Family & Children

Psalm 77

Psalm 77

… The history of Psammentius also, in Herodotus, is well known, how over the misfortunes of his children he sat silent and overwhelmed, but when he saw his friend …

The Superlative Excellence Of The Holy Spirit

John 16:7

… As silly children cry because they are called to drink the medicine which will heal their sicknesses, even so do we. Our gracious Savior, however, loves us too …

A New Year's Benediction

1 Peter 5:10

… Your folly is so bound up in your hearts, ye children of God, that nothing but the rod can bring it out of you. It is through the …

The Messages of Our Lord's Love

Mark 16:7

… I want every child of God here to seek after, no, to gain full fellowship with Christ. I long to enjoy it myself that I may preach a …

A Little Sanctuary

Ezekiel 11:16

… unto us is this land given in possession." This unbrotherly language moved the Lord to send the prophet Ezekiel with good and profitable words to the children of …

The Lion and the Bear—Trophies Hung Up

1 Samuel 17:36

… I have an inward conviction that there are some here to whom it is sent—children of God who are placed in positions where it is incumbent upon …

The Word a Sword

Hebrews 4:12

… Oh, how much there is of our religion which is—to quote a spiritual poet—"The child of nature finely-dressed, but not the living child"—it is …

Are You Mocked?

Psalm 14:6

… There is the seed of the serpent, and the seed of the woman—the children of God, and the children of the devil—those who are by nature …

Our Lord before Herod

Luke 23:8

… We are on safer ground when we observe with the early Church the coalition of the heathen and the Jews—"For of a truth against Your holy Child …

Barabbas Preferred To Jesus

John 18:40

… his father's darling, an indulged child. His father's boy, as we say. And these writers add that indulged children often turn out to be imitators of …

Let Him Deliver Him Now

Matthew 27:43

… If any one child of God could be lost, it would be quite enough to enable the devil to spoil all the glory of God for ever. If …

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… The Lord sits upon the floods; yes, the Lord sits King forever and ever; let Israel rejoice, and let the children of Zion be joyful in their King …

Longing To Find God

Job 23:3

… If you can live without your God, you who profess to be a child of God, it will look as if you never were His child. God has …

Grappling Irons

Psalm 119:88

… Our Father who is in Heaven has told His children what His will is—should not this cause them to fulfill it? He has been pleased to teach …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… What is the devil but the very slave of Christ? for he doth no more than he is permitted against God’s children. What is the devil, but …

The Greatest Exhibition of the Age

1 Corinthians 11:26

… A man with a doctrine that he cannot handle is often like a child with a tough piece of meat which he cannot bite. Give the child milk …

'Who Is on the Lord's Side?'

Exodus 32:26

… But, I charge you, never do a wrong thing, or even a questionablething in order to please father, or mother, or wife, or child. And never allow any …

First Things First

… The real saint flavors his ordinary life with Divine Grace so that his wife and his children, his servants and his neighbors are the better for it. Mr …

"The Tender Mercy of Our God"

Luke 1:77-79

… O children! the Lord so visited you as to become a babe, and then a child, who dwelt with his parents, and was subject unto them, and grew …

The Dawn of Revival, or Prayer Speedily Answered

… May you weep in your classes today! Pray for your children before you begin to talk with them! May my dear friends who teach our great classes of …

Preceding Grace

Galatians 1:15

… Truly he might have said of them all, "You are but as children compared with me." Peter dashes, and dashes gloriously against the adversary! But Peter cannot build …

Later Sermonettes

… Damon is in prison, condemned to die ; but he wishes first to see his children. His friend, Pythias, is chained in his place, and engages to die in …

Ingratitude of Man

John 1:11

… father, but the child of one of God's own ambassadors, yet he himself is an enemy to God! Surely a minister's children should be the Lord …

Consulting With Jesus

1 Kings 10:1-3

… His own words are, "Except you are converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven." The wisdom of Christ cannot be …

Farm Laborers

… See to it that ye can each bring in a solid report; but let no man be content with the mere child’s-play of oratory, or the …

Comforted and Comforting

2 Corinthians 1:3

… God is not the God of dissipation and, therefore, that is not a comfort to a child of God—it would only increase his misery. If he were …

Lessons from the Christ of Patmos

Revelation 1:16

… This generation, like children playing in the marketplace, is not content with the moods and ways of the Lord's servants, but Wisdom is justified of her children …

The Great Change.—Conversion

… I believe it will have to come as a revelation to every newborn child of God whenever he sees it; I mean that glorious doctrine of the substitution …

Sermon 463. Christ'S Servant—His Duty And Reward

John 12:26

… If you would feed Him, feed the mouths of His hungry children. If you would clothe Him, clothe the backs of His naked ones. If you would succor …

Learning in Private What to Teach in Public

Matthew 10:27

… And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… Rebuked I must be, for I am an erring child and thou a careful Father, but throw not too much anger into the tones of thy voice; deal …

The Best of the Best

Solomon 2:1

… They whispered in his ear the name of his favorite child, but he shook his head. His oldest friend, who had known him from his boyhood, was not …

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… Like a crying child their conscience will be heard. Like a horse-leech it ever cries, "Give, give," and will not be content. Who comes next? Who is …

An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness

… He judges a church not merely by her external activities, but by her internal pieties; he searches the heart, and tries the reins of the children of men …

Sins Of Ignorance

Leviticus 5:17

… And you will see at once, Beloved, that this would lead every earnest Israelite to teach his children God's Law, lest his sons should err through ignorance …

Luminous Words

1 Peter 4:1-3

… I am a nursemaid and I shall hear the children say their prayers." Yes, hear them say their little prayers, but be sure to tell them something about …

The Voice Behind Thee

Isaiah 30:21

… Turn, O backsliding children; for I am married unto you.’ Oh, the pity of God, not only for the miserable, but for the wicked; it surpasses thought. ‘In …

Defiled and Defiling

Haggai 2:13

… This is the ordinance of the Law which the LORD has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot …

Jesus Putting Away Sin

Hebrews 9:26

… He was seen as a Child in the manger by shepherds and by Eastern wise men. He was not concealed and put away like Moses, hidden from the …

The Sealed Hand—a Winter Sermon

Job 37:7

… I cannot get the sword of Truth to strike at him"? Have you never mourned that you could not touch those children—they were so volatile and frivolous …