Be Still and Know That I Am God

John Newton

July 24, 1725 – December 21,1807

As America returns to her Lord and King Jesus Christ, the rage will cease. The rage is not of Jesus. Return to your church, the Bible, the Gospel, and Jesus Himself and you will be made whole. God bless you and God bless America.

Rector John Newton, a white British sailor, who wrote "Amazing Grace," was a slave ship captain whose African slaves were picked up in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He, a white man, became a slave and was owned by a black African Royal woman named Princess Peye Sherbo. She mistreated him and all of her other slaves, many black. Rector John was rescued, became a Christian, and an Anglican clergyman later in his life, sorry for his sins, and wrote many hymns, one being "How Sweet the Name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear."

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the peace of the United States of America this July 2020.

"You knit me together in my mother's womb" ~Psalm 139:13

Marion Williams

One of the greatest American singers of the 20th century, a recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" award and a Kennedy Center honoree. "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord," is an excerpt from the film, "Packin Up," a new documentary in production about Williams.

Amazing Grace: The Story of John Newton

After many destructive decisions, John Newton cried out to God for salvation in the midst of a terrible storm. The "amazing grace" he encountered caused him to enter the ministry, write hundreds of hymns, and oppose slavery. John Newton likewise suffered as a teenager when he was lashed by his ship's captain who sold him into slavery. At one point Newton tried to desert and was punished in front of the crew of 350. Stripped to the waist and tied to the grating, he received a flogging of eight dozen lashes and was reduced to the rank of a common seaman.