Family & Children

Guidance To Grace and Glory

Psalm 73:24

… He was a doctor of divinity and I introduced him to the children, in a somewhat merry manner, by telling them that he was a doctor of divinity …

God Alone the Salvation of his People

Psalm 92:2

… Surely there is not one child of God here who would like to vex his blessed elder Brother. There cannot be one soul redeemed by blood who would …

Fellowship With Christ

1 Corinthians 10:16

… Oh, 'tis then that Christ descends and talks with His children—and gives us sweet communion with Him—and fellowship in meditation on His sufferings! Children of God …

Psalm 129

Psalm 129

… No sooner is the man child born than the dragon is after it. "It is", however, "good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth …

Restless! Peaceless!

Isaiah 57:20

… Believing in Christ Jesus unto eternal life, he knows that his sin is pardoned, that he is a child of God, that Omnipotence will preserve him even to …

Christ and His Hearers

Luke 15:1

… Man, if you believes in Christ, this night, your transgressions shall be forgiven you! You shall become a child of God, an heir of immorality! Do you not …

"Return! Return!"

Jeremiah 18:11

… What God desires is that all His prodigal children should come home, that His stray sheep should be brought back to the fold, that the lost pieces of …

A Plain Talk Upon An Encouraging Topic

Jonah 2:7

… Every child of God who has tried and proved the promises of God, when he bears his testimony to their truth, does, as it were, hang up his …

New Tokens of Ancient Love

Jeremiah 31:3

… Wesley—a good man, but one who was on a bad errand when he tried to take this choice and comfortable Doctrine from the children of God. Yet …

A Prospect of Revival

Isaiah 51:3

… Jesus has put away the sin of his people by his blood, and by his Spirit he is daily renewing the nature of his children. Sin is the …

Footsteps Of Mercy

Job 33:23

… But when delivered from going down into the pit, his flesh shall be fresher than a child's, he shall return to the days of his youth. So …

Forts Demolished and Prisoners Taken

2 Corinthians 10:5

… written of the true Church, "All your children shall be taught of the Lord," but many are not such children, for they are wise in their own eyes …

Sovereign Grace and Man’s Responsibility

Romans 10:20-21

… You have seen the child who is disobedient and will not come to his father. The father puts out his hands, and says, “Come, my child, come; I …

"Take, Eat"

Matthew 26:26

… His sorrow of heart was very great and he could not find peace till he heard a voice, which may possibly have been that of a child on …

Mealtime In The Corn Fields

Ruth 2:14

… Where the glorious purpose of the Father is never despised—there is sure to be food for the children of God. We have learned not to feed upon …

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… The three holy children would have escaped the fire and Daniel would never have been in the lion's den if they had been guided by what men …

True Learning

Ephesians 4:20

… God make us like the holy Child Jesus—children of God, with Christ Jesus for our elder Brother! That is what we shall be when we have learned …

Salvation by Faith and the Work of the Spirit

Galatians 5:5

… Neither do we rest upon the fact that we are, some of us, the children of godly parents and that from generation to generation saintly names occur in …

Heman's Sorrowful Psalm

Psalm 88:13

… Note that the Psalmist says, "O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You." Children are very eloquent when they cry—you have …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

… A father will not long endure to see his child abused. Shall not God avenge his own elect? "Keep not silence." Rebuke thine enemies and mine, O Lord …

Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts

Mark 3:5

… No child could shut his teeth more desperately against medicine than they against the gospel. Any man may take a horse to the water, but ten thousand cannot …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:6-7

… No child of God can be very long without trouble of some kind or other, for sure it is that the road to heaven will always be rough …

Spiritual Revival—the Need of the Church

Habakkuk 3:2

… In the first place, look at the conduct of too many who profess to be the children of God. It ill becomes any man who occupies the pulpit …

Heart'S Ease

Psalm 112:7

… came from Your table to any one of Your children. My Father, write what You will concerning Your child—I will not, by Your Grace, seek to pry …

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… What! must he himself bring the cordial? must he wait upon his sick child and stand by his bed? must he make his bed for him in his …

Fear Not

Isaiah 41:14

… It was said of the worlds conqueror, that when he was sick, he puled like a child. “Give me some drink,” cried one, like a sick girl, it …

Blessed Promises For Dying Outcasts

Jeremiah 30:17

… He awakens himself to defend his child, the same child that just now he smote so heavily! A man might complain of his wife if she has vexed …

The Sower

Matthew 13:3

… Some have doubted this, but, in my early Christian days, I knew some of the excellent of the earth who were the spiritual children of the coal-heaver …

Under His Shadow

Psalm 91:1

… When we are worried with the care of pining children and the troubles of a needy household—and the temptations of Satan—how comforting it is to run …

Thoughts and Their Fruit

Jeremiah 6:19

… We turn now to the second table, the Commandments which relate to men. "Honor your father and your mother." Ah, when we were children and since then, unkind …

A Special Benediction

… So the children of God who truly cared for Him and walked with Him, were very sad at heart. I suppose that Paul had gone home to His …

Fullness of Joy Our Privilege

1 John 1:4

… If we had no idols on earth—if we made neither our children, nor our friends, nor our wealth, nor ourselves our idols—we should not have half …

The New “Helensburgh House,” Nightingale Lane

… From my children in the faith,—as a love-token such as a tender father treasures. From the church,—it is offered as a sacrifice of sweet smell …

Cheer For The Faint-Hearted

Judges 13:23

… Yet we always talk of "the good old times," and when our children succeed us, they will speak about our times as being "the good old times," too …

Ecce Rex

John 19:14

… As the children were partakers of flesh and blood, He, Himself, also took part of the same. And as they must suffer, so the Captain of their salvation …

The Sitting of the Refiner

Malachi 3:3

… Of all the means of purging the heart, none surpasses this, for when the Lord, in great mercy, draws His child near to Him and makes Him feel …

The Heart Of Jesus

Matthew 11:29

… We are too great to speak to the babes, but He said, "Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not." It is a delightful …

Man'S Thoughts And God'S Thoughts

Isaiah 55:8

… And even when I became like a burnt child, I wanted only to thrust my finger into the fire again. I had no conceivable motive for sin except …

The Crisis Of This World

John 12:31-33

… If you are His child, when the weakness of your flesh seems ready to prevail over your spirit, you, too, shall have a reassuring voice out of the …

A Weighty Charge

… Grace has made us the children of God and true children must love their Father. It cannot be that the life of God is in your soul if …