Family & Children

What and Whence Are These?

Revelation 7:13-14

… God's elect are not pampered like spoiled children, neither are they like 'the tender and delicate woman who would not adventure to set the sole of her …

True and Not True

John 9:31

… While I was but a child and knew not the Lord in a saving sense, I was taught by my parents that God heard prayer and I distinctly …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… If there are any children of God here—and I fear there may be many—who have grown cold in heart and who have wandered from the Lord …

Saved In Hope

Romans 8:24

… A perfect child grows and so does a perfect child of God. The nearer we come to perfect cleanness of heart, the more shall we mourn over the …

A Paradox

2 Corinthians 12:10

… I am the feeblest child in all thy family, leave me not, neither forsake me. If thou leavest any, leave not thy poor dying infant, that can hardly …

Charity and Purity

James 1:27

… The blood of the paschal lamb was on the lintel and the two side posts of the house of every family of Israel. It was not on the …

Holy Work For Christmas

Luke 2:17-20

… Like other children, the holy Child needed care, which only a mother's hand and heart could exercise. She was, therefore, engrossed with Him. O blessed engrossment! Sweet …

Good Cheer for Many That Fear

Isaiah 35:4

… dear Friend, that your ignorance can push you out of the family of God! Little children cannot read Greek and Latin, but they can say, Abba, Father," and …

"They Were Tempted"

Hebrews 11:37

… the family is set by the ears by Hagar. He is tried in his wife, for she complains against him wrongfully. He is tried in his children, for …

Holy Water

John 4:14

… It is guaranteed by the same Covenant and if a child of God on earth can perish, a child of God in Heaven may, for anything I can …

The Turning Point

Luke 15:20

… Every earnest sermon, every death in your family, every funeral knell for a neighbor, every pricking of conscience, every touch of sickness, sets you a resolving to amend …

Bit and Bridle—How To Escape Them

Psalm 32:8

… But all this is unnatural to the child of God. Your children do not go about your house with bits in their mouths and bridles on their heads …

'Flee From the Wrath to Come'

Matthew 3:7

… Your Baptism, your church or your chapel attendance, your eating of the Lord's Supper, your saying of collects, your family prayers, your giving of your guineas— everything …

The Ascension and the Second Advent Practically Considered

Acts 1:10

… He was great at apocalyptic symbols; but he had seven children, and he had no family prayer. If he had left the vials and trumpets and minded his …

Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin

Matthew 9:2

… children escaped. Judge of their horror when they counted them over, to discover that one little one was missing. Nothing would content them while that dear child was …

"Your First Love"

Jeremiah 2:2

… Therefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. For pass over the isles of Cyprus and see …

Comfort for Those Whose Prayers Are Feeble

Lamentations 3:56

… Moreover, God, our ever-blessed Father, has a quick ear to hear the breathing of any of His children. When a mother has a sick child, it is …

Idols Found Wanting, But Jehovah Found Faithful

Isaiah 46:1-4

… There is a quaint saying of Bishop Hall that God has a very large family and not one of His children can run alone. In a certain sense …

North and South

Isaiah 43:6

… It is possible that you may fall in with a family which seems to be naturally religious: you may even meet with tribes of people who appear to …

The Top of the Ladder

Ephesians 3:19

… As a child lies on its mother's bosom, so may you rest upon the love of Christ, leaning all your weight upon Him. May you never have …

Near the Kingdom, or in It?

Mark 12:34

… It is a hopeful sign when we are willing to sit on the children's seat, remembering our Lord's words to His disciples, "Except you be converted …

A Loving Entreaty

Isaiah 43:26

… The service of God is not bondage! Ask His children how they find it. When they take His yoke upon them and learn of Him, they find rest …

Divine Interpositions

Psalm 18:16

… Yet I can imagine the best of saints to be flooded with many troubles in their last hours—physical weakness, depression of spirit, temptations of Satan, family difficulties …

The Far-off, Near—the Near, Far Off

Matthew 2:1-4

… But the children of the Kingdom"—that is, you people who have heard the Gospel ever since you were children—"the children of the Kingdom shall be cast …

The Holy Spirit’s Intercession

Romans 8:26

… He knows and comprehends the cryings, and meanings, and sighings, and chatterings of his bewildered children. Yea, a tender mother knows her child’s needs before the child …

Alpha And Omega

Revelation 22:13

… EVERY Sunday school child knows that there is no great mystery hidden in the words, "Alpha and Omega." We have here the names of the first and last …

Our Stronghold

Proverbs 18:10

… life for a child of God. We should not have liked to see the Prince of Wales in his boyhood playing with the children in the street, and …

The Servants and the Pounds

Luke 19:12

… With your physical strength, your mental faculties, your substance, your family—with everything—you are to bring glory to God and honor to the name of Jesus! It …

Preparation for the Coming of the Lord

1 John 2:28

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "And now, little children, abide in Him. That, when He shall appear, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him …

The Peace of the Devil and the Peace of God

Luke 11:21

… When children are born to you and with them come family cares, take the new burden to the Lord, for He gives peace. And if the children die …

Impotence and Omnipotence

John 5:5-9

… I have no Christian friend in the family. I have no one to whom I can go for help—and that is why I stick fast where I …

The Northern Iron and the Steel

Jeremiah 15:12

… As a loving father, fearful of Eli’s doom, uses the rod upon his child, but feels each stroke in his own heart far more acutely than the …

A Cheery Word in Troublous Times

Acts 27:25

… I think I am the most useless of all the family." Tell them, "He gives power to the weak and to him that has no strength He increases …

Christ the Maker of All Things New

… One Divine says that our children ought not to need conversion! This theory is false throughout, for the best of children are, by nature, heirs of wrath even …

The Ever-Living Priest

Hebrews 7:23-25

… He knows the secrets of my family. He knows those delicate griefs which I have never dared to tell to anybody else. Alas, he is dead and half …

Proclamation of Acceptance and Vengeance

Isaiah 61:2

… He looked upon his wife and children and rejoiced that they were all his own and all free from the yoke so that they could, at once, return …

Mourners, Inquirers, Covenanters

Jeremiah 50:4

… of the Master! First that you may become His child, secondly that you may be put among the children. We pray the Holy Spirit to teach you this …

Meat Indeed, and Drink Indeed

John 6:55

… I have no doubt that a wise father's talk is good to his children, even though the child does not as yet understand him. He will lay …

The Singular Origin of a Christian

Ephesians 2:10

… Of all Christians, whether Jews or Gentiles—of all Christians, even if they are the highest Apostles, like Paul, or the least of all the family of love …

The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… Shall the child of light walk in darkness? The normal condition of a child of God is to walk in the light, as God is in the light …