Family & Children

The Blood of Christ's Covenant

Zechariah 9:11

… And when they were born into this world, though they were born in sin and grew up to be the children of disobedience—enemies to God by wicked …

The Head of the Church

Colossians 1:18

… Through Jesus Christ every living child of God derives his spiritual life. Not one true member of the Church lives by a life of his own. "For you …

The Spiritual Resurrection

John 11:43

… Perhaps his unbelief says, "If you were a child of God, you would not have these wicked thoughts and inclinations." But, let me ask, do you hate those …

A Bold Challenge Justified

Romans 8:34

… he is justified and that the claim he makes that he is a child of God is a true one and that all the glorious inheritance in the …

Let Him Alone

Hosea 4:17

… The child, who in his early sinfulness was affectionately admonished by a gracious mother, who felt the hot drops of her tears fall on his brow because his …

Life by Faith

Galatians 3:11

… Or it may be you have lost a darling child and that loss has cut you to the very quick. You are scarcely able to reconcile yourself at …

Sowing in the Wind, Reaping Under Clouds

Ecclesiastes 11:4

… There is a great mystery of birth—how the human soul come to inhabit the body of the child and how the child is fashioned. You know nothing …

Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity

Genesis 15:16

… Remember also the case of the children of Israel in the wilderness. They were a rebellious people—constantly revolting, often murmuring—at one time setting up a golden …

Where Is the Lord?

Isaiah 63:11-14

… Surely they are My people, children that will not lie. Or, children that will not act deceitfully, or, will not deal falsely. 8. So He was their Savior …

The Lesson of the Almond Tree

Jeremiah 1:11

… And if you, dear Friend, are called to teach the children in the Sunday school, or if you try to win souls by private conversation, or if you …

How Saints May Help the Devil

Ezekiel 16:54

… what causes your divisions and your strifes?” In this way, you see, the testimony of the children of God is rendered invalid, and we help to comfort sinners …

Christ and His Table-Companions

… Men must needs exchange immersion for sprinkling, and the intelligent believer for an unconscious child, and so the ordinance is slain. The other sacred institution, the Lord’s …

Holding Fast the Faith

Revelation 2:12

… If we turn to the right, maybe our children and our children's children will go that way. But if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn …

Pride Catechized and Condemned

1 Corinthians 4:7

… but truly, brethren, we should be foolish to boast of godly ancestors, for we had not the choosing of them Children of pious parents, you cannot look with …

Personal Service

Psalm 116:16

… E thou be a child of God, there was a season when argument was quite unnecessary to thee. Dost thou remember the time when thy sins lay heavily …

Nathanael—the Man Needed for the Day

John 1:47

… Of every man who is really a child of God it must be said—or we shall question whether he is a child of God at all—"an …

Paul Cheered in Prison by His Lord

Acts 23:10-13

… You are of God, little children, and have overcome them. If you have a childlike spirit. If God has made you teachable as little children and His Spirit …

A Sight Of Self

Isaiah 64:6

… Would you, being evil, refuse to forgive your child? Would you not take him up in your arms and say, "My child, I cannot bear to see you …

Prayer 5 — To The King Eternal

… Hear also prayers that have been put up by wives for their husbands, children for their parents, parents for their children. Let the holy service of prayer never …

Deliverance From the Pit

Job 33:24

… His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: he shallpray unto God and He will be favorable unto …

The Feast of the Lord

John 2:9-10

… Shall I venture for a moment, or even for a second, to talk of manifestations of himself which Christ is pleased to afford to his poor children on …

The First Lesson

… The prayer of the quickened soul is, “Teach thou me.” We become as little children when God begins to deal with us.

The Refiner’s Fire

… It is universal to every child of God. If you are a servant of the Lord, you must be tried “as gold is tried.”

Question 44: Which is the second commandment?

… for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that …

Varying Voices–Pro and Con

… three hundredth anniversary.' So the children went, though the parents, for reasons immaterial to mention, could not go with them. ' Well, children, how did you like the Archbishop …

Psalm 141

Psalm 141

… You drop, in the thoughtlessness of conversation, or for the sake of argument or wit, some irreligious, sceptical, expression—it lodges in the memory of a child, or …

The Royal Prerogative

Deuteronomy 32:39

… They have still clung to their idols and held to their abominations! The burnt child dreads the fire, but the burnt sinner thrusts his hand into the flames …

Illustrations in Preaching

… Even the little children open their eyes and ears, and a smile brightens up their faces as we tell a story; for they, too, rejoice in the light …

The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

Hebrews 13:20

… He is sometimes the child of God, and sometimes the child of the devil—sometimes an heir of heaven, and anon an heir of hell. And I know …

Voices from the Excellent Glory

Matthew 3:16

… If I, a poor sinner, enter by faith into Christ, then I may be assured that God is well-pleased with me—that, if I, as His child …

Loving Advice for Anxious Seekers

James 1:5

… Fancy your own child saying, “My father, my father, I want to be obedient, I want to be holy;” and suppose that you have power to make your …

Heavenly Worship

Revelation 14:1-3

… To a lion-Christ we need fear to come; but the Lamb-Christ!—oh, little children, were ye ever afraid of lambs? Oh, children of the living God …

God’s Tender Care

… His people. “Comfort ye” that one with a tearful eye; “Comfort ye” yon child of mine with an aching heart; “Comfort ye” that poor bemoaning one; “Comfort ye …

Oct. 19 — REGULATED CHASTISEMENT

Jer. 30:11

… It is in love that our heavenly Father uses the rod upon His children. Yet see, the correction is "in measure": He gives us love without measure, but …

Man Humbled, God Exalted

Isaiah 2:17

… Famine is a wondrous leveler—and when the king of Samaria went through his straitened cities—where women had eaten their own children in the straitness of the …

The Privileges of Trial

… As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them. I do not read that Jacob saw the angel …

Nov. 20 — HUNGER SATISFIED

Ps. 107:9

… also longs and hungers to see God magnified. "Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men."

Man Transient—god's Word Eternal

Isaiah 40:8

… But yet, dear Friend, remember that even this must go! There is not a child in the household that is immortal. The fondest object of your affections must …

Feb. 21 — BLESSING ON LITTLENESS

Ps. 115:13

… No mother overlooks her child because it is little; nay, the smaller it is, the more tenderly does she nurse it. If there be any preference with the …

Struggles of Conscience

Job 13:23

… For five years as a child there was nothing before my eyes but my guilt; thought I do not hesitate to say that those who observed my life …