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    Best of 2025: Transform Your Family with These 5 Vital Traits (Part 2 of 2)

    Dec 5 2025
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    Best of 2025: Transform Your Family with These 5 Vital Traits (Part 2 of 2)

    Date: Dec 5, 2025

    Guests: Gary Chapman

    Dr. Gary Chapman encourages parents to embrace five timeless characteristics that will create a healthy family environment. These include a service-oriented mindset, intimacy between husband and wife, strong parental guidance, obedience from children, and loving leadership provided by the husband.

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    LISTEN: Tips for Building a Healthy Family (Part 1 of 2)

    READ: 8 small resolutions that can change your family

    READ: Practical tips for parents-to-be

    READ: A biblical basis for the 7 traits of effective parenting

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