Trinity Missionary Church Podcast

In our third week of the message series, "Families on the Edge," Pastor Steve poses the question, "Why do we make decisions that put our families on the edge?" Often times we know what we do will cause pain and strife, but we can't seem to stop the cycle of making those harmful decisions. Pastor Steve called it "Generational Families on the Edge" and it is destructive to our families. Are we destined to make poor choices, or can we break the cycle? Genesis 49 is the historical record of Israel (previously known as Jacob) calling each of his children in to bless them at the end of his life. What Israel called a "blessing" really sounded like a curse to his boys. As disparaging as Israel sounded to his boys (and he spoke the painful truth about his boys) there is a glimmer of hope as we read about the Levites in Exodus 32:1-29. They changed their "family secret" (see Genesis 34) and their questionable past from a curse to a blessing. They answered Moses' challenge when he asked, "Who is on the Lord's si