Family & Children

God Pleading For Saints, And Saints Pleading For God

Lamentations 3:58

… child as it wept in that little cradle which might soon have been its coffin? Why was it that she said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children …

The First Five Disciples

John 1:37-51

… Ah, dear Friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you! You may but speak a word to a child and in that child there may be …

Putting the Hand Upon the Head of the Sacrifice

Leviticus 1:4

… said by a child in Sunday school, when the teacher said, "You have been reading that Christ is precious: what does that mean?" The children were quiet a …

The Putting Away Of Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… You remember how all his children were taken away at a stroke? How his property was all destroyed? How he then found himself covered from head to foot …

Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak

Psalm 38:9

… In a large family where there are little children there must always be arrangements for their feeding. Spoon victuals and milk must always be in the house, for …

King's Gardens

Nehemiah 3:15

… But, if your heart is His, oh, keep it for your Beloved! Do not give the keys to anyone else! The love of husband, wife and child—each …

The Necessity of Ministerial Progress

… Be ye not such children in understanding, but test carefully before you accept. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the faculty of discerning, so shall you conduct …

The King and His Court

Psalm 101:6

… child of God, for there is discipline in the House of the Lord. I am not talking, now, about the punishments of the Law of God—the children …

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Luke 15:4-7

… there are seven children in a family, and six of them are all well; but one dear child is taken seriously ill, and is brought near to the …

Under Constraint

2 Corinthians 5:14

… Every little child that is carried to the grave bears witness that death passes upon all men, for that all have sinned in Adam, even though they have …

The Shrill Trumpet of Admonition

Jeremiah 48:11

… His children are spared to him. His home is happy, his business extremely prosperous—he has, in fact, all that heart can wish. When he looks round about …

Spiritual Glean1ng

Ruth 2:15

… children of God! I am sure there are no poisonous weeds in my Master's field! If the Doctrine is a true one, it cannot hurt the child …

The Widow of Sarepta

1 Kings 17:8

… At the same time, it is an indisputable truth of Christianity, and one full of the richest comfort to the child of God— one which is intended to …

Our Lord's Question to the Blind Men

Matthew 9:27-30

… the blood of Christ, your need of being made God's child and adopted into His family? There is no praying till a man knows what he is …

Job's Resignation

Job 1:20-22

… The Lord's children are the subjects of tender feelings—when they have to endure the rod, they feel the smart of its strokes—and Job felt the …

The Cause And Cure Of Weariness In Sunday School Teachers

Galatians 6:9

… I hope that you pray for the conversion of children as children and are working to that end by the Spirit's gracious aid. If you are doing …

The Holdfast

Proverbs 4:13

… They have no fullness of manhood about them, they are mere children. They resemble the sapling which can be bent and twisted and not the oak which defies …

The Heroic In Christianity

Luke 6:32-34

… for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil." We expect to see something of the father in the child. If we are children of God …

A Sharp Knife for the Vine Branches

John 15:2

… Oh what a fine thing it is when our Christianity gives us a noble spirit! We cannot all be nobles in pocket, but every child of God should …

The Three Whats

Ephesians 1:18-20

… your sins, acceptance in Christ, adoption into the Divine family and the nature, rank and rights of a child of God! You already possess that which makes you …

For the Candid and Thoughtful

Mark 12:34

… Such child’s play can scarce be borne with by full-grown men, but for that glorious mind that filleth all immensity to be thought to be particular …

Taking Hold of God

Isaiah 64:7

… untrue that children are, in their Baptism, made members of Christ, children of God, inheritors of the kingdom of Heaven—but still they teach children to say so …

The Samaritan Woman and Her Mission

John 4:27-30

… yourself, can know! I have observed Christian people jerked out of a pious family, where they were extremely happy, and placed in the midst of ungodliness—a situation …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… the Word of God? Confess it! Have you been neglectful of your children and your family as to training them in the nurture of the Lord? Confess it …

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… The child may forget the kindness of its mother, but the mother does not forget what she bore, and what she has sacrificed for her child. The friend …

Jonah's Resolve—or, 'Look Again!'

Jonah 2:4

… If faith is in a little child, it gives the child wisdom beyond its years. If it is in a decrepit old man, it makes him strong out …

Perfect Cleansing

Joel 3:21

… It was when he was old, and his children were all grown about him, that he fell into that iniquity! Was Peter a lad? Was Judas a child …

Temple Glories

2 Chronicles 5:13

… Fathers love to hear the voices of their own children—why should our heavenly Father have a dumb family? Mr. Rowland Hill was one day in the pulpit …

Wakeful and Watchful Eyes

Psalm 121:4

… children as God has, you would never be able to endure their trying ways. None but the God of Infinite patience could bear with such a family as …

A Bad Excuse Is Worse Than None

Luke 14:18

… They have a large family and it takes all their time to earn bread and cheese for those little mouths. They have a very large business—many servants …

The Power Of Aaron'S Rod

Exodus 7:12

… He had family prayers and went through a private form at his bedside. What more did he want? But Aaron's rod swallows this up, too. For all …

On Whose Side Are You?

Exodus 32:26

… Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… There are some who, in a very peculiar way, are bred and born in a family utterly destitute of religion. They are brought up to despise it, or …

He Ran, and He Ran

Mark 5:6

… If Christ has spiritually quickened your child, see that you feed the child with convenient food. If you have won a convert to Christ in the Sunday school …

Resurrection—Christ The First Fruits

1 Corinthians 15:20

… The toil-worn Believer quietly sleeps, as does the child weary with its play, when it shuts its eyes and slumbers on its mother's breast. Oh, happy …

The Heavenly Race

1 Corinthians 9:24

… But we often act like little children who pluck flowers from the shrubs and plant them in their gardens without roots; then they say how fair and how …

Refuges of Lies and What Will Become of Them

Isaiah 28:17

… May it never be said of us, "When they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… Will the Lord for ever endure this? Will he leave his own children much longer to be the prey of their enemies? Will not the insolent speeches of …

The Great Itinerant

Acts 10:38

… Oh, some of you—preach yourselves, I pray you! Talk to the Sunday school children yourselves! Give away tracts—that is well enough if you cannot speak—but …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… You can warn children, your own children to begin with. You can warn your neighbors. You can warn those of your own rank and age. You can warn …