Todd Engstrom

Month: March 2009

  • iPhone Blogging

    Enjoying writing this from my new iPhone!

  • Total Church, Gospel Ministry and Adoption | ABBA Fund Blog

    Jason Kovacs had some great thoughts on doing ordinary things with gospel intentionality.  Below is a quote: It is interesting that the act of adopting, doing foster care, or going overseas to care for orphans is often seen as a “great act of service” involving great sacrifice. I think in light of this quote and…

  • Systems Story | The Forgotten Ways

    I love Alan Hirsch. He thinks differently and deeply, and reads widely: He goes on to note that every organization is built upon on what he calls “an underlying systems story.” He points out that “…this is not a belief system. It is the continually repeated life story that determines how an organization thinks and…

  • Parachurch and Church | Moore to the Point

    This is an interesting insight from Russell Moore about campus ministries and the necessity of connecting with a local church.  I would probably take a less hard line approach than he does and value a less “formal” expression of church, as well as argue that a church needs to adapt to its cultural context to…

  • Steven Bush Photography and ABBA Fund

    Steven Bush (aka Bush) has produced a print with 100% of the proceeds going to the ABBA Fund.  I highly recommend you support both Bush and the ABBA Fund, so take a look:

  • Memphis

    For an update on what is going on in Memphis, go to The Austin Stone College Blog here. Back to blogging next week!

  • on the bus – mobile blog

    i hopped on a bus this morning at 430 am with 30 students from the austin stone to head to mephis. we are working with an organization there called service over self, a ministry dedicated to urban renewal through home repair. they are located in the binghampton neighborhood of memphis (google search it to find…

  • Ethereal Thought Train Review

    Here’s a review of some of my favorite and your favorite posts from the last month: The highest hit rate came from Coffee Kills.  This post had absolutely no content or thought, which tells me that by and large most people could care less about what I have to say…maybe I need to rethink this…

  • The New Calvinism | TIME

    Time has added “New Calvinism” to its top 10 ideas changing the world right now. Although the article leaves a bit to be desired in how it paints the basic foundations of the Reformed faith, it highlights the growing influence in Evangelicalism that the Doctrines of Grace are having. As a person transformed by these…

  • Choosing Who to Mentor | Touchpoint

    The more I read David Watson’s Blog, the more I am enjoying his insights.  He has some excellent words in a post about who to choose and mentorship/discipleship, and what he looks for before investing in someone. His six points of evaluation are below: Christ-like Christ-centered Character Capability Competency Capacity Chemistry Read how he expands…

  • Preparing Young Men to be Husbands | Pure Church

    This was a great thought from Voddie Baucham’s book What Must He Be…If He Wants to Marry My Daughter on preparing young men for marriage (via Pure Church). Imagine a family who did not prepare their children for college. This would be unthinkable in today’s world. Everyone prepares their child for an academic future. Day-care programs…

  • Deep Thoughts from Graeme Goldsworthy

    This may be the single most awesome paragraph I have read in a long while from a sheer depth of thought. So, the long and the short of it all is that somehow the biblical theologian and the dogmatic theologian are both confronted with the same unavoidable “chicken and egg” dilemma of the question of…