Marriage

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… Suppose he had said, "Master, I will follow You, and to prove how I will follow You, I will go home and fetch my wife. I will go …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… I know that I used to beat my wife and now, God bless her, she knows how I love her! Then I could have gone into all manner …

Psalm 68

Psalm 68

… The reader is warned against misquoting this verse; it is generally altered into "the husband of the widow, "but Scripture had better be left as God gave it …

Life by Faith

Galatians 3:11

… arrow of unbelief has pierced him—he begins to tremble for Sarah, his wife. She is fair—perhaps the Philistine king will take her from him. Then, in …

Reminiscences as a Village Pastor

… His wife was made to match, and the pair were second to none in the village for grace and wisdom. Mr. King was a miller; and in his …

Psalm 108

Psalm 108

… as appears from what Abigail said to David when he took her to wife, "Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants …

Psalm 97

Psalm 97

… It's always well with us while God reigns; when our Husband is King we shall have preferment, and honour, and riches, and greatness, and power, and authority …

“Forward!”

… 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 …

Psalm 8

Psalm 8

… that is, that he should espouse this loathsome thing to himself, that he would be a husband to it; this is love unfathomable, love inconceivable, self-principle love …

The Beauty Of The Olive Tree

Hosea 14:6

… The writer of the 128th Psalm says of the man who fears the Lord and walks in His ways, "Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by …

Psalm 6

Psalm 6

… That eye of his that had looked and lusted after his neighbour's wife is now dimmed and darkened with grief and indignation. He has wept himself almost …

The Great Catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall

… Go home to her, and say, ' Your husband was a worse sinner than the rest of men, therefore he died.' You have not brutality enough for that. A …

Psalm 36

Psalm 36

… In a letter of Jeronius Segerson, written in the prison at Antwerp to his wife, named Lysken, who likewise lay a prisoner there, 1551. Verse 9. For with …

Psalm 58

Psalm 58

… from one of the commonest occurrences of the lower life—a cottager's wife boiling her pot! The sense, then, will be: "Before your pots feel the bramble …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… I remember as I came through the country, that there was a poor widow woman, whose husband fell at Bothwell: the bloody soldiers came to plunder her house …

Psalm 98

Psalm 98

… Adam knew him, and predicted concerning him, "A man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh." Abel …

Psalm 57

Psalm 57

… You are more than glad if you can whisper a word that is derogatory to a neighbour, or his wife, or his daughter... The morsel is too exquisite …

Strength in Weakness

… Still, I know that poverty often makes a man feel sadly weak; when his children are without shoes, and the wife’s dress is nearly worn-out, and …

Psalm 122

Psalm 122

… Gregory Nazianzen writeth that his father being a heathen, and often besought by his wife to become a Christian, had this verse suggested unto him in a dream …

Psalm 112

Psalm 112

… Your wife, or child, or dear friend is dead; "yet my Father lives." You yourself must die; "well, then, I go home to my Father, and to my …

Eccentric Preachers

… Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam ; why felgnest thou thyself to be another f for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings."— 1 Kings xiv. 6. Sermon …

The Minister in These Times

… A sick wife, a newly-made grave, poverty, slander, sinking of spirit, might teach lessons nowhere else to be learned so well. Trials drive us to the realities …

The Call to the Ministry

… How did I rejoice, as one that findeth great spoil, over one poor labourer’s wife who confessed that she felt the guilt of sin, and had found …

Psalm 59

Psalm 59

… On the expression, they lie in wait for my soul, compare 1Sa 19:11, "And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life …

The Guilt and the Cleansing

Psalm 51:7

… I shall be clean." What if you have even defiled your neighbor's wife? What if you have even struck your neighbor to his heart and left him …

The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations

… been telling the minister about him, and he thinks, “Why, I know; my wife comes to hear this man sometimes, so she has been telling him all about …

Lecture III: The Uses Of Anecdotes And Illustrations.

… been telling the minister about him, and he thinks, "Why, I know; my wife comes to hear this man sometimes, so she has been telling him all about …

Psalm 144

Psalm 144

… Husbands should husband their resources; and should not only furnish their tables but fill their garners. Where there are happy households, there must needs be plentiful provision for …

Building “Our Holy and Beautiful House”

… mittee wanted to go elsewhere, every one of our brethren who had a wife, or daughter, or sister, or sweetheart, before he started for that memorable meeting received …

Psalm 126

Psalm 126

… he must have it; and he will deprive his own belly, and his wife and children of it, and will sow it, going out "weeping" with it. There …

Nonconformity

From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7

… like to say I should not have liked such a lady for my wife. But she was a woman of great strength, of noble purpose, loved her country …

How To Meet the Evils of the Age

… as if you had no father or mother, no sister or brother, no wife or child, no human struggles and hopes; as if the great object of preaching …

Psalm 71

Psalm 71

… Remember Lot's wife (Lu 17:32): think on that pillar of salt, that it may season thee. Thomas Adams. Verse 18. Until I have shewed thy strength …

Psalm 33

Psalm 33

… Her sister-in-law, the wife of her brother, De la Goute, being differently inclined, reproved her for her conduct, asking her in anger, `What she would do …

Psalm 110

Psalm 110

… mother; to harden their hearts against the kneeling and weeping and embracing of wife and children; to forego their honours, and inheritances, yea, and their lives also, rather …

Psalm 10

Psalm 10

… What if his beggardly children pine, or his proud wife perish? they perish at their own charge, not mine; and what is that to me? I must be …

Psalm 17

Psalm 17

… Verse 3. "I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress." Wherefore, if thou be upon a mountain, look not backward again unto Sodom as Lot's wife …

Psalm 51

Psalm 51

… have murdered an innocent man, and have for adulterous purposes taken away his wife! And is not this an evident proof that my nature is more deeply infected …

Psalm 107

Psalm 107

… When a man is sick to death, his very riches are sapless and tasteless to him; wife and children, friends and acquaintance, can yield but little comfort in …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… In like manner Jesse, to all human appearance, entering the world as heir apparent only to the poverty of Mary and her espoused husband, was far removed from …