Family & Children

A Man of God Alone With God

Psalm 119:26

… He is a child of God—how can he live happily in his Father's house unless he often sees his Father's face, speaks with Him and …

“Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth”

1 Corinthians 15:19

… yea, in the silent watch my mind was led out to admire the deep and inexpressible ocean of joy wherein the whole family of heaven do swim. Each …

Hope, Yet No Hope—No Hope, Yet Hope

Isaiah 57:10

… I ask the children of God to pray that I may be enabled to simply but earnestly deal with men's souls this morning! It is their conversion …

The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

… For them, their wives exist; for them, their children are born; for them, everything is placed where it appears in God’s universe; and they judge all things …

Three Precious Things

1 Peter 2:7

… To every child of God who is saved, the Savior must forever be fairest among the fair. To every heir of Heaven who has experienced the sweetness of …

Open Praise and Public Confession

Psalm 138:1-3

… If you are God's child, you will see what others of God's children see there. And in the great fundamental Truths discoverable in His Word, the …

The Sermon of the Seasons

Genesis 8:22

… When the sun goes down at night, not even a little child fears that God has blown out the sun, and that the great candle will never be …

Barriers Broken Down

Romans 10:3

… Oh, for more prayer! Let us cry to God in secret, in the family and in all our assemblies, that God would save the sons of men! But …

A Home Mission Sermon

Ecclesiastes 9:10

… and why are we here? Would God keep his children out of paradise a single moment longer than was necessary? Yet it is not absolutely necessary for them …

Prayer—the Forerunner of Mercy

Ezekiel 36:37

… So long as thou hast a child unpardoned, pray for it; so long as thou hast a child alive that is saved, pray for him, that he may …

The Father's Love to His Dying Son

John 10:17

… As such, He comes to us first at Bethlehem, "wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." We behold Him a babe, a child, a man, a …

Angelic Protection in Appointed Ways

Psalm 91:11

… OUR subject this morning was the sprinkling of the blood of the paschal lamb upon the lintel and the two doorposts of the houses of the children of …

The Meek and Lowly One

Matthew 11:28-30

… Little children, ye may put your trust in him. Ye may say your little prayer, “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look on me, a little Child; Pity my …

"All the Day Long"

Proverbs 23:17

… This is accompanied by a child-like trust in Him which leads to loving obedience, tender submission and lowly adoration. It is a filial fear. Not the fear …

Lessons From Nature

Psalm 104:17-18

… In a family of children each child may be like its father, and yet each child shall be different from each other child; and amongst the children of …

The Test of Taste

1 Peter 2:3

… Because He is gracious He has put us among the children by the gift of adoption and has made provision for us as members of His family. We …

The Strong One Driven Out By A Stronger One

Luke 11:21-26

… He begins to pray, even sets up family prayer. He attends Prayer Meetings, feels some sort of enjoyment in the excitement of religion. He goes where the saints …

A Dirge for the Down-grade and a Song For Faith

Isaiah 66:10

… ordered aright? Is there family prayer observed, not as a matter of form, but in life and power? Am I towards my children, towards my husband, towards my …

Friendship's Guide

John 15:14

… But though two notes, though different, may be in perfect harmony, so is it with the heart of Christ and the heart of His renewed child. What Jesus …

The Ravens' Cry

Psalm 147:9

… It needs God Himself to set a man praying in sincerity and in truth! We can, if we think about it, teach our children to "say their prayers …

The Nazarene and the Sect of the Nazarenes

Matthew 2:23

… It is sublime beyond sublimity! But it is plain so that a little child may understand it. A man with slender wit may find his way to Heaven …

The Man Of Sorrows

Isaiah 53:3

… We may remember the travail, for the Man Child is born into the world. The sowing in tears is followed by a reaping in joy. The bruising of …

Perfect Justification and Perfect Pardon

Jeremiah 50:20

… The Lord was angry with those who had made His child cry, as a father is angry with one who injures a beloved child of his, or as …

'Whose Goodness Never Fails'

John 10:11

… As for the children, poor little dears, they cannot take care of themselves—nor can you, though you try hard to do it. And as your little children …

Paul's Doxology

Ephesians 3:20

… And their children and they shall praise Him and their children and they shall praise Him. And when the time comes that the earth grows old and Christ …

A Catechism for the Proud

1 Corinthians 4:7

… You might have been born in a kraal of the Hottentot instead of in the midst of a family of believers in Christ. The very privilege of hearing …

Heaven Below

Revelation 7:16

… Our fellow men grow hot about this and that—the pursuit of wealth, the triumph of party politics, the honor of a family and so forth—and we …

Spring

Isaiah 61:11

… little child—if he were a man he would know better. You go and teach your Sunday school class and you expect to see all the children converted …

The Healing of One Born Blind

John 9:32

… such ought I to be." "Such our family has always been, therefore such will I be and such shall my children be." No matter how sure may be …

Untitled Sermon

Exodus 15:1

… family. But I would not always keep to the minor key. Oh no! Let us sing songs of joy and victory! Doubts and fears ill become the children …

Scales Taken From the Eyes

Acts 11:18

… The Lord gave you to me as my spiritual children and if it should come to pass that earthly fathers should not see their children in Heaven, yet …

Christian Conversation

Psalm 145:11

… It is, however, much to be regretted that true children of the Lord often talk too little of Him. What is the conversation of half the professors of …

Holiness Demanded

Hebrews 12:14

… The moment you know a man who can tell you what a child of God should be and then appears himself exactly what he should notbe—just quit …

Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy

John 16:20-22

… but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And you …

Jesus and the Lambs

Isaiah 40:11

… When Jesus took a little child and set him in the midst, He had not to go far for the living illustration, for the little children were always …

Why Is Faith So Feeble?

Mark 4:40

… Like frightened children, they cried, "Master, care You not that we perish?" They were by no means overly wise, but now they were at their wits' end. When …

Untrodden Ways

Joshua 3:4

… Let us turn first to the case of the children of Israel. They were certainly where they had never been before. With the exception of Joshua and Caleb …

A Test for True Seekers

Jeremiah 50:5

… there is the more reason why the child should be earnest to be right! There have been enough in your family who have been lost—why should not …

Our Lord's Substitution

1 Peter 2:24

… has bid me do?" Are you worried by the little troubles of the family? Are you getting tired of trying to bear a testimony for Christ in the …

A Hasty Expression Penitently Retracted

Psalm 31:22

… The children of God delight in doctrinal preaching and in practical preaching—but I believe that nothing is so sweet to them as experimental preaching by which we …