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ISBNs: 978-1-5460-1466-9 (hardcover); 978-1-5460-1465-2 (ebook)
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Todays families need hope and direction now more than ever and that is why I am excited about Family Shift. My friends Rodney and Michelle Gage have put together a simple 5-Step Plan that will help you define your vision for your marriage and family relationships. I am excited to join the movement of helping families stop drifting and start living with greater intention.
TobyMac
Grammy Award Winning Recording Artist
We are so excited about Family Shift! Even though we are just getting started in the marriage and parenting season of our lives, we need all the help we can get to continue building upon the foundation our parents laid for us. We love how Rodney and Michelle help couples and families clearly define how to write their own mission and vision statements and how to identify their own core values as a couple and family. This book truly serves as a spiritual and moral compass to help families successfully navigate through life in todays world.
John Luke and Mary Kate Robertson
Duck Dynasty Stars
For over three decades, I have coached young people on how to win on and off the field. If there is one thing a team must have in order to win a ball game, it is a successful game plan. However, even a successful game plan still requires making adjustments. In Family Shift, Rodney and Michelle Gage not only provide a solid game plan but also help you know how to make the necessary adjustments along the way in your most important relationships. This book can be a game changer for your marriage and family.
Coach Lou Holtz
Legendary Football Coach
If there was ever a time for families to make a shift to reclaim the eroding spiritual and moral values of our culture it is now. Rodney and Michelle Gage have provided a simple yet powerful framework on how to make the necessary shifts to keep their family from drifting further away from God and each other. I highly recommend this book!
Josh McDowell
Bestselling Author and Speaker
After having won five World Series in my career, I know it requires special chemistry and teamwork to have a championship team. The same is true when it comes to the family. As a husband and father of four kids, I know it requires having special chemistry and teamwork to overcome the curve balls and changeups our culture is constantly pitching at us. This book provides families with a proven plan to help couples and parents achieve winning families.
Andy Pettitte
Five-Time World Series Champion and Three-Time All-Star
If marriages or families are going to avoid being negatively influenced in todays culture they have to have a plan to follow. Family Shift provides a proven plan and framework that will keep your marriage and family relationships focused on what matters most. If you want to avoid drifting apart, this book is a must-read.
David and Jason Benham
Bestselling Authors, Nationally Acclaimed Entrepreneurs, and Speakers
We all want a loving family environment where each personparent and childexperiences life in all the fullness that Jesus talked about. What Rodney and Michelle have done in their timely book Family Shift is provide a clear and intentional path for parents to create a life-giving environment where children can flourish to their greatest potential. Through my work at Compassion, Ive witnessed the impact of the holistic strategies included in Family Shift to transform lives for the goodone family at a timeall over the world. In a world where so many forces are working against having a healthy family life, this book is a gift to any parent who wants the best for their children!
Santiago Jimmy Mellado
President and CEO of Compassion International
Having known Rodney, Michelle, and their whole family for years, we are excited that they have written Family Shift to share their own proven method of seeing Gods plan fulfilled in marriage and family relationships. It is our hope that this book will encourage and strengthen other families just as it has our own.
Jerry and Becki Falwell
President and First Lady of Liberty University
Strong marriages and raising powerful kids who know who they are doesnt just happen. It takes a lot of prayer, patience, wisdom, and intentionality to keep from drifting toward the norms of our culture. This is why I am so excited about Family Shift. I have seen firsthand how Rodney and Michelle live out the principles of this book in their own marriage and family. They have given us a much-needed framework along with practical tools we can all apply to help safeguard our most important relationships.
Andi Andrew