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The River of Disappointment

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  Sir Alexander Mackenzie is a Canadian hero. An early fur trader and explorer, he accomplished a magnificent feat when he led an expedition across Canada from Fort Chippewyan on Lake Athabasca to the Pacific Ocean. His incredible journey was completed in 1793. Mackenzie's earlier attempt in 1789, however, had been a major disappointment. His explorers had set out in an effort to find a water route to the Pacific. The valiant group followed a mighty river with high hopes, paddling furiously amid great danger. Unfortunately, it didn't empty into the Pacific, but into the Arctic Ocean. In his diary, Mackenzie called it the "River of Disappointment" (Daily Bread, July 1, 1990.) When the promise keeping God (Num.23:19) delivered the Israelites from Egypt, he gave them a promise. He said “ I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord ’”(Exod.6:8). The journey was ...
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The Wonder Full Works of God

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    One time William Booth the founder of Salvation Army had an audience with King Edward VII of England. The King highly commended him for his unflagging zeal and wonderful work among the poor. Booth's reply to the king's glowing words was, "your Majesty, some men's passion is for art. Some men's passion is for fame. My passion is for souls.' One Sunday evening, Booth was walking in London with his son, Bramwell, who was then 12 or 13 years old. The father surprised the son by taking him into a bar! The place was crowded with men and women, many of them bearing on their faces the marks of vice and crime; some were drunk. The fumes of alcohol and tobacco were poisonous. “Willie,” Booth said to his son, “These are our people; these are the people I want you to live for and bring to Christ.” Years later, Bramwell Booth wrote, “The impression never left me.” The gospel was advancing as Jesus had said it would (Acts 1:8).  It had spread as far as “all Judea...
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God is Never Shaken

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                               After other Muslim conquests had come and gone, the Turkish Ottomans conquered and ruled over Jerusalem and what was then Palestine for 400 years. The building of churches and synagogues was outlawed. But most catastrophically of all, in 1915 the call had gone out to get rid of Armenian people and every Christian in the Empire-the Armenian Genocide (1915-16). One and a half million were murdered, and many more suffered horrifically before making their escape. Perhaps God decided that enough was enough. As the Turks were allied with Germany in the First World War, the British found themselves fighting against the fading Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. General Allenby was charged with liberating Jerusalem and had expressed concern to his superiors about the magnitude and sensitivity of the task before him. He had been ordered to take the city without firing ...
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