Family & Children

Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus

John 6:53-56

… But if Christ is not in your heart, you are the child of Nature, finely dressed, but dead. You are not the living child of Grace—you are …

Unstaggering Faith

Romans 4:19-21

… His early laugh of joy was remembered and commemorated in his son Isaac, that child of promise, whose name was "laughter." The Patriarch himself became one of the …

Number 1500, Or Lifting Up the Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21:9

… child aloft and turned its little head that it might gaze with its infant eyes upon the bronze serpent and live. Do this with your little children, you …

'He Blessed Him There'

Genesis 32:29

… He had fled from a lion and now a bear met him—and he feared that his wives and children would be utterly destroyed by his revengeful brother …

A Luther Sermon at the Tabernacle

Habakkuk 2:4

… Having received, by faith, the privilege of adoption, he strives to live as a child of God. Having obtained, by faith, a new life, he walks in newness …

"Out Of The Depths"

Psalm 40:12

… It is no child's play when this is the case. Here we have to deal with stern facts and it is only God, by some great act …

'Marvelous Loving Kindness'

Psalm 17:7

… He has put Him to grief." You who love your children, to lose one of whom would be worse than to die—you can realize a little of …

Two "I Wills" In Isaiah 41

Isaiah 41:18

… Will the children, when they are at home, find out how many times in this chapter God says, "I will," or "You shall," which is to much the …

The Hand of God in the History of a Man

Job 7:1

… Our child's little hymn, in which he thanks God that he was not "born a little slave to labor in the sun," contains a good deal of …

The Power of the Holy Ghost

Romans 15:13

… of a child of God. He becomes a changed character. Mark the reformation in his house! That wife of his becomes the decent matron. Those children are the …

The Righteous Father Known and Loved

John 17:25

… John's Gospel is always easy for the child to read, but it is always hard for the man to understand. And these two verses, which are almost …

The Sweet and the Sweetener

Psalm 104:34

… If you, who are children of God, do not feel that you could traverse any of these paths, I want you to seek to get sweetness out of …

The Deceived Heart

Isaiah 44:20

… As to death and all that is to come after it, what does he care about such things? He is not a child to be frightened with a …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… spend every penny that you have and starve your own children in order to support a child at the Orphanage, you would laugh at me, I dare say …

Looking Unto Jesus

Psalm 34:5

… Come hither, ye children of God and whatever now are your distresses, whether they be temporal or spiritual, you shall, in the life of Jesus Christ and his …

The Good Shepherd

Psalm 23:1

… Gladly would we cater for ourselves and carve for ourselves—but as the good old Puritan said, "No child of God ever carves for himself without cutting his …

Winnowing Time

Jeremiah 23:28

… IT is remarkable that God has traced so much of the misery of the children of Israel in the period of their degradation to the unfaithfulness of those …

His Name—the Mighty God

Isaiah 9:6

… But here behold the wonder! “His name is name,” this child’s name, “shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God.” Is this child, then, to us the …

Grace For Grace

1 Corinthians 2:12

… No young child may say, "I cannot receive the things of God, for I am too young." Out of the mouth of babes and children He has perfected …

The Winnowing Fan

Hebrews 12:14

… It is no child's play to be a Christian. The Christian life is beyond the poet's meaning, real and earnest. The hills of difficulty which lie …

The Soul-Winner

Proverbs 11:30

… From the child of God there falls the fruit of holy living, even as an acorn drops from the oak. This holy living becomes influential and produces the …

Psalm 143

Psalm 143

… our adversaries mean us the worst possible evil, their attacks are no child's play, they hunt for the precious life. He hath smitten my life down to …

The Hunger and Thirst Which Are Blessed

Matthew 5:6

… When your child sits down at the table and says that he does not want any dinner, he is evidently not hungry. They that put Christ away and …

Indwelling Sin

Job 40:3-4

… The truly loving child of God, though he knows sin is there, hates that sin; it is a pain and misery to him, and he never makes the …

"Your Salvation"

Luke 2:28-30

… Simeon saw, as he gazed upon the Child, the agony and bloody sweat, the Cross and passion, for he knew that the Incarnate God would not shrink from …

Could He Not? Ah! But He Would Not

John 11:37

… You must—you must grow! The Lord would not have His children be stunted and dwarfed—and this trial is sent that you may be made to grow …

Facing the Wind

2 Thessalonians 3:13

… Sometimes stopping at home and mending the children's clothes does not seem to a mother quite so much "doing good" as going to a Prayer Meeting. And …

Justification by Faith—Illustrated by Abram’s Righteousness

Genesis 15:6

… If we be indeed the children of faithful Abraham, and are to be justified in Abraham’s way, it cannot be by submission to rites or ceremonies of …

Our Glorious Transforming

Ephesians 2:13

… Better than that, we are his children. A friend might be forgotten, but a child—a father's bowels yearn towards him. We are his children. He has …

The Sages, The Star, and The Savior

Matthew 2:2

… If so, strange and uncouth must have been the speech of those who worshipped around the young Child at Bethlehem, yet needed He no interpreter to understand and …

The Redeemer's Face Set Like a Flint

Isaiah 50:7

… Even as a child, He said, "Know you not that I must be about My Father's business?" The set purpose to redeem His people was an all …

Attention!

… We ought not to make even children inattentive. “Make them inattentive,” say you, “who does that?” I say that most preachers do; and when children are not quiet …

The Keynote of the Year

Psalm 103:1

… Perhaps you have even spoken against Him though you are His child. I mean that you have fallen into such a state of heart that you imagine that …

How "The Unspeakable" is Spoken of

Psalm 145:6

… I have shown you an awe-struck people talking together of God's terrible acts and then the child of God coming in with his personal testimony, saying …

Public Testimony—a Debt To God and Man

2 Kings 7:9

… common Master"? If two children meet, they will do well to speak of father and mother. If one is a very little child, he may know but little …

A Solemn Embassy

2 Corinthians 5:20

… But, alas! it seemed as if no man cared for my soul, till at last God blessed an humble instrument to give light to his poor dark child …

Grace Reviving Israel

Hosea 14:5-7

… He says, "I am a Christian; I cannot keep it a secret, I must let somebody know I am a child of God." He goes to a prayer …

'The True Sayings of God'

Revelation 19:9

… And He will keep it to our children and our children's children as long as the world endures, and then forever and ever! We need not be …

The Lord'S Care Of His People

Zechariah 2:8

… If you and I had erected a lasting and valuable memorial to some beloved child, we should think it a grievous insult and a serious injury if an …

Driving Out the Canaanites and Their Iron Chariots

Joshua 17:18

… WHEN the children of Israel had come to Canaan and by God's good care had entered into the land that flowed with milk and honey they were …