Marriage

The Lord's Supper—simple But Sublime!

1 Corinthians 11:25

… Going abroad into the world, how apt we are to let the remembrance of the Savior's love slip! The love of wife and husband follows us like …

Sowing and Reaping

Galatians 6:7

… yet it is also sinful—the idolatry of loving ourselves, or our wife, or husband, or child, or father, or mother, or sister, or brother more than we …

Joy And Peace In Believing

Romans 15:13

… You would consent, I believe, to the loss of your right eye if your husband and children, if your wife and friends might be reconciled to God by …

Peter's Blunder—a Lesson for Ourselves

Acts 10:14

… She was very nearly being removed from the Church—she had quarreled with the Lord for taking away her husband and she would not go to any place …

Decided Ungodliness

Jeremiah 5:3

… Possibly, it is your own father who would despise you, or, perhaps, dear wife, it is your husband who would oppress you if you gave yourself up to …

The Sieve

Matthew 7:21

… His wife never told me so, but I think if she did speak out her mind, she would complain that she has the most crabbed, ill-tempered husband …

My Prayer

Psalm 119:37

… Is it so? How do you find it with yourselves? Suppose it is the love of a newly-married wife—is there not an intensity about it which …

Loving the Law of the Lord

Psalm 119:97-100

… country, you know how you have prized a letter from him! Good wife, if your husband has gone for a long sea voyage and he has written home …

Conversion

James 5:19-20

… Down went the blacksmith’s hammer, and he went immediately to see his wife. She said, “What is the matter with you?” “Matter enough,” said the man, “I …

'The Ministry of Reconciliation'

2 Corinthians 5:18

… mother, you would give it up? Husband, if there were something that you did that made the tears stand in your wife's eyes, even though you liked …

A New Leaf for the New Year

Genesis 42:21

… forever banished from all hope. "Well," said an anxious wife to the physician after he had seen her husband, "what do you think of him?" "Well, Madam," he …

Two "I Wills" In Isaiah 41

Isaiah 41:18

… And when he went into the sitting room, his wise wife, Kate, Catherine von Bora, was sitting there, dressed in black and her children round about her, all …

There Go The Ships

Psalm 104:26

… But does not the ocean grievously separate lovers and friends? Many a wife thinks of her husband on the far-off Pacific. Many a mother casts an anxious …

The One Thing Needful

Luke 10:42

… If we said that the one thing needful in a family was love, we should not have required a small thing; for love will place husband and wife …

Eternal Faithfulness Unaffected By Human Unbelief

2 Timothy 2:13

… The Husband will still love His spouse. All that He is in relation to His people shall continue and abide, for He abides faithful. "He cannot deny Himself …

Everyday Usefulness

John 1:42

… A few sentences from a kind and prudent father given to the daughter, still unconverted, as she enters upon her married life, and to her husband, kindly and …

The Barrier

Revelation 21:27

… Everything about the perfected Church shall be the best of the best—she shall be recognized as being the fairest among women, the bride, the Lamb's wife …

Pardon for the Greatest Guilt

2 Chronicles 33:2

… their other sins—that of ridiculing God's people? O husband, if you have persecuted your wife, do not so again, I beseech you! There is sin enough …

A Cure for a Weak Heart

Psalm 31:24

… Perhaps he has not any means of earning even bread for his wife and children. It is very trying for a man when the cupboard is bare and …

Peter'S Three Calls

John 1:37

… It may sometimes be your business, as a husband, to take turns with your wife and let her come out to the House of God, instead of always …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878 (Continued)

… The large sale of my sermons in America, together with my dear wife’s economy, enabled me to spend from £600 to £800 a year in my own …

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… The Roman matron said ‘Where my husband is Caias I am Caia’; where Christ is King, she who stands at his right hand is ‘the queen in gold …

Why Some Seekers Are Not Saved

Isaiah 59:1

… Your secret sins—the sins your wife does not know and that no one knows but yourself—they are all known to Him! Go and whisper them into …

Once A Curse But Now A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… In the family, what a curse he is! His wife, perhaps, is a Christian—what a life he leads her! Does he strike her? Perhaps not. But his …

The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children

Exodus 12:21-27

… The young husband and wife had the joy of looking upon their first-born child and then they called to mind that the Lord had said, "Sanctify to …

Micah's Message for Today

Micah 6:8

… I accept the chastisement." Let not the rebellious spirit rise when a child is taken away, or when the wife is taken from your bosom, or the husband …

The Baptist's Message

John 1:29

… It is as old Master Brooks says, "If a loving husband were to give his wife earrings, bracelets, jewels and then, instead of loving him for his gifts …

The Holy Spirit—the Need of the Age

Micah 2:7

… I am like the good man and his wife who had kept a lighthouse for years. A visitor who came to see the lighthouse, looking out from the …

Am I My Brother's Keeper?

Genesis 4:9

… There is not a woman among you but would be willing to spare her husband for such a task, or lend her own hand to push the boat …

Love Stronger Than Death

John 13:1

… A man may surely choose his own wife and Christ chose His own spouse. He chose His own Church and, while the Scripture stands, that doctrine can never …

Prayer to God in Trouble an Acceptable Sacrifice

Psalm 50:15

… When his wife told him to curse God and die, what did he say? "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good …

The Glory, Unity and Triumph of the Church

John 17:22-3

… You could not have been with Him at a funeral or at a marriage banquet, in a sick chamber or in the midst of a crowd, in the …

The Power of a Sigh

Psalm 12:5

… As many of you know, my dear wife very kindly selects for me the texts that make up the daily portions in our little penny Book Almanac—and …

Sealed and Open Evidences

Jeremiah 32:14

… brought from the power of Satan unto God? Does your husband know of the change? Does your wife see it? Do your father and mother notice it? Does …

David's Prayer in the Cave

… David said, "There was no man that would know me." Is it so with you? Are your father and mother against you? Is your wife or your husband …

Christians, and Their Communion With God

Isaiah 26:8

… What a contrast there is between the man who pleases God and the ungodly man! The ungodly man does what pleases himself, or what pleases his wife, or …

What the Lord's Supper Sees and Says

1 Corinthians 11:26

… name inscribed on the tablets of its mother's heart, the husband has not forgotten his wife—but yet we grow unmindful of our Lord, and hence He …

The Anchor

Hebrews 6:17-20

… they are getting fewer with some of you—the dear wife has faded away, or the beloved husband has gone. Many of your children have gone, too, and …

A Poor Man's Cry—and What Came Of It

Psalm 34:6

… Even his wife sighs and says, "What has become of my poor dear husband?" He was a poor man and as sad and singular as he was poor …

Election no Discouragement to Seeking Souls

Exodus 33:19

… O my dear friends, when you say, “I will not believe in Christ because of election,” I can only say as Job did to his wife, “Thou speakest …