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| Sheila Walsh: Facing Your Failures | 5 Minutes With Jesus | July 15, 2026
- Grace tells us that our failures expose us for who
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- We really are.
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- And even as we are ready to count ourselves out,
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- The shelter of the cross casts a shadow over our broken hearts
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- And welcomes us home.
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- I think one of the gifts of getting older
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- Is more understanding of who you really are,
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- Your strengths, your weaknesses.
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- And when that's wrapped up
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- In an understanding of the grace of god,
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- It's a beautiful thing.
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- Even if the path to getting there was hard.
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- You know, i think of peter the disciple.
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- Peter began his life as a fisherman in bethesda.
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- You can read that in john chapter one.
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- Methanol and philip, two other disciples of jesus,
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- Were from the same village that lay
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- On the shores of upper galilee, and they all work together.
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- Peter's fishing business
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- Had obviously prospered because by the time we meet him
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- In the gospels, he had moved to capernaum,
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- The leading city of galilee, and had gone into partnership
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- With james and john, two other members of the 12.
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- Well, archeologists have uncovered what they believe
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- To be the remains of peter's house in campania,
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- And his property was fairly large.
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- For some reason,
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- I've always had a picture in my mind of a simple man
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- Who went fishing every day with his friends,
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- But it's clear that peter was a successful
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- Businessman who ran quite a fishing empire.
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- But one day he met a man who changed everything we read.
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- As jesus was walking beside the sea of galilee,
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- He saw two brothers.
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- Simon called peter and his brother andrew.
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- They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
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- Come, follow me, jesus said, and i will make you fishers
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- Of men.
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- At once they left their nets and followed him.
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- So what was it about?
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- Jesus compelled peter and andrew
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- To drop what they were doing and go after him.
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- I believe that they felt called into mission with jesus,
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- And they felt it deeply.
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- I'm sure at that stage they'd no idea what that day
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- Ahead would hold.
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- Never mind what the coming weeks and months would hold,
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- But they felt this call of god and responded.
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- I think that's true of all of us.
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- When we feel that call to follow jesus,
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- We know it's the only thing to do, but
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- We have no idea what our lives will look like.
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- I learned recently that the role of disciple
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- Was not an unknown role in those days.
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- It had a clear job description.
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- A person in those times enrolled not in seminary,
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- But as a student of an established rabbi.
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- They would literally live with their master
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- And learn by listening and asking questions.
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- The goal was that the disciple would become like his teacher.
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- In fact, jesus described it like this.
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- And luke chapter six a student is not above his teacher, but
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- Everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.
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- So the goal was clear
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- Not just to learn from christ, but to become like christ.
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- So for three years, peter walked by jesus side.
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- He saw the miracles.
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- He heard the stories he was all in until that final night.
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- It's at that last supper that jesus says to peter
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- And to the crowd, satan has asked to sift you as wheat.
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- Interestingly, the word used for you is plural.
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- Christ is telling peter that satan
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- Has asked to sift them all.
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- All the disciples.
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- But jesus goes on to say that he has prayed for peter.
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- You. singular.
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- What a gift, peter, that jesus has prayed for him,
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- Not believing
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- That he won't fail, but rather knowing that he will fail
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- And that he's praying
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- For when peter turns back so he can strengthen the others.
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- Peter will never understand
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- Grace, and until he's tasted bitterly of failure.
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- But that very failure will be the path that will lead him
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- To finding his strength and shelter in christ.
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- Jesus truly saw peter.
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- Now, we don't know what happened
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- To peter
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- And the hours between his denial that he ever knew jesus,
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- And the moment when he heard
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- After the crucifixion that the tomb was empty.
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- We read in mark's gospel the angel says, he has risen.
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- He is not here.
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- See the place where they laid him?
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- But go tell his disciples, and peter, he's
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- Going ahead of you into galilee.
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- There you will see him just as he told you.
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- And, peter, do you hear the grace poured out here
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- In two little words to hear god's messenger making it clear.
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- Make sure the one who thinks
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- He has failed knows that jesus is waiting for him as well.
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- Grace doesn't tell
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- Us our our bad choices or our failures don't matter.
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- Actually, quite the reverse.
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- Grace tells us that our failures expose us for who
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- We really are.
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- And even as we are ready to count ourselves out,
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- The shelter of the cross casts a shadow over our broken hearts
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- And welcomes us home.
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- Right now, you might find yourself
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- In a friday night place, but i want to say hold on
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- Because of jesus, sunday's coming.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, i want to thank you that you know us so well.
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- You know as far better than we know ourselves.
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- You know the places where we'll fall down.
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- In the places where you will lift us up again.
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- Lord, that just makes me even hungrier.
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- Just to follow you.
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- Just to walk beside you step by step.
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- Thank you, lord, that it's even when we fail.
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- You reveal so much of your grace and encourage us to walk on
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- With a greater understanding of who you are.
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- You did that in the life of peter, and i thank you.
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- You're doing it in our lives too.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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