This sermon wonders if the words the Apostle Paul shared with Timothy could have been part of the moment the slaver John Newton moved from infidel and libertine to eventually become priest and give us the truth of Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! preached on The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 22C) at Christ Episcopal Church, Elizabeth City NC, October 5, 2025.