Amazing Grace Abounds

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Happy birthday, John Newton

Here is a video bio of his life, the blaspheming slave trader whom God's grace redeemed into a pastor and hymnwriter. He was born today in 1725.

Celebrate God's grace in the life of John Newton:

• Amazing Grace, Grace Abounding: The Story of John Newton, an audio drama by Paul McCusker and Dave Arnold
• John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, by Jonathan Aitken
• John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversions of Wesley and Wilberforce, by D. Bruce Hindmarsh
• The Roots of Endurance: Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce, by John Piper

{HT: Between Two Worlds}

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