Family & Children

The Righteous Holding On His Way

Job 17:9

… Others are constitutionally angry—quick tempered—and for them to become like little children (which they must do if they would be saved) is no easy task. Some …

The Very Bold Prophecy

Isaiah 65:1

… God we find as saints! I have sometimes put it thus to you—Here is a little child picked from the gutter. It is starved, unclothed, unwashed and …

Simple But Sound

John 9:25

… I always compare this to a man's trying a newborn child's health by putting nuts into his mouth—and if he cannot crack them, he will …

Underneath

Deuteronomy 33:27

… GOD surrounds His children on all sides—they dwell in Him. The passage before us shows that the Lord is above, for we read, "There is none like …

God the Wonder-Worker

Psalm 136:4

… Well do I remember as a child being taken to see the first train drawn by a steam-engine to our town: I greatly wondered; but I have …

Believers Free from the Dominion of Sin

Romans 6:14

… Every true child of God must be conscious of the presence of the rebellious power and principle of sin within him. We strive to keep it under, to …

Untitled Sermon

Acts 9:32-35

… Your children sing it when they come home from Sunday school. You have a Bible in every house, and you read the "old, old story" in the plain …

Self-Sufficiency Slain

John 15:5

… Sinner, the child of God who has been quickened and renewed, feels that without Christ he can do nothing. How much more must this be true of you …

Psalm 6

Psalm 6

… Verse 1. "Rebuke me not." God hath two means by which he reduceth his children to obedience; his word, by which he rebukes them; and his rod, by …

Moses' Dying Charge to Israel

Deuteronomy 8:2

… Note, also, how practical his earnestness is—it is concerning their lives that he speaks to the children of Israel. He knows how liable they are to fall …

The Whole-Heartedness of God in Blessing His People

Jeremiah 32:41

… Regeneration gives us the nature of children but adoption gives us the status and rights of children. "If children, then heirs, heirs of—what?—Heirs of the world …

Who Can Tell?

Jonah 3:9

… It is but a dream, a child’s whisper may break it, and we may awake in another world. “Forty days!” surely that was a long and distant …

The Bond of the Covenant

Ezekiel 20:34-38

… The Lord, in great tenderness, brings many of His children to Himself early in the morning, so early that they enjoy a long and blessed day in His …

All and All in All

Colossians 3:11

… table where He feeds His Israel! No, the dog is transformed into a child—he who was far off is made near! In the Person of the Lord …

'The Ministry of Reconciliation'

2 Corinthians 5:18

… Can God forgive me? Can He receive me into amity with Himself? Can I be His accepted child? Whatever He proposes, I will agree to accept it even …

The Paraclete

John 14:16

… He does not comfort us as a fond mother may please her wayward child by yielding to its foolish wishes. The mother does not teach the child anything …

The 'Beau Ideal' of Life

Psalm 90:14

… Every day there were many funerals, for a vast multitude of men, women and children had to be buried in the wilderness. And tears of sorrow and sympathy …

Christ's Pastoral Prayer for His People

John 17:9

… That poor child who often stumbles, who never brought much credit to the sacred name, He is Mine and He is Yours. "All Mine are Yours." I seem …

Psalm 36

Psalm 36

… or, taken from a mother, who hath her breasts full of milk, draws them out for her child, not once, but often; the child shall have the breast …

The Christian's Helmet

1 Thessalonians 5:8

… You are all the children oflight and the children ofthe day: we are not ofthe night, nor ofdarkness. Therefore let us not sleep as do othersIf we were …

Unmitigated Prosperity

Isaiah 53:10

… It is filled and there is fellowship this day between the almighty Father and His redeemed children! It was necessary that there should be a Sacrifice made to …

War! War! War!

1 Samuel 18:17

… O children of God! fight the Lord’s battles for truth. I am astonished, and yet more astonished when I come to turn it over, at the want …

David's Prayer in the Cave

… Many a child of God who goes very smoothly to Heaven, does very little for others. But another of the Lord's children who has all the ins …

The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

… eat straw like the ox, the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den …

What the Lord's Supper Sees and Says

1 Corinthians 11:26

… We forget not our earthly beloved ones who have been taken from us—the dear infant child has its name inscribed on the tablets of its mother's …

The Entreaty of the Holy Spirit

Hebrews 3:7

… It is our duty, usually, to feed the children, but for a while we may leave that to other agencies, and hand out food to those who are …

Good News for the Lost

Luke 19:10

… had placed a little child in the midst of the disciples and had declared that they must be converted and become as little children. And yet He uttered …

The Great Mystery of Godliness

1 Timothy 3:16

… Turn here, you wayward children of Adam, and behold this great mystery for your God is here! A bush burning and unconsumed would attract your curious gaze—what …

The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

… With the wear and tear of many years, it becomes more and more evident that it is not a worthy dwelling place for the child of a King …

Greater Things Yet Who Shall See Them?

John 1:50

… With the pure You will show Yourself pure and with the obstinate You will show Yourself obstinate." When His children open their hearts to Him, He opens His …

God's Nearness To Us

Acts 17:27

… God is much more tender-hearted than we are and, like a father pities his children, so He pities them that fear Him. If your heart is breaking …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by Him, and said unto them, Whoever shall receive this child in My name …

Coming to Christ

1 Peter 2:4

… We are much more foolish than little children are in common, everyday life. A mother says to her little child, "Come here, my dear, and I will give …

Two Advents Of Christ

Hebrews 9:27

… And now, you Jews, cry, "Away with Him," now let His blood be on you and on your children! Now come forward, you ribald crew and mock Him …

A Tempted Savior—Our Best Succor

Hebrews 2:18

… But I find not that the holy child Jesus was ever decoyed by His coming greatness into any actions inconsistent with the duty of a child. So young …

Faint—but Not Faint-Hearted

Judges 8:4

… Ah, dear children of God, if you live where you do not hear the Gospel faithfully preached, I do not wonder if you faint! Or, if you have …

The Exeter-Hall Sermon to Young Men

Psalm 116:16

… Have you ever heard of the child who was asked by the district visitor, "Is your father a Christian?" The child replied, "Yes, Sir, Father is a Christian …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will." Pause over these texts and consider their …

“In Labours More Abundant”

… I addressed the children in the afternoon, and preached to the adults in the evening. At the close of the afternoon service, some of the Hyper-Calvinist friends …

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… He says ‘so many of us,’ putting himself with the rest of the children of God. He intends such as are entitled to baptism, and come to it …