Family & Children

Dressing In The Morning

Romans 13:11-14

… How should a child of light conduct himself? The word translated, "honestly," may mean, "decently"—with decorum and dignity. In the middle of the night, if you have …

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

John 14:1

… meek, teachable child of God to become a willful, wicked, rebellious offender in spirit. Is this a little thing? And meanwhile it makes the family and the outsiders …

The Law Written in the Heart

Jeremiah 31:33

… Is not their public worship a dead formality? A great many people have family prayers and private prayers who wish they could be rid of the nuisance. Is …

The Voice Of Cholera

Amos 3:3-6

… love of home and its estimation of the joys which cluster around the family hearth. We have not the pestilential influence of a licentious court and a degraded …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… Has it come to this, that there are none to bury the dead of thy family, O Lord? Can none be found to grant a shovelful of earth …

Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?

… He notices our coldness in the closest of communion, and He perceives our faults and failures in the family. Trying once to set forth how the Lord Jesus …

The Way

John 14:6

… We are God's children when we are created anew in Christ Jesus—when regeneration has made us partakers of the Divine Nature. Sonship is no ordinary privilege …

The Minister’s Self-Watch

… Believe me, it is no child’s play to “make your calling and election sure.” The world is full of counterfeits, and swarms with panderers to carnal self …

Children'S Bread Given To Dogs

Matthew 15:27

… Her daughter was vexed with a devil, and she could not endure to see the misery which that evil spirit caused her child. The pain and anguish, the …

The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God

1 Timothy 1:11

… We may build, as our little children do, on the seashore, our sand houses, and we may pile them up very quickly, too. And we may be very …

Lecture IV: Where Can We Find Anecdotes And Illustrations?

… It is just as if you had before you two works by one author, who had, in the first place, written a book for children; and then, in …

Nazareth—or Jesus, Rejected by His Friends

Luke 4:28-30

… admitted into the family, to be permitted not only to eat the crumbs that fell from the table, but to be changed into a child—the Jews could …

Psalm 4

Psalm 4

… And so it is here in the point of vanity; those which are vain persons, they delight in vain things; as children, they love such matters as are …

Seeing Is Not Believing, But Believing Is Seeing

1 Peter 1:8

… You have felt that God was with you and that all things would work together for your good! You have wept over your children when they have died …

A Secret And Yet No Secret

Solomon 4:12

… Be you, O children of Christ, as chaste virgins kept alone for Christ! Gad you not abroad, O my Heart, but stay at home with Jesus, your Lover …

Psalm 108

Psalm 108

… Gilead is mine, and I give it to the children of Gad and Reuben. And Manasseh also is mine. Ephraim is my strength in war: my horn of …

“Forward!”

BRETHREN, the substance of my address, this morning, will be found in the words of God to His servant Moses,  “Speak unto the children of Israel, that they …

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

… Many of them have family trials, and heavy personal burdens to carry, and they frequently come into the assembly cold and listless, with thoughts wandering hither and thither …

On the Voice

… peals of “The Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family. . . . Amen.” Now, if a man who talks so unnaturally does not get bronchitis, or …

Psalm 56

Psalm 56

… We may plead the cruelty of men as a reason for the divine interposition—a father is soon aroused when his children are shamefully entreated. He fighting daily …

Psalm 149

Psalm 149

… The children of Israel are happy to be made a people; the children of Zion are equally happy to be ruled as a people. In every character our …

Psalm 142

Psalm 142

… of our children. c) Eagerness in pursuit of business, honour—even trifles. d) How anxious about a human life! Describe the search for a lost child. e) Contrast …

Our Public Prayer

… We have heard of a good man who, in pleading for his children and grandchildren, was so completely beclouded in the blinding influence of this expression, that he …

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… Some of the judgments of God are a shallow, or a ford, over which a lamb may wade; every child may read the meaning of them; and a …

Open-Air Preaching — Remarks Thereon

… Besides, the fresh air and plenty of it is a grand thing for every mortal man, woman, and child. I preached in Scotland twice on a Sabbath day …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… When you were singing that hymn, I thought that somebody here had had an increase in his family, and that a ceremony in which you are all deeply …

Psalm 121

Psalm 121

… It is one of his own sweet promises, that he will give his angels charge over every child Of his, that lie come to no harm by the …

Election

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… Let us read such verses as these—“For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to …

The Love Of Jesus—What It Is—None But His Loved Ones Know

Ephesians 3:19

… Every child of God knows the love of Christ. We advance another step. All the children of God do not know this love to the same extent. There …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… That in which they prided themselves shall be forgotten; their very names shall be wiped out as abominable, "and their seed from among the children of men." Their …

Psalm 103

Psalm 103

… her child... And afterwards in the case of the father of the prodigal. Lu 15:11-32. Musculus. Verse 13. As a father pitieth his children. The father …

The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry

… We claim no priesthood over and above that which belongs to every child of God; but we are the successors of those who, in olden times, were moved …

The Evils of the Present Time, and Our Object, Necessities, and Encouragements*

… This is fine sport for children, but great folly in men. While we do preach “the terror of the Lord,” I may say of myself, and of you …

Eccentric Preachers

… Sebuok XXn. — TeaehiTig Children 345 " Come, ye children, hearken unto me : I will teach you the fear of the Lord."— PsAUi xxxiv. 11. Sebkoh 'XXm.—The Qod of …

Psalm 86

Psalm 86

… Great as he is he loves his children to be bold with him. For I am poor and needy—doubly a son of poverty, because, first, poor and …

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… Still, with so large a family and so small a dwelling-house, the inconvenience of a temporary lodging becomes more and more grievously felt. There is, and has …

Unknown Depths and Heights

Luke 23:34

… And yet, when the father is a drunk or a swearer, what does he do but do his worst to ruin his child? And when the mother is …

Psalm 96

Psalm 96

… The mother teaches her child to lisp a hymn before he comprehends its full scope and meaning. And so here, in this holy psalm, the Jerusalem from above …

Later Services at the Music Hall

… With the confidence of one who felt his heart at ease amidst the home-circle of his own family, I spoke as if my perfect love to the …

Psalm 30

Psalm 30

… our Lord lifted us? Lifted us up into the children's place, to be adopted into the family; lifted us up into union with Christ, "to sit together …