Family & Children

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… Is husband dead? Are you a lone woman with a family to provide for? Or are you a widower, looking on your children with pity, whom you once …

Gray Hairs

Hosea 7:9

… When we do not, in fact, love Him as a tender child loves a parent. O Beloved, it is a sweet thing to love God! It is the …

The Heavenly Rainbow

Revelation 4:3

… of Jesus, with the humble boldness with which a child asks of its own loving parent what that parent has often promised to bestow. Let the comfort of …

Do Not Sin Against the Child

Genesis 42:22

… We are no sooner in this world than, as children, we sin against our parents. As members of a family we sin against brothers and sisters, and against …

God'S First Words To The First Sinner

Genesis 3:9

… Or better still, the cry of a loving parent asking for his child that has run away from him, "Where are you?" There are but three words, but …

Romans, But Not romanists

Romans 16:1-16

… What parent does not prize, above all others, his first child? I can speak from experience. I remember well the first woman who professed to be brought to …

Household Salvation

Acts 16:32-34

… brother or child after the flesh he has none with him. The second part of Bunyan’s book exhibits family piety, for we see Christiana, and the children …

Plenteous Redemption

Psalm 103:7

… Moreover the believing family of Christ—or rather, all for whom he died—are most effectually delivered from the power of sin. Oh! there are some who suck …

Chastisement—Now And Afterward

Hebrews 12:11

… even work the other way and be hurtful, for the child would surely think that the parent only played with it and that disobedience was a trifle—if …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… This is certainly true if the father is an eminently kind and yet prudent parent. Children do not think that there can be any need for chastening them …

Confession of Christ

Matthew 10:32

… the child, the same method might not be suitable which ought to be adopted by the parent. To my mind, the father ought to say, "My children, our …

Consolation in Christ

Philippians 2:1

… I shall try this morning, first, to show how Christ in his varied positions is the consolation of the children of God in their varied trials; then we …

The Secret of Love to God

1 John 4:19

… is in that tiny child towards its parent. But is that love disinterested? Certainly not! Is not the love of dear kind children to their father and mother …

Grieve Not the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… takes the same deep interest in us as a fond parent takes in a beloved but wayward child! Is not this a marvel? Let those who cannot feel …

A Warning to Believers

Colossians 2:18

… There is the child's duty, but there is the parent's duty, too. 5-9. Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the …

The Lord’s Hand behind the Maid’s Mistake

… The stupid girl had given no information to the family that anyone had called, and had been shown into the drawing-room; and, consequently, the meeting never came …

A Singular Title and a Special Favor

Psalm 59:10

… believes it to be an effectual transaction—the potent pleading of a child with its Parent, rewarded with loving grants of blessing. The Believer does not look up …

David's Dying Song

2 Samuel 23:5

… Oh! happy is that family whom God hath blessed. But there are other houses where you will find the children are the trials of the parents. “Although my …

The Sons of God

Romans 8:16

… All God’s children are heirs, however numerous the family, and he that shall be born of God last, shall be as much his heir as he who …

Abram's Call—or, Half-Way—and All the Way

Genesis 11:31

… He would bid him hand down the Revelation to his children from generation to generation. This family should grow into a nation and to that nation should be …

The Lord's Name and Memorial

Isaiah 55:13

… Our first parent, Eve, looked at the fruit—she "saw that it was good," and so she plucked, and so we fell. But no man rises to eternal …

'Heirs of God'

Romans 8:17

… You know that there is a ceremony of which children are taught to say, "In my baptism, wherein I was made a member of Christ, a child of …

The Child Samuel'S Prayer

1 Samuel 3:9

… Let the Christian parent explain to the child what prayer is—tell him that God answers prayer. Direct him to the Savior and then urge him to express …

"And We Are"—a Jewel from the Revised Version

1 John 3:1

… adoption into the family of God, we would never leave off marveling at it. That any man of mortal race should become a child of God might astound …

Peter After His Restoration

Luke 22:32

… As a parent you may need affliction, because a father without a trial can give no counsel to a tempted child. Public workers may have to be tried …

Hiding Among the Stuff

1 Samuel 10:22-23

… unnatural mother! Why does she fatten one child and not care for the other when they are both her children?" Now, that is your case. You have got …

Brought Out to Be Brought In

Deuteronomy 6:23

… towards the child belongs to the parent. Fathers and mothers are the most natural agents for God to use in the salvation of their children. I am sure …

A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry

John 6:29

… deal more of it in Heaven than I can have here! A perfect child must have a perfect faith in a perfect Father. Because faith brings the creature …

Memento Mori

Deuteronomy 32:29

… parent. Thou wouldst have been immortal if Adam had been immaculate. Sin, thou art the mother of Death! Adam thou hast digged the graves of thy children! We …

The Blind Man's Eyes Opened—or, Practical Christianity

John 9:3

… Postpone the inquiries as to how they got into this condition! What is the origin of moral evil? How is it transmitted from parent to child? Answer those …

COME AND WELCOME

John 6:37

… If you get into Christ's family by simply trusting Him, you shall always be in His family. If you get into my Lord's house by simply …

Abijah, or Some Good Thing Towards the Lord

1 Kings 14:13

… Poor souls, their own carnality overflows and saturates their family! To some it would even cause anger and wrath to see their children turning to the Lord; they …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… He that doth not love his own family is worse than a heathen man and a publican. But we are not to love the dearest object of our …

"You Are Now the Blessed of the Lord"

Genesis 26:29

… roofs—I mean houses of Christian people without family prayer! What are some of you doing? If your children turn out ungodly, do you wonder at it, seeing …

Psalm 22

Psalm 22

… God's family register is not for strangers, but for the children only. Verse 31. "They shall come." Sovereign grace shall bring out from among men the bloodbought …

Faith and Regeneration

1 John 5:1

… has not every child a right to come to the Father’s table? I know in the olden times, parent used to make their children go without meals …

Our Position and Our Purpose

2 Corinthians 7:1

… Mothers and fathers, let your children see your piety! Children, may the Holy Spirit make you to be the holiest of children like the holy Child Jesus! And …

The Leafless Tree

Isaiah 6:3

… children of God have been allowed—and an awful allowance it is—to go into the very blackest sins. Do you think David was not a child of …

Confession With The Mouth

Romans 10:10

… It is for a child to do what his parent bids him. If, my loving Friend, my dear Redeemer had bid me do something hurtful to myself, I …

Days of Heaven Upon the Earth

Deuteronomy 11:21

… her child brought in? But if she were to hear that you were saved, there would be a day of Heaven upon earth in that family! How many …