Family & Children

Love

1 John 4:19

… Love, then, has for its parent the love of God shed abroad in our hearts. But after it is divinely born in our heart it must be divinely …

'Let Us Pray'

Psalm 73:23

… A king’s own child may talk familiarly to his own parent, and there are love-doings and words of high and hallowed familiarity, and of close and …

God's Gentle Power

1 Kings 19:11-13

… He had written on a piece of paper, "God is nowhere," and bade his child read it, for he would make his child an atheist too. And the …

Psalm 92

Psalm 92

… When nature seems in silent contemplation to adore its Maker, it ill becomes the children of God to refrain their thanksgiving. Evening is the time for retrospect, memory …

Forgiveness

Isaiah 43:25

… You can remember the hour when you swore a most horrible oath; your child was within hearing, and learned to be profane also. You may look upon some …

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… If a man's own children rail at him, no wonder if his enemies' mouths are full of abuse. Our tongue always wants watching, for it is restive …

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers

Isaiah 51:2-3

… have been the wretchedness of that aged parent if it had not been for his faith! Men intensely love the children of their old age. See how a …

Psalm 81

Psalm 81

… The nation is called Joseph, because in Egypt it would probably be known and spoken of as Joseph's family, and indeed Joseph was the foster father of …

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

… Children are their parent's heirs; it were unnatural for a father, before he dies, to bury up his treasure in the earth where his children should not …

Psalm 102

Psalm 102

… Children are but the parents multiplied, and the parent continued, it is nodosa aeternitas ;when the father's life is run out to the last, there is a …

Peter Walking on the Sea

Matthew 14:28-31

… He has a way of taking His children behind the door and making them see some of the abominations within them, while at the same time He is …

The Light of the World

John 8:12

… Shines there a star above the house wherein the young Child sleeps? Brighter far than yonder star is He, who lies cradled in the manger! He has come …

A Vivid Contrast

John 7:53

… It was there that He cast off the cares of the day and unburdened Himself as a weary son does in his parent's presence. It was there …

What Are the Clouds?

Nahum 1:3

… Yet, thou child of Adam, with thy finite intellect, art continually stopping to ask, “Why is this?” The child lies dead in the cradle. Wherefore, was infancy snatched …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… Jesus asked how long he had been in this case, and his parent replied, "From a child." Sometimes God permits, for purposes which we do not understand, the …

Justification, Propitiation, Declaration

Romans 3:24-26

… In the foresight of the Atonement to be offered, God remitted—passed over, as the word is—the sins of those of His children who lived before Christ …

The Centurion—Or An Exhortation To The Virtuous

Luke 7:4-9

… You will notice in the circumstances which bring him before us, how his tender feelings and his intense anxiety were drawn out on behalf, not of a child …

A Threefold Slogan

Luke 10:44

… Good! But, dear parents, do remember that "one thing is necessary" for your children, that they may commence life, continue in life and close life honorably. It is …

The Stone Rolled Away

Matthew 28:2

… Hush, my Child, be still upon your great Parent's bosom, for He knows all. And ought not that content you—that His care is as infinite as …

How God Condemned Sin

Romans 8:3

… I reverence that dreadful Judge of all the earth, who, though I am His child, yet since I had offended, would not spare me for my sin, but …

The Peculiar Sleep of the Beloved

Psalm 127:2

… We remember what Rowland Hill said to a lady, who knew she was a child of God, because she dreamed such- and-such a thing: “Never mind, ma …

The Honored Guest

Luke 19:6

… day given to speak to each child about the affairs of the soul. That is the way to win the children for God! Depend upon it, Reader, the …

The Believer A New Creature

2 Corinthians 5:17

… There must be sap-streams flowing at the proper season into it, life-floods gushing into it from the parent stem; and even so there is a mysterious …

The Minstrelsy of Hope

Psalm 67:6

… But, "our father," "our own father"—how the name grows richer and turns to a golden word! "Our own child." "Our own brother." "Our own husband." "Our own …

Not Now, But Hereafter!

Job 21:29-31

… To exhibit again an old picture which has often been used, there is a child in a burning house, hanging from the upper window. A strong man stands …

Danger. Safety. Gratitude.

… our Savior." You know that it needs great wisdom in a parent to keep his child from evil, but it needs far greater wisdom for God to keep …

A Young Man's Vision

Acts 2:17

… Our children are coming around us. But still, we trust we are never going to permit ourselves to be swallowed up in a mere worldly way of living …

Wonders

Joel 2:26

… Has there been a day since we have been responsible for our actions in which we have not tested the faithfulness of God by our transgressions? The children …

A Summons To Battle

2 Samuel 11:1

… So if any one child of God in this Church shall cease from the particular duty allotted to him, no one else can do it and the Church …

Search the Scriptures

Isaiah 8:20

… I will read the Bible, just as if I had never heard any preacher, or had never been taught by a parent; and I will there endeavour to …

The Cause and Effect of Heart Trouble

John 14:27

… There are some who actually quarrel with God over the loss of husband, or wife, or child, or parent, or friend. Now, in such a quarrel as that …

The Carnal Mind Enmity Against God

Romans 8:7

… Some say that children learn sin by imitation. But no; take a child away, place it under the most pious influences, let the very air it breathes be …

The Call of 'Today'

Hebrews 3:7

… seek your children's conversion? Plead at once that your little ones, so long neglected, may now be saved. The Holy Spirit says to you, parent, father, mother …

Hoping in God's Mercy

Psalm 33:18

… They are the same persons as are described as being His saved ones, His children—the truly godly ones. I hope there are many here who can say …

The Old Way of the Wicked

Job 22:15-17

… Adam, our first parent, knew God's will—that will ought not to have been irksome to him. The command was a very easy one. The denial of …

Our King, Our Joy

Psalm 149:2

… When the children of Zion rejoice in their King, this indicates that they sink themselves in Him. What matters it to the true child of God what becomes …

Psalm 116

Psalm 116

… Bless God for the privilege of being the children of godly parents. Better be the child of a godly than of a wealthy parent. I hope none of …

The Form of Sound Words

2 Timothy 1:13

… that excellent puritanical habit of catechising your children at home. Any father or mother who entirely gives up a child to the teaching of another has made a …

Fearful Of Coming Short

Hebrews 4:1

… Is not every loving father fearful that his child may not succeed in life? Love never thinks of a beloved one tossed upon the sea without a measure …

Manasseh

… sin, their children will follow them, without much doubt; but when they repent and turn to God, it is not easy to lead a child back in the …