Family & Children

"Lo, I Come"—Application

Psalm 40:7

… Your mother judged you to be of a most amiable character and your friends expected to see in you one whose life would honor the family. You thought …

The Greatest Folly in the World

Romans 3:11

… Eternal Christ and the children of the Everlasting Jehovah! The King of Kings and Lord of Lords has adopted us into His family and put into us the …

The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus

Acts 26:14

… be bothered with your children, you said, and therefore you were glad to pack them off to the Sunday-school, but that child has had her heart touched …

Tell It All

Mark 5:33

… If in the list of the Lord's children you and I are written, as the feeblest of the family, yet being children and heirs through faith, no …

Inexcusable Irreverence and Ingratitude

Romans 1:20

… Whoever believes in Christ Jesus is at once forgiven—he is adopted into the family of God, he drinks the wine of the love of God—he is …

The Church Encouraged and Exhorted

Isaiah 43:6

… they have family prayer or not?" That was a wise question, for, where there is no family prayer, we cannot expect to see the children grow up in …

Praying and Pleading

Jeremiah 14:7

… Here in the city the children are coming back from the place of pools and fountains with empty pitchers, for they find not a drop of water in …

God's Law in Man's Heart

Hebrews 8:10

… When a thing is "learned by heart," you know the common meaning of that expression, even among our children. If they have learned a thing by heart rather …

Jesus Admired In Them That Believe

2 Thessalonians 1:10

… songs! No beginning to be merry while one child is shut out! I am quite certain if, as a family, we were going to sing our evening hymn …

Little Faith and Great Faith

Matthew 14:31

… And I have seen little Grace where everything was advantageous to its growth! These things ought not to be! You and I, who are no children now. You …

By The Fountain

Genesis 49:22

… He lived with God and was God's child. He looked up to Heaven for daily teaching and comfort. And God was with him so as not only …

Christ Put On

Romans 13:14

… Well, in order to win those dear children to the Savior, "put on the Lord Jesus Christ," who said, "Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and …

An Exhortation By Rev. C.H. Spurgeon

2 Samuel 11:1

… And they destroyed the children of Amnion and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem." 2 Samuel 11:1 . THE last sentence informs us of a circumstance …

Rain and Grace—a Parallel

Job 38:25-27

… private prayer will grow till it comes to family prayer so that you can pray with your wife and children. You have been reading your Bible lately, have …

The Sluggard’s Farm

… Do you, brethren, use all your opportunities? I know we each one have some power to serve God; do we use it? If we are his children he …

The Secret of a Happy Life

Psalm 16:8

… Look for His Presence at the family altar, making the house to be a palace wherein king's children dwell. At last, fall asleep at night as in …

The Moral of a Miracle

Mark 11:22

… It is a child's instinct to trust his father, but it is the rarest Grace in the world to trust our Father who is in Heaven. "When …

Paul's Parenthesis

1 Corinthians 15:10

… Here is a child of God who stood very high among his fellow Believers, one who had many gifts, much Grace, great success, and high honor in the …

The Secret Spot

Deuteronomy 32:5

… s child, too, it will little avail us how fairly in our outward garb and manner we may conform ourselves to the members of the heavenly family. We …

Reasons for a Singular Question

Mark 10:51

… me Your child." Do not say, "Make me as one of Your hired servants," but say, "Take me into Your family. Let me be Your child!" Make a …

"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:13

… in his family—the mercantile concern from which he now draws his living will be broken up—everybody will be ashamed of him. His children will be outcasts …

Prayer, The Cure for Care

Philippians 4:6

… A little child has been known (I daresay your children have done it) to go and put a letter down the grating of a drain and, of course …

The Sluggard's Farm

Proverbs 24:30-32

… Do you, Brethren, use all your opportunities? I know we each one have some power to serve God—do we use it? If we are His children He …

Letters concerning Settlement in London

… In the family, Scott will hold his place; but in the study, you want condensed thought, and this you must look for elsewhere.] (At the laying of the …

"Clear Shining After Rain"

2 Samuel 23:4

… He mourns his own rebellions, but he rejoices that he is made a reconciled child and admitted into the sacred family. Now look at him, his face is …

Fallen Asleep

1 Corinthians 15:6

… the family buried in the churchyard, but the girl still declared that they were seven—and so they were! Did you ever notice, concerning Job's children, that …

Three Arrows—or Six?

2 Kings 13:18

… family—what blessings may come to your household, or may be missed by your children—through your conduct! Dear Mother, you think yourself obscured, yet your child's …

The Sword of the Spirit

Ephesians 6:17

… keep Satan out of my family by bringing up my children aright," but go to the Sunday school and teach other children, and so carry the war over …

Cries From the Cross

Psalm 22:1

… you! Perhaps in your own esteem you are the most worthless of the family—certainly the most insignificant—but the meanest lamb of Christ's flock is as …

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… with others." The promise is, "All your children shall be taught of the Lord." Not one of the whole family shall go without an education—and the very …

Lessons From the Manna

Exodus 16:4

… And their God, who loved the children of Israel and chose them—and determined to make them a peculiar people unto Himself, undertook to teach them—and He …

The Reason Why Many Cannot Find Peace

James 4:7-10

… It is for our good that like a father in a family He commands us this or forbids us the other. It is wanton cruelty to ourselves when …

Love's Vigilance Rewarded

Solomon 3:4

… The child of God cannot long be mistaken for a worldling. The lily rises up above its thorny companions, but everybody knows that it is not a thorn …

Life Proved by Love

1 John 3:14

… they grown up to be better than the children of the most ungodly. I believe, concerning everybody's child, that it must be born again, that the Spirit …

The Reward Of The Righteous

Matthew 25:31-36

… My reward, if I am a child of God, cannot come to me while I am in union with the wicked. Even on earth you will have the …

The Physician Pardons His Palsied Patient

Matthew 9:2-7

… That sick child. Your dear husband who is at home ill. That business which is flagging and likely to fail. That disease of yours which is weakening you …

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

… We are never secure from trouble—it meets us around the family hearth and causes us to suffer in our own persons or in those of the dearest …

Believers—Lights In The World

Philippians 2:14-16

… I would that every Believer here, whether member of this Church or of any of the part of Christ's family, might see to it, that from now …

The Great Liberator

John 8:36

… Oh, to be a child and to give the obedience of a child and not the homage of a serf! But the Antinomian says, "I am not under …

Unsound Spiritual Trading

Proverbs 16:2

… been during the week? How are they dressed? How are their children educated? Is there any family prayer? Is there anything in the household that is Christian? Look …