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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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 34

Preach 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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.

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Morning, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …

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Morning, 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 1686

With 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 …

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The 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 …

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Morning, 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 …

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Evening, 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 …