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Easter Hearts, Week 4, Day 5

by David Joynt on May 03, 2018

Easter Hearts, Week 4, Day 5

JOHN 21:9-10 | JOHN 18:15-19, 25-27

 

Why all these details about a fish fry on the seashore? Why are the final pages of this profound gospel given over to a barbeque? Because this scene corresponds to a previous moment and evokes memories—this time not of courage but cowardice. In John 18, Peter denies Jesus, not before the intense questioning of an assembled court and powerful judge, but three times before a gatekeeping woman and a few servants. The denials take place around a “charcoal fire,” and this word is used only one other time in the NT, to refer to the fire Jesus makes for his breakfast with Peter and the others in John 21.

 

Jesus makes Peter recall his failures.

 

Why does Jesus make Peter remember the denials in the courtyard of the High Priest?

 

FAMILY TIME—

Is it better to face our mistakes or simply move on?

 

Tags: mistakes

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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