Family & Children

A Peal of Bells

Zechariah 14:20

… There, behind the counter, should be your pulpit, or in the Corn Exchange, or the Market, or in the family; you should be always preaching. Your life should …

The Sinner's Refuge

Numbers 35:11

… But I believe any other member of the family was held to be competent to act as the avenger. If, for instance, my brother had been killed, it …

The Turning Of Job's Captivity

Job 42:10

… have His people count their children that are gone to Heaven and reckon them as still belonging to the family, as the child did in Wordsworth's pretty …

Harvest Past, Summer Ended and Men Unsaved

Jeremiah 8:20

… I am beloved in my family by my dear mother, for I am yet a child, but though she prays for me I am not saved. I am …

Psalm 125

Psalm 125

… Isaac, even in Abraham's family, was mocked by Ishmael. Assyria laid its sceptre even upon Zion itself. The graceless often bear rule and wield the rod; and …

Sonship Questioned

Matthew 4:3

… This is a pretty place for a child of God! Why, surely, if you had been one of His children, you would have been in a paradise! Was …

General And Yet Particular

John 17:2

… A father tells me to go into the midst of his family, his whole family, in order that I may take out of it one of his sons …

The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

… But, if not, as the Passover was only intended for Israel, so is this supper a family feast for those who belong to Jesus Christ—no others may …

What We Would Be*

… Strangers may talk in a careless way, but fathers are conscious of great responsibility as to their children. If a family is not well ordered, a wise father …

Under Arrest

Galatians 3:23

… the children of God will be found to be the same—and their Christian experience will resemble that of the other members of the Lord's family. So …

Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God

Psalm 65:11

… Ah, how speedily He helped us! How liberally! How like a God! When we have needed means to feed the children of our Orphanage, the Prayer Meeting on …

"Without Carefulness"

1 Corinthians 7:32

… Lots of children have suffered a martyrdom from too much nursing! Excessive carefulness has created cause for care. If it is not a child, if it is anything …

The Road to Honor

1 Samuel 2:30

… Suppose another man is living in the midst of his family, praying for the conversion of his children, setting them a holy example, chiding them for their faults …

Small Things Not to Be Despised

Zechariah 4:10

… Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of …

The Axe at the Root—A Testimony Against Puseyite Idolatry

John 4:23-24

… The head of a family was accustomed to offer sacrifice, and no doubt if Job be taken as a type thereof family prayer and household religion were maintained …

That Horrible East Wind!

Colossians 3:15

… How thankful the child ought to be to his mother and his father! What a happy home we should have if children recognized the deep debt of obligation …

Seeking For Jesus

John 6:24

… We see you like Lot and his family, ready to leave the City of Destruction, but you have not yet reached the mountain, and our heart asks concerning …

A Sunday School Sermon

Isaiah 40:11

… I have even known preachers speak of bringing their minds down to the comprehension of children! They know little of the matter, for to preach a child's …

The Magnanimity of God

Job 36:5

… This patience is shown not here and there to one of our race, but to myriads of the human family—and not for one generation, only, but from …

To Those Who Are Angry With Their Godly Friends

Genesis 4:6

… Here is your child converted and you are angry. Are you not unreasonable in this? You are his father and he yields obedience to you. God has not …

Prayer 14 — "Bless The Lord, O My Soul!"

… May every child of Thine have his conscience purged from dead works to serve the true and living God. May there be no cloud between us and our …

The Elders Before The Throne

Revelation 4:4

… As the Lord has but one family, written in one register, redeemed with one blood, quickened by one Spirit, so this whole household abides in one habitation evermore …

Concealing the Words of God

Job 6:10

… We are informed that he was carefully watchful as to his own family that the Words of the Holy One should be there esteemed and known, especially that …

The Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace

Isaiah 26:3

… one, "but I have disquietude in my family: I have a wild, unruly son; or, I have a sick, pining child, who will soon be taken away from …

Something Worth Seeking

Matthew 6:33

… You may seek a house and seek to build up a family and be a blessing to those about you, but first seek your God. Let your rule …

The Trees in God's Courts

Psalm 92:13-15

… find that all His servants want to get their children into the same house, into the same family! A man is not badly treated by his master when …

Early And Late

Matthew 20:1

… Thrice happy are these! The earliest period at which a child may be called by Divine Grace would be difficult for us positively to define. Because children are …

Obeying Christ's Orders

John 2:5

… In the case of a man in business who has come into a difficulty, or of a Sister with a sick child, or a sick husband, you know …

Life's Ever-Springing Well

John 4:14

… As we are the children of God the Father, we, therefore, salute Him by the name, "Abba, Father." But this life also comes to us through Jesus Christ …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

… As soon as you enter upon your pastorate you may be waited upon by persons who are anxious to secure your adhesion to their side in a family …

Reasons for Turning to the Lord

Hosea 6:1

… at His door—that He permits sin in His family and leaves His chosen unchastened! His own children must feel the rod and be brought under the bond …

Holiness, The Law of God's House

Ezekiel 43:12

… What sweet familiarities are enjoyed in the Church! What holy intimacies between the great Father and His children! How tenderly does He reveal Himself so that the secret …

The Believer's Death Day Better Than His Birthday

Ecclesiastes 7:1

… saints will meet around the Throne of God, an unbroken family—not one of God's children will be absent! We shall have no brothers or sisters who …

The Free-agency of Christ

Mark 8:22-26

… God puts many of His children to bed in the dark, but they are His children all the same. It is of the wicked that it is written …

Beginning at Jerusalem

Luke 24:47

… I have never even told my children that I am a believer. I do not like to let it be known. I am afraid that all my family …

Other Sheep and One Flock

John 10:16

… Israel was becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah! The choice band of mourners in Zion had not quite died out, but their number was so few that a child …

The Value and Rank of the Believer

Isaiah 43:4

… believe he is honor." The meanest child of God that lives is honorable, for he belongs to a right worshipful family. An angel thinks it an honor to …

God Is With Us

Romans 8:31

… He is our Father! He cannot be against His own children! He has chosen us—He will not cast us away—He has adopted us into His family …

Work For Jesus

Matthew 21:28

… If there is a lost child to be reclaimed, he shall be brought in by one of the children who has, himself, been found. Unto the wicked God …

"After Two Days Is the Passover"

Matthew 26:2

… The blood of the lamb was caught in a basin and then the father of the family took a bunch of hyssop, dipped it in the blood, and …