Marriage

Letters concerning Settlement in London

… I promise you a hearty welcome. “75, Dover Road, “Borough of Southwark, “London. “Can you see my address? I send my very best respects to your good wife …

"Clear Shining After Rain"

2 Samuel 23:4

… They have told me all about the rain, about the children dying, about the wife who was buried long ago, about the poverty they passed through, about the …

From Twenty-five to Thirty-five

Matthew 20:3

… that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and …

Christian Resignation

Matthew 26:39

… Perhaps you may go as far as I have already gone, but if God should take you at your word, and say, "My will is that your wife …

Once Dead, Now Alive

Ephesians 2:1

… So dress this man up in his Sunday suit and let him sit at the table with his wife and children! You shudder at the suggestion and tell …

Psalm 18

Psalm 18

… to thee; as a child to its parent, or a spouse to her husband. The word is intensely forcible, the love is of the deepest kind. "I will …

The Head and the Body

Ephesians 4:15

… to be when she is ready to become "the bride, the Lamb's wife." This Church, chosen before all worlds, redeemed upon the Cross, quickened, fashioned and called …

Right Replies To Right Requests

Luke 11:11-13

… You pray for your children, for your wife, for your neighbors, for your friends. I hope your intercessory roll is a long one. If God gives you power …

Lessons From the Manna

Exodus 16:4

… He who thrust out his two hands to rake up the manna, when he returned to his tent, had an omerful for himself, his wife and his eight …

A Cheerful Giver is Beloved of God

2 Corinthians 9:7

… At night, when the wife and family had retired to rest, he sat by the fireside meditating, and he said to himself, "I really do not know whether …

Esther's Exaltation—or, Who Knows?

Esther 4:13

… yet showed her kindred nor her people." She would still remain the favored wife of the great king and she might, therefore, selfishly look to herself and leave …

The Mustard Seed: A Sermon for the Sabbath-School Teacher

Luke 13:18-19

… See! she becomes a thoughtful girl, a loving wife, a gracious mother, a matron in Israel, such a one as Dorcas among the poor, or Hannah with her …

Precious, Honorable, Beloved

Isaiah 43:4

… Honorable because of her nearness to His Son, for is she not the "bride, the Lamb's wife"? Honorable because of the service entrusted to her to bear …

Psalm 80

Psalm 80

… Jacob called the son of his most beloved wife, Benjamin, the son of his right hand, Ge 35:18, who was so dear to him that his life …

An Earnest Warning about Lukewarmness

… Your servant may do many things which could not be thought of by your child or your wife; and so is it with many who profess to be …

The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

… Beneath our own dear rooftree there is nobody to catch us up, nobody to quibble at us! Only wife and children and friends who love us and delight …

Concealing the Words of God

Job 6:10

… the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; and blessed be the name of the Lord." And when his wife, seeing him covered with a loathsome disease …

Turning Back in the Day of Battle

Psalm 78:9

… conflict with Apollyon himself foot to foot, and shall Giant Despair or his wife Mrs. Diffidence make us afraid? No, in the name of God we will use …

Salvation All of Grace

Ephesians 2:8

… Remind Him of your wife, or child, or friend. Tell Him of Saul of Tarsus. Tell Him of the woman that was a sinner. Tell Him of Rahab …

Something Worth Seeking

Matthew 6:33

… You may seek a wife, and you shall not do ill if you seek aright, but seek first your God. You may seek a house and seek to …

One Lion, Two Lions, No Lion at All!

Proverbs 22:13

… in business on his own account, idleness is usually a wrong to his wife and family. I know one who is the cause of poverty and need to …

The Great Liberator

John 8:36

… a mortal with a shaven crown—to trust my family secrets and my wife's character to the commands of a man who may be all the while …

The Soul-Winner

Proverbs 11:30

… Jesus is the Bridegroom and we must speak for Him and tell of His beauty, as Abraham's servant, when he went to seek a wife for Isaac …

Jacob and Doubting Souls a Parallel

Genesis 45:28

… way to Jesus, yet undertake the journey! And if you can persuade your wife and all your children to go, so much the better. Christ will receive them …

Jesus At Bethesda—or, Waiting Changed for Believing

John 5:1-9

… Your child is saved, your wife is converted, but you are not. You are waiting, and will wait, I fear, till the tune of, "Earth to earth, dust …

Luminous Words

1 Peter 4:1-3

… Now, or never! Now, or never! Now, or never!" Before, like Lot's wife, you stiffen into a pillar of salt that can never move, I charge you …

Honey From A Lion

Romans 5:15

… O Adam, you did a sad day's work for us when you listened to the voice of your wife and eat of the forbidden tree! The world …

The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity

Job 27:10

… is very sick; the doctor gives a very poor account of him; his wife is weeping; all over the house there is great anxiety. I sit down by …

God Pleading For Saints, And Saints Pleading For God

Lamentations 3:58

… When in Egypt he is put into the dungeon through a false charge brought by the wife of Potiphar. He is not treated as a common criminal, for …

Desires Towards God—a Sermon For The Weak

Psalm 38:9

… the same of you—"The Lord has done great things for him." His wife, who lamented his deep dejection, will bless God and say, "Lord, I thank You …

Walking Humbly With God

Micah 6:8

… than you dreamed! You do not happen to have a vixen for a wife, or a troublesome family, or a provoking neighbor—or you would have lost your …

No Room for Christ in the Inn

Luke 2:7

… earnings of the poor man, stolen from his ragged children, and his emaciated wife. What do many publicans fatten upon but the flesh, and bones, and blood, and …

The Necessity of Ministerial Progress

… If he did so he would be acting as wisely as the great painter who broke his palette, and, turning to his wife, said, “My painting days are …

The King and His Court

Psalm 101:6

… And if you die as you are, you will be lost forever." The man's wife was thunderstruck and so was he! But when we went to visit …

In Him: Like Him

1 John 2:6

… So one man copies Christ, perhaps; a friend who hears him preach copies him, and his wife at home copies the hearer, and somebody copies her; and so …

Everywhere And Yet Forgotten

Job 12:9

… when your family is sick, "The Lord has placed His hand upon my wife, and on my children." When your treasure vanishes away, say, "The Lord has put …

The Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

… disputes, more especially if it is a dispute between his neighbor and his wife, for well he knows that if they two disagree, yet they will both agree …

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… He has made you happy in your wife and in your children. He has set a hedge about you and all that you have and yet you are …

Taking Hold of God

Isaiah 64:7

… he sank to the ordinary level, as he did when he denied his wife and said—"She is my sister." But when his faith is strong, what a …

Temple Glories

2 Chronicles 5:13

… by your simply looking to Christ! Yes, by the prayers of an earnest wife, I beg you look. Oh, young man! By the groans of a loving mother …