Music Hymn Amazing Grace Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church Orang

Music Hymn Amazing Grace Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church Orange Villa Park Anaheim Hills Ca.
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"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.

T'was Grace that taught...
my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear...
the hour I first believed.




Through many dangers, toils and snares...
we have already come.
T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far...
and Grace will lead us home.




The Lord has promised good to me...
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be...
as long as life endures.




When we've been here ten thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun.




"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.

John Newton (July 24, 1725 -- December 21, 1807) was an English slaveship master who converted to Christianity and continued as a slave ship master, but eventually became an Anglican clergyman. He is also well-known as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace.

Newton was born in Wapping, London, the son of John Newton, a shipmaster in the Mediterranean service, and Elizabeth Newton (née Seatclife). His mother died of tuberculosis when he was a child. After two years at boarding school he went to sea with his father from 1736, and sailed with him on a total of six voyages until 1742. His father became governor of Fort York, Ontario, Canada, but was accidentally drowned in 1750.

His father had planned to send him to take up a position at a sugar plantation in Jamaica but, on his way in 1743, he was pressed into naval service, and became a midshipman aboard the HMS Harwich. Having attempted to desert, Newton was recaptured, put in irons and reduced to the rank of a common seaman, and was destined for a long voyage to the East Indies when, as his ship was getting supplies for the journey at Madeira, he was exchanged and transferred to a merchant ship engaged in the African slave trade and bound for west Africa.


[edit] Slave trader
It was six months later that he sought to stay on the coast of Guinea, with the intention of making his fortune as a trader in the islands close to Sierra Leone but, instead, became a servant and found himself brutally used by his master, suffering starvation, illness and exposure. It was this period that Newton later remembered as the time he was "once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa." Eventually, his fortunes improved and he was found by a ship's captain who had been asked by Newton's father to look out for him on his next voyage.


[edit] Conversion to Christianity
Returning to England with him in 1748 aboard the Greyhound via the Atlantic triangle trade route, they encountered a severe storm, which threatened to overwhelm the ship. Newton awoke in the middle of the night and, as the vessel filled with water, prayed for God's mercy. It was this experience which he was later to mark as the point of his conversion to Christianity. Even while the ship limped home in need of repair, and with little in the way of provisions, Newton began to read the Bible and other religious literature and, by the time they reached Britain, he had mentally assented to the doctrines of Christianity. The date had been May 10, 1748, an anniversary he observed for the rest of his life. From that point on, he avoided religious taboos such as profanity, gambling, and drinking, but he continued to participate in the slave trade for the next several years. He would later say, however, that his true heart conversion did not happen until some time later ("I cannot consider myself to have been a believer (in the full sense of the word) till a considerable time afterwards.").

Newton returned to Liverpool, England and, partly due to the influence of Joseph Manestay, a friend of his father's, obtained a position as first mate aboard a slave trading vessel, the Brownlow, bound for the West Indies via the coast of Guinea. During the first leg of this voyage, while in west Africa (1748-49), Newton saw for the first time the inadequacy of his new spiritual life and, suffering from the effects of a violent fever, threw himself totally on the mercy of God. He was later to claim that this experience was the true conversion and the turning point in his search for God, and that he knew for the first time a total peace

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[39neilm19]

A "Wretch like me"??? We are created by an act of love in the image of our creator, Stop putting yourself down, there are enough people out there who thrive on putting you down. Love yourself!!!

[sharndan]

John Newton, the author, had been the captian of a slave ship. It is when we recognize our

sin, and receive Gods love, that we are able to love others.

[OMM06]

Thank you for posting the lyrics and the historical background of this lovely, meaningful, and timeless song. Blessings to you and yours today. :-)

[sharndan]

praise God when an "atheist" visits the site that is the purpose. God loves them. you can tell when when

he is at work in there heart. they become afaraid and defensive.

[sharndan]

Christianity does not require "Blind Faith"

If you google the word "DARK MATTER" you will find that

cosmologist, scientist, accept the existance of matter

that that cannot be see or explained, its exsistance is infered from it influence on visible matter.

Like wise Christians can recognize God influence on our

lives.

Relgion is an attempt to please God by following rules

God wants a relationship based on Love.

the message on 3/18 is on this subject.

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[willgsp]

Copyright law didn't exist until 1710, and then only in a very limited form and only in Britain, not Nigeria. Newton lived in the 18th century and only wrote lyrics, not music.

[fifadefa]

i cant remember!!!!

[sharndan]

Why so full of hate?

[tounoni]

I watched a film, (Nigerian film) asserting that this hymn "Amazing Grace" was originally a local song of the Calabar tribe (South South) of Nigeria and that John Newton literally stole their copyright. JN was reputed to have gone to that part prior to turning to God's work, i.e when he was dealing in slave trade during early 17th Century, Has any historian ever read about this? have not found any corroboration of this claim, only from this film..............

[Wawaron123]

We sing this at my Catholic Church as well....nice song.

[allstarboyscout]

great country sound...

[spybouncer6]

gimmedat22 if you think that, I'm so sorry for you. I hope you get to believe, and that everybody else believe too, so we all can have salvation :)

[spybouncer6]

When Jesus came to the world about 2008 years ago, he came as a human, but he is God himself. Jesus came to Earth and made wonderful miracles. Jesus cured the blind and the unclean. Jesus then was crucified (for those who don't know, there is "scientific facts" although those who believe, don't need facts) but his body was never found by anyone today, you know why, because he resurrect, he came to life again, and he went with the father who is God.

[spybouncer6]

I believe that there is a God. That God is called Jesus Christ. I also believe that the universe has 6000 years, because in the Bible it clearly says it. What I don't understand is how you atheist believe all that ball sheet about the bigbang and all that trash.