Family & Children

Faith

Hebrews 11:6

… Faith is the father of holiness, and he has not the parent who loves not the child. God’s blessings are blessings with both his hands. In the …

Soul Murder—Who Is Guilty?

Psalm 51:14

… family duties? I fear that this is one of the sins of this age. The Puritans were noted for the care in which they brought up their children …

Morning And Evening Songs

Psalm 92:2

… In His own dear Son He has taken us into His family. We are children of God— "heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ Jesus." And there …

Faith Purifying the Heart

Acts 15:9

… Faith is the parent of right emotions. Never confuse the mother with the children. If you would have men purified, aim, by the blessing of God, to produce …

The Lambs And Their Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… It is not a man's age alone, yet for the most part the young in years are also children in the Divine family. The distinguishing mark lies …

Additions to the Church

… you to watch over them! Never let it be said that any parent discourages his child, that any guardian discourages the young after they have come forward and …

The Nobleman's Faith

John 4:46-53

… Hence his prayer was, "Sir, come down before my child dies." If he could but induce the Lord Jesus to enter the room where the sick child lay …

“All These Things”—A Sermon with Three Texts

Genesis 42:36

… You see it is the father all through—the loving parent thinking only of his children—the natural affections predominating. You see nothing here of the grandeur of …

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… The expressions are metaphorical, and borrowed from the carriage of a parent to a child, and upon the matter his suit is this,—Lord, notice me when I …

The Angelic Life

Matthew 22:30

… And I can imagine the soul of the Believer rejoicing over the child that was left unconverted, saved after its parent's ascent into Heaven—saved through the …

Bringing Sinners to the Savior

Mark 9:17-20

… If you have no family prayer and your children do not grow up to be Christians, how can you expect that they will? If there is no altar …

The Silken Fetter

Hosea 3:5

… No father commands the obedience of his children like the parent whose affection to his children has been most manifest and undoubted. Fathers who provoke their children to …

Psalm 73

Psalm 73

… I am continually with thee, as a child the tender care of a parent; and as a parent, during my danger of falling in a slippery path, "thou …

To The Thoughtless

Isaiah 1:3

… When you have recollected how family prayer used to be offered in your father's house when you were a child, and how it is neglected in your …

Unbelievers Upbraided

Mark 16:14

… If mutual trust were taken away from any family, how unhappy the members of that family would be—the children suspecting the sincerity of their parents' love—the …

Three Crosses

Galatians 6:14

… A family sensitively shrinks if one of its members has been hanged and much the same would be the natural feeling of one who was told that his …

A Cure For Care

1 Peter 5:7

… about their being blessings, as God sends them." A Christian parent must have care about his children and all the more because he is a Christian, since he …

A Desperate Case—How to Meet It

Matthew 17:19-21

… relations and such children as these. It is one of the heaviest afflictions which can come upon you. In the case before us, the child was both deaf …

Fat Things, Full of Marrow

Isaiah 54:7-10

… We are, from now on, the children of God and have come under another discipline altogether—the discipline of a loving father towards his family. The Lord may …

A Delusion Dispelled

Ezekiel 14:20

… into the Covenant! Was not Esau the child of Isaac? Yet he obtained not the inheritance! Birth, blood and family count for nothing in this matter. Thus there …

Wholehearted Religion

Jeremiah 32:39

… thorough and true, and your family will respect your faith. The almost inevitable consequence of respect in a child towards his parent is a desire to imitate him …

Healing for the Wounded

Psalm 147:3

… The desertion of a man by his fellows, the ingratitude of children to their parents, the unkindness of parents to their children, the betrayal of secrets by a …

Human Depravity And Divine Mercy

Genesis 8:21

… But I will say that any man who declares children to be born perfect never was a father! If he would only watch his own child—not merely …

Out Of Egypt

Matthew 2:14

… When the Man-Child was born, the Dragon knew who that Man-Child was and sought to destroy Him. He vomited forth floods to sweep Him away, until …

Pride and Humility

Proverbs 18:12

… Pride, the first-born son of hell, is indeed like its parent, all unclean and vile, and in it there is neither form, fashion, nor comeliness. In the …

The Novelties of Divine Mercy

Lamentations 3:22

… wasted away! Admire the compassion of God toward you! Even if one child in your family is sick, they are not all sick. If the Lord has taken …

"My Times Are In Your Hand"

Psalm 31:15

… Sit still, O child, at your great Father's feet, and let Him do as seems Him good! When you cannot comprehend Him, know that a babe cannot …

True Unity Promoted

Ephesians 4:3

… But you go farther—you are not mere friends, you are Brethren born of the same parent—filled with the same life. And shall not this be a …

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

… The tyrant's sword makes many children fatherless, and who can lament when his barbarities come home to his own family, and they too, weep and lament. Pity …

Jesus About His Father’s Business

John 4:34

… Mark how he takes the little children on his knee, and though his disciples would put them away, yet his whole spirit is set truly with the poor …

The Panting Deer

Psalm 42:1

… for Him as a lost child for its father. As a bleating lamb he will not be content till he finds his parent. David pined for permission to …

The Voice From Heaven

Revelation 11:12

… this to every adopted child tonight. We say, "Our Father which are in Heaven." The Father's heart desires to have His children round His knees, and His …

A Defence of Calvinism

… My soul revolted from the man ever afterwards, for I felt that no child of God would ever be so wicked as to take poison in the faith …

The Upper Hand

Romans 6:14

… it has dominion over you and you cannot be a child of God, for over the children of God it shall not have dominion! It may break out …

The Sparrow and the Swallow

Psalm 84:3

… parent. to your children for immortality as well as for time! May these words abide with you and God bless them, so that we and our children may …

A Christmas Question

Isaiah 9:6

… If ye are not children, then this child is not born to you. 3. And now let us take the second sentence and put a question or two …

The Compassion of Jesus

Matthew 9:36

… the first Adam, the Covenant Head as well as the common parent of the entire human family, and that in consequence of that one man's disobedience every …

Mr. Evil-Questioning Tried and Executed

2 Kings 5:12

… There is one other child. I have left him to the last; and then I have done with the family—Mr. Unbelief “Now,” says Bunyan, “Unbelief was a …

The Unrivalled Friend

Proverbs 17:17

… family. Now let every Believer in Jesus here catch the meaning of this with regard to Christ. Jesus Christ was born for you. "Unto us a Child is …

Prepare To Meet Your God

Amos 4:12

… The faintest intimation would suffice for our first parent, for the crown of Paradise to him was the Presence of the Lord God. And Eden's rivers, though …