Family & Children

Psalm 62

Psalm 62

… No eloquence in the world is half so full of meaning as the patient silence of a child of God. It is an eminent work of grace to …

The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations

… want to make a fortune, and retire; or else they have a family of children to bring up, and Susan must be married, and John must be got …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… Lord speaks to his afflicted children. "I will be with him in trouble." No mother can equally sympathise with her suffering child; as the Lord does with his …

Lecture III: The Uses Of Anecdotes And Illustrations.

… want to make a fortune and retire; or else they have a family of children to bring up, and Susan must be married, and John must be got …

Psalm 41

Psalm 41

… What, doth the Lord turn bed maker to his sick children? Herein is love indeed. Who would not consider the poor if such be the promised reward? A …

Meeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle

… The school-room will contain, I should think, 1,500 if not 2,000 children. There are large class-rooms which will be used on the Sabbath-day …

Building “Our Holy and Beautiful House”

… the Tabernacle, and it was a special cause of joy to many that the contract was secured by one of the Pastor's own spiritual children, who afterwards …

Psalm 118

Psalm 118

… his children. It is his care that "the spirit fail not before him, nor the souls which he hath made, "Isa 57:16. If his child swoons in …

Psalm 148

Psalm 148

… And children. A Children's Address. 1. Where the children are found (Ps 148:11-12). In royal and distinguished society: yet not lost or overlooked. 2. What …

Psalm 126

Psalm 126

… The best of men are but the children of dust, and grandchildren of nothing. And yet for the Lord to do great things for us! this yet greatens …

Psalm 49

Psalm 49

… Now I build for my child, and for my child's child. God crosses them. Either they have no posterity, or by a thousand things that fall out …

Psalm 138

Psalm 138

… He humbleth himself to behold the things of the children of men; he condescends to men of low estate. Of the blessed Jesus it is said, that "though …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… Let those find fault with it who have never seen their temple burned, their city ruined, their wives ravished, and after children slain; they might not, perhaps, be …

Psalm 24

Psalm 24

… If we suck our consolation from the breasts of the world, we prove ourselves to be its home-born children. Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast …

Psalm 72

Psalm 72

… The children of the needy. The phrase, the children of the afflicted, is put for the afflicted, an idiom quite common in Hebrew; and a similar from of …

Psalm 55

Psalm 55

… From the Great Elder Brother down to the very least of the divine family, all of them delight in prayer. They run as naturally to the mercyseat in …

Psalm 66

Psalm 66

… God was with the three children when they walked through the fire, in the very letter of Isaiah's speech; and with the children of Israel when they …

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

… When the father of a family resolves the more effectually to correct his obstinate child, he will say to the rest of the household, "Do not be familiar …

Psalm 32

Psalm 32

… Treachery, double dealing, chicanery, dissimulation, are lineaments of the devil's children, but he who is washed from sin is truthful, honest, simple, and childlike. There can be …

Psalm 16

Psalm 16

… Some children do not indeed take after their earthly parents, as Cicero's son, who had nothing of his father but his name; but God's children all …

Imitators of God

Ephesians 5:1

… a child, was there ever such kindness received by a child from a father as you have received? Behold, He deals with you as with children! You could …

Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence

Proverbs 14:26

… But there are the children. The children—what is to become of the children?" You see, you cannot feel like Abraham, who gave up his darling child for …

The Little Dogs

Matthew 15:26

… But children are not so foolish and, consequently, the Eastern children associate with the little dogs. The father will not have the dog near him, but his child …

Right Replies To Right Requests

Luke 11:11-13

… If you, being evil, give your children bread, how much more will God give you the Spirit? And as you, being evil, do not mock your child by …

"Feed My Lambs"—a Sunday School Sermon

John 21:15

… many dear children that already know Christ. We have never, as a Church, thought that a certain number of years must have passed over a child before it …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… Again, a child of light is one who, by God's Grace, is bright, happy, restful, full of joy, life, fruitfulness. These are the children of the Light …

God, the Children's Teacher

Psalm 71:17

… for a child to put, and a very proper question for me to put to you here! If you are going to another world, dear Children, may God …

Strong Consolation

Hebrews 6:17

… for, alas, if I say the child of God was in danger, why, so were all alike, children of God and children of the devil, too! Oh, how …

To Sunday School Teachers And Other Soul-winners

James 5:19

… subject of prayer and earnest endeavor that children, as children, should be converted to God! The conversion of a child involves the same work of Divine Grace and …

The Danger of Unconfessed Sin

Psalm 32:3

… First, LET US THINK OF THE CHILD OF GOD. Children of God sin! Some of them have claimed to be well-near free from it but—I will …

Faith's Ultimatum

Job 13:15

… upon the child of her love and destroy it? God forbid! Neither will God destroy, or suffer to be destroyed, any of His own dear children! Jesus has …

The Birth Of Christ

Isaiah 7:14

… Man." So, never child thought like this Child—He was an astonishing One, the wonder and the marvel of all children, the Prince of children—the God-Man …

God's Hidden Ones

Psalm 83:3

… child, and hid him for six years in the house of the Lord, and there He was safe? Thus does God take each one of His children and …

God in the Covenant

Jeremiah 31:33

… I have no child, but is not he better to me than ten children? I have no house, but yet I have a home, I have made the …

The Holy Child, Jesus

Acts 4:30

… He knew everything that is beautiful, and lovely and just, in the virgin innocence of a pure and holy Child—such as children would have been, if their …

The Fear of Death

Hebrews 2:14

… and gracious character. "Be not children in understanding," but in all else be— "Humble, teachable and mild, Like unto a little child." I. But this is only by …

Evening, September 19

1Sa 1:27

… Peninnah had many children, but they came as common blessings unsought in prayer: Hannah’s one heaven-given child was dearer far, because he was the fruit of …

The Exodus

Exodus 12:41

… They can tell us about Egypt, of course; they know as much about it as the child of God. If the child of God describes the brick-kiln …

The Mustard Seed: A Sermon for the Sabbath-School Teacher

Luke 13:18-19

… How pleasant it is to see the seed of grace grow in children! Do you not remember when you first sowed mustard-and-cress as a child, how …

Faith Versus Sight

2 Corinthians 5:7

… a big child. But it is a very manly thing to believe something which you cannot see. Even in common philosophy it is so. The children all sat …