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Thirty-three men sailed toward the top of the world. Twenty would never see home again.

July 8, 1879. Beneath the morning sky of San Francisco, the USS Jeannette slipped from the harbor, her bow pointed toward the mysterious Arctic. Beyond the frozen horizon, her crew hoped to discover an open polar sea.

But the sea of their imagination was not the sea of reality.

For twenty-one months, the Arctic held her in its icy fist. Beneath a sunless sky, her timbers groaned, the ice thundered, and at last the frozen deep swallowed her whole.

The ship was lost. Twenty lives were claimed. And the truth remained unmoved.

Yet this is more than a tale of shipwreck and sorrow. It is a searching question for every soul:

What if the course you have trusted all your life is not the course God has revealed?

Jeremiah 10:23 reminds us that man cannot direct his own steps.

Tradition may be comforting. Sincerity may be genuine. Conviction may be unshakable. But none can turn error into truth.

Join us as we journey into the frozen Arctic and discover why our faith must rest not upon the shifting charts of human opinion, but upon the unchanging Word of God.

For the greatest tragedy is not finding that your compass was wrong—it is seeing the true light and choosing to sail deeper into darkness.

The Bible our chart. Christ our Captain. Heaven our harbor.

 Safe sailing, friends.