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Gathering weekly for
fellowship, accountability, study and prayer, good times and tears, Acts 2:42 Groups are an essential expression of our church’s mission.
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Excerpt from John Newton's Life
August 26, 2010
Below is an excerpt we read together on Sunday. You can view the entire article here.
In 1769, Newton began a Thursday evening prayer service. For almost every week’s service, he wrote a hymn to be sung to a familiar tune. Newton challenged Cowper also to write hymns for these meetings, which he did until falling seriously ill in 1773. Newton later combined 280 of his own hymns with 68 of Cowper’s in what was to become the popular Olney Hymns. Among the well-known hymns in it are “Amazing Grace,” “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken,” “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds,” “O for a Closer Walk with God,” and “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood.”