Family & Children

"Glory Be Unto the Father"

Ephesians 1:3

… All through the Old Testament we find patriarchs, when about to die, calling their children together, and pronouncing a blessing upon them. I should have liked to have …

Heavenly Lovesickness!

Solomon 5:8

… Strange to say, these sicknesses, to which the refined sensibilities of the children of God render them peculiarly liable, are signs of vigorous health. Who but the Beloved …

Magdalene at the Sepulcher—an Instructive Scene

John 20:10-16

… O Child of God, keep to the one object of your search! O Sinner, when once you feel your need of Jesus, bend all your desires towards Him …

A World Wide Welcome

Matthew 11:28

… It will be a rest from all care—no thoughts of those children and their little waywardnesses, no thoughts about the house and how to provide things honest …

The Restoration And Conversion Of The Jews

Ezekiel 37:1-10

… Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen where they are gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their …

The Shameful Sufferer

Hebrews 12:2

… OH what shall I do, my Saviour to praise?” Where shall language be found which shall describe his matchless, his unparalleled love towards the children of men. Upon …

Adorning the Gospel

Titus 2:10

… the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that …

The Living Care of the Dying Christ

John 18:8

… Afterwards they bore it manfully, joyfully—but just now they were poor feeble children until the Spirit of God was poured out. Brothers and Sisters, the Lord Jesus …

Mocking the King

Matthew 27:28-30

… of Him! Perhaps there are some of you who have been persecuting your children because they have been speaking about the Savior. Do I address a husband who …

The Model Soul-winner

John 4:7

… He was the very reverse of that and even children felt that they might go to Him freely. He was like a great harbor into which sailors run …

The Agony in Gethsemane

Luke 22:44

… I can understand why the Savior said, "Abba, Father"—it was anguish that brought Him down as a chastened child to appeal plaintively to a Father's love …

Creation—An Argument For Faith

Jeremiah 32:17

… But it was enough for Jeremiah that his God had bid him, for well he knew that God will be justified of all His children who act in …

Increased Faith the Strength of Peace Principles

Luke 17:5

… the struggles of the heart—I mean the father who had a lunatic child. That was a wonderful prayer of his, when Jesus said to him, "If you …

Feeding on the Bread of Life

John 6:47

… is any magic in Baptism, by which water makes men, women, or children, into children of God, heirs of Christ, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven! And …

For Christ'S Sake

Ephesians 4:32

… God, for Christ's sake, forgives little children and for the same reason He can forgive the man who has passed his threescore years and ten. As long …

Suffering And Reigning With Jesus

2 Timothy 2:12

… We have known even the children turn against the parents. "A man's foes are they of his own household." This is one of the devil's best …

The Anxious Enquirer

Job 23:3

… But the quickened soul prays to the Lord, "Teach me." We become little children when God begins to deal with us. Before that we were big, tall, men …

The Pleading of the Last Messenger

Mark 12:6-9

… They worshipped defiled gods with obscene rites—they even passed their children through the fire to Moloch—and did horrible things which angered the Most High. In His …

Stand Fast

Colossians 1:23

… or because of anything that they have done, or ever shall do! The children being not yet born, neither having done good nor evil, the Divine decree stood …

"Sitting By"

Luke 5:17

… of one you loved so well! Or is it so, that your darling child came home from the Sunday school weeping on account of sin and you, the …

A Sermon For The Week Of Prayer

Colossians 4:2

… When we were little children, we had a little plot of ground for a garden, and we put our seeds into it. I well recollect how the day …

Joseph of Arimathaea

Mark 15:43-46

… It seemed as if God must forsake His Israel! But who is this little boy who is brought in by his mother? Who is this tiny child who …

Sow To Yourselves

Hosea 10:12

… We must prove our conversion to be true by being teachable as little children. We are not to rush naked to the fight, but to seek full equipment …

Love's Complaining

Rev 2:4

… Oh, in any man, in any woman, any child of God here, let alone in the church as a whole, if there be a leaving of the first …

The Threshing Floor of Ornan

1 Chronicles 21:28

… Every ungodly man ought to reflect upon the mischief which he has caused others by his evil life—his wife has been hindered from good things, his children …

Love's Climax

1 John 4:10

… You are of God, little children, and have overcome them. How? By argument? No, but— 4. Because greater is He that is in you, than he that is …

A Great Mistake and the Way to Rectify It

Revelation 3:17

… When I read of the horrible cruelties worked upon them by the Papists and of the firmness of feeble women and children, as well as men, I asked …

The Sinner's Savior

Luke 19:7

… it will go—it will be upstairs, downstairs, among the servants, among the children! It will embrace all my descendants and I and my house shall be saved …

"The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved"

John 21:20

… Do not set your affection upon these children's toys which will be so soon broken. Be you no more children, but men of God! Oh to find …

A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth

Luke 18:13

… What had come over him? The children began to observe it, also. Poor father used to sit alone and heave many a sigh, but all of a sudden …

Working Out What is Worked In

Philippians 2:12

… I do not believe that this fear is ever necessary to a child of God at all. This is the fear that genders to bondage. If I am …

A Business-Like Account

Philippians 3:7-9

… Beloved, if Christ is so to you that all things else in comparison to Him are dross and dung, do you not want Him for your children? Do …

Last Things

Proverbs 5:11

… Even the devils never fell into that vice, for, "the devils believe and tremble." And there are some of the devil's children that have gone beyond their …

Salvation Altogether By Grace

… having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of …

Paul—His Cloak And His Books

2 Timothy 4:13

… The sixth lesson from this cloak is we are taught in this passage how precisely similar one child of God is to another. I know we look upon …

A Single Eye And Simple Faith

Matthew 6:22

… He only is the quickened and living child of God whose faith is "fixed on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness." It is with this disease of …

Mocked of the Soldiers

Matthew 27:29

… Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus …

To Lovers of Jesus—an Example

Mark 14:6

… that there might be an orphanage in which children might be cared for—not, as she said, for the children's sake—but for Christ's sake, that …

Loving the Law of the Lord

Psalm 119:97-100

… I have seen you look at a photograph, the likeness of your dear mother who is in Heaven, or of a dear child, or of someone still dearer …

Life And Walk Of Faith

Colossians 2:6

… When the children of Israel in the wilderness were fed on angels' food, they murmured for variety and groaned out, "Our soul loathes this light bread." It is …