Marriage

Concentration and Diffusion

John 12:3

… O Woman, you may gain your husband by your piety! If he will not hear sermons, he will hear that quiet, loving life of yours! O Sister, you …

The Jewel of Peace

2 Thessalonians 3:16

… But I do not know how I should be if I had an awkward husband and unruly children." Sister, I will tell you what I want you to …

A Holiday Drive to the New Forest

… One of my dear husband’s most congenial recreations consisted in spending a long day in the country;—driving over hill and dale, and through the lanes and …

The Bond of the Covenant

Ezekiel 20:34-38

… He is our Husband and our hearts are knit to Him. The bond of the Covenant unites us to the thrice holy God and none shall break the …

Going Home—A Christmas Sermon

Mark 5:19

… the best who maintain them.” Christianity makes a husband a better husband, it makes a wife a better wife than she was before. It does not free me …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… WHICH rings with the more sonorous voice, the knell, "their backsliding," or the marriage peal, "I will heal"? All through the Scripture records there is revealed a vehement …

The Saints' Love to God

Psalm 31:23

… Husband, you love your wife. Parent, you love your children. Children, you love your parents. And all of you love your friends and it is well that you …

"Lo, I Come"—Application

Psalm 40:7

… took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." The devil had played his cards so well …

Order Is Heaven's First Law

Joel 2:8

… The same happens, at times, with regard to the husband and the wife. Of course, a good wife continually wishes to do that which will please her husband …

The Sweet and the Sweetener

Psalm 104:34

… is also the Prince of the kings of the earth! He is your Husband, bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh, though He is also "over …

A Traveller’s Letters Home

… or even of graceful phraseology; they are simply a loving husband’s daily notes to his sick wife, a record of his journeyings gladly and faithfully persevered in …

The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

… But, "in remembrance of Me." You know how tenderly a thing comes home to you if a dying husband says, "This do, my beloved one, in remembrance of …

Our Life, Our Work, Our Change

Job 14:14

… Each moment listening for the voice, 'Rise up, and come away.'" Do you love your husband, Wife, if you do not really wish to see him? Do you …

The Priceless Prize

Philippians 3:8

… if you should have to sell your house and your home, if the wife of your bosom should become your enemy, if your children should refuse to know …

The Search For Faith

Luke 18:8

… But when you have gone to God, He has heard your prayers and been better to you than father, husband, or friend! It is down in your diary …

Mourning For Christ

Zechariah 12:10

… dead unto his Lord! Wife, be grieved in your heart if you have a worldly husband! O husband, mourn for your unconverted wife! If you have brothers or …

Effectual Calling—Illustrated by the Call of Abram

Genesis 12:5

… Be warned, Christian men and women, against being unequally yoked together with unbelievers—either in marriage or in any form of partnership— for it will bring you grievous …

Providence

Matthew 10:30

… Your child is gone, but the Master took it; your husband is gone, your wife is buried,—the Master took them; thank him that he let you have …

Wheat in the Barn

Matthew 13:30

… it will interpose between brother and brother—between mother and child—between husband and wife. "One shall be taken and the other left." And when that sword shall …

Hoping in God's Mercy

Psalm 33:18

… Ah, Husband, you have got a wife who is lost! Ah, Wife, your husband is lost! And have you never advertised for him? Have you never sought him …

Psalm 106

Psalm 106

… As a husband is deeply dishonoured and sorely wounded should his wife become unchaste and run riot with many paramours in his own house, so was the Lord …

The New Wine of the Kingdom

Matthew 26:29

… another there? I rather admire the reply of a good minister to his wife, who, when she asked him whether he would know her in Heaven, said, "Know …

Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… It is finished" is the silver bell that rings your soul into a marriage of peace and joy in Christ Jesus. Take care, Believer, that you live in …

God's Hidden Ones

Psalm 83:3

… was it that then you were still so trustful? Or, dear Husband, when you saw your wife, at last, expire, and the light of your home was quenched …

The Dawn of Revival, or Prayer Speedily Answered

… s wife, find her Husband less kind than we poor evil mortals are to our wives? No. If Christ's Church pleads with her own Husband, she cannot …

Preparing to Depart

2 Kings 2:11

… But while we remain behind, let us ask, WHAT OUGHT WE TO DO WHO HAVE SEEN ANY DIE LIKE THIS? If we have lost wife, or husband, or …

The Power Of Aaron'S Rod

Exodus 7:12

… The husband is dear. The father is cherished. The children are precious. But after all, Jesus Christ is better than all kin. We can look upon all and …

Christ Precious to Believers

1 Peter 2:7

… What a precious thing is a husband who shall provide for her, and shall console and cherish her. The believer is a pilgrim, and the hot sun beats …

Accidents, Not Punishments

Luke 13:1-5

… The husband may seek to extricate his wife, but heavy timbers have covered her body, he can only find at last her poor head, and she is dead …

All Comers To Christ Welcomed

John 6:37

… Some years ago there was a man, a kind, loving husband, who wished to leave to his wife all his property. Whatever he had, he intended her to …

The True Christian’s Blessedness

Romans 8:28

… We all confess that if we are brought to the marriage-banquet— “‘Twas the same love that spread the feast That gently forced us in Else we had …

God-Guided Men

Galatians 1:16

… Be willing to let father and mother, or husband or wife and all else go rather than let Him go upon whom your eternal interest depends! Remember that …

Noah's Flood

Matthew 24:39

… It appears that when the flood came it found them all eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, and according to the text, THIS, ALSO, WAS A …

A Searching Question

1 Samuel 30:13

… But I would like to ask your wife about you. How does he behave to you, Ma'am? Because if this man does not make a good husband …

Faith Seeing God's Glory

John 11:40

… Now, Mother, can you believe about your child? Now, good Woman, can you believe about your husband? Now, my Brother, can you believe about your wife? May God …

The Beloved Pastor's Plea for Unity

Romans 1:7

… to unclasp them, no, not even in death? The relationship between a husband and a wife, between a mother and her son may be snapped entirely by death …

Joyful Transformations

Isaiah 42:16

… Alas, poor widow, that was a very crooked loss for you! Or, perhaps yonder husband has buried his beloved wife and feels that his loss is irreparable—a …

Forgetting God

Hosea 13:6

… As old Master Brooks says, it is as when a husband, whose wife used to dote upon him, has given her rings, chains and other ornaments—and now …

The Empty Place—a Christmas Day Sermon

1 Samuel 20:25

… If martyr days should come back, could we vacate our places? Could the husband let his wife and children go for Christ's sake? Could the child, again …

Preventing Grace

1 Samuel 25:32

… The wife who wants her husband and family to go up and hear the Gospel is thought harshly of because of it. Some men would even like, if …