Steven Bush Photography and ABBA Fund
Posted by Todd Engstrom in christianity on March 21, 2009
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
Posted by Todd Engstrom in christianity on March 18, 2009
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
Posted by Todd Engstrom in missions on March 15, 2009
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 out more), and god has certainly done some amazing things through sos and the other ministries there.
i am genuinely excited for students to gain exposure to the ministries in the neighborhood, and praying that god will change the course of lives this week and call each one of us on the trip to radical obedience. please pray that our week would drive us to cling to the gospel more fully, and that christ’s love would flow out from that.
also, please pray for our students who are serving in the st. john’s community in austin this week as they put on a day camp for children in the neighborhood. pray that god would use them powerfully!
Ethereal Thought Train Review
Posted by Todd Engstrom in review on March 13, 2009
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 blog.
- God struck me with gospel driven forgiveness in Forgiveness in Marriage as I was preparing for Nearly/Newly Wed, and it struck a chord with some readers as well.
- Attractional and Missional generated some great discussion about missiology and ecclesiology in mega and micro church contexts.
- God used Scriptural Election: The Third Way to shape some language for me about the doctrine of election.
- We have some pretty awesome students at The Austin Stone Community Church (Clay got published in Relevant, Jackie got recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative and is highlighted by MTVu, almost 1000 students came to The Austin Stone on Campus, and Andrea headed to North Africa)
Thanks for hanging with me, and I hope you enjoy the next few months of Ethereal Thought Train.
The New Calvinism | TIME
Posted by Todd Engstrom in christianity, theology on March 12, 2009
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 great doctrines, and as a minister in a church body who teaches these doctrines, I pray that sound biblical teaching would continue to grow in influence in the Church.
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