A Bible study series on family, sin, second chances and freedom
Blessings or Curses: breaking destructive family patterns
I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.
Deuteronomy 30:19
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
Romans 5:19
Blessings or Curses is a website dedicated to understanding the family from God’s perspective, with a focus on why families succeed or fail. Born out of the author’s own struggle with destructive generational patterns, the blog explores biblical truths about blessings and curses, especially as revealed in Deuteronomy 28–30. Scripture teaches that obedience to God’s voice brings life and blessing, while disobedience leads to curses. The site explains how generational curses operate, how they can be broken through Christ, and how families can walk in lasting freedom for a thousand generations. At its core, the message is a call for men to lead their households in God’s ways, as Abraham was commanded, so that families may inherit God’s promises and live in His blessings.
Part 1
The problem of sin
Where sin comes from, why it takes root in families, and the idolatry at its centre.
What is sin
- Understanding sin
- The root of all sin – The desire to be independent
- The ability to sin – The knowledge of good and evil
- The consequence of sin – A curse
Why we sin
- The sins of our fathers
- The wrong environment
- Generational strongholds
- Generational strongholds ii – Reformation
- The culture around us
- Listening to other voices
- Partial Obedience
The central sins – Idolatry
Part 2
The solution to sin
How the blood of Jesus redeems us, and repentance into Christ, into promise and into Kingdom culture.
Understanding how the blood of Jesus Redeems us
Understanding what repentance is
Repentance into Christ
Repentance into Promise
- Holy Spirit – Our Guide to the promise
- Signs & Wonders – Our anchor to the promise
- Learning Dependence
- Learning Obedience – The bread of life
- Murmuring and Complaining
- Denying the Flesh by focusing on the Promise
Repentance into Kingdom Culture
- Culture wars part i
- Culture wars part ii – Infiltration
- Culture wars part iii – Unequally yoked
- Culture wars part iv – Alliances & Intermarriage
Breaking the cycle
- Breaking the Cycle – Recognize It, Don’t Excuse It
- Let the fear of the Lord replace the scheming
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