Newtons Grace: The True Story of Amazing Grace, Full Movie, Landon Wall, Jim Mc Keny

Coming to DVD Fall 2014 John Newton was a troubled young man with a violent temper and a penchant for vulgarity that literally made his fellow sailors blush. Whipped for desertion and sold into slavery, it seemed his life would end early in a West African he was rescued by a ship captain sent by his father. Following a powerful conversion experience during a storm at sea, Newton would eventually become a pastor in the Church of England and the writer of several of the church s most beloved hymns, including Amazing But before that, Newton, the former slave, was appointed captain of a slave ship himself. In an age when human bondage was considered the norm, it would take time for Newton s conscience to be thoroughly transformed. But Newton came to hate the slave trade, becoming a spiritual leader in the fight to end slavery. Newton s Grace is the true story of a real Prodigal Son, the story of miraculous forgiveness and chan