Family & Children

The Great Change

Hosea 14:8

… Ephraim shall say, "What have I to do anymore with idols?" And God says of Ephraim, "I have heard him." I remember, even as a child, God hearing …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… do the child good, for they will ask, "If it does not do it any good, why is it baptized?" The statement that it puts children into the …

A Good Confession.–Baptism

… But,’ added the deacon, ‘do not you, sir, christen little children, declaring that you make them children of God, while you are perfectly aware that the children know …

"So It Is"

Job 5:27

… I made the observation to the children that before I had been renewed by Divine Grace, I, as a child, was in trouble and I went to God …

The Sheep Before the Shearers

… You remember how Zipporah said to Moses, “Surely a bloody husband art thou to me,” as she saw her child bleeding; and surely Jesus might have said to …

A Prayer for Revival

Psalm 85:6

… When you have been in your Sunday school class and no child has cried to God for mercy. When you have been up and down your tract district …

Shoes for Pilgrims and Warriors

Ephesians 6:15

… more culprits but children, but also to dwell in the full joy of our new relationship. It is a sweet thing for a child of God to feel …

Free Pardon

Isaiah 43:25

… As he feels his sin, so He loves his Redeemer. "The burnt child dreads the fire," but I will tell you the child that dreads the fire most …

"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"

Matthew 27:46

… I have chosen this subject that it may help the children of God to understand a little of their infinite obligations to their redeeming Lord. You shall measure …

God Beseeching Sinners by His Ministers

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

… I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against Me." For several verses the Lord expostulates, and then pleads—"Come now, and let us reason …

Christ's Perfection and Precedence

Solomon 5:10

… You would not like to think that, perhaps, you loved your child, or your husband, or your friend. You would not care to say, "I hopeI love virtue …

A Stanza of Deliverance

Psalm 105:37

… Our Revised Version has it more accurately, "And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver …

A Greater Than Solomon

Luke 11:31

… He sits as a child, in the temple hearing and asking questions of the rabbis; He stands among His disciples as though He were one of themselves, conversing …

Christ's Marvellous Giving

Titus 2:14

… Oh! child of God, go boldly to the throne of grace! Thou hast got the major; thou shalt certainly have the minor; thou hast the greater, thou canst …

Bright Prospects for Young Believers

Malachi 4:2

… But your child makes himself free in your house because he is at home. So is it with the child of God, for a child may come where …

Prayer Found in the Heart

2 Samuel 7:27

… It is a very blessed thing for a child of God to be anxious to glorify his Heavenly Father, whether his wish is realized or not. The strong …

A Golden Sentence

John 4:34

… When the great missionary to the Indians was dying, the last thing that he did was to teach a little child its letters. And when someone marvelled to …

'Hiding in You!'

Psalm 143:9

… You have often seen that familiar picture of the child and the kind of man that he will yet become— either drunken or sober. If that child should …

How Can I Obtain Faith?

Romans 10:17

… Our children, even if we are far advanced in grace, will still be 'shapen in iniquity.' No matter how high the sainthood of the professing Christian, his child …

The Claims of God

Psalm 100:3

… You never saw a child startled when it was told, for the first time, that God made him—for within that little mind there dwells an instinct which …

The Inner Side of Conversion

Jeremiah 31:18-20

… The Lord does not merely say, "Ephraim is My son; yes, he is My child." But He calls him, "My dear son, a pleasant child." A pleasant child …

His Own Funeral Sermon*

Acts 13:36

… If a child is converted, a long life of usefulness may enrich the Church of God. Therefore, look after the children! If you had a gathering of Christian …

The Touch

Mark 5:28

… Whether you are a child of God or not a child of God, hear this weighty doctrine! This woman believed the matchless Truth that the least touch of …

The Red Heifer

Numbers 19:2

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "This is the ordinance of the la w, which the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they …

Intercession and Supplication

Jeremiah 14:22

… He had, in his mind's eye, all those nobles of the land who were reduced to such poverty that they sent their children out to hunt for …

A Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… The poor child of God is trying his own heart with the deepest possible anxiety; this man knows of no such thing. He is always fully assured that …

The Form and Spirit of Religion

1 Samuel 4:3

… It was in vain to cheer her with the news that her child was born; it was an idle tale to her, and she rejoiced not in it …

A Song Among the Lilies

Solomon 2:16

… Our text is the portrait of a heavenly-minded child of God, or rather, it is the music of his well stringed harp when love as minstrel touches …

Though He Were Dead

John 11:24-26

… Are we not still as little children, making little out of great words? Have we grasped as yet a tithe of our Lord’s full meaning, in many …

The Certainty And Freeness Of Divine Grace

John 6:37

… But, Brothers and Sisters, let us not sin by setting one Scripture against another, or attempting to divide the living child of Revelation. It is one and it …

'Repentance and Remission'

Luke 24:47

… To weep over sin, not like a child who has done wrong, and so keeps away from his father, but like a penitent child who lays his head …

The Sheep and Their Shepherd

John 10:27

… O children of God, some of you do not always listen to Christ’s voice in the preaching. While we comment on the word, you make your comments …

'His Great Love'

Ephesians 2:4

… Oh, how many times have we broken the promises and vows we made to the Lord! Child of God, before your conversion, how many vows and covenants you …

The Burden of the Word of the Lord

Malachi 1:1

… Is it? Is it all done? You, dear Teacher, when you have taught your class today, have you done with your children? You have thought of them upon …

The Withering Work of the Spirit

Isaiah 40:6-8

… I am coming to your own personal histories—to the experience of every child of God. In every one of us it must be fufilled that all that …

A Waiting God and a Waiting People

Isaiah 30:18

… The chapter begins that way—"Woe to the rebellious children." Further on He calls them, "a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the Law of …

The Search Warrant

John 6:64

… Yet is it possible, dear Friend, that you are teaching a Sunday school class although you need to become as a little child before you can enter the …

Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Savior

Mark 9:24

… He put himself on a level with his child and that is the best way to pray for your children—"Have compassion on us, and help us." It …

Grace and Glory

Psalm 84:11

… When you are to die, you shall have dying grace in dying moments! I have heard one say, "I am afraid I am not a child of God …

The Woman Which Was a Sinner

Luke 7:37-38

… If you truly love the God who made you and redeemed you, you may be well assured that you are His child, for none but His children have …