rest upon you and your family in …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… I would gladly see a restoration of family loyalty between heads of households and their dependents. In these times, servants, and persons in the employ of others, are …

Prayer Answered, Love Nourished

Psalm 116:1

… she takes the little child upon her knee, and gives it a maternal kiss. Her ministers must not present trifling petitions, but her children may. So the worldling …

An Appeal to Children of Godly Parents

Proverbs 6:20-23

… The Lord in His Grace has taken one of a city and two of a family, and brought them to Zion. You, dear Friends, have special cause for …

Four Choice Sentences

Genesis 28:15

… Family connections, a host of children and a mighty crowd of cattle made a removal a great undertaking. Then the Lord said to him, "I will be with …

'Accepted in the Beloved'

Ephesians 1:6

… But a mother would sooner hear her own child sob than another child sing. There is music about that dear child's voice that moves her heart and …

Samson Conquered

Judges 16:20-21

… Look at the escort who guard him, a mere handful of men, how they would have fled before him in his brighter days; but now a child might …

The Minister's Plea

Philippians 1:19

… The clouds hang heavily above our heads, but let us not, like little children, be alarmed at their blackness, but remember that they are— "Big with mercy and …

Morning, March 22

Mt 26:39

… You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child’s right to a father’s protection. Be …

Divine Gentleness Acknowledged

Psalm 18:35

… He was the despised one of the family, a reproach unto his mother's children. Nevertheless the Lord had chosen him in preference to all the rest, for …

Morning, January 21

Ro 11:26

… But oh! if one were absent—oh! if one of his chosen family should be cast away—it would make an everlasting discord in the song of the …

A Prophetic Warning

Matthew 24:12

… If our love to Him grows cold, what mischief that must bring! Coldness towards the father in a family—do you know any household afflicted in that way …

The Special Prayer Meeting

Acts 12:12

… Had not this child been something more than others it had been slain like the innocents at Bethlehem—but being Heaven-born it escaped the fury of the …

To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion

2 Chronicles 30:17-20

… s house and a discipline of His family which must by no means be set aside by the loving child. We are not slaves fearing the lash, but …

Evening, September 17

De 1:38

… It forms a bond of brotherhood, and being mutually dependent on one another, we are fused more completely into one family. Brethren, take the text as God’s …

Morning, November 29

Le 19:16-17

… Be this our family rule, and our personal bond— Speak evil of no man . The Holy Spirit, however, permits us to censure sin, and prescribes the way in …

Evening, April 10

Ac 27:23

… Seraphs think it no humiliation to visit the poorest of the heavenly family. If angel’s visits are few and far between at ordinary times, they shall be …

Morning, September 9

Je 33:3

… There are the common frames and feelings of repentance, and faith, and joy, and hope, which are enjoyed by the entire family; but there is an upper realm …

Morning, February 7

Mic 2:10

… dwelt, from the city in which thou hast done thy business, from thy family, from thy friends. Arise, and take thy last journey.” And what know we of …

Evening, February 19

Jn 1:41

… You may but speak a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian church in years …

Morning, October 3

Heb 1:14

… Loyalty to their Lord leads them to take a deep interest in the children of his love; they rejoice over the return of the prodigal to his father …

Evening, October 24

Jn 13:5

… It is a great act of eternal love when Christ once for all absolves the sinner, and puts him into the family of God; but what condescending patience …

Evening, December 19

Rev 21:1

… to which we go there shall be unbroken fellowship for all the redeemed family. In this sense there shall be no more sea. The sea is the emblem …

Evening, January 13

2Ki 6:6

… Another of the Lord’s family was in grievous financial straits, he was able to meet all claims, and much more if he could have realized a certain …

Question and Exclamation

Jeremiah 3:19

… My child, My child," and He fell upon his neck, and kissed him, and blessed him. Now I see how He puts us among the children! There is …

Morning, September 27

De 33:29

… reserve all the mourning for his own family? Shall his foes have mirth and joy, and shall his home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner …

A King Sent in Love

2 Chronicles 2:11

… Now, a family without rule—I venture to say very boldly—is not a happy family. Children who are always allowed to do just as they like will …

The Chariots Of Amminadib

Solomon 6:12

… Now, it is never so with the child of God. If his soul is awakened from the torpor of death, and his sensibilities quickened into the vigor of …

Morning, January 6

1Pe 5:7

… Nothing is so sweet as to “Lie passive in God’s hands, And know no will but his.” O child of suffering, be thou patient; God has not …

Morning, January 13

1Ki 22:48

… suffering of the Lord’s people; it was his alliance with a sinful family, his fellowship with sinners. In 2 Ch. 20:37 , we are told that the …

Morning, June 15

Ge 21:6

… I would surprise my family with my abundant peace; I would delight my friends with my ever-increasing happiness; I would edify the Church with my grateful confessions …

Evening, May 17

Is 41:9

… We were once the servants of sin, but he who made us free has now taken us into his family and taught us obedience to his will. We …

Evening, December 25

Job 1:5

… Thus did Job continually.” Job 1:5 What the patriarch did early in the morning, after the family festivities, it will be well for the believer to do …

Evening, December 1

Ps 107:8

Evening, December 1 Go To Morning Reading “O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men.” Psalm …

Evening, January 24

Lu 10:40

… the condition of a servant well becomes every Christian. “I serve,” should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven. Nor was it …

Evening, July 18

Joe 2:8

… So also with our duties , one must not interfere with another; public usefulness must not injure private piety; church work must not push family worship into a corner …

Evening, December 9

Is 32:18

… In the day of universal wrath when the flood swept away a guilty race, the chosen family were quietly secured in the resting-place of the ark, which …

Morning, December 11

1Th 5:24

… true, and, therefore, bound and engaged to present you, the weakest of the family, with all the chosen race, before the throne of God; and in such a …