Marriage

Wanted, A Guest Chamber!

Mark 14:14

… The farm, the merchandise, the newly-married wife—all these are the transparent, weak excuses for not coming to the Gospel supper. Preoccupation of mind with some other …

Hands Full of Honey

Judges 14:8

… So, when Samson was going to seek a wife, he turned aside into the vineyards of Timnath and a lion roared upon him. Yes, and the young Believer …

The Blind Beggar of the Temple and His Wonderful Cure

John 9:5

… I remember a poor man who was converted, but he was dreadfully afraid of his wife—not the only man in the world that is in that fear …

Bread For The Hungry

Deuteronomy 8:3

… For until his day of burning came the wife of the judge, touched with sympathy, always secreting food and fed him abundantly even from the persecutor's table …

Supposing Him to be the Gardener

John 20:15

… Supposing Adam to be the gardener, then the serpent gets in and has a chat with his wife, and mischief comes of it; but supposing Jesus to be …

God's Love Shamefully Questioned

Malachi 1:2

… You have a wife and children about you. You have a good business by which you are able to earn your bread even in these days of keen …

The Free-agency of Christ

Mark 8:22-26

… And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they made request of Him for her And He stood over her and rebuked the …

The Sons of God

Romans 8:16

… Regulus returns to Rome; he stands up in the senate and conjures them never to make peace in Carthage, but ot his wife and children, and tells them …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… am scrupulously correct in my conduct; I am a good father, a good husband; I do not know that any man can find fault with me in business …

The Tabernacle of the Most High

Ephesians 2:22

… It is for the maintenance of the household that the husband carries on his husbandry. You may hear the cattle lowing yonder, you may mark the sheep upon …

A Lesson From The Great Panic

Hebrews 12:27

… The cheek of the wife may grow pale. The lustrous eyes of the little ones may soon become dim. The house may be left a heap of ashes …

Little, But Lovely

Luke 12:32

… a foreign princess over to this land to be married to a princely husband, the ship may be tossed on the sea and the tempest rage with fury …

The Tabernacle Opened

… and inimitable modesty, kindly leading forward the trembling sisters in succession to her husband, who gently and gracefully took and immersed them, with varied remark and honied phrase …

Israel at the Red Sea

Psalm 106:9

… The husband says, for instance—if he is an ungodly man—“You shall not attend such-and-such a place of worship; I positively forbid you to be …

The Minister’s Self-Watch

… Caesar’s wife must be beyond suspicion, and there must be no ugly rumours as to ministerial inconsistency in the past, or the hope of usefulness will be …

The Fair Portrait of a Saint

Job 23:11

… He heeded not his wife's rash counsels to curse God and die—he still blessed the Divine Name even though everything was taken from him. What noble …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878

… and get married, Make haste and get married;’— so she did, and her husband horsewhipped her three weeks afterwards! Then she went again to her minister, and told …

Christ Triumphant

Colossians 2:15

… The pearly gates are wide open, and the city shines with her bejewelled walls like a bride prepared for her husband. Do you see the angels crowding to …

Good Cheer From Christ's Victory Over the World

John 16:33

… praise of men? Are you afraid of your family, your father, or your husband? Or is there some friend who would be angry with you if you confessed …

Public Meeting Of Our London Baptist Brethren

… So he turned his few effects into money, and started with his wife and three children. He had to travel 50 miles from Winslow to London, a frightful …

The Believer Not An Orphan

John 14:18

… No circle of friends can supply to a bereaved woman the loss of her husband—without him she is still a widow. Even thus, without Jesus, it is …

The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church

Isaiah 52:12

… of God is now about to be carried up to dwell with her husband. Do you see the church moving upwards towards heaven? Behind her she leaves a …

Trust In God—True Wisdom

Proverbs 16:20

… Providence to fulfill God's purpose—but thought she must deceive her blind husband! She dresses up her son with skins of goats, and wool; provides the savory …

The Fullness and the Filling

John 1:16

… A worthy, consistent, industrious woman was married to a low, worthless, dissipated husband. Both of them, however, were alike ignorant of the Gospel. They came together to the …

The Uses of the Law

Galatians 3:19

… Brown, your shopkeeper, and you say to her, “Well, I am sorry, ma’am, that through my husband being out of work,” and all that, “I know I …

Forward! Forward! Forward!

Exodus 14:15

… It is yours to trust them with Him, for the only command I have for you is, Forward! Forward! "But my husband says I shall never come into …

The Father's Will

John 6:39

… He was to be the Husband. They were to be Christ's Brethren and they were to be conformed to Him that He might be the first-born …

Absconding and Apostasy

John 6:67

… After a while they begin to remember their first Husband, for then it was better with them than now. They return, but there are scores and scores, to …

The Amen

Revelation 3:14

… He is Amen in every single title which He bears—your Husband, never seeking a divorce—your Head, the neck never being dislocated. He is your Friend, sticking …

A New Year's Benediction

Hebrews 13:5

… Possibly that dear one who is now your comfort and delight, your husband, may get sick and it will be a terrible stroke for you to be visited …

God's Thoughts and Ours

Psalm 139:17

… And as your Husband is always thinking of you, can you be content to live without thinking often of Him? Have you lived through this day in forgetfulness …

The Broad Wall

Nehemiah 3:8

… is sure to command the reverence of mankind! Depend upon it, woman, your husband and your children will respect you none the more because you say, "I will …

The Fatherhood of God

Matthew 6:9

… And oh, how he loves me! When God is a Husband he is the best of husbands. Widows, somehow or other, are always well eared for. When God …

Jesus About His Father’s Business

John 4:34

… A woman who had had five husbands, and was then living with one who was not her husband, had listened to his voice, and she had been saved …

Limiting God

Psalm 78:41

… a father’s heart, pitying his children; think of him as having a husband’s heart, loving his spouse and cherishing her, and thou hast just thought rightly …

Our Leader Through the Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… lest I needlessly draw up the sluices for many a widow, or wifeless husband, or fatherless child. How often does the mourner judge that he has laid the …

Christ Loosens From Infirmities

Luke 13:11-13

… Some stimulant is given them in the form of a sick husband, or a dying child and they grow quite cheerful. Under some real trouble, they become patient …

Thinking and Turning

Psalm 119:59

… bled for you? Married to Christ, and yet ashamed to come to your Husband? A member of His body, and yet afraid to approach your Head? Come along …

Soul-satisfying Bread

John 6:35

… Like as Ruth found rest in the house of a husband, do we come to peace in Jesus. The love of Jesus casts out all hankering for other …

'The Garment of Praise'

Isaiah 61:3

… poverty? Why always the pains? Why always the dying child? Why always the husband's small wages? Why always the unkindness of a friend? Why not sometimes—yes …