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5 days ago · The story of John Newton is a stark reminder that no one is beyond redemption. No matter how far we've strayed, no matter how deep our sins, God's grace is always available. His love, like a raging ocean, can wash away the stains of our past and set us on a new course, a course that leads to eternal life.
4 days ago · John Newton (1725 - 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman who preached the gospel and worked to abolish slavery in England. He went to sea at a young age ...
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4 days ago · John Newton (1725 - 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman and abolitionist After coming to Christ, Newton renounced this trade and became a prominent supporter of abolitionism.
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- Auburn Friends
5 days ago · Amazing Grace. : The Scripture Texts. Olney Church. John Newton based his hymn Amazing Grace on this chapter in the Bible: 1 Chronicles 17. He took his 3 sermon points for the New Year from this passage of Scripture: look back.
5 days ago · In his first presentation of these “Thoughts on Marriage” in 1761 to The Christian’s Magazine, Newton (under the pseudonym “Minor”) introduced them with this quote: Arbiter Æithereus, tibi fit mellita voluptas;
4 days ago · Miscellaneous Thoughts are the private notes of John Newton, "the totally honest and humble outpourings of a heart that is being drawn towards the ministry of God's Word, but desires only to do God's will" [Tony Baker, Introduction to Ministry on my mind]
5 days ago · Wilberforce’s abolitionism was derived in part from evangelical Christianity, to which he was converted in 1784–85. His spiritual adviser became John Newton, a former slave trader who had repented and who had been the pastor at Wilberforce’s church when he was a child.
