Pastor James Shepherd Facebook ad: “If you're a Christian believer read this.”

About this ad

Meta Ad Library ID

948305888044434

Platforms

Facebook, Instagram, Audience Network, Messenger and Threads

Relaunches

1

How we count

Ad text

Billy Graham's daughter fled her marriage just one day after the wedding. She drove home terrified of what America's pastor would say. He said two words — and they changed her life forever. Most Christian women would never guess that the daughter of Billy Graham — America's most famous evangelist — has been married four times. That her first husband was unfaithful for years before she found out. That her rebound marriage lasted three months. That her third marriage ended when the love of her life told her, ten years in, that he didn't want to be married anymore. If anyone had reason to feel like a Christian failure, it was Ruth Graham. But she tells her story anyway. Because at some point in the middle of all of it, she made the drive that changed everything. She had married her second husband against her parents' direct advice. Within 24 hours of the wedding, she knew she had made a catastrophic mistake. She had to flee the state. She had to go home. She tells it like this: "I wondered what they were going to say. Would they say 'we told you not to'? 'You made your bed, now you have to lie on it'? And as I rounded the bend in my parents' driveway, my father was standing there. When I got out of the car, he said — 'Welcome home.'" That was it. No lecture. No "I told you so." No silent disappointment radiating off him while he held his tongue. Two words. Welcome home. She said it changed her life. She said it gave her, for the first time, a picture of what God was actually like. Not the stern judge she had carried around in her head her whole life. The Father in the driveway. Already loving her. Already glad she came back. And here's the part of her story I can't stop thinking about. For most of her adult life, before that drive, she would have told you that Jesus was her security. She said it on national radio in her own words: "I would have told you Jesus is my security. But that wasn't true deep down where the secrets are kept." Read that line again. Deep down where the secrets are kept. How many Christian women feel exactly that? You'd say the right answer. You'd even mean it on Sunday morning. But deep down, where the secrets are, where nobody can see, where you can't even let yourself look most days — you know something isn't right. You've been a Christian for thirty years. And you're still chasing security in the wrong places. Still chasing approval in the wrong rooms. Still chasing peace at the bottom of a wine glass or a shopping cart or someone else's life you're trying to fix. And you'd never say that out loud. But Ruth Graham did. And it's the reason her story is one of the most healing things any Christian woman can hear. Here's the part nobody in church seems willing to say out loud — the reason "Jesus is my security" doesn't feel true in the secret place isn't that you don't believe it. It's that you don't actually know Him. You know about Him. You've heard about Him your whole life. You've sung the songs and quoted the verses and taught the lessons. But you've never actually sat with Him long enough, in His own Word, to know Him well enough that "Jesus is my security" stops being a Christian answer and starts being a fact you'd bet your life on. I know — because I was that woman. I went to church every Sunday for my entire adult life. I started reading plans in January more times than I can count. I made it through Leviticus barely holding on. I read Romans and closed the book unable to explain a single thing. Year after year — start in January, slow down by March, quietly stop by April. And carry that shame all the way back to December. The whole time, just like Ruth, I would have told anyone who asked that Jesus was my security. But deep down — I knew it wasn't true. That's when I found this 52-Week Bible Study. It walks you through the entire Bible — Genesis to Revelation — one weekly chapter at a time. Before you read anything each week, it gives you a short synopsis: who wrote it, when, why, what was happening in the world, and how every page connects to the God who has been standing in the driveway waiting for you the whole time. A short opening prayer to invite the Holy Spirit in. Seven Scripture references for your daily reading. Three reflection questions to help you actually live what you read. For the first time in my life, I read my Bible and I met the God Ruth Graham met in that driveway. For the first time, "Jesus is my security" stopped being a Christian answer and started being something I actually felt — deep down where the secrets are kept. Ruth Graham said it like this: "He gave me unconditional love. We can come to him — battered, bruised, broken, sinful — and he just welcomes us." That's most of us, on most days, whether we admit it or not. And the God of the Bible is in the driveway. But you'll never feel it deep down where the secrets are kept until you actually go meet Him on the page. Right now this 52-Week Bible Study is up to 62% off — just today — and every order comes with a free pen pack. Don't spend another year carrying secrets you're afraid to bring home. This is what Ruth Graham figured out in a driveway. The God of the Bible has been saying it on every page the whole time. Welcome home. Tap below and grab yours before they sell out.

Where the ad sends people

Tamorabibles.com

If you're a Christian believer read this... ☝️

Tamora Books