Author Archives: Dave Detwiler

I’ll be sharing a bit more about this in the Sunday morning services this week, but I wanted to give you a brief report on my recent trip to Romania. First of all, thank you so much for giving to our …

Dear family and friends, far and wide – here are a few photos as we wish you a belated “Merry Christmas” and an early “Happy New Year”! Elizabeth is a freshman in high school, and Jonathan is now in middle …

Many of you know that I deeply respect evangelical statesman John Stott, now well into his ’80s. He was asked the question in the post title above, and here’s what he said: “Spiritually speaking, I think I would have to …

[A number of people in the Encounter community asked if we could post some of my teaching from last night on the blog, so here it is. It’s a rather long post, but I hope you find it helpful.] The …

A few people have expressed their concern, or at least their confusion, regarding the interview we featured at the end of Encounter last Saturday. So, this Saturday Leah will be sharing the following, to help clear things up a bit: …

Our current teaching series at Encounter was prompted by Joe Hellerman’s book, When the Church Was as Family (Joe and I served together as pastors at a church in Manhattan Beach, CA years ago; he also went to UCLA, while …

I just took my family to the airport to start our family vacation (without me – I’ll join them on Monday, after my weekend responsibilities are over). So, as is often the case, I find myself sitting around wondering what …

As perhaps most of you are aware, I spent the last week and a half in the eastern part of Romania, being sent by our world outreach team to teach at a mission school just outside of Constanta, on the …

As many of you know, we encourage people to text message any questions that come to mind during the teaching at Encounter. I got one this past Saturday on my Acts 1:1-11 teaching: “So in most people, is it the …