Family & Children

Samuel and the Young Man Saul

1 Samuel 9:27

… Forget your family. Forget your joys, forget your sorrows. You have had enough of these, I dare say, all week. Perhaps you have been haunted by them in …

Sermons — Their Matter

… parish had given a bushel of potatoes to every man who had a family, the topic on the following Sunday was, “And they said, It is manna.” I …

The Parable of the Sower

… He can set a man’s wife, children, friends, enemies, customers, or creditors, to eat up the good seed, and they will do it effectually. Oh, sorrow upon …

At School

Psalm 143:10

… You may tell a child how to walk, but it will not walk, for all that! You must teach it to walk. You must take it by the …

The Corn of Wheat Dying to Bring Forth Fruit

… I have known a mother keep back her child from God, and the child has died. Wealthy people have worshipped their wealth, and as they were God’s …

The History of Sundry Fools

Psalm 107:17-20

… In the great family of God the diversity of the features is very wonderful indeed. Look at the four pictures which are so much alike, and which indeed …

Early Wedded Life (Continued)

… To watch their children growing up in health and strength, to see them holding posts of usefulness and honour, is their mutual concern; in this and other matters …

Two Coverings and Two Consequences

Proverbs 38:13

… Little did he count on the unerring lot that would come home to the tribe of Judah, to the family of the Zarhites, to the house of Zabdir …

The Parable of the Sower

Luke 8:4-8

… He can set a man's wife, children, friends, enemies, customers, or creditors, to eat up the good seed, and they will do it effectually. Oh, sorrow upon …

Exhortation—"Set Your Heart"

1 Chronicles 22:19

… Therefore let us pledge ourselves unto God to live more and more watchfully, seeking the Lord with our heart and soul in everything—in private, in the family …

Psalm 31

Psalm 31

… As a provident man will regulate his liberality towards all men in such a manner as not to defraud his children or family, nor impoverish his own house …

Seekers Directed and Encouraged

Jeremiah 29:13

… child in it, and do not feel that you ought to be, yet you still wait under the window to hear the family sing. When the children of …

Seeking the Souls of Men

… And there is Christiana, and there are her children. It is my business, as best I can, to kill dragons, and cut off giants' heads, and lead on …

Psalm 53

Psalm 53

… God looked down from heaven upon the children of men. He did so in ages past, and he has continued his steadfast gaze from his all surveying observatory …

Israel in Egypt

Revelation 15:3

… First, it is our business to regard THE POSITION OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AS EMBLEMATICAL OF OUR OWN. And here we observe that, like the church of …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890

… God bless the parents more and more, and cause the children to be real blessings to them in later years ! That you should bid your children send me …

Psalm 45

Psalm 45

… Thou art fairer than the children of men. In person, but especially in mind and character, the King of saints is peerless in beauty. The Hebrew word is …

The Feast of the Lord

… God, when he would have the children of Israel remember that he brought them out of Egypt with a high hand and an outstretched arm, did not bid …

Psalm 68

Psalm 68

… The people had been sundered and scattered over Egypt; family ties had been disregarded, and affections crushed; but when the people escaped from Pharaoh they came together again …

The Strait Gate

Luke 13:24

… Is your heart broken—Jesus can comfort you! Have you been banished from your family, or one by one have the dear ones been taken to their last …

Psalm 43

Psalm 43

… O child of God, leave these thine enemies in better hands, remembering that vengeance belongeth not to thee, but to thy Lord. Turn to him in prayer, crying …

The Old Man Crucified

Romans 6:6

… I speak with great respect to my dear friends who wear the honorable insignia of old age, but they may let one who is a child compared to …

The Loaded Wagon

… Another child is dead! The wife is sick, and starvation stares the family in the face; but they go on still with a high hand and an outstretched …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot do

… A crop of mushrooms may soon be produced; but a forest of oaks will not reward the planter till generations of his children have mouldered in the dust …

In the Sunny South

… One morning, among the little company gathered for family prayer, Mr. T. A. Denny unexpectedly put in an appearance. In explanation of his sudden arrival, he said, " I …

The Bride and Her Ornaments—the Sin of Forgetting God

Jeremiah 2:32

… Many parents are like Eli—they cannot endure the task of chastening their children—and so, when their sons grow up to be their plague, they must not …

Distinguishing Grace

1 Corinthians 4:7

… Do you not know such? they are your own children, your husband, your wife, some of your own family, and as you look upon them, though you have …

The Evil and Its Remedy

Ezekiel 9:9

… Thou dost not know this truth, because thou hast never felt it; but if thou hadst felt it, as every true-born child of God has felt it …

Psalm 104

Psalm 104

… So the meanest child of God is necessary to the family. Verse 16. "The Cedars of Lebanon." (See "Spurgeon's Sermons," No. 529.) 1. The absence of all …

The Character of Christ’s People

John 17:16

… veins run the blood of the royal family of the universe. He is a nobleman; he is a heaven-born child. His freedom is not merely a bought …

Comfort Proclaimed

Isaiah 40:1

… console the minds of the Lord’s family. Were I to adopt a lax theology which teaches that God’s children may fall away, that although redeemed they …

Psalm 8

Psalm 8

… A young child knoweth not what striving or state meaneth, and therefore by an emblem and visible representation of a child set in the midst of them, Christ …

“In Labours More Abundant” (Continued)

… At the end is written, In French :— ” A Souvenir for my children ! Sunday, 3rd June, i860. Lord, grant that this worthy and true sermon may become to them …

Patient Job and the Baffled Enemy

Job 1:22

… During all the losses of his estate and the deaths of his children he did not speak in an unworthy manner. The text speaks admiringly of "all this …

Psalm 82

Psalm 82

… And all of you are children of the Most High. This was their ex-officio character, not their moral or spiritual relationship. There must be some government among …

Preparation for Heaven

2 Corinthians 5:5

… Only the living children can inherit the promises of the living God, for He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. We must be …

The War of Truth

Exodus 17:9

… THE CHILDREN of Israel were led out of Egypt with a strong hand and an out-stretched arm. They were conducted into the vast howling wilderness, where there …

The Fruits of Grace

Isaiah 19:18-25

… You must understand that the prophecy was given to the people of Israel, and it was given to them, as it were, to children that were using types …

A Typical Week’s Work

… At the tea-table, the conversation was bright, witty, and always interesting ; and after the meal was over, an adjournment was made to the study for family worship …

Psalm 107

Psalm 107

… And for his wonderful works to the children of men. These favours are bestowed upon our race, upon children of the family to which we belong, and therefore …