Family & Children

Gratitude for Great Deliverances

Psalm 102:19-22

… Now, like as a father and a mother of a family pity their children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him— and He especially pities His poor …

Turning From Death

Ezekiel 33:11

… talk. "O backsliding children I am married unto you." 14. And I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring …

Messages to Sinners and Saints

Isaiah 30:15

… the children as she does." If you are a Christian husband, you may win your wife. If you are a Christian father, you may win your child. Or …

The Man Whose Hand Stuck to His Sword

2 Samuel 23:9

… The mind cannot always think with equal clearness, or feel with equal emotion, or find utterance with equal clearness—and the child of God must not blame him …

Temptations On The Pinnacle

Matthew 4:5-7

… If I am not His child, then, miserable orphan! What shall I do—where shall I flee? Standing on a pinnacle as God's child I shall stand …

The Saint'S Horror At The Sinner'S Hell

… How can we well engage in family devotions when more than half the family are given up to the world? How can we sing the Lord's song …

A Homily for Humble Folks

Proverbs 30:2

… In the East, among the Bedouins, in a shepherd's family, the little children, as soon as they can walk, learn to keep the lambs. You see the …

'In Remembrance'

1 Corinthians 11:24

… And as I recall them, I bless the Lord that He answered my prayers and set me, also, among His children. Do you not also recollect the time …

The Sacred Love-Token

Exodus 12:13

… All God's children have this family mark at their birth and there is no mistaking it, so that at the sight of it, the angelic guardians commence …

Sown Light

Psalm 97:11

… When He adopts them into His family and calls them His sons and daughters. When He receives the wanderers into His bosom and feasts them at the table …

God'S Witnesses

Isaiah 43:10

… Among the garrison was a young man of the Fabian family, and on a certain day the anniversary of a sacrifice returned—when his family had always offered …

Profitable Mixture

Hebrews 4:2

… Listen to the words of Moses in the sixth of Exodus—"Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord and I will bring you out …

Moses—His Faith and Decision

Hebrews 11:24-26

… I suppose that his mother and father could tell him but little of the family faith. But as they were God-fearing, believing people, they taught him what …

Theocracy

Psalm 44:4

… A man who is toiling hard to bring up a large family may be, and very often is, among the happiest of men. A man who has an …

Soul Satisfaction

Psalm 35:3

… I will relate my experience—tell me, are these the marks of a child of God?" You may deceive him in your statements and he himself may mislead …

Thorns and Thistles

Genesis 3:18

… the family hearth. "East and west, home is best." "There is no place like home." Yet where is there a home without affliction? The dear child whom you …

Christ Precious to Believers

1 Peter 2:7

… For a man to leave the partner of his bosom, to be despised by her who ought to honour him, to be spit upon by his own children …

Comfort From the Future

Job 11:16

… He had, again, a smiling family around him, so he might well forget his misery. Year after year and, perhaps, even to his death—it was so as …

Landlord and Tenant

Isaiah 38:1

… for your children's sake. They will be pretty much what their parents were. Sovereign Grace may interpose, but, ordinarily, the mother shapes the child's life. May …

For The Troubled

Psalm 88:7

… There is in every house an economy, a law by which the children and servants are ruled. If the child of God breaks the law of the house …

The Dumb Singing

Isaiah 35:5

… How vain, then, are the boasts and professions of some persons who declare themselves to be the children of God and yet continue to live in sin! There …

Christ the Overcomer of the World

John 16:33

… The world here means the visible embodiment of that spirit of evil which was in the serpent and which now works in the children of disobedience. It is …

The Last Enemy Destroyed

1 Corinthians 15:26

… that your family circle has been broken into, time after time, by this ruthless destroyer! The widow has lost her comfort and her stay. The children have been …

Hold Fast Your Shield

Hebrews 10:35

… that He keeps His promises and answers His children's prayers. I sometimes felt, when I was a child, astonished at my father's goodness in giving me …

The Tenses

2 Corinthians 1:10

… poor widow and she wonders how she ever brought up that large family of little children. She scarcely knew how to provide for them all when she had …

One Trophy for Two Exploits

Psalm 18:29

… He not only came, Himself, through sin, and death, and Hell, triumphant, but brought all His children on His shoulders, as AEneas did his old father Anchises. The …

The Lions' Den

Daniel 6:20

… In a congregation of this magnitude, the confidential words spoken to the pastor by the solitary ones would often startle those who sit in their family pews. Confession …

Christ's Joy and Ours

John 15:11

… Many of the children of God are far better than we are and the worst one in his family has some points in which he is better than …

Hypocrisy

Luke 12:1

… Well, then you find him pretty pious for another half-hour, for there is family prayer; but when the business begins, and he is talking to his men …

To-morrow

Proverbs 27:1

… We need some temporal wisdom as well as spiritual illumination; it need not always be that the children of the kingdom should be more foolish than the children …

Spiritual Convalescence

Zechariah 10:12

… those who profess to be the children of God, writing concerning those who claim to be members of the Lord's family—and he stigmatizes with one of …

Christian Sympathy

Job 30:25

… bread, and the faces of the children are wan, and the mothers weep, and even the breasts refuse the infant child its needed nourishment. Give as God has …

All For Jesus!

Colossians 3:24

… Paul has been visiting a family and he has spoken a word to the wife and a word to the husband. He has paid attention to the children …

The Best War Cry

Numbers 23:21

… God is where His children are, hearing every groan of their sorrow, marking every tear of their distress. The Father is in the midst of His family, acting …

The Shining of the Face of Moses

Exodus 34:29-36

… family of Moses a race in which the Covenant with Abraham could have been kept to the letter. What a prospect was set before him! The children of …

'I Have Enough'

Genesis 33:9

… And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her …

Belief, Baptism, Blessing

Acts 16:33

… your family, reckon her to be a part of your household. And pray God that they may all be converted—Jane and Mary, your own children—and the …

The Ear Bored With An Awl

Exodus 21:5

… Besides, let me add, there are some of us who must keep to Christ because we have children in His family whom we could not leave—dear ones …

A Lesson from the Life of King Asa

2 Chronicles 16:9

… the inner life." dear Sister, if you have brought up your children and have seen your family about you—and they have been proofs to all the world …

Faith and Its Attendant Privileges

John 1:11-13

… yourself as a child can be like a man—but a child is not a man, for all that. So God makes His children like Himself, but they …