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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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It’s Not About You: Understanding Teens and Their Choices

“I can’t believe he’s doing this to me. He knows I hate when he watches porn.”

“She purposefully went behind my back and purchased a burner phone after I explicitly forbid any more screen time. She’s trying to drive me crazy.”

“My son ignored everything I told him and watched pornography even after I warned him about the dangers. He just wants to hurt me.”

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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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Flourish: Grace-Centered Practices to Protect and Grow a Fruitful Life in Christ

by Ava Pennington (Goodreads Author)

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Barb Winters said: " Flourish will challenge you in a good way. Ava Pennington's writing is transformative. Her stories are vulnerable and relatable. And she's an excellent writer.

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

by John Koenig

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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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