Family & Children

Remember Lot's Wife

Luke 17:32

… child of a prophet and yet the curse of the prophet's God may light upon you! Or you may be the father of a most gracious family …

Psalm 101

Psalm 101

… Wicked nurses have great influence for evil over the minds of little children, and ungodly servants often injure the morals of the older members of the family, and …

Delay Is Dangerous

Genesis 24:55

… What bliss must have thrilled him with the word of his gracious parent's lips! The best robe! The precious ring! The costly shoes! The fatted calf! All …

"I Thought"

2 Kings 5:11

… we thought! We prayed God to bless our family, and, lo, our wife is taken away, or our child sickens! We besought the Lord to make us more …

Christ's Great Mission

Matthew 20:28

… sit at the feet of the meanest child of God, if I am but to be numbered in the family—glad enough to have the same salvation which …

The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy

Galatians 5:22

… the delight of His children and is glad to see them grateful and happy and acting as children should do towards such a Parent! Now, Brothers and Sisters …

Enoch

Genesis 5:21-24

… Cherish it well, and as that child walks lovingly with you, so do you walk lovingly with God." It is a delight to such children with their fathers …

Cheer Up, My Comrades!

2 Chronicles 35:2

… I am sure that the holy serenity of a suffering child of God is one of the best sermons that can ever be preached in a family. A …

Once A Curse But Now A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… He is a blessing to his family. Daily prayer, Bible reading, teaching of the children—all these make his house a little Paradise. When he goes to the …

Sympathy and Song

Romans 12:15

… There are parents and, in some cases, they have brought up their children with much anxiety and godly fear—and they have trembled lest the son and daughter …

The Two Yokes

Jeremiah 28:13

… you back if you are his child, or if you are not of his family may he put you among his children and teach you to walk worthily …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… There is a mighty power in a child's cry to prevail with a parent's heart. "Give ear unto my prayer." Some repetitions are not vain. The …

Fifteen Years After!

Job 1:21

… husbands, their wives, their children, or their friends! It is no unusual thing for a little child to be the god of the family—and wherever that is …

Silken Cords

Hosea 11:4

… The parent has seen his children, one after another, laid upon a bed of sickness with fever, but yet they have all been spared. Or he, himself, has …

Later Literary Works

… It is very well for the good wife to have a little black draught at hand when the child needs it sometimes; but to give the whole family …

The Mission of the Son of Man

Luke 19:10

… be lost to the family. We have known those who have become so vile, that even after society has shut them out, a parent has been obliged to …

Psalm 61

Psalm 61

… ritualists may be satisfied when they have, "said or sung" their litanies and collects, but living children of God will never rest till their supplications have entered the …

"By All Means, Save Some"

1 Corinthians 9:22

… Beloved, if you have to talk to children, be children—do not expect them to be men. Think their thoughts, feel their feelings and put truth into their …

A Practical Discourse

1 Kings 5:14

… our children, what a blessed reward awaits us! "I have no greater joy than this, that my children walk in the Truth of God." Every Christian parent may …

Memories of my Father (Continued)

… How cheering it is for you as a parent to live again in your children, and to march once more to the holy war in the vigorous zeal …

Serving the Lord With Gladness

Psalm 100:2

… Take the case of the Well-Beloved, who is the pattern of all the family. When He was but a Child, He was found in the temple hearing …

The Beauty Of The Olive Tree

Hosea 14:6

… spot is not the spot of God's children. Yet you know that if one child in your family happens to have a defect somewhere or other, you …

Standing and Singing

Psalm 26:12

… place where, in the midst of your little family, you may bring your children up as a godly parent should, and at last, before the clods of the …

The Beatific Vision

1 John 3:2

… Have you never heard of mothers having recognized their children years after they were lost by the marks and wounds upon their bodies? Ah! beloved, if we ever …

Glorious Predestination

Romans 8:29

… a child of God, and the result of those works proves that God works in him as he will never do in any but his own children. Thus …

The Wandering Bird

Proverbs 27:8

… When a man finds it impossible to provide bread for an increasing family in this country, one of the wisest things that he can do is to cross …

Why They Leave Us

John 17:24

… of the table but the father? All the interests of the children unite in the parent, and he feels for them all. From the great Father the Lord …

God's Firebrands

Zechariah 3:2

… Job was highly favored in having such a family of sons and daughters. 3. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred …

Sin's True Character

Romans 7:13

… In your family you feel, as a father, that nothing can go smoothly unless there is a head whose discretion shall regulate all the members. If your child …

A Gross Indignity

Matthew 27:30

… In the associations you have formed, and in your family connections, you often encounter a treatment which is not pleasant to flesh and blood. Does not the Evil …

Vile Ingratitude!

Ezekiel 16:1-2

… When we think how we despised the training we received, could laugh at a mother’s prayers and contemn all the earnest tender exhortations which a godly parent …

Love's Logic

1 John 4:19

… and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.” “Return, ye backs1iding children, and I will …

Love's Reward

Psalm 91:14

… But, to explain it, why, one had need combine a poet's genius with the emotions of a child, a husband or wife, a parent, a friend, all …

Consolation For The Despairing

Psalm 31:22

… God is very jealous over His little children, and if the more vigorous members of the family are not kind to them, He may take away their strength …

The Ship on Fire—A Voice of Warning

Genesis 19:17

… money; if you could just make ends meet, keep your family, and supply the wants of your children—that is all—are you not to think of this …

A Wonderful Transformation

John 16:20

… When we get home to Glory, we shall be like children who have grown up, who, sometimes say to a wise parent, "Father, I have forgotten about the …

Lame Sheep

Hebrews 12:13

… I suppose there is seldom a family which has no sickly member. However hale and hearty most of the sons and daughters may be, there is likely to …

The Principal Wheat

Isaiah 28:25

… If there had not been some information concerning farming conveyed to our first parent when he left the Garden of Eden, he would not have known how to …

The Saints' Love to God

Psalm 31:23

… Parent, you love your children. Children, you love your parents. And all of you love your friends and it is well that you do. But you must spell …

A Wilderness Cry

Psalm 63:1

… been alienated and his family disgraced! But not so the living parent who anxiously regards each turn in the affairs of his children! For him there are tears …