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Family & Children
Family, parents, children, home, and raising the next generation
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Morning, December 13
Ezr 7:22
… no need to keep the salt-box under lock and key, for few children will eat too greedily from that. A man may have too much money, or …
DEVOTIONALMorning, January 2
Col 4:2
… If thou be a child of God, thou wilt seek thy Father’s face, and live in thy Father’s love. Pray that this year thou mayst be …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 30
Ps 139:17
… 17 Divine omniscience affords no comfort to the ungodly mind, but to the child of God it overflows with consolation. God is always thinking upon us, never turns …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 31
2Sa 15:23
… God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod. It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 18
Nu 2:31
… Every position has its duties, and the slowly moving children of God will find their peculiar state one in which they may be eminently a blessing to the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 22
Job 1:9
… Rest assured, if you are a child of God, you will be no stranger to the rod. Sooner or later every bar of gold must pass through the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 23
Song 1:4
… and shall find me ready at your call.” Mothers do not let their children forget them. If the boy has gone to Australia, and does not write home …
DEVOTIONALMorning, March 29
Heb 5:8
… Master’s experience teaches us that suffering is necessary, and the true-born child of God must not, would not, escape it if he might. But there is …
DEVOTIONALMorning, November 20
La 3:58
… hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.” O children of God, seek after a vital experience of the Lord’s lovingkindness, and when …
DEVOTIONALEvening, December 18
Pr 27:23
… as “the Lord which searcheth the heart and trieth the reins of the children of men.” Let me stir you up in his name to make diligent search …
SERMON • SERMON 34Preach the Gospel
1 Corinthians 9:16
… Not that I speak a word against the searching of the Scriptures—that is an infallible mark of God’s children. Not that I find fault with attendance …
DEVOTIONALMorning, August 13
Ps 104:16
… This is quite true of every child of God. He is not man-planted, nor self-planted, but God-planted. The mysterious hand of the divine Spirit dropped …
DEVOTIONALMorning, February 1
Ps 138:5
… Not even the songs of the angels seem so sweet as the first song of rapture which gushes from the inmost soul of the forgiven child of God …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 23
Is 43:24
… though indeed they are but as the bunch of wild flowers which the child brings to its mother. Never may we grow niggardly towards thee, and from this …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 13
Jon 4:9
… justifiable, and then we must answer, “NO.” Why should we be fretful with children, passionate with servants, and wrathful with companions? Is such anger honourable to our Christian …
DEVOTIONALMorning, October 13
2Co 7:10
… Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally—as a burnt child dreads fire. We shall be as much afraid of …
DEVOTIONALEvening, April 26
Rev 16:15
… Many in these days of easy profession are likely to prove tares, and not wheat; hypocrites with fair masks on their faces, but not the true-born children …
DEVOTIONALMorning, May 21
1Pe 2:3
… Let nothing satisfy thee till, by the infallible witness of the Holy Spirit bearing witness with thy spirit, thou art certified that thou art a child of God …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 24
Da 3:16,18
… The narrative of the manly courage and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to excite in the minds of believers firmness …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 21
Jdg 15:18
… Dear child of God, if after great mercy you are laid very low, your case is not an unusual one. When David had mounted the throne of Israel …
DEVOTIONALEvening, September 23
Mk 9:23
… The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and therefore, when he was …
DEVOTIONALMorning, December 17
Je 2:2
… When the world was set upon its pillars, he was there, and he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 30
La 3:40
… A reproaching glance, an uplifted finger will be grievous to loving children, who fear to offend their tender father, and are only happy in his smile. Beloved, it …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 10
Jn 5:39
… The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the holy child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Saviour. The quintessence of the word of God is Christ.
DEVOTIONALMorning, June 28
Heb 12:2
… able to continue to the end; you have not the joy of his children; you have such a wavering hold of Jesus.” All these are thoughts about self …
DEVOTIONALMorning, July 24
Ex 14:13
… Relinquish your principles.” But, however much Satan may urge this course upon you, you cannot follow it if you are a child of God. His divine fiat has …
DEVOTIONALEvening, August 1
Ps 65:11
… The sun may leave us a legacy of darkness, but our God never ceases to shine upon his children with beams of love. Like a river, his lovingkindness …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 3
2 Chronicles 30:27
… When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the spirit. If thou askest for coarse meal, wilt thou be angered …
DEVOTIONALEvening, March 8
Ge 35:18
… Rachel was overwhelmed with the sorrow of her own travail and death; Jacob, though weeping the mother’s loss, could see the mercy of the child’s birth …
DEVOTIONALMorning, August 5
Ro 8:28
… never came there an ill portion from thy table to any of thy children.” “Say not my soul, ‘From whence can God relieve my care?’ Remember that Omnipotence …
DEVOTIONALEvening, January 4
Ge 42:8
… is as true of the prodigals who are feeding swine as of the children who sit at the table. But, alas! we knew not our royal Brother , and …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 28
Ps 119:49
… Are you afraid lest you should not be able to hold on to the end, lest, after having thought yourself a child of God, you should prove a …
DEVOTIONALEvening, October 29
Lu 24:16
… to open that precious book and have no glimpse of the Wellbeloved! Dear child of God, are you in that state? Jesus feedeth among the lilies of the …
DEVOTIONALEvening, November 10
Mt 10:25
… It were a sad dishonour to a child of God to be the world’s favourite. It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap …
DEVOTIONALEvening, May 30
Ro 6:6
… thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already ? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the fire? What! when thou hast already been between the …
DEVOTIONALMorning, April 22
Ac 5:31
… God, and we shall reign forever and ever.” Oh!, wonderful thought for the children of God! We have Christ for our glorious representative in heaven’s courts now …
SERMON • SERMON 1686With the Disciples on the Lake of Galilee
Matthew 8:27
… Every true child has a reverence for his father. Every true daughter has a loving respect for her mother. So is it with us towards our Lord Jesus …
SERMON • SERMON 406The Infallibility of God’s Purpose
Job 23:13
… You have seen little children running round, and round, and round till they get giddy, and they stand still and hold fast a moment and everything seems to …
DEVOTIONALMorning, June 9
Ps 126:3
… The Lord hath done great things for me, whereof I am glad.” Such an abstract of experience as this is the very best that any child of God …
DEVOTIONALEvening, June 30
Je 32:17
… But it was enough for Jeremiah that his God had bidden him, for well he knew that God will be justified of all his children. He reasoned thus …