Weekly Prayers & Poems - Amazing Grace

This week's post is a prayerful Christian hymn called Amazing Grace. Penned by the Englishman John Newton (1725-1807), this enduring hymn is one of the most well-known and beloved spiritual songs ever written. Newton, once the captain of a slave ship, converted to Christianity after an encounter with God during a violent storm at sea. He eventually became an ordained minister in the Church of England.

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Amazing Grace
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.

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.
Read more ... Amazing Grace by John Newton, 1725 -1807.

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