And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets to Sexual Purity - Softcover

Gresh, Dannah K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802483445 ISBN 13: 9780802483447

Publisher: Moody Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

Reviewers continue to rave about And the Bride Wore White: Seven Secrets To Purity. But the greatest proof of it's effect is in the lives of tens of thousands of young women who've embraced the book's message. Each chapter of And the Bride Wore White begins with a narrative of Dannah Gresh's young love life, taken from her own teenage journals. She transparently shares her struggles and successes, her moments of pain followed by healing and the moments of triumph. This story-line grips the young reader while they learn statistically proven risk-reduction factors. The end result are usable "how-to-say-no" skills that can reduce the risk of a young woman's heart being broken by sexual sin. In this update, Dannah and her friends share open letters of encouragement to young women, one for those who chose life and another to those who chose abortion, a letter to teen girls addicted to pornography and another to girls who have experienced sexual abuse, and many more specific to a young woman's unique circumstances. Over 250,000 copies sold!

About this title

About the Author

DANNAH GRESH is a bestselling author and co-founder of Pure Freedom. She has sold over 750,000 copies of her books, including And the Bride Wore White , What Are You Waiting For: The One Thing No One Ever Tells You About Sex, and Lies Young Women Believe (co-authored with Nancy Leigh DeMoss), in addition to the Secret Keeper series. She is also a frequent guest for national radio, TV and print mediums. Dannah lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Bob, and their three children.

From the Back Cover

Since it's release in 2000, And the Bride Wore White has touched the lives of over 100,000 young women.  Dannah exposes Satan's lies about sex, gives a three-step plan to breaking off sinful relationships, provides compassionate guidelines for healing and lists seven secrets of sexual purity to apply to your life.
 
In a warm, revealing writing style, Dannah includes passages from her diaries and journals that show the joy and heartache of her dating years, the challenges and temptations, successes and failures.  She includes stories, interviews and insights from such well-known writers, speakers and musicians as Joshua Harris, Rebecca St. James, Josh McDowell and others.  In this celebration edition, you'll find triumphant stories from readers whose lives were touched by Dannah's message.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

God pushed me into doing my very first purity retreat when a conflict arose in my church over whether or not a junior in high school should attend a women's retreat dealing with sexual healing. Since I was a corporate trainer, the women of the church asked me to put together a purity retreat specifically for the junior and senior girls. I have to admit, my pride pleaded with the Lord for another assignment, but eventually gave in. I did not share any of myself on that first retreat, but I saw women who did, and I saw how incredible the response was to how "real" they were. I cautiously walked into the arena of exposing myself and found that junior, senior and college-aged girls extremely challenged by my story, much to my humility. And so, I offer you my story in these pages. It has been rewritten through meticulous retrieval of my memory through sixteen years of diaries and journals. Not one detail written about within these pages was made up. They were all carefully recorded within my journals. God must have known they would be used for this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802483445
• ISBN 13: 9780802483447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 185