Family & Children

Week-day Services, 1858-1860

… It is no child's play to be the occupant of a pulpit ; he who finds it to be so may find it to be something more fearful …

Psalm 117

Psalm 117

… By which is meant not only his great love toward the Jewish people, but towards the whole family of man. The Lord is kind to us as his …

A Home for the Fatherless

… We have too much given up our children to the enemy; and if the clergy had possessed the skill to hold them, the mischief might have been terrible …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890 (Continued)

… Spurgeon, " While crossing the Atlantic, last September, and looking out upon its proud dashing billows and their varied torms, and thinking of the diversity in the human family …

The Saviour's Many Crowns

Revelation 19:12

… Alas my eye has not yet seen the heavenly glory, nor has my ear heard the celestial song, I am therefore but as a little child among topless …

The Tomb of Jesus

Matthew 28:6

… I see over the top of it, “Sacred to the memory of the family of Joseph of Arimathea;” yet Jesus slept there. Yes, he was buried in another …

Daniel's Undaunted Courage

Daniel 6:10

… I dare say I address some young man who has come from the country from a godly family where true religion has been daily set before him. But …

To Those Who Have Believed

… The children were crying. The snow was deep, and my way was dark. My old master told me I might have a bit of wood when I wanted …

A Sermon to Ministers and Other Tried Believers

1 Peter 5:7

… It is no child's play to cast all our care upon our Lord when there are six little children, shoes worn out, cupboard empty, purse bare and …

Living Temples for the Living God

Isaiah 66:1

… He said, "There may be a child in the family that is very weak and sickly. There are several others that are also out of health, but this …

Why Are Men Saved?

Psalm 106:8

… The Father blots out my sin; the Father accepts me and adopts me into his family through Christ. The Son could not save without the Father any more …

Little Sins

Genesis 19:20

… Little sins often act as burglars do;— burglars sometimes take with them a little child; they put the little child into a window that is too small for …

'Our Light Affliction'

2 Corinthians 4:17

… the family of God! Now we are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. We even now share in all the privileges of the children of …

Little, But Lovely

Luke 12:32

… So mothers are known to call their baby children by bantling names in their fondness for the wee creatures. But far surpassing woman' s love, our Savior's …

Brief, Silent Prayer

Nehemiah 2:4

… I shall speak mainly to the children of God—to you that have faith in God. I beg you often, no, I would ask you always to use …

Israel at the Red Sea

Psalm 106:9

… Coming, then, to the subject; the children of Israel had their difficulties , and so generally the child of God has his very soon after he comes out of …

Elijah’s Appeal to the Undecided

1 Kings 18:21

… But as there is no such place as purgatory, and as you really are a servant of Satan, and not a child of God, take heed, take heed …

A Willing People and an Immutable Leader

Psalm 110:3

… Matthew Henry, one of the wisest commentators, certainly the best for family reading, makes the passage read as if it were like this: “Thy people shall come willingly …

Intelligent Obedience

1 Chronicles 28:8

… They are in Covenant relationship with Him and now, being introduced into the family of God, they become like children under parental influence and parental discipline, bound to …

The Fullness and the Filling

John 1:16

… With so infinite a theme, we can do no more than children do when they take up a little seawater in a shell—their tiny scoop cannot embrace …

Facts and Inferences

Psalm 37:35-37

… And through a long line of ancestors, these estates have belonged to our family." He had no trouble in his youth and no labor in his manhood—he …

The Exaltation of Christ

Philippians 2:9-11

… It is the Elder Brother of the great one family of God in heaven and earth; it is the Brother to whom all of us are related. There …

Absconding and Apostasy

John 6:67

… One has so many children. The distance is too great for another. When they joined the Church their family was just as large, and the distance was just …

God Comforting His People

Isaiah 49:13

… Isaiah does not say, in general terms that the Lord has comforted the children of men as a whole, but he says, "the Lord has comforted His people …

“The Boy-Preacher of the Fens”

… I went up to the bedroom, and brought the child to its Mother, and then read a Psalm, and prayed with my relatives, who were trembling in terror …

Faith Hand in Hand With Fear

Psalm 56:3

… They do not call upon a child to say Grace, but the father of the family, like a priest in his own house, stands up and pronounces a …

Assurance Sought

Psalm 35:3

… And to any child of God who has once enjoyed the favor of Heaven's eternal King and basked in the light of that Countenance which beams with …

A Song at the Wellhead

Numbers 21:16-18

… Like a father, He understands His children better than His children understand themselves. And He gives, not according to their foolish guesses of what they need, but according …

Solace for Sad Hearts

Isaiah 61:3

… break! Alas, the cause is frequently in the Christian's own family! He has an ungodly child or an unconverted wife. A Christian woman may have a drunken …

Ears Bored to the Doorpost

Exodus 21:5

… He had children and, besides, was so attached to his master and his family that he preferred to stay with him. Now, as God did not wish the …

The Relationship of Marriage

Jeremiah 3:14

… 762) Delivered by C.H.SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Turn, O backsliding children, says the Lord; for I am married unto you."- Jeremiah 3:14 . THESE …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… cast His children away, nor can they cease to be the objects of His love! How can any child be unchilded? And if still a child, he must …

Penitence, Pardon and Peace

Luke 7:37-38

… You see what Grace can do—go home and let your family see it! If any of you are conscious of great sin—and have received great forgiveness …

Christ's Prayer and Plea

Psalm 16:1

… He was just as truly Man, one of the great family of mankind and, "as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He, also, Himself, likewise took …

Finding and Following Christ

John 1:45

… If I have found the Lord Jesus Christ, I am reconciled to God by the death of His Son, I have been adopted into the family of God …

The Blessed Christ

Matthew 21:9

… I like Moses' prayer—"Let Your work appear unto Your servants! And Your Glory unto their children." Hence no matter how things are—it may have been that …

The Divine Discipline

Deuteronomy 32:11

… If you will read carefully over the history of the children of Israel in the wilderness, I think you will see that the practical training which God adopted …

God's Unspeakable Gift

2 Corinthians 9:15

… Know you not that you have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit, adopted into the family of God? You are the children of the Most High. "Behold, what …

Pictures of Happiness

Psalm 144:15

… But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children. To such as keep His …

The Immutability of God

Malachi 3:6

… his children long ago, so provoked would he have been with them, if he had been half as much troubled as God has been with his family. He …