Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty

By Dannah Gresh

EVERY WOMAN IS BORN WITH POWER!

We live in the age of low-rise jeans, belly-button rings, and backless shirts. Many girls and young women today could not even define the word modesty, let alone tell you how to live it out.  Teen girls often ask: 

Why can't I wear what everyone else is wearing?     My parents are hung up on their old sense of fashion.  Times have changed, why can't I?    Isn't is really the guy's problem if he is tempted?

In a fresh and trusted voice,  Dannah Gresh has a new message for them: modesty itself is a delicate yet formidable power. In Secret Keeper, she teaches that modesty not only issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue, but it also expresses your love for and obedience to God. 

Includes The "Truth or Bare" Fashion Tests and Fashion Challenges that will resonate with a teen girl. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Release date: Jul 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9780802478498

Dannah Gresh

Dannah Gresh lives in the mountains of Pennsylvania with her husband, Bob, their children, Robby and Lexi, and their Labradoodle, Stormie. The Greshes founded Pure Freedom, a ministry that has provided biblical retreats and teaching resources for more than 500,000 people all over the world. Dannah has appeared as a guest on programs such asFamilyLife Today, The 700 Club, and Focus on the Family.

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DANNAH GRESH knows that young women want to be in style, look their best and wear the latest. But with that desire comes a huge responsibility. She reminds us in a fun, gentle, big-sis type of way that God wants to use our femininity to bring glory to Him. And this involves learning the skill of keeping unique aspects of our femininity for one man, and one man only—our future husband. Through Secret Keeper, Dannah tells it like it is—full of truth and full of power! Definitely a must-read for all young women.

SUSIE SHELLENBERGER, EDITOR, SUSIE MAGAZINE

© 2002, 2005, 2011 by

DANNAH GRESH

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Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Cover Design: LeVan Fisher Design

Cover Image: © PhotoAlto/Sigrid Olsson

Interior Design: Julia Ryan | www.DesignByJulia.com

Images: Teens: Steve Tressler (Vista Photography); page 20 © iStock/Morten Olsen (bra);

pages 18-20 © JupiterImages.com

Image Credit: Hiram Powers, The Greek Slave, the collection of the Newark Museum,

Gift of Franklin Murphy Jr., 1926: pages 14, 76

Author Photo: Steve Smith

ISBN: 978-0-8024-3977-2    Also available as an EBook 978-0-8024-7849-8

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CONTENTS

1 THE POWER

Modesty is a delicate yet formidable power.

2 THE EVOLUTION

The progression of fashion dilutes the power.

3 THE SECRET

God has an intended purpose for you.

4 THE MARK!

It’s not just fashion.

5 THE ALLURE

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen.

6 THE INNER QUALITY

If a girl’s modesty is not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.

7 THE BOTTOM LINE

When you love Him, you will be able to obey Him in the way that you dress.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Power

1

I SAT BASKING IN THE WARMTH of a tropical island paradise when they came my way. Cruising with magazine editor Susie Shellenberger and a couple thousand moms and daughters, I was enjoying our afternoon on a private island somewhere in the middle of the Caribbean by pulling up a lounge chair to nap. But I could see I wasn’t going to get one.

Their itsy, bitsy, teeny, tiny bikini strings swayed against their tanned hips as they walked purposefully my way. Silver belly rings dangled from each thoroughly naked navel. Sunglasses, perfectly manicured toes and fingers, and two wrists full of collected bands finished their beach look.

Hey, are you Dannah Gresh? one of the two high school girls asked.

Yep. That’s me!

Ok, so … me and my sister just totally loved your book and we wanted to come tell you that we’re totally into it and its message. We try to really live it out.

Why, thank you! Which one?

"Secret Keeper. The one about modesty."

That was the day I knew this book would need to be revised!

They missed it. Each of