The Encounter I first met Alex Prokopenko in 2018 when he came to Anchorage to speak at a conference AGC was hosting as an outreach to the Russian-speaking community in Anchorage. Alex is a graduate of The Master’s Seminary, currently finishing up his PhD in Old Testament there, and working as a professor at Samara Center for…
Last evening I watched a few segments of the Democratic National Convention. Ideological symbols were flamboyant to say the least. Scenes of multi-culturalism, protests, and mask wearing flashed across my screen. My point here is not to open up my political position or what party I am in favor of. What I am driving at…
This is a blog that I shared with our Youth Group from this past Monday. Last Monday on the way to the office as I was driving down Jewel Lake Rd toward Dimond by Java the Hut, coffee shack, I noticed a blind man with a “white cane” navigating his way alongside the road. It…
My family and I had lived in western Colorado for some of the most formative years of my life. I was nine when we moved there from Virginia, and we spent seven years there…the longest we had ever lived in one place. Life in Colorado was fun as a kid. Our house butted up against…
It would not be a good thing for us to waste our COVID 19 Shelter in-place! If you are like me when God brings a challenging time into your life, you quickly resort to a mindset that says, “Okay God I learned that lesson, now make it go away and give me back the life…
