Family & Children

An Assuredly Good Thing

Psalm 73:28

… Remember gratefully that we are His children which have been born into His family—and who shall deny but what it is a good thing for the child …

Christ About His Father’s Business

Luke 2:49

… See how he stoops to become a child, subject to his mother; and mark how he stoops to become a man, subject to God his Father. He took …

An Unparalleled Cure

Matthew 9:32

… In another case, the child lies dead and the father asks Christ to come and He comes. He was as willing to come as the father was that …

The Great Revival

Isaiah 52:10

… Those who could not spare time for family prayer, find they can do so now; those who had no opportunity for teaching their children, now dare not go …

A Fear to Be Desired

Hosea 3:5

… we are "heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ," children of the Highest, adopted into the family of the Eternal, Himself, we feel at once, as the …

The Singing Pilgrim

Psalm 119:54

… False notion! The gloom betrays the child of darkness. "But we measure people's piety by the length of their faces," says one. Do you? So do I …

Personal and Effectual Calling

John 10:3

… He was accustomed, at family prayer, to pray for his servants by name, asking for such a blessing for Sarah, and such for Jane, and such for John …

"If You Can"—"If You Can"

Mark 9:22

… carving knife and the family Bible. "What are you doing?" she asked her child, in some anxiety for the safety of both the child and the Book. "O …

The Heart Of Flesh

Ezekiel 36:26

… any strong aversion in them to children's sins, or horror at the sight of them. How early does the little child give way to unrestrained passion and …

A Mighty Plea

Psalm 27:9

… A soul in sore distress is in no fit condition to puzzle itself over deep and dark reasonings—it needs a child's plea, just as Dr. Guthrie …

Psalm 114

Psalm 114

… They had gone down into Egypt as a single family— "the house of Jacob"; and, though they had multiplied greatly, they were still so united, and were so …

Praise for Jesus

Genesis 49:8

… was Jacob's prophecy, " Your father's children shall bow down before you." Now, who in this house is a child of God? You will not be long …

Fathomless

Psalm 36:6

… Sometimes in a family a dear child is born and is a great comfort to its parents. It seems, indeed, to be sent in love, to heal some …

The Church of God and the Truth of God

1 Timothy 3:15

… Some persons allege that the children of God may act on different principles, may believe different doctrines, may be the recipients of different kinds of Divine Grace and …

Two Choice Assurances

Genesis 15:1

… stagger at the promise by reason of unbelief. "If children, then heirs" applies to all the spiritual family and to the pledging of all the promises to them …

The Mediator’The Interpreter

Exodus 20:18-20

… As He came in tempest and thunder to teach the children of Israel, so has He come to you. If God is teaching you, He cannot mean to …

The Nail in a Sure Place

Isaiah 22:23-25

… Thus did Shebna's family suffer for his sin. It is just so in the world at this day. It were well if some men who have gone …

God's Own Gospel Call

Isaiah 55:3

… If you indeed hearken to His voice, He will make you His child. And, as a child, you shall be an heir of God, a joint-heir with …

Secret Disciples Encouraged

John 18:25

… I am only a humble woman in my family." What? Have you no desire that your family should know the Truth of God? Have you one little child …

The End of the Righteous Desired

Numbers 23:10

… He remembers those holy days of sacred worship, those gatherings around the family altar, that child taught to pray, that young man won from folly and led in …

Man Unknown To Man

Proverbs 14:10

… There is a bitterness which some of you can scarcely understand—it is the loss of beloved children—especially the loss of an only child. Call to mind …

Maroth—or, the Disappointed

Micah 1:12

… You, my oft-bereaved Brother, had hoped to see your family spared to grow up, so that you might have had sons and daughters upon whom you could …

Unity In Christ

John 17:20

… In all the truly elect children of God who are called, and chosen, and faithful, there is a bond of Divine mysterious love running right through the whole …

Lessons From a Dovecot

Isaiah 60:8

… For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." So …

A Holy and Homely Resolve

Psalm 101:2

… Those entrusted with children need peculiar wisdom, for a child's mind may be warped by a servant as well as by a superior teacher. Any little misfortune …

A Sermon and a Reminiscence

1 Peter 2:7

… If our religion has come to us as an heirloom, like the family pew, or the family plate—and we have merely taken it at secondhand, [See Sermon …

"My Beloved Is Mine"

Solomon 2:16

… Coming into this Tabernacle, or going down to the Communion Table, or gathering round the family altar—what is all that if Christ is not there? It should …

Christ’s People—Imitators of Him

Acts 4:13

… The child comes to him; he takes it on his knee, saying, “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not.” A widow has just lost …

Leaning On Our Beloved

Solomon 8:5

… We may strive after moral virtue if we will, but we shall be like those foolish children who pluck flowers and thrust them into their little gardens without …

Jesus and His Brethren

Genesis 45:1-5

… And you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near unto me, you, and your children, and your children's children, and your flocks …

The Broken Column

Luke 9:61

… You do not know what it is to have an ungodly husband, or to live in a family where you cannot carry out your convictions without meeting with …

What Have I Done?

Jeremiah 8:6

… told them of Jesus that loved children, and once became a child like them. Ah, then, you too have neglected your children. I remember a mother who was …

God's Prison, Warden and Prisoner

… Love one another as one happy family. Love one another, for you will have to dwell together forever in Heaven! Bear with each other, as you hope to …

Good Cheer From Grace Received

Matthew 9:20-22

… You are a happy, blessed, forgiven child whom the Lord has taken from the dunghill and set among His princely children. Rejoice, therefore, because your faith has made …

The Necessity of Regeneration

John 3:7

… He was so gentle that the little children gathered around His knees and He took them up in His arms and blessed them. I am sure that if …

Blessing for Blessing

Ephesians 1:3

… Unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. The chosen ones are adopted—they become the children of …

The God of Peace

Romans 15:33

… I could only stand and look at those children, and think, did my heavenly Father feed them, and would he not feed me and all his family? Speak …

The Great Birthday

Luke 2:10

… princely lineage it is true, but of a family whose stock was dry and forgotten in Israel. The Child was reputed to be the son of a carpenter …

Over Against the Sepulcher

Matthew 27:61

… The mother of Zebedee's children, who also lingered late at the tomb, was gone home, too, for as she was the mother of John it is exceedingly …

A Mournful Defection

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 …