Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song Hindmarsh BrucePevná vazba

Amazing Grace is the story of a young man who squanders numerous opportunities and experiences misery and poverty, only to unexpectedly rise to a level of respectability and undeserved honor. This dramatic retelling of his life story, which reads like fiction, is a tale of romance, in which young love sparks wild and impulsive actions, only to be followed by years of seemingly hopeless longing, before eventually being crowned by a long and happy marriage. Ultimately, it is a story of grace upon a youth who rejects God repeatedly and loses himself in a downward spiral of unbelief and immoral behavior, only to be rescued by divine mercy that reaches deeper than he could ever have imagined.

Newton's story is shocking, and Amazing Grace does not try to airbrush or excuse his faults. There are glaring contradictions in the life of a ship's Captain