Family & Children

Foretastes of the Heavenly Life

Deuteronomy 1:25

… me tomorrow—a Gospel which puts me in Christ's family one hour, and makes me a child of the devil the next—a Gospel which first justifies …

The Pilgrim's Longings

Hebrews 11:15-16

… Frequent opportunities came in their way; there was communication kept up between them and the old family house at Padan-Aram: they had news sometimes from the old …

Psalm 132

Psalm 132

… This verse shows us the need of family piety. Parents must see to it that their children know the fear of the Lord, and they must beg the …

A Clear Understanding

Matthew 13:51

… That is the greatest thing—to be made alive at all! When Grace has gone so far as to give me life and put me in the family …

The Sick Man Left Behind

2 Timothy 4:20

… If not a sparrow lights on the ground without our Father, surely not a child of the Divine family is laid low without His sacred will! Chance is …

Life's Inevitable Burden

Galatians 6:6

… Your utmost sphere is your little children and your one or two rooms. Still remember that circles are prized not in proportion to their size, but in proportion …

The Privileged Man

Ezekiel 16:9-14

… THE root of Israel's nation was originally a lone man whose family and dependants formed a small Bedouin tribe wandering throughout the plains of Canaan. God separated …

Beggars Becoming Princes

1 Samuel 2:8

… He has the same, for however foul and filthy a sinner may have been, when God calls him by His Grace, and adopts him into His family, He …

Good Cheer for Christians

Isaiah 25:6

… dust become a child of God? A rebel be adopted into the heavenly family? A condemned criminal not only forgiven, but actually made a child of God? Wonder …

'The Garment of Praise'

Isaiah 61:3

… There are many things in the family. There are many things in daily life which make us sad. Facts connected with the past and with the future cause …

Lessons From Christ's Baptism

Matthew 3:16

… But then I remind you that a pigeon is only one member of the great dove family and that it was only among the doves, of all feathered …

A Word with those who Wait for Signs and Wonders

Luke 11:29

… Unless I become so desponding that I am more fit for a lunatic asylum than to be in my own family, I cannot believe in Jesus Christ." Ah …

Spiritual Religion

John 6:63

… Mother, would you be content to have at home a child who was dead? Suppose someone should say to you, "Why, this child is just as good a …

The Carpenter's Son and His Relations

Matthew 13:55

… Look at His relations, what are they but just a carpenter's wife and family? It is true that they belong to the tribe of Judah and that …

Beloved, and yet Afflicted

John 11:3

… die who had chick or child, friend or acquaintance to pray for him. In our prayers for the lives of beloved children of God we must not forget …

The Empty Seat

1 Samuel 20:27

… Many others of the Lord's family are also sick and detained at home. They sigh as they remember the happy days when they went up to the …

Psalm 140

Psalm 140

… Satan instructs his children in the art of fowling, and they right speedily learn how to spread nets: perhaps they have been doing that for us already; let …

The Memorable Hymn

Matthew 26:30

… Satan tries to make God's people dumb, but he cannot, for the Lord has not a tongue-tied child in all His family! They can all speak …

The Procession of Sorrow

John 19:16

… Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. We are not sure that Simon was a disciple of …

Spiritual Peace

John 14:27

… God still loves his child, even when he sins; but he will not let the child know it. That child’s name is in the family register; but …

Real Contact With Jesus

Luke 8:46

… It is a consoling thought that Christ not only knows the great children in the family, but He also knows the little ones. This Truth of God stands …

The Fruitless Vine

Ezekiel 15:1-2

… And then there is the fruitless professor, who, when he is asked to pray at the prayer meeting, never does so; and who neglects family prayer. We will …

Enquirers and Converts (Continued)

… My business was failing, we had trouble in the family, and, worse than all, I had allowed my friends to estrange my heart from God. I had from …

The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life

Job 8:7

… he was brought down to poverty, to the potsherd and to the dunghill; he had many graves, but no children; he had had many losses, he had now …

Spiritual Resurrection

Ephesians 2:1

… There are houses in which you were once welcome; where you once bowed your knee with them at the family prayer, and your name was mentioned too; but …

The Hope That Purifies

1 John 3:3

… But when the Lord makes a man His child—then He takes away the evil heart out of his flesh. When He shows a man His great love …

The Lamb Of God In Scripture

John 1:35

… Israel was in Egypt and there they had the lamb for the family—"In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a …

High Doctrine

… family of Satan, and adopted into the family of God’s dear Son, and if I am now no more an heir of wrath, but a child of …

Help for Seekers of the Light

Isaiah 59:9

… It is true that to be brought into sonship and adopted into the family of the great God is a blessing for which kings might well exchange their …

Blessings Manifold and Marvelous

Psalm 18:19

… Not children of God, even as some profanely assert when they talk about the universal fatherhood of God. You were children of wrath, even as others. And the …

God's Glorious and Everlasting Name

Isaiah 63:12

… Here is that Character which you are to imitate, according to the exhortation, "Be you, therefore, followers of God, as dear children." Know God as He makes Himself …

Creation’s Groans and the Saints’ Sighs

Romans 8:22-23

… In this world, saints are God’s children, but you cannot see that they are so, except by certain moral characteristics. That man is God’s child, but …

The Two Talents

Matthew 25:22-23

… woman to be a humble teacher of her own children at home, a quiet trainer of her own family? Would it not even disturb her and injure her …

Christ's Prayer for Believers

John 17:20

… His family when they are black as the tents of Kedar and He knows they shall be fair as the curtains of Solomon! He knows His children when …

The Great Emancipator

Exodus 4:22

… The children of Israel were, at that time, in a very sordid condition. They were up to their necks in clay, making bricks. They were a band of …

A Time of Finding for Lost Sheep

Ezekiel 34:16

… I am not like one of the family and I know I am lost. It seems as if the ears of God were silent against my prayers—when …

Right-hand Sins

Mark 9:43

… become as little children, or else we shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven! 4. Whoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this little child, the same is …

The Matchless Mystery

Ephesians 5:30

… children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will." Do you know anything about adoption? Have you been taken out of the family …

Under the Apple Tree

Song 2:3

… Give me an apple plucked from the tree, such as I have given out to boys and girls in His family, such an apple as this, "Come unto …

The Loved Ones Chastened

Revelation 3:19

… for a child, when his father has been chastening it, to look at the rod as a picture of love. You can not make your children do that …