Family & Children

Alone, Yet Not Alone

John 16:31

… You love your child. The reason lies in your own heart. After a while, that dear, loving, affectionate child has won a farther place in your affection, and …

Evening, October 18

1Sa 15:22

… Talk not of Gregorian chants, sumptuous robes, incense, and banners; the first thing which God requires of his child is obedience; and though you should give your body …

Evening, October 2

Da 10:11

Evening, October 2 Go To Morning Reading “A man greatly beloved.” Daniel 10:11 Child of God, do you hesitate to appropriate this title? Ah! has your unbelief …

Morning, May 30

Song 2:15

… How is this? Surely it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from his father. Art thou a child of God, and yet satisfied …

Morning, April 20

Heb 2:14

Morning, April 20 Go To Evening Reading “That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death.” Hebrews 2:14 O child of God, death …

Morning, March 17

Ga 2:10

Morning, March 17 Go To Evening Reading “Remember the poor.” Galatians 2:10 Why does God allow so many of his children to be poor? He could make …

Plowing Rock

Amos 6:12

… There is a man here who used to be plowed by God when he was a child, and the plowshares employed then were his mother's tears. He …

Royal Homage

Revelation 4:10

… zealously than any of us, for, it is the mark of God's children that the more beautiful they are the more uncomely they think themselves. They that …

Christ’s First and Last Subject

Matthew 4:17

… But the next one, when she brought up her slate, had written “Gratitude,” and this child was not wrong. Another one, when she brought up her slate, had …

Love in Chastening

… He did but take the lamb to save the sheep, and the Saviour but took your child to heaven that He might bring you there also. Oh, blessed …

First Visit to Scotland

… He offers petitions for various classes of characters, — for the profligate and careless, for the old, the young, and for little children ; petitions for churches, for nations, for …

Observing the King's Word

1 Kings 20:33

… and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. All the volunteers that were ready for the war—they were …

Where Is the God of Elijah?

2 Kings 2:14

… And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray You, let this child's soul …

Good Earnests of Great Success

Acts 6:7

… A certain denomination has made the confession that after having had their schoolrooms crowded with children, they do not know that any of those children have afterwards come …

Simeon's Swan Song

Luke 2:29

… And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the Child, His name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before He was conceived …

An Ancient Question Modernized

Ezekiel 24:19

… Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say unto them, When I bring the …

Exposition: 1 John 3:1-10

… and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; whosoever doeth not righteousness …

God's Valiant Right Hand

Psalm 118:16

… When first the Church was in the world like a new-born child, the dragon vomited forth torrents with the hope of drowning it. You know the rough …

The Necessity of the Spirit’s Work

… It is a precious thing—that doctrine of election—to a child of God. But what makes it precious? Nothing but the influence of the Spirit. Until the …

The Queen of Sheba, a Sign

Matthew 12:42

… Ah, some of you had the report, first of all, from one whose word you never doubted—your mother told it to you when you were a child …

Rivers Of Water In A Dry Place

Isaiah 32:2

… but the earth has He given to the children of men." Yet rivers can scarcely be parceled out—they refuse to become private property. See how freely the …

A Home Question

… He will stand many an insult, but once touch his children and his spirit boils with indignation. And so touch the children of God, find fault with them …

The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Acts 10:44

… The procreation of children is instanced as a parallel wonder, for we know not the mystery thereof; how much less, therefore, shall we expect to know that more …

The Day of Atonement

Leviticus 16:34

… shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, once a year." Leviticus 16:34 . WE have …

Christ the Creator

Colossians 1:16

… dominions—for this creature, though it had known evil, was to become a child of God and to be a partaker of the Divine Nature, having escaped the …

The Secret of Happiness

Matthew 9:2

… Dear children of God, let me press upon you and also upon myself the duty of maintaining a sacred cheerfulness of spirit. Let not the men of the …

Our Compassionate High Priest

Hebrews 5:2

… He loves them! He teaches them! He has compassion on them and He says of them, "Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not …

God in Heaven, and Men on the Sea

Psalm 65:5

… In your voyages across the mighty deep, you have found it no child's play to be tossed up and down like a ball in the hand of …

The Suffering Christ Satisfied

Isaiah 53:11

… Perhaps your own wife, your own child shall be made willing, while you still reject. Oh, then, I pray you pause awhile this Sabbath evening, when the year …

Christ's Poverty, Our Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… And it is equally poor work to try and lead a child of God to perform a service of love by an argument which is applicable only to …

The Unfailing Help

2 Kings 6:27

… I value the prayer of a little child. The poorest Christian has power with God in supplication. We do not undervalue that, but still, if the Lord does …

Men Without Heart, Sight, or Hearing

Deuteronomy 29:4

… I can hardly imagine how happy the children of Israel might have been. They left Egypt with a high hand and an outstretched arm. Their ears were hung …

The Seed Upon Stony Ground

Mark 4:5

… To be pardoned, to be a child of God, to be accepted in the Beloved, what precious things these must be! And what a delightful thing to be …

Good News for the Aged

Matthew 20:6

… Have you never seen an old man led by a little child when he was blind? It may be that, though you are blind, a little child shall …

The Planter of the Ear Must Hear

Psalm 94:9

… But, "like as a father pities his children," so does He pity you. Do not be led astray by the idea that you are passed over and forgotten …

A Visit to the Harvest Field

James 5:7-8

… If your child happened to be very petulant, and have a very noisy tongue, and a mischievous disposition, the mother’s impatience would not calm the child, control …

Beginning to Serve the Lord

… One great fault in many of our churches is that the children are left for the young people to take care of; the older members, who have more …

Resurrection With Christ

Ephesians 2:4

… What is that invisible something which quickens a man? Who can unveil the secret? Who can track life to its hidden fountain? Brother, you are a living child …

All Things Are Ready, Come

Luke 14:17

… O children of God, I will lift the parable away from the immediate use which the Savior made of it to employ it for your good. You know …

Swooning and Reviving Christ's Feet

… the child will climb the knee of his royal father, and no man accuses him of presuming. John had such love, and yet even he could not look …