Family & Children

The Amen

Revelation 3:14

… He determined that a number whom no man could number should be redeemed unto Himself to be forever His children, the beloved of His soul. These purposes He …

The Minister in These Times

… Still we hear the words, “Baptism, wherein I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven.” In priestly …

Holy Violence

Matthew 11:12

… Know that this is the sign, the mark of distinction between the true child of God and the bastard-professor. The men who are not God’s children …

Christ is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known

Micah 5:4

… stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” The man-child who is to rule …

The Root That Bears Wormwood

Deuteronomy 29:18

… When the children of Israel passed by Moab or Edom, or when they came into contact with the subjects of Sihon or Og, they found them all prostrate …

Vanity Deprecated

Psalm 119:37

… The true child of God knows that both the pleasures of this world and its cares are, alike, vanity! I know how some of you have often felt …

Joseph And His Brothers

Genesis 45:3-5

… Can the hart in the wilderness cease from panting for the water brooks? Can a sick child cease from crying for its mother? So the living soul cries …

The Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… When the children of God use their swords against one another, they are not using them against the adversaries of the Lord. May our strength never be spent …

Importance of Small Things in Religion

… That done, there was but a step to the taking of little children into the church—children, unconscious infants, who were received as being members of Christ’s …

A Savior Such As You Need

Hebrews 10:15-18

… He will treat His children as though they had always been obedient children, and had never revolted. When the prodigal is received and forgiven, he is not put …

Forgiveness and Fear

Psalm 130:4

… You shall become God's child—His beloved. He will teach you, care for you, keep you, sanctify you, bless you, perfect you and, in due time, bring …

To the Rescue

Isaiah 49:24

… Yes, but they were children of God, and not mere natural men! In the case of the sinner there is no sleeping of the foe. The power of …

The Touch

Mark 5:30

… You shall have your likeness directly." "No, child," he would say "it is ridiculous! The sun take my portrait? I cannot believe it!" "Yes, and you shall ride …

The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts

Hosea 2:8

… It ought not to be so, seeing that so many in earlier years have passed through our Sunday schools into which a child may go and come out …

The Whole Band Against Christ

Matthew 27:27

… Parents have done it in their objection to their children following Christ. The man or woman who has given the cold shoulder to a pious friend, has thus …

One War Over and Another Begun

Judges 6:22-24

… Beware of that Word of the Lord, "When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and …

'Who Is This?'

Matthew 21:10

… But they had never seen anything like this—when the very children in the streets took up the cry and said, "Hosannah! Ho-sannah! Blessed is He that …

Abundant Pardon

Isaiah 55:7

… Pardon is the child of Mercy, not of Justice— and we may reckon that God will give abundant pardon because He delights in mercy! All the attributes of …

Justification by Faith

Romans 5:1

… Do you know this? Have you been taught this by the Spirit of God? Perhaps you learned it in the Assembly's Catechism when you were but children …

Suffering Outside the Camp

Hebrews 13:12

… With the children of God, he dares not go—he feels that they would put him outside the camp, for he has no hope, no Christ, no faith …

To Souls In Agony

Psalm 116:3

… Let the children of God learn from this passage in David's experience that their best resort in trouble is prayer. When the sorrows of death compass you …

A Promise and a Providence

Ezekiel 34:15

… And this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death A very beautiful thought, that he should conclude …

The Cripple at Lystra

Acts 14:9-10

… On thy neck he will fall, and thou shalt be his child for ever. Only believe thou in his Son Jesus Christ, and though this he the first …

The Annual Atonement

Leviticus 16:30

… It is said that, "Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of …

God's Work in Man

Hosea 2:16

… The burnt child dreads the fire and it is the same with the man who has been burnt by sin. He does not like to touch it again …

The Sea! the Sea! the Wide and Open Sea!

Psalm 95:5

… Would you like to be the father of such a child? Yet you are like he. You are capital fellows on board a ship, capital men on shore …

The Rule of Christ

2 Samuel 23:4

… Let us take the sentences as they stand and let the hearts of God's children respond as I speak upon each one of them. Has it not …

Servitude Or Service—Which?

2 Chronicles 12:8

… When any man is ashamed of a child of God because he is poor, he must be a very poor creature, himself. But that is often a reason …

The Destroyer Destroyed

Hebrews 2:14

… Up gets the Arminian divine, and says, “that is a very proper sort of feeling, my friend; God often does desert his children and cast them away.” To …

The Danger of Carnal Security

Judges 18:7

… You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as …

Thrice Happy Day!

Haggai 2:19

… The highest happiness of a creature is to be blessed by its Creator—and the very highest felicity of the child of God is to have his Father …

Forgiveness

Psalm 130:4

… I have ill-treated my children because they would serve God. Can I, a hardened wretch such as I am—can I be pardoned?" "There is forgiveness." And …

Under His Shadow

… When we are very sick and sore depressed, when we are worried with the care of pining children, and the troubles of a needy household, and the temptations …

Good News for the Destitute

Psalm 102:17

… And he adds, "I could bear to famish myself, but I have seven little children at home, and unless I take them bread they will be crying about …

The Guilt and the Cleansing

Psalm 51:7

… He was a perfect heathen and never went to a place of worship, perhaps, since he was a child. For him there was no Sabbath. After a time …

The Ploughman

… When we were little children we woke in the night under a sense of sin; our father’s teaching and our mother’s prayers made deep and painful …

Beauty for Ashes

Isaiah 61:3

… The widow at the gates of Nain dried her eyes when he spake, and Jairus no longer mourned for his child. Magdalene gave over weeping, and Thomas ceased …

Secondhand

John 18:34

… The true child of Grace is always the same in heart, although the outward appearance may continually vary. But, dear Friends, whenever you begin to make a profession …

Spices, Flowers, Lilies and Myrrh

Solomon 5:13

… Unspiritual people are all at sea in spiritual things and even some of God's children, who know Christ so as to be saved by Him, seem to …

Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit

John 19:30

… The great cannonade of God's justice has exhausted all its ammunition—there is nothing left to be hurled against a child of God. Sheathed is your sword …