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John Newton and the Mercy He Could Not Outrun - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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John Newton and the Mercy He Could Not Outrun

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John Newton spent his early years running hard in the wrong direction. By his twenties, he had worked aboard slave ships off the coast of...

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Psalm 25:1-10

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John Newton and the Mercy He Could Not Outrun

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