Family & Children

Weak Hands and Feeble Knees

Isaiah 35:8

… God’s family is like every other family; we do not expect the new-born convert to run alone at first. Perhaps, it will be months, say sometimes …

Go Back? Never!

Hebrews 11:15

… for a child of God at any rate! There is enough out there in the farmyard for the hogs, but there is not for the children! There is …

Supposing Him to Have Been in the Company

Luke 2:44

… It is to be believed that as a Child He was like other children in all things but sin. Even as a Man, He was like other men …

Praises and Vows Accepted in Zion

Psalm 65:1-2

… I hear of “family prayer;” do I always hear of “family praise?” I know you cultivate private prayer: are you as diligent also in private thanksgiving and secret …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:13

… I know at this moment a family where the governess was instructed, when she took the job, to never mention the subject of death to the children, or …

The Fifth Beatitude

Matthew 5:7

… And the strongest men in the family of Christ often want the children's texts and the children's promises. Even the little children's promises suit big …

Happiness—the Privilege and Duty of Christians

Deuteronomy 33:29

… He loved Israel, erring Israel, ungrateful Israel, as a mother loves her child, and family aggrandizement was relinquished for love of the nation. Still he continued to instruct …

Ruth's Reward—or, Cheer for Converts

Ruth 2:12

… That the tender babes in the household may become strong members of the Divine family, they must be nursed and fed. If Ruth is to be happy in …

Spots in Our Feats of Charity

… The children of this generation do so—and let them not be wiser than the children of light. Lastly, dear Friends, should not this make us long for …

Think Well And Do Well

Psalm 26:3

… The venerable Christian matron may, before she departs, dwell still upon this topic, and tell her children and her children's children of what God has done for …

The Maintenance of Good Works

Titus 3:3-8

… the spirit of Satan—the spirit which now works in the children of disobedience. The child of God is delivered from envy by the Grace of God. And …

"What Shall the Harvest Be?"

Hosea 8:7

… You probably know a man who is very lax in the management of his family. He professes to be a Christian, perhaps, but his sons and daughters are …

Encouragement for the Depressed

Zechariah 4:10

… Well, be not at all alarmed about this! All in God's family have once been children! There are some that seem to be born with knowledge—Christians …

Great Forgiveness for Great Sin

Ephesians 1:7

… As for the woman, she and her daughters were condemned to bring forth children in pain and sorrow. Now look at the result of sin all over the …

A Straight Talk

Luke 14:20

… Such a declaration might be true in England but in the East the men are always masters of the situation and women seldom bear rule in the family …

The Joyous Return

Hosea 14:1-3

… You have been full of quibbling—believe even as a little child! Bring forth fruits meet for repentance and not the fruits of obstinate persistence in evil. To …

The Minstrel

2 Kings 3:15

… family one night when I was but a lad, when everybody in the house, strong men though some of them were, trembled and were afraid. A child was …

The Cedars Of Lebanon

Psalm 104:16

… I shall have to handle some lofty matters which belong to the more advanced of the Lord's family. For Lebanon is a high hill and the ascent …

Am I Sought Out?

Isaiah 62:12

… applied to every single member of that dearly-loved and dearly-purchased family. All the children of God may take for their name and distinction, the words, "Sought …

Perseverance Without Presumption

John 10:28

… Every man who is saved, justified, forgiven, is also adopted into the family of God. And do you think that God shifts and changes His children who are …

Love at Leisure

Luke 10:39

… The children have gone to school and the wife is occupied in a hundred household things. But now the evening meal is over and there is a warm …

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

2 Timothy 2:15

… And the whole family were the better—the man and his wife, and one of his children becoming members of a Christian Church some time afterwards. What an …

The Education of Sons of God

Hebrews 5:8

… other child of God. If the Lord has been pleased, in great mercy, to make us His children, to let us know that we are His children, and …

Encourage Your Minister!

Deuteronomy 1:38

… Beloved, God the Father cares for His children because they are His children and because His honor is concerned in them. How sweet the thought—if I fail …

Faith's Firm Resolve

Psalm 71:16

… We know we are a poor man's children. My original father "broke" long ago. There was nothing left of all the family estate. When father Adam was …

A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!

John 11:14-15

… The mother puts the draught to the child’s mouth, and the child cries, and heaves, and loathes the bitterness, but the mother says, “Drink it all up …

Saying Versus Doing

Matthew 21:28-30

… There are many members of the Pliable family still living and some of the Obstinate family. Obstinate does not pretend to go on pilgrimage—he scorns the idea …

Prayer 15 — The Peace of God

… Be gracious to the Sovereign and Royal family, and to all that are in authority over us. May peace and order be maintained and let not the peace …

Christ's Hospital

Psalm 147:3

… I do not like my Lord to have any tongue-tied children. I do not mean that I would want you all to preach. When a whole Church …

The Friends Of Jesus

John 15:14

… do anything outside of the little family which requires all your attention, but if you are fulfilling your duty to your children, doing that which Christ commands you …

Prayerful Importunity

Luke 18:7

… You scatter to your houses and then your family fires begin to burn. And when your family fires are put out and your private devotions have ceased, the …

Robbers of God

Malachi 3:8

… Perhaps you have more than influence—you have power—for you are the head of a family and you can command your household and your children after you …

The Choice Of A Leader

Luke 6:39

… so many the points of true likeness to Jesus, the family characteristics which mark all the children of God. There are little touches of their Father in all …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:131

… children hoping to rise with Your children. Lord, take me into Your house and treat me not as a stranger or a guest, but as a child! I …

First Healing and then Service

Matthew 8:14

… Such Believers feel that the first consideration in life must be the health of their souls, the benefiting of their children and their usefulness in promoting the cause …

Wake Up! Wake Up!

Romans 13:11

… Your children, for instance. They were little. Some of you still have little children. Well, they will not be little long! Already, Mother, that boy is beginning to …

Jehovah's Challenge

Jeremiah 32:27

… There was a poor man, not long ago, who had no bread for his family and they were almost starving. One of his children said to him, "Father …

Up from the Country and Pressed Into Service

Mark 15:21

… Women were weeping there right bitterly—the daughters of Jerusalem to whom the Master said, "Weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children." But …

A Question for You

John 9:35

… Friends? I believe that in many cases parents go on with family prayer and instructing their children in Divine things, yet their boy is not a decided Christian …

Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety

1 Kings 18:12

… Suppose you had living in the family an old nurse who had nursed you when you were a child, and had lived to bring up your children, would …