Family & Children

"Persecuted, But Not Forsaken"

… God's children most fiercely when they are young. Fight one of your own size, Sir! But that he is afraid to do. When the child of God …

Everyday Usefulness

John 1:42

… Let your dear child's name be repeated again and again in your intercessions. As Abraham pleaded for Ishmael, so let your cry come up for those who …

The Fourfold Treasure

1 Corinthians 1:30

… They are not right motives for a child of God. How then should we urge the child of God to holiness? Should it not be in this way …

The Sunday School and the Scriptures

2 Timothy 3:15

… Who should teach the children but the parents? Timothy's father was a Greek and probably a heathen, but his child was happy in having a venerable grandmother …

The Great Arbitration Case

Job 9:33

… He has served his family, his wife and children, but his Maker he has despised. He has served his country, his neighbors, the borough in which he dwells …

The Barrier

Revelation 21:27

… I see inside the room your little children, playing in full health! Shall I venture among them? I long to escape from the cold outside, but if I …

Golden Bowls Full Of Incense

Revelation 5:8

… He says we are like little children who run into the garden to gather flowers to please their father, but we are so ignorant and childish that we …

Christ the Conqueror of Satan

Genesis 3:16

… I mean not the carnal seed, for Paul tells us, “They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children …

A Call to the Lord's Own Flock

Ezekiel 34:30

… the decree of God we are adopted into the Divine family and acknowledged to be the children of the living God, even we who were once heirs of …

Looking for One Thing and Finding Another

1 Samuel 9:3

… I have said never despair of your child, and I will put it to you again—if you have friends who are infidel, or persecuting, or profane, yet …

Free Grace a Motive for Free Giving

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… Now, a father does not pay wages to his children. His gifts to them are freely bestowed out of the love of his fatherly heart. What father expects …

The Withered Fig Tree

Matthew 21:17-20

… When the Lord makes the first in position to be first in holiness, it is a blessing to the church, to the family, and to the neighborhood; indeed …

A Private Enquiry

1 Samuel 3:17

… sin and thus he is often farther off from God than the child. If the children here present are, by God's Grace, made willing to hear God …

Before Daybreak with Christ

Mark 1:35-39

… of petitions, but yet we are, by Divine Grace, the children of the Lord, and the child says many things to his Father beside that which takes the …

A Cure for a Weak Heart

Psalm 31:24

… If you are, indeed, a child of God, your hope lies where as yet your eyes do not see, nor your hands grasp. God's people are a …

The Sprinkling of the Blood of the Sacrifice

Leviticus 4:6

… We should be continually pleading for our children, for our friends, for our neighbors, for those who are hopeful and those who seem hopeless. But the great plea …

The Joy Of Jesus

Luke 10:21

… They rejoiced in their success as children do in their little achievements. But their Lord was thankful because He saw the open-heartedness and the simplicity of their …

Peter'S Three Calls

John 1:37

… You are a mother with little children, and it is probably your duty to be at home rather than to be at the Prayer Meeting. It may sometimes …

Lecture 1: A Chat about Commentaries

… It is that learning which it was my happiness from a child to be trained up in by my ever honoured father, whose memory must always be very …

The Echo

Psalm 27:8

… Suppose your child comes and asks you for something—it is God teaching you to do the same—to go like a child to your heavenly Father. If …

The Flight to Zoar

Genesis 19:23

… scarcely understand what it can be—there are two men pushing forth a family into the street. You see them next grasping their hands and with loving haste …

"Waters To Swim In"

… The child of God, as he advances in the Divine life rejoices in the abundance of Covenant provisions. Let me mention some which strike me as exceedingly abundant …

Refusing to Be Comforted

Psalm 77:2

… His righteousness, when He had taken me into the family and made me His brother and a child of God, when He had gone to Heaven on purpose …

Holy Longings

Psalm 119:20

… Hence our proverb—"The child is father to the man." Even in little children tastes and pursuits have been prophetic—the young artist sketches his sister in the …

Immeasurable Love

John 3:16

… of the family was to sell one of the children into slavery. So they considered it. The pinch of hunger became unbearable, and their children pleading for bread …

Partnership With Christ

1 Corinthians 1:9

… And every child of God, when he is in his right mind, will look upon himself in the same way— "What was there in you that could merit …

The Sluggard's Reproof

Proverbs 20:4

… And she dreamt, at the Day of Judgment, she and her children arose from the family tomb. The trumpet was rending the air with its terrific blast and …

Teaching for the Outer and Inner Circles

Mark 4:33

… See how your children will read the parables of Jesus and remember them. What is the best book to put before a child when it is learning to …

Divine Forgiveness Admired and Imitated

Colossians 3:13

… He enquired about her family and learned that she had once enjoyed a happy home and had known a tender father's love. "But he would never look …

An Old-Fashioned Conversion

Job 33:29

… laid you very low? Are you now almost the only survivor of a family, all the members of which, except yourself, have been taken away by consumption, or …

Mysterious Meat

John 4:31-38

… You must go on talking with your little children in your classes; you must go on speaking to the few sick persons you are able to visit; you …

Co-workers With God

Psalm 127:1

… The Psalmist had been speaking about house building and there is the building up of the house in the sense of a family being built up by children …

The Divine Call for Missionaries

Isaiah 6:8

… The Father asks, "Who will go for Me and invite My far-off children to return?" The Son enquires, "Who will seek for Me, My redeemed but wandering …

No Difference

Matthew 5:45

… Watts taught us to sing when we were children— "My God, who makes the sun to know His proper hour to rise, And to give light to all …

Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc. (Second Lecture)

… As children seem never to have exhausted their mischievous tricks, so speakers appear never to be at the end of their singular gestures. Even the best fall into …

Joyful Anticipation of the Second Advent

Luke 21:28-31

… When they come before God, their cry is, "Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners." Well, but surely a true child of God gets above that condition! He …

Hidden Manna

Jeremiah 15:16

… Blessed is that man who is so humbled as to become like a little child in the submission of his mind, his judgment, and all his faculties to …

Lecture V: 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 …

Why Some Seekers Are Not Saved

Isaiah 59:1

… Oh, be not too great to enter Heaven! Be converted and become as little children, otherwise you shall in no wise enter therein. I am going to close …

Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle

Psalm 73:22-25

… I have known him lose child after child, and yet he still thought the world had many charms. I have known him sick, yet he has had pleasure …