What people are saying about Lets Do Family Together
Talk about changing your family legacy! Thats exactly what Gary and Norma didand you can, too! This book reveals all of their treasured secrets. Whether your family needs an overhaul or a tune-up, you wont want to miss out on this powerful message. Its authentic, practical, and grounded. You will simply love this book!
Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, authors of Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
Gary Smalley has been my mentor and friend for the past fifteen years. Ive heard him teach. Ive watched him live. He practices what he preaches. This book is like the greatest hits of forty years of marriage ministry and over seventy years of life. Im deeply grateful for this man.
Ted Cunningham, pastor, Woodland Hills Family Church; author, Fun Loving You and The Power of Home
Gary Smalley has spent a lifetime helping couples with marriage and family issues. In Lets Do Family Together, he looks back over his own family journey and shares the key elements that have guided him, Norma, and their children and grandchildren. This book provides a roadmap to having healthy family relationships and leaving a positive family legacy. Its a gold mine of practical relationship nuggets. I highly recommend it.
Gary D. Chapman, PhD, author of The Five Love Languages
The way you interact with your spouse and your children now can impact your family for generations to come. Gary Smalley understands this better than most, and he outlines seven key principles for making it happen in this excellent book. If you and your family want to embrace the journey togetherboth the highs and the lowsyou need to read this!
Jim Daly, president, Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Gary Smalley, in Lets Do Family Together, has once again captivated the hearts of his readers with his vulnerable honesty and practical persuasion to give crystal clear insight into the building blocks of spiritually healthy families. Highlighting his own personal experiences, Smalley extracts real-life application and biblical understanding to the most critical issues that families deal with on a daily basis. In his pages, you will glean support and confidence to make choices that will honor God and those you love.
Michelle Anthony, vice president and publisher of learning resources at David C. Cook; author of Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family, Spiritual Parenting, Dreaming of More for the Next Generation, and The Big God Story
Gary is a humble and honest man. He openly shares the stories of his family, both inspiring and embarrassing, to encourage all readers to experience the transformation of their families through Gods grace. His story confirms that it is possible to build a healthy family despite our imperfections.
Mark Batterson, lead pastor National Community Church, Washington D.C.; New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker
Read the first chapter of this book, and youll find an incredible story of a man who looked back at his family and life-story and had no regrets. Read the rest of this outstanding bookwritten by my friend of friends, Gary Smalley, and his familyand youll discover much more. Like specific, positive, life-changing ways to raise your own family and have no regrets as well! Not perfection. Not formulas. But wisdom and hope, laughter and love, sound counsel and page after page of encouragement. This is a whole book of I can do that head nods. Thats because, without exaggeration, if there were a Mount Rushmore for the top marriage and family experts worldwideGary Smalley would be there. Learn from him, as our family has over the years. Read this book, and may God grant you and your family the blessings and closeness that Gary is able to look back on and that you can look forward to with your family.
John Trent, PhD, Gary D. Chapman Chair of Marriage and Family Ministry and Therapy, Moody Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Gary Smalley truly has a heart seeking Christ! Dr. Smalley and his wife, Norma, raised a family strongly founded on Christ-centered principles. His family story is a testament to the power of prayer and perseverance as well as the wisdom that comes along with it. Creating a family culture that makes a generational impact for the kingdom is invaluable, and Dr. Smalley has some great pointers on how to do that! He has done more to give me wisdom in my forty-three-year marriage than any other man on earth.
Joe White, president of Kanakuk Ministries, Branson, Missouri
Twenty-five years ago, Sheila and I attended a marriage seminar taught by Dr. Gary Smalley. As a young couple, we learned what it meant to show love and honor to one another. In this book, he pours a lifetime of experience and teaching into a work that will help us all learn how to pass on love and honor to future generations through seven simple steps. This book is a great practical tool for parenting.
Jim McBride, executive pastor, Sherwood Baptist Church, Albany, Georgia; author of Rite of Passage: A Fathers Blessing
Gary Smalley has done it again! Lets Do Family Together is practical but profound. Learning and applying these seven keys will help your family grow healthy and strong!
Rod Loy, pastor, First Assembly of God, North Little Rock; author of Three Questions, Immediate Obedience, and After the Honeymoon.
LETS DO
FAMILY
TOGETHER
7
KEYS FOR GENERATIONS
OF LOVE AND HONOR
GARY SMALLEY
Copyright 2015 by Gary Smalley
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This book is dedicated to
my kids and their spouses: Kari and Roger, Greg and Erin, and Michael and Amy;
my grandkids: Michael, Taylor, Hannah, Cole, Murphy, Reagan, Garrison, David, Annie, and Zoie Senait;
my future grandchildrens mates and great-grandchildren: may you be blessed to reflect the same love and honor in our family for generations to come;
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