Kirk Winkelmeyer (mugman) - , reviewed John Newton: Letters of a Slave Trader on + 46 more book reviews
There is a wonderful text in Proverbs "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it". And so it was with John Newton. Out of the house and into the world and he succumbed to every wile it had to offer. How is it possible for one who sinks as deep as he does to ever again surface?
But God is not so easily overcome, and step by step He faithfully loves and encourages John back to that path laid out for him at home as he grew up. As it is sordid at his worst, so it is even more glorious at its best.
From the song he wrote, Amazing Grace, we can see that it is from deep soil of experience that the words erupt and have touched millions of hearts ever since. Again and again, he goes up against death, only to steered by a very loving Holy Spirit, onto a new path into which he finally makes the transition back into the light of God's glory and walks out a witness that gives God the voice of a deeply experienced and committed man to share the story that will turn so many away from their own paths of destiny with hell, to return back to a true God and loving Father into an eternal life of love and praise. It was for stories such as this that Jesus paid such a high price on the cross, and from which He is calling anyone that may be reading this review. Only the reader will now know if they should pick up and read this book. Let it be an encouragement to all parents that the seeds of faith they plant WILL indeed bloom in their own time.
But God is not so easily overcome, and step by step He faithfully loves and encourages John back to that path laid out for him at home as he grew up. As it is sordid at his worst, so it is even more glorious at its best.
From the song he wrote, Amazing Grace, we can see that it is from deep soil of experience that the words erupt and have touched millions of hearts ever since. Again and again, he goes up against death, only to steered by a very loving Holy Spirit, onto a new path into which he finally makes the transition back into the light of God's glory and walks out a witness that gives God the voice of a deeply experienced and committed man to share the story that will turn so many away from their own paths of destiny with hell, to return back to a true God and loving Father into an eternal life of love and praise. It was for stories such as this that Jesus paid such a high price on the cross, and from which He is calling anyone that may be reading this review. Only the reader will now know if they should pick up and read this book. Let it be an encouragement to all parents that the seeds of faith they plant WILL indeed bloom in their own time.
