What do Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, Woodstock, a Barack Obama speech, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Fannie Lou Hamer’s civil rights marches, The Grand Ole Opry, and American churches have in common? All ...

John Newton was a British sailor who once worked on slave ships but later turned his life around. After surviving a violent storm at sea, he felt a deep change in his heart. He left the slave trade, ...

John Newton is best known for being the author of the hymn Amazing Grace. He was a slave trader turned pastor. He knew the transforming power of the hope of the Gospel. Today I share a modernised and ...

It is probably the most famous hymn in history: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind but now I see. Though some today wonder if ...

The hymn is a personal reflection on his life, from his past as a slave trader to his redemption and spiritual journey, emphasising themes of a lost soul found and saved. He wrote it to help his ...

If you are reading a Kindle copy of my recent book (or for that matter any other book) and are reading it on your phone, computer, or a phone when you get to the end it will give you a chance to rate ...

John Newton is known as the author of Amazing Grace. Newton was always astounded by the grace he received. Towards the end of his life he said “Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very ...

When you hear the iconic song, Amazing Grace, what do you think of ? Church choirs? Funerals? Perhaps bagpipes belting out the haunting tune? Did you know that the author of Amazing Grace was once a ...

The Servant Stage performance of “Amazing Grace” cast features Adler Roberts as John Newton, Kayla Klase as Mary Catlett, Joshua William Green as Thomas/Pakuteh, Robert Bigley as Captain Newton, ...

A "wretch" who found "Amazing Grace!" John Newton was nurtured by a devoted Christian mother who dreamed that her only son would become a preacher. But she died when John was a child, and he followed ...