Marriage

A Delusion Dispelled

Ezekiel 14:20

… They fall back in time of need upon the belief that, surely their mother's prayers will be answered on their behalf, or their wife's petitions will …

"A Man Under Authority"

Matthew 8:8

… Peter had a wife, you see. Romanists say that he was the first "pope," therefore the first pope had a wife and, mark you, if other popes had …

Christ the Conqueror of Satan

Genesis 3:16

… They went on in faith upon this, and were comforted in travail and in toil, and I doubt not both Adam and his wife in the faith thereof …

Later Sermonettes

… He is my Husband, my Brother, my Lover. I have health, and that is a precious jewel. Take it away, and pleasures lose their gloss; but my Jesus …

Sin Subdued

Micah 7:19

… He has drunk away all his wife earns, for he does not earn much, himself, now, and he is mean enough to let the poor woman kill herself …

Christ is Glorious—Let Us Make Him Known

Micah 5:4

… The head is never severed from the body, nor is the watchful care of this gracious husband towards his spouse suspended for an instant. I beseech you labor …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… He had a wife and children and when he went home, it was not easy to tell the wife that the excellent position that he held would be …

A Typical Week’s Work (Continued)

… His wife's health, too, is improved by change of residence. It is pleasant and encouraging to visit such men, and find them still full of perseverance, faith …

The Parable of the Ark

Genesis 7:15

… His wife was clasping him round his waist and he had one arm round her. She held one child at her breast and with her other hand she …

In the Sunny South (Continued)

… up in Heaven.' That is just what did occur not long after ; her husband wrote to tell me that, after our conversation, she had never had any more …

The Sound in the Mulberry Trees

2 Samuel 5:24

… Suppose I go to my wife and children, and take a text, and just preach a little wee bit to them and to the neighbors suppose, after I …

Believing With The Heart

Romans 10:10

… I have had bereavements." And he points to the many graves he has left behind him in the wilderness. "But I have been helped to bury wife and …

The Doors of the Shadow of Death

Job 38:17

… Look at your wife, man—you that believe all living men to be mere beasts. What is that dear body of your wife whom you have loved these …

Psalm 60

Psalm 60

… interest of such possessions as belonged to the woman in right of her husband. And the house of such a man was called domus discalceati, that is to …

Psalm 83

Psalm 83

… And the Hagarenes —perhaps descendants of Hagar by a second husband. Whoever they may have been, they cast their power into the wrong scale, and with all their …

Two Essential Things

Acts 20:21

… A celebrated minister, who has long ago gone home, was once taken ill, and his wife requested him to go and consult an eminent physician. He went to …

Great Joy In the City

Acts 8:8

… What a joy for his wife as well as for himself! The man who was known to the police—better known than one might like to be—suppose …

Belief, Baptism, Blessing

Acts 16:33

… By speaking to your wife, or children, or servants, or neighbors, do something for Christ tonight! There is probably no minister shut up in prison in any part …

“Alas For Us, If Thou Wert All, and Nought Beyond, O Earth”

1 Corinthians 15:19

… He says, “I found him alone, his wife having gone out to ask help of some neighbor. I was startled by the sight of the pale emaciated man …

The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

… While attending the death-bed of his wife, and necessarily absent from his observatory, the discovery of one was snatched from him by Montaigne de Limoges. This was …

Friendship's Guide

John 15:14

… Sermons at sick beds by holy women, sermons to drunk husbands by the patient godliness of the much-suffering wife, sermons by holy fathers and mothers in their …

War! War! War!

1 Samuel 18:17

… WE shall not take these words in their literal application, as coming from the lips of Saul, when he gave David his elder daughter, Merab, to wife; but …

Three Blessings of the Heavenly Charter

Job 10:12

… His property destroyed and even his wife not giving him a word of comfort—and his friends acting in a most unfriendly manner. Now it is that he …

Abram's Call—or, Half-Way—and All the Way

Genesis 11:31

… And they came unto Haran and dwelt there." Genesis 11:31 . "And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son and all their substance that …

"A People Prepared for the Lord"

Luke 1:17

… There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abia; and his wife was of the daughters …

A Traveller’s Letters Home (Continued)

… Waking somewhat early this morning, I have risen to write to mine own darling wife. The fact is, I am afraid there will be a gap in the …

The Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith

Genesis 17:1

… So, also, was it with his wife Sarah. Abram, for a while overcome by unbelief, thought it best to take to himself, at the suggestion of his wife …

Satan Considering the Saints

Job 1:8

… Nobody could have done what Job’s wife did—none of the servants could have said that sad sentence so stingingly—or, if she meant it very kindly …

Song for the Free—Hope for the Bound

Psalm 107:14-16

… any one of you stand up for his wife and children? This Truth is more to me than wife and children—it is everything to me! I am …

Abraham's Double Blessing

Genesis 12:2

… Nor would he have had that righteous rebuke from Abimelech, the king of Gerar, when again he had acted deceitfully with regard to his wife. Whenever you see …

The Two Pillars Of Salvation

Romans 4:24

… He was an old man, with a very aged wife, yet the Lord promised that he would be "the father of many nations." He firmly believed that which …

A Last Look-Out

2 Timothy 4:6

… You can do little more for the lads and lasses; you can do little more for the wife and the brother. Oh! do what you can now. Sister …

Lecture V: The Sciences As Sources Of Illustration.

… While attending the death-bed of his wife, and necessarily absent from his observatory, the discovery of one was snatched from him by Montaigne de Limoges. This was …

Consider Before You Fight

Luke 14:31

… You dote upon that wife of yours—she may be struck before your eyes and waste with consumption or decline, or, more rapidly still, she may be taken …

Resurgam

1 Corinthians 15:35-38

… Have you never heard the story of the wife of Peter Martyr, a celebrated reformer, who died some years before the time of Queen Mary? Since his enemies …

Reasons for a Singular Question

Mark 10:51

… I say to myself, "When will God bring that good man in? His wife and many friends pray for him. When will he be decided?" I look upon …

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

… The priest had been away for a month at Jerusalem from his wife and dear children—he naturally wanted to get home. If he lingered, the sun might …

A Sermon From A Rush

Job 8:11-13

… By-Ends joined the Church because, he said, he should get a good wife by making a profession of religion. Besides, Mr. By-Ends kept a shop and …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… A man and his wife were prospering in a little way of business, as hard-working people, near Birmingham. A friend died and left the wife some 1 …

A Bright Light in Deep Shades

Isaiah 51:1

… His wife and he made up but one family. One tent enclosed them—and yet the Lord said to him, "I will make of you a great nation …