Bill Lowder:
CLASS OF 1982
Hale High SchoolClass of 1982
Tulsa, OK
Bill's Story
Bill is from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bill's schools include Hale High School. Bill later attended Northeastern State University (Journalism and Mass Communication, Wildlife Biology) , Norhteastern A & M Jr. College (Wildlife Biology, Journalism) .
Music Bill likes includes Willie Nelson, Grady Nichols, Danny Baker Band. Books Bill likes include Bible, Natural Medicine. Movies Bill likes include The Blind Side. TV shows Bill likes include Smallville, Bonanza.
One of Bill's favorite quotes is:""I am the way the truth and the life and the ONLY WAY unto the Father." John 14:6
"The theif (satan) cometh not, but for to steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundandtly." John 10:10
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see..." John Newton 1760...In 1744 John was impressed into service on a man-of-war, the H. M. S. Harwich. Finding conditions on board intolerable, he deserted but was soon recaptured and publicly flogged and demoted from midshipman to common seaman.
Finally at his own request he was exchanged into service on a slave ship, which took hi...Expand for more
m to the coast of Sierra Leone. He then became the servant of a slave trader and was brutally abused. Early in 1748 he was rescued by a sea captain who had known John's father. John Newton ultimately became captain of his own ship, one which plied the slave trade.
Although he had had some early religious instruction from his mother, who had died when he was a child, he had long since given up any religious convictions. However, on a homeward voyage, while he was attempting to steer the ship through a violent storm, he experienced what he was to refer to later as his âgreat deliverance.â He recorded in his journal that when all seemed lost and the ship would surely sink, he exclaimed, âLord, have mercy upon us.â Later in his cabin he reflected on what he had said and began to believe that God had addressed him through the storm and that grace had begun to work for him.
For the rest of his life he observed the anniversary of May 10, 1748 as the day of his conversion, a day of humiliation in which he subjected his will to a higher power. âThroâ many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; âtis grace has broât me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.â".
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