Family & Children

Our Heavenly Father's Pity

Psalm 103:13

… It were well, however, if there were nothing else but ignorance to bear with, but the parent often has something worse than that to suffer from his child …

The Prodigal'S Reception

Luke 15:20

… his friend's child with some pity and benevolence, but he marked him as a father, alone, can do. What a quick eye a parent has! Why, I …

A Wise Desire

Psalm 47:4

… When a child had been doing something that was far from right a friend said, “See there brother, there is original sin in the child; for at its …

The Best Strengthening Medicine

Hebrews 11:34

… One parent is too indulgent, another is too severe. Take the children to God, take them to God, I pray you! It is here that your strength lies …

Early Religious Impressions

… As soon as a child can sin, that child can, if God’s grace assist it, believe and receive the Word of God. As soon as children can …

Psalm 44

Psalm 44

… The parent's duty, and the children's privilege. Verse 1. Family conversation, the most profitable subject for it. Verse 1. The true glory of the good old …

Our Lord's Preaching

Isaiah 61:1

… At any rate, these good people cannot trouble themselves with teaching children. I would earnestly say, "Do not sin against the child by such neglect." "No," says Reuben …

The Comer’s Conflict with Satan

Luke 9:42

… The devout desire and compassion of the father for his child is but a pattern of what every parent ought to feel for his offspring. Like Abraham, he …

Christus Et Ego

Galatians 2:20

… There was one parent man who threw his shadow across our path and from whose influence we never could escape. From all other men we might have struggled …

His Name—The Everlasting Father

Isaiah 9:6

… a father succors his child? Has He not supplied us with more than heavenly bread as a father gives bread unto his children? Does He not daily protect …

The Heart—a Den of Evil

Matthew 15:19

… Your child will have evil thoughts without your sending him to a diabolical infant school. Lads who have never seen the act of theft, or children who have …

The Saint's Trials and the Divine Deliverances

Psalm 77:1-20

… He, just as the child which has been chastened by its parent (if it is what it should be) can only find comfort by clinging to the very …

Lost Through One-Saved Through One

Romans 5:16

… And you and I, who have received Christ, are dealt with as children—no more to be punished in the penal sense—but as dear children who must …

The Interest Of Christ And His People In Each Other

Solomon 2:16

… I am His child, and He is my Parent." I half wish that instead of my preaching now, we could stand up, each of us who feel the …

God Incarnate, The End Of Fear

Luke 2:10

… the Creator, from the subject to the king, yes, and from the child toward the parent. That holy, filial fear of God, which makes us dread sin and …

Migratory Birds

Jeremiah 8:7

… are parents among mankind were as wise as these parent fowls of the air. You have your children around you, but where are you leading them? Your example …

Psalm 145

Psalm 145

… the bowels of a parent ;and of the two parents, those of the mother :such pity as the mother takes of the children of her womb. Mercies are …

Brave Waiting

Psalm 27:14

… wait," for we ought to wait upon God as a child waits upon its parent. Our children can seldom be accused of having small expectations with reference to …

Ezekiel'S Deserted Infant

Ezekiel 16:5

… Grant you that a tender parent may pity, but no parent can change his child's nature or cleanse away the sin of his offspring. Let it be …

Zion's Prosperity

Psalm 102:13

… What is good for the parent is good for the child, and what is good for the child is good for the parent. I like what Robert Hall …

The Gospel of Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

Romans 8:32

… There is a depth of meaning in that word, "only," when it is applied to a child. Dear as life to a parent's heart is his only …

Heavenly Geometry

Ephesians 3:16-19

… He was parent, nurse, and tutor—in fact he became all things, as far as lay within his power—to his spiritual children. Paul's wise tenderness leads …

The Judgment Upon Zacharias

Luke 1:20

… As his child, he will not chasten you so as to injure you, but he will chasten you so as to benefit you. I do not think children …

Why Are We Saved By Faith?

… What the child's hand is to the apple, that your faith is to the perfect salvation of Christ. The child's hand does not make the apple …

Law and Grace

Romans 5:20

… Sin shows us its parent, and tells us our heart is the father of it, but grace surpasseth sin there, and shows the Author of grace—the King …

A Type and Its Teaching

Genesis 22:8

… In neither of these cases had the father any hand in the death of his child. The parent in each instance was passive. Here, however, the knife must …

A Merry Christmas

Job 1:4

… Our text gives us a very pleasing picture of Job's family. He was a happy man to have had so many children all comfortably settled in life …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:5

… We have the spirit of children as well as the name of children. Now, if one man adopts another child into his family, he cannot give it his …

A Bad King's Good Son

1 Kings 14:13

… It seems that in the wicked house and family of Jeroboam, there was one godly child—and death, which very often mysteriously cuts down the green wheat, while …

God's Fatherly Pity

Psalm 103:13

… It is not weakness in the child, it is just childishness. And when we were children, we did the same, and others bore with us—and so parents …

Father’s Furlough, and how I Shared it

… Was I not honoured to be an onlooker ? Family worship was a delightful item of each day's doings. It was, of course, usually conducted by C. H …

The Fullness Of Christ—Received!

John 1:16

… you say, from your parent. If you have got it anywhere but from Christ then please remember you do not belong to the family of Christ. Others there …

The Centurion's Faith and Humility

Luke 7:6-8

… Take God at His word as your child takes you at your word. It is not too much for God to ask—you ask it of your child …

What Christians Were and Are

Ephesians 2:3

… It is not so in God's family! It is, "if children, then heirs," that is to say, all the children in the Divine family are God's …

A Preacher from the Dead

Luke 16:31

… It is their parent’s fault; the sin lay at their father’s or their mother’s door. Or it is their constitution. Hear them speak for themselves …

Psalm 131

Psalm 131

… O Lord, as a parent weans a child, so do thou wean me, and then shall I fix all my hope on thee alone. EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT …

Mourning For Christ

Zechariah 12:10

… If there are any members of a family unconverted, this should cause the whole household deep regret. If there is but one child unsaved, the whole should plead …

A Family Sermon

Genesis 7:1

… son of Noah, go into the ark with your father! O child of a godly parent, follow your father to Christ, that you may follow him to Heaven …

The Church—the World's Hope

Acts 27:24

… the ship is like your family name, like your family dignity. Do not pray about that, but cry, "Lord, give me my children's souls and let my …

A Bit of History for Old and Young

Genesis 48:15

… all the family were gathered to morning prayer. Then, in the presence of them all, Mr. Knill took me on his knee and said, "This child will one …