Family & Children

Sermon for New Year's-Day

Revelation 21:5

… He can bring your children to bow at the family altar, and to rejoice with you in Christ. He can cause your business to prosper; or, if he …

Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest

Zechariah 3:1-5

… When I see, then, Joshua the high priest, I do but see a picture of each and every child of God who has been made near by the …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… The large proportion of Christians find themselves opposed by those of their own family, or by those with whom they labor or trade. Is it not likely to …

Conversions Encouraged

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

… Time was, and you may remember it with regret, when you were a child upon the knee of a pious mother, when you spent your Sundays in the …

The Lamb—The Light

Revelation 21:23

… We need here the associations of friendship and of family love, but they are neither married nor are given in marriage there. Whatever comfort they may derive from …

Faith in Perfection

Psalm 138:8

… I HAVE SELECTED THIS TEXT, or, rather, it has been given to me to furnish a motto for the whole year to all the believing family of God …

A Message to the Glad and the Sad

Job 22:29

… It is a very sad thing for the father of a family to have a number of children who never speak. There is a sweetness about every child …

The Great Sin Of Doing Nothing

Numbers 32:23

… Do you not notice how he put it to them? "Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to …

A Sermon for the Time Present

Zephaniah 3:16-18

… If you take away the bread, the children hunger. If you give the flock poisonous pastures, or fields which are barren as the desert, they pine and they …

The Great Pot and the Twenty Loaves

2 Kings 4:38

… and lay my staff upon the face of the child. And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will …

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… And "children," the dear babes that nestle in your bosom and clamber to your knee and pronounce your name in accents of music—they must not be our …

Our Last Journey

Job 16:22

… glad tidings and beseech his family and friends to seek salvation. Who would not wish, for once, to plead with his children if he felt that he had …

The Dream of Pilate's Wife

Matthew 27:19

… domestic matters, such as the death of children, the sickness of wives, the loss of work, the poverty of the family and a thousand other things are working …

A Discourse to the Despairing

Genesis 42:1

… He was getting very old and was worn and weary, yet here he seems to lead the way in providing for his family. It was he who spoke …

The Captain of Our Salvation

Hebrews 2:10

… And again, Behold I and the children which God has given Me. Inasmuch, then, as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. As you know to your …

The Known and the Unknown

Ecclesiastes 6:12

… If our childhood—I mean the childhood that comes of our regeneration and adoption into God's family—if that childhood does not teach us this submission, our …

The Rocky Fortress and Its Inhabitant

Isaiah 33:15

… taken into the family of God and made His child—and will your Father now disown you, or remove your name out of the family register? You are …

The Story of a Runaway Slave

… Now, this is what the Grace of God does when it comes into a family. It does not alter the relations. It does not give the child a …

Gone, Gone Forever

1 Kings 20:40

… We were children and when the little child brings Jesus its, "Hosanna," its early praises are very sweet to Him. Ah, boys, below here, and children all around …

"There Is No Difference"

Romans 3:22

… Some children appear from the very first to be tender and docile, while others manifest a passionate and rebellious disposition. All of us probably know some friends who …

A Bundle of Myrrh

Solomon 1:13

… His children fill his home with glee, his wife is his solace and delight, his friends are his comfort and refreshment. He accepts the comforts which soul and …

The Double Drawing Near

James 4:8

… Rowland Hill stayed one night at an inn and he told the lan- dlord that he must have family prayer there. "But, Sir," said the man, "we never …

Sarah and Her Daughters

Isaiah 51:2

… Grace does not make the child so self-willed that he disobeys his father—it is something else that does that. Grace does not take away from the …

The Substance Of True Religion

Job 19:28

… I should think it likely that the same may be said of your children! What wonder, then, that it is so in God's house! Little children cannot …

God's Advocates Breaking Silence

Job 36:2

… the brotherhood, for without your presence the Father's family is not complete! All voices are needed! No child of God may be silent! You, too, who are …

Jesus Appearing To Mary Magdalene

Mark 16:9

… And now what if I say that Christ was her father, her brother, her husband, her friend, her children, her everything? He was her family and there was …

Purging Out the Leaven

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

… And more, being justified, we rise to a higher position—we are adopted into the family of God, and if children, then heirs. What a vista of Glory …

The History of Little-Faith

Matthew 14:31

… you were adopted into the family of God and started back as your heart said, "How can He put me among the children?" Do you remember reading of …

Open Heart For The Great Savior

John 1:12

… As children we are admitted to a familiarity which servants cannot know. A child may say and do to his father what no stranger could. God manifests Himself …

A Page From a Royal Diary

Psalm 119:132

… treats the rest of His family, I shall be perfectly satisfied. How is that? How does the Lord deal with His children? Well, you know what He used …

On Laying Foundations

Luke 6:46-49

… Even the most experienced child of God is often deceived—how much more the pilgrim who has but just entered the wicket gate! The tried saint sometimes mistakes …

Self-destroyed, Yet Saved

Hosea 13:9

… The text speaks in tones of thunder to each unconverted person and says, "O Israel, you have destroyed yourself." But if any child of God has lost his …

The Waterpots at Cana

John 2:7

… And why not set the family up with a store in hand? They were not very rich people. They might sell it if they liked. At any rate …

The Meat and Drink of the New Nature

John 6:55

… Very different is this from the doctrine that a man who is a child of God may sin as he pleases and yet be saved! That doctrine is …

Unprofitable Servants

Matthew 25:30

… What must it be to be forever outside the family of God? Never to be God's child? Forever in the dark? Never to see the light of …

The Miracle of the Loaves

Mark 6:52

… I am no better than a little crying child that might seem to be a nuisance in God's family, or if I am a person so poor …

The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church

Haggai 2:4-5

… Each family pleaded its own urgent needs. In returning to a long-deserted and neglected land, much had to be done to make up for lost time; and …

The Private Tutor

John 14:24-26

… Why do we forget? Is it not largely through ignorance and lack of understanding? When a child does not understand his lesson, he soon forgets it. He who …

The Seed by the Wayside

Luke 8:5

… If it is your anxious desire that all the children in a certain house should be converted to God and all the family should come to hear the …

The Sieve

Amos 9:9

… God has but to speak and it is done! And at His will His children shall be chastened with innumerable trials, or delivered in abundant mercies. The rills …