Family & Children

Good Advice For Troublous Times

Isaiah 26:20

… for the Lord can see! If the father of the family knows what is to occur, his children will not be without due warning and, therefore, God, when …

Howling Changed To Singing

Psalm 13:1

… God cannot forget anything, it is impossible! "Can a woman forget her sucking child?" Mark that expression, the child that still draws its nourishment from her bosom. That …

Love's Crowning Deed

John 15:13

… He made little of Job's losing his sheep, and his cattle, and his children and remaining patient. But he said, "Skin for skin; yes all that a …

Memory—The Handmaid Of Hope

Lamentations 3:21

… And you were but a child then. And she told you how God provided for her and for you and the rest of that little needy family in …

The Greatest Wonder of Grace

Ezekiel 9:8

… The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. It corroborates the testimony of conscience. We feel that we are the children …

Slaying the Sacrifice

Leviticus 1:5

… When a child gathers flowers in the spring meadows when they are all golden with the kingcups, he fills his hands once, but he is almost persuaded to …

Earnest Expostulation

Romans 2:4

… What more do you need? When the child has offended, you say, “Child, unless you beg pardon at once, I must punish you”: would you give a boy …

The Everlasting Counselor

Micah 4:9

… out my children in situations for life. In regard to what servants I shall take into my house and whom I shall receive in my family, I always …

Justification And Glory

Romans 8:30

… If you wish for an answer in a few words, ask your children who have learned our catechism and you have it—"Justification is an act of God …

Accidents, Not Punishments

Luke 13:1-5

… Why, any child can understand the providence of God, if it be true that when there is a railway accident it is because people travel on a Sunday …

The Blind Man'S Earnest Cries

Mark 10:47

… He longed to look into the face of friends and to know his own parents or his own children by sight. Well might he, if he guessed the …

God's People in the Furnace

Isaiah 48:10

… tempted, therefore they are the children of God, whereas they are no such thing. It is a great truth that every child of God is afflicted; but it …

Love Pledging Fidelity

1 Samuel 18:3

… As Rutherford said to a noble lady who had lost a number of children, one after the other, "The Lord Jesus loves you so much that He will …

Rejoicing and Remembering

Solomon 1:4

… Should we not be glad and rejoice in Christ?— "Why should the children of a King Go mourning all their days?" Why should the children of the bride …

Providence—as Seen in the Book of Esther

Esther 9:1

… Every child of God is where God has placed Him for some purpose. The practical use of this first point is to lead you to inquire for what …

Mr. Spurgeon’s Opinions on Subjects of General Interest

… written to a minister, whose infant child had died, and to whose wife a Christadelphian had expressed the idea that children dying at that age have no existence …

A Free Grace Promise

Joel 2:32

… of your sin, and be made a new creature, a child of God, a member of the family of his grace. The most afflicted, and the most afflicted …

Conceit Rebuked

Job 34:33

… Whenever a child falls out with his father, the best thing he can do is to fall in again, for a sullen child who is angry with his …

The Beginning of Miracles Which Jesus Did

John 2:11

… She had seen Him in His infancy and watched Him as a Child—and it could not have been easy to believe in the Divinity of One whom …

Soul-threshing

Isaiah 28:27

… heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." If we, being evil, yet succeed with our children by our poor, imperfect …

The Stronghold

Nahum 1:7

… toward your child, have you? Yet you are evil and shall not He who is all good be just as full of love to His children in dark …

A Distinction with a Difference

Luke 1:18

… The Lord knows His children's frame and remembers that we are dust. I hope that many a word which drops from the child of God when he …

The First Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22

… Little children go to a shop where their little tastes are considered and they buy sticks upon which cherries have been tied—but everybody knows that they are …

Pleading, Not Contradicting

Matthew 15:27

… Send her away," stood in the same relation to her as the children of the family stand in towards the little dogs under the table! Great faith is …

'Go in Peace'

Luke 7:50

… That is to say, all those Graces which constitute the essentials of a perfect character, are in every true child of God. There is given to us, when …

Trembling at the Word of the Lord

Isaiah 66:2

… We find the children of God sometimes upon very high places—their spiritual life is vigorous and their inward joy is abounding. When we give you descriptions of …

Unparalleled Suffering

1 Peter 3:18

… And if children, then heirs. For all God's children are heirs and all equally heirs. The elder-born members of God's family, such as Abraham and …

The Friend of God

Isaiah 41:8

… down! He was a perfect child towards God and, therefore, a complete man. Unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall in no way enter …

The Throne of God and of the Lamb

Revelation 22:3

… I suppose that when He was a child He spoke as a child, understood as a child and thought as a child—I know that He lived with …

Our Lord's Last Cry from the Cross

Luke 23:46

… Now it is by regeneration and faith that we become the children of God, but how can that be if we are already the children of God? "As …

The Filling of Empty Vessels

2 Kings 4:3

… Christian people should do the same with their children and relatives. If our children are not converted, is it not, in some cases, the fact that we have …

Jehovah-Shammah

Ezekiel 35:10

… In his blind fury he smote all the young children of Bethlehem, but the newborn Prince escaped the murderous sword and so shall this young child, the new …

Constant, Instant, Expectant

Romans 12:12

… By remembering the promise in prayer hope will be sustained, and then joy is sure to spring from it, for joy is the first-born child of hope …

God Rejoicing in the New Creation

Isaiah 65:17-19

… poor, yet be glad that you are a child of God and have a place in the new family of love! Let the old things go and grasp …

Young Man! A Prayer For You

2 Kings 6:17

… If we desire the good of our servants, our children and our friends, let us take care that we make supplication for them! All that we can do …

Tokens For Good

Psalm 86:17

… am persuaded that the most whipped of the Lord's family are the best of His children. I do not say that any of you may wish for …

Jesus and the Children

Mark 10:13-16

… Jesus, the Child-Man, was never more at home than with children. The Holy Child Jesus had an affinity for children. Was He to be represented by His …

Constraining Love

Psalm 31:23

… He has taken you into His family by Divine Adoption. He has "begotten you again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead …

A Question for Hard-hearted Hearers

Amos 6:12

… Would any one of you continue to pursue an object when it proved to be hopeless? Have you ever attempted to make a child who has been in …

How the Lambs Feed

Isaiah 5:17

… To little children we do not allot the labors of husbandry—some little service in the house is suitable for them and will do them good—but we …