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Family, parents, children, home, and raising the next generation
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The Determination of Christ to Suffer for His People
Mark 15:23
… If I were happy and joyous, I should not need them, but surely my Father, 'like as a father pities his children,' will pity me. And if I …
SERMON • SERMON 2349All Comers To Christ Welcomed
John 6:37
… Now, there is no detail at all here—"Him that comes." That means that every man, woman and child beneath the broad heavens, who will but come and …
SERMON • SERMON 486The Sinner's End
Psalm 73:17
… See the ox paraded through the streets covered with garlands; who envies its lot when he remembers the axe and the altar? The child may see nothing but …
SERMON • SERMON 2134The Rough Hewer
Hosea 6:4
… The Gospel precept is such as a child can understand and its commandment is not grievous. Alas, men will not follow this path of peace—and even those …
SERMON • SERMON 3129The King's Mowings
Amos 7:1
… It is not in the power of disease or accident to kill the children of God except as instruments in the Divine hand. No saint dies otherwise than …
SERMON • SERMON 2979Our Banner
Psalm 60:4
… for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. And You said, I will surely do you good, and make …
SERMON • SERMON 1835The Man Christ Jesus
Hebrews 7:4
… He is so simple, so unaffected, so truly the holy child Jesus, that in this he is great above all. Never was a man so wholly seen as …
SERMON • SERMON 2500Number 2500—or, "Entrance and Exclusion"
Matthew 25:10
… No child of darkness can go into that place of God's Light! You must be brought out of nature's darkness into God's marvelous Light, or …
SERMON • SERMON 2390A Royal Funeral
John 19:38-42
… You see the Holy Child in the manger and you notice how all things round about minister strangely to Him. Throughout His life all things worked together for …
SERMON • SERMON 3023John Mark—or, Haste in Religion
Mark 14:50-52
… A false confidence they write down as faith! They eagerly infer that they are the children of God, whereas, alas, they are but the dupes of their own …
SERMON • SERMON 1001Altogether Lovely
Solomon 5:16
… Peradventure, I speak to children of God who know very little of what I mean by the overwhelming emotions created by a sight of our Lord; they have …
SERMON • SERMON 777Helps
1 Corinthians 12:28
… It is His lamb! Will you not care for it? If there were a strange child at my door asking for a night's shelter, humanity might prompt …
SERMON • SERMON 2340The Best Christmas Fare
Psalm 119:103
… In fact, there is many a child of God who never enjoys the full sweetness of religion because he has not had the courage to confess Christ before …
SERMON • SERMON 2045Further Afield
Acts 13:46-48
… if you have been mainly laboring with the children of godly parents and these refuse, turn to the slum children. If you have tried to bless respectable people …
SERMON • SERMON 1169The Fullness of Christ the Treasury of the Saints
Colossians 1:19
… If I see before me an eminent child of God, whose conversation is in Heaven, I may not dare to say that I am not capable of being …
SERMON • SERMON 2158Christ's Testimony Received
John 3:33
… They are always finding some dead oat or other and setting it out on the table where the children's bread ought to be. What mighty discoveries of …
SERMON • SERMON 2084The Bible Tried and Proved
Psalm 12:6
… The faithful fail from among the children of men." It was a great grief to him and he found no consolation except in the Words of the Lord …
SERMON • SERMON 1393Speak For Yourself—a Challenge!
John 9:21
… But there are fathers and mothers who have no liking for the things of God and so their children, if they are converted, have a hard time of …
SERMON • SERMON 2304Blinded By Satan
2 Corinthians 4:4
… and become as little children, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven," and this man will never become a little child, not he! If you need …
SERMON • SERMON 914Work in Us and Work by Us
Colossians 1:29
… Ah Brethren, it is no child's play to win Heaven! Saved, as I repeat it, through the power of Christ's blood and with the energy of …
SERMON • SERMON 628A Glorious Church
Ephesians 5:25-27
… As many as were taken by Him to be the sheep of His pasture, the jewels of His crown, the children of His love, the subjects of His …
SERMON • SERMON 1468The Philosophy and Propriety of Abundant Praise
Psalm 145:7
… You were almost ruined in business, Friend, but you escaped with the skin of your teeth—then you praised God for His great goodness! Your dear child was …
SERMON • SERMON 1585Truthfulness
Jeremiah 5:3
… of the first things that a child does is to speak what is not true and parents, sometimes, teach their children to be false by laughing at their …
SERMON • SERMON 2391The Keeper of the Vineyard
Isaiah 27:3
… Jehovah was known as the God of the children of Abraham. He was not recognized as the God of the Assyrian, Sennacherib worshipped Nisroch as his God—"But …
SERMON • SERMON 1848The Looking Glass
James 1:23-25
… Albeit, the children of Israel came out of Egypt in a great hurry, yet we find that the women carried their looking glasses with them into the wilderness …
SERMON • SERMON 1668The Still Small Voice
1 Kings 19:12
… He was the child of the storm, a reprover born to rule amid tempestuous scenes. It is very possible that his spirit felt exhilarated by the terrors around …
SERMON • SERMON 1048The Sin-Offering for the Common People
Leviticus 4:27-31
… And the priest went right away from the door of the tabernacle, past all the tents of the children of Israel, bearing this ghastly burden upon him. Went …
SERMON • SERMON 1428The True Position of the Witness Within
1 John 5:10
… I believe that many a child of God has plenty of witness in his own soul, but he has not the wisdom to perceive it. Plenty of witness …
SERMON • SERMON 1607The Swiftly Running Word
Psalms 147:15
… A man is made a child of God in an instant, for he may not be a child of God and he may be a child of God …
SERMON • SERMON 1783Pentecost
Acts 2:1
… Because we are to become men in Christ and to no longer be children, we are directed not so much to a specific law as to certain great …
SERMON • SERMON 2319The Lord's Chosen Ministers
Luke 10:21
… He is called, "The Holy Child, Jesus." Will you be a child to Him and let Him be a Man for you? Will you take His Book and …
SERMON • SERMON 2657All the Promises
2 Corinthians 1:20
… What? Has it come to this—that God's own children cannot believe Him? Is it so, that we, who say that "we l ove Him because He …
SERMON • SERMON 2015The Rent Veil
Matthew 27:50-51
… Behold the blessed Son of God has come into the world, and taken upon Himself our nature! "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of the flesh and …
SERMON • SERMON 951The Unrivalled Eloquence Of Jesus
John 7:46
… Did ever man speak like this Man, Christ Jesus, for simplicity? Little children gathered around Him, for much of what He said was interesting, even to them. If …
SERMON • SERMON 1250The Priest Dispensed With
1 John 5:10
… Suppose a child was born in a coal pit and has seen no light except that of the candles down below, and, that he is suddenly taken up …
COMMENTARYPsalm 85
Psalm 85
… Thou lovest to see thy children happy with that best of happiness which centres in thyself, therefore revive us, for revival will bring us the utmost joy. The …
SERMON • SERMON 1617Love's Labours
1 Corinthians 13:7
… If anyone is to smite a child of God, let it not be a brother. Even if a professor be a hypocrite, love prefers that he should fall …
SERMON • SERMON 2327The Whole Machinery of Salvation
Romans 10:14
… And that is what He has done to you! O, then, careless child of pious parents! O, then, unregenerate hearer of the Word! All day long has He …
SERMON • SERMON 1446The Best Beloved
Song 5:16
… God multiplied your children and blessed your basket and your store,—was Jesus lovely then? Assuredly he was the light of your delights. Nothing he had given you …
SERMON • SERMON 2646The Baptist's Message
John 1:29
… others about Him! You know how children act—we ought to be children in all things before God. If a little child, in its rambles, were to find …