The DIY Guide to Building a Family That Lasts: 12 Tools For Improving Your Home Life

Gary Chapman & Shannon Warden

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Description: If you watch home improvement shows, you've probably seen those "before" and "after" pictures of total transformation. The DIY Guide to Building a Family That Lasts can help you experience that type of transformation in your personal family life.

Pairing home improvement metaphors with practical steps, makes remembering the transformational tips from Gary Chapman and Sharon Warden fun and memorable. Each chapter introduces a new relationship tool. Before you know it, your spouse and kids will love coming home to your newly created home.

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About The Author: New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Gary Chapman seeks to fulfil his call to the ministry as a pastor, speaker, and author. He speaks extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally on marriage, family, and relationships. The government of Singapore invited him to present his marriage seminar there and the Chaplainfds Office of NATO issued a special invitation for Dr. Chapman to speak to the NATO forces in Germany. Other engagements have taken him to England, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Mexico and Hong Kong.

Sales exceeding 5 million copies earned him the Platinum Book Award from the Evangelical Publishers Association for The Five Love Languages, which has been translated into over 36 languages. Almost 30 other books including: The whole Love Languages series; The Five Languages of Apology; Desperate Marriages: Moving Toward Hope and Healing in Your Relationship; Now What? Marriage After Children; Profit Sharing: Making Money An Asset in Your Marriage and Anger: Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way, Love is a Verb; God Speaks Your Love Language; The Family You've Always Wanted, plus five DVD series are also among his publications. He also hosts a weekly radio program Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman, which airs on more than 170 stations.

On the home front, Dr. Chapman is Senior Associate Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with over 35 years of pastoring and marriage counselling experience. He and his wife, Karolyn, have two adult children and two grandchildren.

Dr Gary Chapman holds the following educational qualifications:

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Adult Education
M.R.E., Education Administration

Wake Forest University
M.A., Anthropology

Wheaton College
B.A., Anthropology; Minor: Bible

Moody Bible Institute
Diploma, Pastor's Course

Duke University
Graduate work: History of Education; Educational Psychology

University of North Carolina
Graduate work: Philosophy of Education; Comparative Education

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Pages: 240

Publication Date: June 2019