In the sermon **“Stretch Marks”** from the *Twice Told Truths* series, the story of Peter’s threefold denial and restoration by Jesus in John 21 becomes a powerful picture of grace, humility, and renewed purpose. While the world says, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me,” Jesus responds to repeated failure with forgiveness and invitation. Through their threefold exchange—“Do you love me?”—Jesus confronts Peter’s sin honestly, stripping away pride and self-reliance, not to shame him but to restore him to ministry: “Feed my sheep.” The sermon contrasts “cheap grace,” which excuses sin, with “costly grace,” which transforms the sinner through repentance and dependence on Christ. Ultimately, Peter’s story reminds believers that God’s grace meets us in failure, restores us to purpose, and calls us to follow Jesus faithfully—even when the path leads where we do not want to go.