... like to be at the top of his game, and at the bottom of the barrel. Did you get it? The awful grace of God was behind John Newton being forced into labor in Sierra Leone because of his own bad behavior aboard ship. After he became a Christian he served as captain, the Man in ... in fervent prayer. At NASA all plans for the journey were jettisoned like the oxygen tanks. Instead all the creative juices and intuitive skills of the men and women in the space program were fully engaged in another mission. From the ...
... conference. He came to breakfast Sunday morning in a white suit, the only suit he brought with him. Accidentally, he spilled some tomato juice on his suit. Since he could not get the suit cleaned on short notice, he decided he would cover the spot with talcum ... from sinner to saint, from a criminal to a child of God, it is by the power of God's grace in the cross. John Newton experienced this and expressed it in his famous hymn: Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost ...
... little man. The crowd’s laughter turned to silence as the man clenched his fist around the lemon and squeezed six drops of lemon juice into the glass. As the crowd cheered, the manager paid out the winning prize. Then he asked the skinny guy what he did for ... Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012). 3. “The Gospel of Luke,” Daily Study Bible Series. 4. “Out of the Wasteland, A Jackpot,” by Newton N. Minor and Craig L. Lamay, The New York Times Magazine, December 4, 1994, p. 82. 5. Stephen F. Olford, The Grace ...
... by the sheer determination of perseverance. William Wilburforce was a member of the British Parliament and a dear friend of John Newton, the former slave who wrote the song, Amazing Grace. William Wilburforce was a tremendous Christian who saw, early on, the ... things to do in life is wait. Here in a country that exists on frozen dinners, instant mashed potatoes, powdered orange juice, packaged cake mixes, instant print cameras, and freeway express lanes, it's difficult, if not impossible, to learn how to ...
