Family & Children

Psalm 98

Psalm 98

… He was desirous of knowing who the child was, and for this purpose hastened out, after the sermon, several times, but never could see him, as he vanished …

The Need and Nature of Conversion

Isaiah 55:7

… For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." I …

Supposing Him to be the Gardener

John 20:15

… Had a dog been amusing himself? or had a mischievous child been at work? If so, it was a great pity. But no: in a minute or two …

A Word in Season

Job 22:29

… Parents may be here whose dear children are sick, or it may be worse than that. Perhaps there is a father whose rebellious son is vexing his heart …

The Lessons of the Foot-washing

John 13:3-5

… Often I think He seems to kiss those feet and say, "Dear child, you are now clean. Watch your footsteps and keep your garments that they be not …

Springtime in Nature and Grace

Isaiah 55:10-13

… the dear children left who have lately joined this Church, yet the Church of God would spring up and flourish, again, from that one child! That Grace which …

The Shield Of Faith

Ephesians 6:16

… And you know if you have ever so feeble a faith you are like a child—the feeble hand of a child can receive. And that is the …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… God is earnest, God is zealous! Children of God, be imitators of Him! Christ was zealous. We read of Him that the zeal of God's House had …

Reigning Grace

Romans 5:21

… Its first act was to smite Eden with blast and mildew by its breath; its next act was to slay the second child of man, and that by …

A Searching Test

Titus 1:15

… The child of God shuns not only the darker sins which defile so many, but even those which others think but a trifle. And what some would permit …

The Remembrance of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:24

… The Christian needs no argument to make him love Christ; just as a mother needs no argument to make her love her child. She does it because it …

The New Song

Psalm 98:1

… I know there are some who say that we may be children of God, and yet fall from grace and perish. My brethren, it is a foul slander …

Terrible Convictions and Gentle Drawings

Psalm 32:3-4

… It is making you feed on ashes—the serpent's meat—that when you come to eat children's meat—the bread of heaven—your joy may be …

Daniel Facing the Lions' Den

Daniel 6:10

… heard men who teach little children to repeat the words, "In my baptism I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of …

Believing With The Heart

Romans 10:10

… Next, the children clustered round the hoary father, and they begged him to remember them. But he shakes his head, he had forgotten them all. Last came his …

Our Champion

Judges 16:3

… Herod makes a clean sweep of all the children of two years old and under, that he may be sure to slay the newborn Prince. Afterwards, scribes and …

The Great Assize

2Corinthians 5:10

… It will be the first time in which he has ever had the opportunity of seeing all his children met together. What a sight will he then behold …

A Personal Application

Hebrews 9:26

… Come, then, children of God, take your harps down from the willows and tune them to a rapturous strain! Magnify the Lord your Righteousness. This is the name …

Our Youth Renewed

Psalm 103:5

… Those houses, those children, that competence of yours—all came from Him. As to every piritualblessing, you must see His mark thereon— "There's never a gift His …

Preparing for the Week of Prayer

Revelation 8:3

… We pray, and our children will pray after us, but our prayers and theirs and our fathers' shall all go into the same censor! What communion there is …

The Smoke Of Their Torments

Genesis 19:27

… But God does not always answer His children's prayers just as they would desire. Besides, His children are sometimes slack in asking and therefore they do not …

No Illusion

Acts 12:9

… Brethren, pray for us, pray for your children, your households—take everything to God in prayer, no matter how hard, how intricate, how difficult. If there is a …

Christ's Glory Turned to Shame

Psalm 4:2

… Hearken unto the voice of my cry "When I have not confidence or comfort enough to present a well-ordered prayer to You—but, like a child in …

The Voice of the Blood of Christ

Hebrews 12:24

… No man would take his hand, for it was red with blood, and his very child upon his knee was afraid to look up into his father’s …

Where to Find Fruit

Hosea 14:8

… But if you have been brought to find everything in him, beloved, this is a mark of a child of God. Cultivate a spirit of deep humiliation before …

Christ's Plea for Ignorant Sinners

Luke 23:34

… We began to sin as children—we knew that it was wrong, but we did not know all that sin meant. We went on to sin as young …

Holy Song From Happy Saints

Isaiah 5:1

… helped in some enterprise and prospered in the world? Have you seen a child restored from sickness, or a beloved wife once more given back to you from …

The Blood

Exodus 12:13

… Nothing can hurt the man who has made his refuge God. “Thou hast given commandment to save me,” said David; and every believing child of God may say …

Particular Election

2 Peter 1:10-11

… Why, sirs, do you not believe that God loves his children? and do you not know that God is unchangeable? therefore, if he loves them now he must …

Evangelical Congratulations

Philippians 1:18

… you were to do all that tomorrow with every man, and women, and child in England, you have not put them into their right position, you have not …

'A Time to Love'

Ecclesiastes 3:8

… other infant might have done, though He was so wondrously unlike any other child that was ever born! Having become Incarnate and having come to live here on …

God's King Magnified

Psalm 132:18

… We do not tell our wife, our children, our neighbors—and if we can, we go and hide our shame and put it away! Now God seems to …

The Multitude Before the Throne

Revelation 7:9

… I believe the confession of the most of God's children will be such as gives the glory to the Gospel, and not to the preacher's skill …

Over the Mountains

Song 2:16

… He does not comprehend discriminating love and electing Grace—He wants all the privileges of the children of God to be the privileges of the King's enemies …

'Grace and Glory'

Psalm 84:11

… Go to Him with child-like confidence, with this in your mouth, "He will give Grace." Now, it is not possible for me to state the case of …

Christ Lifted Up

John 12:32

… O child of God, thou wouldst go astray again if Jesus did not hold thee fast; it he did not draw thee to himself thou wouldst still, still …

An Earnest Invitation

Psalm 2:12

… He says, “Shall I forget the child I have begotten? Sinner she is, but she is still my child,” and often as she sins and goes away he …

Attention!

Matthew 17:5

… Heaven, is He not very God of very God? And immaculate among the children of men, is He not Man of the substance of His mother? Here is …

Mourning at the Sight of the Crucified

Luke 23:48

… The argument for joy overshadows the reason for sorrow! Like as a woman when the child is born remembers no more her anguish, for joy that a child …

The Call to the Ministry

… for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee …