Darryl Friesen’s Reviews > The Big Fisherman > Status Update

“Utterly spent, Peter flung himself at full length upon his bed. It seemed very strange that his shameful confession of cowardice and disloyalty should have made him an accredited ambassador of the Master’s Kingdom!”

🔥🔥🔥✝️✝️✝️

“From now on – so long as I live – I’m going to be more careful – about what I say – and do… One never knows when he may be standing there.”

💔😭💔😭

While it’s probably true that I found Marcellus and Demetrius from The Robe to be more compelling characters, I’m finding myself so moved and impacted by Simon Peter’s character in this. There’s so much inner struggle for virtue and so many hard lessons that Jesus teaches him—I’m resonating so deeply with his journey of sanctification towards his ultimate calling.

“Simon Peter had had no use for Esther, nor she for him, until their boundless devotion and tireless service to Jesus had made them kin.”

This chapter had me in tears, especially when Peter was talking about being Simon some days and Peter other days. I so resonated with that struggle between the old creation and the new one in Christ. 🥹❤️🙌🏻

“If a man has enough faith,” replied Peter, “he can find his way in the dark—with faith as his lamp.”