Family & Children

The Lord with Two or Three

Matthew 18:20

… Or there may be two unmarried sisters, or a widow and child—two can be easily made up. Where there are no children, there may be a husband …

God's Glory in the Building Up of Zion

Psalm 102:16

… Now, in the great Christian family, our converts are the newborn children and a family is not built up for God except with these sons and daughters who …

Seeing Jesus

Hebrews 2:9

… We talk about poverty, but when do you feel your hands go into your pockets so freely as when you have been visiting a poor family where the …

The Christian's Service and Honor

John 12:26

… Perhaps one member of a family is godly and the rest are not, and they say, "Oh, we don't care for him, he is too religious for …

Good Cheer for the New Year

Deuteronomy 11:12

… narrowly, as carefully, as tenderly as if there were not another child in the Divine family—nor another one whose prayers were to be heard, or whose cares …

Solomon's Plea

1 Kings 8:53

… of the earth, for God's infinite Grace has evermore raised up children in the family of Grace. The two lines of Cain and Seth, of Ham and …

The Pastor’s Parting Blessing

Romans 16:24

… The family altar will become a reality. The servants will find the house a home, and the children will become children of God, when the master and mistress …

Epilogue — The Golden Key of Prayer

… Call unto Me! Do Thy children vex Thee? Dost Thou feel that which is sharper than an adder's tooth - a thankless child? Call unto Me! Are thy …

Preventing Grace

1 Samuel 25:32

… The wife who wants her husband and family to go up and hear the Gospel is thought harshly of because of it. Some men would even like, if …

David Dancing Before the Ark Because of His Election

2 Samuel 6:20-22

… You!" How glad you will be if your child turns out to be an Isaac! There will be family prayer in your house if you know that God …

Present Privilege And Future Favor

Deuteronomy 33:27

… Let but a child of God really digest such a royal dainty as this and he shall be as well fed as was Elijah when, waking up, found …

Intercessory Prayer

Job 42:10

… that there is not a single child of God who does not plead with God for his children, for his family, for the church at large, and for …

Abraham's Double Blessing

Genesis 12:2

… If he is not careful of his company, keeping with his Father's children—and careful of his life and conversation, doing and saying what his Father would …

The Judgment Seat Of God

Romans 14:10-12

… Are not all Believers one family in Christ? Wherever the root of the matter is to be found, there exists an overwhelming argument for undying unity. Why, then …

A Call to Holy Living

Matthew 5:47

… At any rate, Dear friends, if it be not so with you, you may well question whether you are indeed the children of God. My desire, this morning …

Songs of Deliverance

Judges 5:11

… that in the family, where, in prayer with the children, you can bring all the necessities of the household before God, and mention each child if you will …

Three Homilies From One Text

Matthew 4:23-25

… And if you should have sufficient faith to carry five or six, no, to carry a whole family on the loving arms of your prayers up to the …

The New Fashion

Mark 2:12

… Very well, let me have a look at the child. Is there any difference in him? Some of you, perhaps, have had children that were born again in …

Joy in God

Romans 5:11

… Oh, what a glorious privilege is yours and mine if we are, indeed, children of God! We are, in some respects, children of God in the same sense …

Fathers In Christ

1 John 2:13

… in his children. Their suffering or their need would be his suffering and his need. His heart has grown larger than when he was a child or a …

Decided Ungodliness

Jeremiah 5:3

… He was respected by all who knew him until they found out his awful secret—he had another family in addition to his own family at home. How …

The Principal Wheat

… Let us sow the principal wheat in all the fields of our conversation, in business, in the family, among our friends, and with our children. May we each …

Trial by the Word

Psalm 105:19

… Oh, man, if thou be a child of God thou art like a house which he is building with gold, and silver, and precious stones; but by reason …

Walking in the Light of the Lord

Isaiah 2:5

… the first child in a family. So it is it with our first converts—we rejoice exceedingly over them. Still, dear Friends, however many spiritual children God may …

My Prayer

Psalm 119:37

… quicken me, O God!" You have loved some earthly thing—some child, perhaps, has clambered into your heart's throne while it has been fondled on your knee …

Good Cheer For Outcasts

Psalm 147:2

… has done that, He gathers them into the Divine family. He takes the outcasts and makes them children of God—heirs with Himself. From the dunghill He lifts …

Choice Food for Pilgrims to Canaan

Exodus 33:14

… fold if the shepherd never comes to me? Can I be a child of the family if I have never had my heart warmed with my Father's …

The Talking Book

Proverbs 6:22

… And, certainly, when we become the children of God the book talks with us wondrously. In the family of heaven it is the child’s own book. We …

In Whom Are You Trusting?

Isaiah 36:5

… But it is hard of a man's own child to think ill of his father. I think it would cut me to the heart if my child …

The Doctrines of Grace Do Not Lead to Sin

Romans 6:14

… He saw his only child, his daughter Millie, getting his breakfast. Coming to his senses he said to her, “Millie, why do you stay with me?” She answered …

"In the Garden With Him"

John 18:26

… This we have testified at the footstool of Grace, when we have been adoring the Most High in private, at the family altar, and in the more public …

Sacred Memories

Jeremiah 51:50

… Further, the child of God should have Jerusalem upon his mind in all his earthly enjoyments. Sometimes God permits His own dear children to have many comforts on …

Conversions Desired

Acts 11:21

… Willful rebellion is the child of unbelief— sincere obedience is the offspring of humble believing. "They believed, and turned unto the Lord." We want men, indeed, to turn …

The Arrows Of The Lord'S Deliverance

2 Kings 13:19

… There is very little family prayer—not much interest taken in the conversion of the children. There is an angry temper, perhaps, which is somewhat curbed but still …

The One Thing Needful

Luke 10:42

… Except we be converted and become as little children, we can in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven. Sitting at the feet of Jesus indicates the child …

The Children and Their Hosannas

Matthew 21:15

… for of such is the Kingdom of God." What need of more argument as to the excellence of child religion? II. But now, secondly, as children are capable …

A Prayer for the Church Militant

Psalm 28:9

… You good people, you children of godly parents, you husbands and wives who live in happy family circles perhaps scarcely know the miseries of some who are placed …

Driving the Vultures Away from the Sacrifice

Genesis 15:11

… Many a man has said, "Well now, I have many children and I work hard. And I am poor. Surely I must not seek, first, the Kingdom of …

How A Man's Conduct Comes Home To Him

Proverbs 14:14

… He disturbed the relationships of another man's family in a disgraceful manner, and behold, his own family was torn in pieces and never restored to peace—so …

The Golden Key Of Prayer

Jeremiah 33:3

… Call unto Me! Do your children vex you? Do you feel that which is sharper than an adder's tooth—a thankless child? Call unto Me! Are your …