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Welcome to The Clearing’s Podcast!

February 6th, 2019

Welcome to The Clearing – Where Eagles Fly… this is our Podcast powered by iTunes.   I’m Doug McMurry, director of The Clearing Where Eagles Fly in Virginia, and I want to announce now, August 2019, something new I’m developing.  I am turning all of my video teachings at my website, TheClearing.us, into audio files […]

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John Newton III

August 9th, 2024

John Newton 3 This video continues my series tracing the track record of Holy Spirit movements as relates to the abolition of slavery. It presents the unsung hidden role of John Newton in abolishing slavery in England, through his mentoring relationship with William Wilberforce. There are many, many lessons we can gain about transformational Revival […]

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John Newton II

July 9th, 2024

In this continuing story of John Newton, I want to show you the contrast between “the Christian religion” and The Kingdom of God. Two different things. I show how God transitioned England out of a religion and into His transformational kingdom —and destined a few leaders to destroy a work of the devil (the slave […]

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John Newton

June 11th, 2024

John Newton, the man who wrote “Amazing Grace,” led a most extraordinary life. Few people realize the key role he played in the abolition of slavery. This video offers the first half of his story in which I show that if any of us is to become a world changer, it is not because of […]

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Jesus the Emancipator V

May 3rd, 2024

Jesus the Emancipator V This video, the fifth in a series, uncovers the part King Jesus has played in eradicating the institution of slavery in world history. Is it a mere coincidence that the two countries that fully and permanently abolished slavery were the same two countries that were enjoying a Revival tide leading to […]

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