White Elephant
Setting the Standard for a New Generation
Nobody is perfect, no one. As a generation, God is asking us with finality to understand and live it. Everybody messes up, and no mess up is worst than any other. Again, with emphasis, no mess up or sin is any worst than any other (one exception further in the chapter.) Many say that they understand or even believe this, however, few live it. The standard for sin...

Holy Dedication
Setting Apart the Priests for a New Generation
In the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, God is teaching the Israelites laws, behavior, and feasts for their new civilization away from Egypt, He is also setting apart priests for service to the people and His temple. From the family of Aaron God appointed the priests. The instruction on making their clothing was intricate and there was an elaborate dedication ceremony. Everyday there was instructions on ceremonies that...

Civilization
Raising new generation
The Israelites were a chosen group of people that God had selected to set apart and obey Him. Since creating Adam God had repeatedly selected individuals groups of people, set them apart to do mighty things for Him and then watched them not believe and even fall back into sin. Time after time, whomever it was that God chose to follow Him started out by following His ways and then messed up significantly enough that God...

Archive
Mentoring comes up repeatedly in the book of Exodus. While mentoring might be a foreign idea to us in the 21st Century, it was not a foreign idea in generations before us. Mentoring is one of the primary ways that God has designed to take experience of the elders and transfer the wisdom learned by them to the next generations.
As simple as mentoring can be, it is many times a hard idea to remember to engage...

Display
It is not all peaches and cream
Following God as a generation may not seem like peaches and cream, and it is not, but living life without God is not either. Life is just tough because this world is corrupt and broken by sin. It is not necessarily going to be easy or blast no matter how you decide to live it but it does not have to be a drag. Because something is a challenge does not...

Restore
The Second Part of the Feast as a Generation
God's plan is and has always been for us to spend eternity with Him in a perfect world. In the beginning, we were with Him in a perfect world that He had created for us. We as man sinned and disobeyed God separating us from Him and causing the world around us to become corrupt and broken. Since the time our sin separated us from God, His plan has...

Celebrate
The Responsibility To Celebrate And Remember
The next place that we find God instructing us as generation is as He explains to Moses the First Passover. Moses had just asked Pharaoh to release the Israelites from 430 years of slavery that they had been in, and Pharaoh refused. God then unleashed 9 plagues of wrath upon Egypt like frogs, locusts, flies and was preparing to send the last of the 10 plagues, which would be the death of all...

Younger
The Responsibility Of A Younger Generation
Just 2047 years after God made man at the creation, God makes a covenant with Abram and through Abram a covenant with us, and every generation that will come. The covenant will continue with God and Abram

Behind The Scenes Note
I wanted to briefly share what happens behind the scenes and ask for your help as there are many new subscribers in the last weeks that have joined. Generations is subscribed to by lots of people scattered around the globe, we have people in remote areas of the Fiji Islands as well as well known individuals in thriving metropolises. There are thousands upon thousands that are forwarded these postings in emails by subscribers or...

Elder
The responsibility of a generation
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Calling
It was a bumpy sort of road but the old car handled it in stride as it jostled down the center. Kristen had now where special to go it seemed except she knew that she was to take this turn off from the main road. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, sunny with a slight breeze, just the kind that wants to make you lie down in the grass and take a nap. Kristen saw that...

significant
No matter how indestructible we may feel, it is amazing how fragile life is. Yes, life is fragile and passes much quicker than we may be able to prepare for. Comforting words on this subject to me are those of Solomon that "all is vanity." Those words are comforting to me in the fact that no matter how much or little you have and no matter how important or unnoticed you are the words from a very wise...

Generations (this online writing @ injesus.com) has been an extreme joy for me to be involved in over the last several years and has been an incredible journey that I will always look back on and cherish. About a month ago In Jesus.com had to make a decision to begin charging ministries to use their site to be able to continue financially. Unfortunately I am not one of those that because of finances will be able to pay...

print
God made each one of us very unique from the other, with details so precise that we will hardly understand each detail about ourselves until our life is complete. Before God formed us in our mothers womb God knew us, not just a thought, but God knew us. Jeremiah 1:5 To know someone is not just a casual thought about him or her instead to know someone is to be familiar enough with them to know intricate details...

wood shed
I never experienced an actual