{"product_id":"breaking-canaans-curse-s-w-ogden-9798185071014","title":"Breaking Canaan's Curse: The Great Faith of the Gentile Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan a curse spoken over your ancestors still be speaking over you - and can it be broken by a single word of faith?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Matthew 15 and Mark 7, a woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon comes crying after Jesus - not by her name, but by her nation's oldest wound. She is a Canaanite, carrying a label first spoken in Genesis 9, a curse older than her grief and heavier than her daughter's torment. Jesus answers her first cry with silence. His disciples want her sent away. Even His own words seem, at first, to close the door: \u003ci\u003eI am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.\u003c\/i\u003e But she will not leave. She kneels in the dust of a proverb that calls her a dog beneath the table - and there, at the lowest place she could stand, she finds the crumb that is enough to heal her child and break, in one sentence, a curse millennia deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreaking Canaan's Curse\u003c\/i\u003e is a devotional journey through that encounter. Each chapter opens with the primary biblical texts, moves into historical and biblical exposition that recovers what \"Canaanite\" actually meant to a first-century Jewish ear, and closes with reflection questions that turn her story toward your own - the labels you carry, the doors that seem closed to you, the silence you've prayed into. This is not a story about a woman who got lucky. It's a story about what happens when inherited shame meets unrelenting faith, and a curse spoken at the beginning of Scripture is answered by a King near its center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you read it one chapter at a time or take in the whole account in a single sitting, these pages invite you to bring your own ancestry, your own labels, and your own silence to that same Gentile road - and let the One who broke her curse meet you on yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat this book is\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA character study and devotional exposition rooted in Matthew 15:21-28 and Mark 7:24-30, read against the KJV text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA hybrid form that weaves three registers in every chapter: primary-text grounding, historical-cultural exposition, and devotional\/theological reflection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA focused exploration of one encounter - the Canaanite woman's plea, Christ's silence, and the great faith that broke through it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA historically grounded study of Second Temple Jewish attitudes toward Canaanites, and of what the name itself carried in the first century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA reverent treatment that takes Christ's hard words seriously rather than softening them, and lets the tension stand until the text itself resolves it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat this book offers the reader\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShort, structured readings that move from Scripture to historical context to a reflection aimed at the reader's own walk with God\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA deeper understanding of the ancestral curse of Canaan in Genesis 9 - and of how the Gospel answers a curse it never pretends to ignore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInsight into what it means to press into mercy when the answer, at first, is silence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA lens for recognizing inherited shame and ancestral labels - and how great faith refuses to let them have the final word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEncouragement that being outside the household of promise is not the same as being outside the reach of its King\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDevotional invitations to examine your own \"Canaanite\" label - whatever name your past, your family, or your failures have given you - and to ask for the crumb that is enough\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn honest, unsentimental treatment of a hard biblical episode that stays faithful to the text while making room for the reader's own great faith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. W. Ogden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185071014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d","brand":"S. W. Ogden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174106472703,"sku":"9798185071014","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/breaking-canaans-curse-s-w-ogden-9798185071014","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}