Family & Children

The Joint Heirs and Their Divine Portion

Romans 8:17

… Then he adds—“If children then heirs”—though this does not hold true in all families, because all children are not heirs, frequently the first-born may take …

Praise for the Gift of Gifts

2 Corinthians 9:15

… They are the children of His family and come to Him as children come to a father, with loving confidence. Think of being made a son of God …

Life, and the Path to It

Psalm 16:11

… You will devote Your wisdom and Your strength to me, taking me by the hand and leading me, as a father leads his child. You will be gentle …

Our Hiding Place

Isaiah 32:2

… there is a skeleton in every house—some cause of sorrow in every family. A man may have a flourishing business, but there may come serious losses. Or …

Growth in Faith

Luke 17:5

… A child has a pearl in its hand. Yes, but now the child has grown up into a man and he has the same pearl, but how differently …

Circumcision and Uncircumcision

Galatians 5:6

… It is a mark of the child of God that he loves the rest of the family. "We know that we have passed from death unto life because …

Private and Confidential

Psalm 25:14

… for a generation! The child of God has been shown the Covenant—therefore he knows he shall never be cast out of the family, for the love of …

A Painful and Puzzling Question

Mark 4:40

… How is it that you doubt Me?" Beloved, if we doubt our fellow men, it is not strange, for Judas is one of a large family. But to …

The Voices of Our Days

Job 32:7

… Did your mother teach you? Are you a mother? Then teach your children. Did you learn from your father? Then, Father, be not ungenerous to your family. Hand …

The Dejected Lover

Solomon 3:1-4

… yet never lose fellowship with Jesus, but with nothing more than your little family to manage, you may lose Him if you let the cravings and the covetousness …

A Voice from the Hartley Colliery

Job 14:14

… If there were any fathers who perished in the pit who had neglected the training of their children, they cannot live again to educate them for Christ. If …

God in Nature and in Revelation

Psalm 19:7-9

… He gives testimony to His own Fatherhood and to His adoption into His family of all who believe in His Son, Jesus Christ. He gives testimony to all …

Growth in Grace

2 Peter 3:18

… fighting with my brother, and he did this,' the Lord would say, 'Children of one family fight? The birds of one nest disagree? How sad it is!'" It …

Limiting God

Psalm 78:41

… A mother has been anxious for her children’s conversion. Her eldest son has been the object of her fervent prayer. Never a morning has passed without earnest …

The First Cry from the Cross

Luke 23:34

… Under great losses and crosses, one is adapt to think that God is not dealing with us as a father with a child, but rather as a severe …

Our Leader Through the Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… I believe every child of God can say the same. Do not the dews fall at eventide? Could we bear the perpetual shining of the burning sun? Is …

The Man Who Shall Never See Death

John 8:51-53

… By him every teaching of the Word was accepted with a lively, child-like faith—and though tempted by the school of doubt—he was not in the …

Praise Comely to the Upright

Psalm 33:1

… Think not that all praise is gathered up in singing! It is the praise of God when the mother tells her child of the goodness of Him who …

Good Cheer From Christ's Call and From Himself

Mark 10:46-52

… anybody out of the house because he had not been introduced to the family? Must he send his card up and obtain leave to enter? I reckon that …

Cheering Congratulation

Psalm 32:1

… He is regenerated, quickened, invigorated and brought into newness of life! More still, he is adopted, initiated into a Divine Family, invested with a new relationship and made …

'The Shadow of a Great Rock'

Isaiah 32:2

… The dear child whom we loved so fondly has sickened and died. The husband or the wife, the delight of our eyes, has been borne away to the …

A Visit to the Tomb

Matthew 28:6

… deny your children any pure gratification, I am sure, without intending their real good. How many of you have a way, when you put your child into a …

Wanted!—Volunteers

2 Chronicles 17:16

… Many a young woman has taken her position in a family where temptation has been like Nebuchadnezzar's furnace to her. But if you serve God, He may …

The Glorious Hereafter and Ourselves

2 Corinthians 5:5

… If a child had lived in a mine it might be content with the glimmer of candle light. But if it should hear of the sun, the green …

On Spiritualizing

… 8; “The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.” “‘The sucking child,’ that …

A Promise and Precedent

John 16:14

… living and laboring in obscurity—or possibly a young child or a maiden scarcely known beyond your own family circle, yet believe me—when you see the Lord …

Salvation to the Uttermost

Hebrews 7:25

… I find salvation written nowhere, till in this volume of my Father’s grace I find his blessed love unfolded towards the great human family, teaching them that …

The Eye—a Similitude

Psalm 17:8

… Keep me when I am at the table, that I sin not against You in the midst of social communion with my family or my friends. "Lord, where …

God, the All-Seeing One

Proverbs 15:11

… how much more then the hearts of the children of men?”— Proverbs 15:11. YOU HAVE OFTEN smiled at the ignorance of heathens who bow themselves before gods …

God's Word Not to Be Refused

Hebrews 12:25

… And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked …

The Best of Masters

John 14:27

… Others will pour their wealth into coffers of the church and every living soul, numbered in the family of Christ, will spend itself and be spent for its …

'Return Unto Your Rest'

Psalm 116:7

… feel that He never smote a child of His except in love, that He never even frowned at one of His children except in love—and that He …

Members Of Christ

Ephesians 5:30

… Remember that in every family, the wife is the mother of the children, and so it is in the Church of Christ. He would have us all bear …

An Antidote to Satan's Devices

Genesis 3:1

… Sometimes he will attack the child of God with the remembrance of a ribald song, or a licentious joke which he may have heard in the days of …

Mr. Fearing Comforted

Matthew 14:31

… Aha!” the devil would say, “here is a child of God, and God has turned him out of his family, and I have got him in hell at …

Stumbling at the Word

1 Peter 2:8

… That which is merely natural has its season of decay, but the children of God have the Word of the Lord abiding in them—and that never dies …

Plenary Absolution

Psalm 103:12

… He becomes a child of God and, as a child, he may be chastened, but he will never have to stand before God as his Judge and be …

The Best Donation

2 Corinthians 8:5

… God's weak children where they are nourished and grow strong. It is the fold for Christ's sheep—the home for Christ's family. It is due …

The Lamb In Glory

Revelation 5:6

… Beloved, is it so? Is Jesus the center of the whole heavenly family? Shall He not be the center of our Church life? Will we not think most …

Unreasonable Reasons

Matthew 14:31

… if our child or our wife should not be able to trust us, that would be the end to all the joys of the family! Oh, how Christ …