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Barb Winters

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Although Barb’s been writing for over a decade, her passion for talking about online dangers was ignited after she and her husband learned their son was watching pornography. Because of their experience, she now writes to encourage and support parents, grandparents, educators, and leaders in this digital age.

Barb’s award-winning debut book, Sexpectations: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Healthy Relationships, addresses the heavy loads of anxiety, worry, and depression young people experience because of cultural norms, social media, pornography, and other online information. Sexpectations offers practical advice for presenting healthier options to tweens, teens, and young adults.

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Love is Not a Feeling: How Parents Can Model Selfless Love

Love. We dream about it, sing songs about it, and talk incessantly about it. We watch mushy movies hoping true love wins. We desire love in our own lives. But somewhere along the way, we confuse attraction, infatuation, and emotion with something deeper. Love is not a feeling, even though our culture treats it like one.

When I was a teen, my primary objective was finding true love. I knew the guy w

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The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

by Annie Reed (Goodreads Author)

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Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

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Moments with God for Couples: 100 Devotions for Growing Closer to God and Each Other

by Our Daily Bread Ministries

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“The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.' A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate---humble obedience---but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

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