Todd Engstrom

Author: Todd Engstrom

  • Ethereal Thought Train Summer Review

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    As summer winds down, I figured I’d do some highlighting of the blog over the past few months.  In no particular order, here are some of my favorites and yours: The 5 Big Issues in Campus Ministry | Innovation – This post contains most of my responses to Steve Lutz’s post on the 5 Big…

  • Benefit for Missionaries to Sudan

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    Local Austinites – please consider supporting my friends Jonathan and Lauren Ramirez as they pursue God’s call to work with the Didinga people in Sudan! Ramirez Sudan Benefit Night @ Dominican Joe Friday, September 11th, 2009, 7:00 – 11:00PM Music Performances by: Aaron Ivey and Aaron Peace — Armed with wide eyes and a desire…

  • Not Being Able to Do It All | Kevin DeYoung

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    From Kevin DeYoung’s post On Mission, Changing the World, and Not Being Able to Do It All: Maybe it’s because I’m Type A or left brained or a beaver or an ESTJ or a good pastor or a people-pleasing sinner, but I often feel like I could, perhaps should, be doing more. I could do…

  • Book Review | Adopted for Life

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    The third book I had the opportunity to read through was Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches by Russell Moore. As a short synopsis, Moore paints the theological foundations of adoption in the first portion of the book, asking the church and Christians to consider our calling to serve…

  • Buy a Book, Support a Mission

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    College Students: As you are preparing for you return to campus and your fall classes, inevitably you are going to purchase your textbooks. Makarios, one of our partnering organizations in the Dominican Republic, has set up a site where you can purchase your books through Amazon and they receive a percentage of the proceeds. Friends:…

  • The Austin Stone’s New Pastors’ Blog

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    The Austin Stone has just launched a new blog to which I will be contributing called “God, Gospel, Mission”.  The idea is to communicate both pastorally and informatively about how God is moving in our pastors lives individually and how God is moving corporately in our body.  On a broad scale, each post would fall…

  • Discipleship and Ministry

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    I’ve been spending some time lately reflecting on my ministry and the coming season.  As my role has continued to change and our church has continued to grow, the pressures have changed and my time is increasingly spoken for. In addition, it seems like there is always a person or a task that needs immediate…

  • Manhood | Matt Adair

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    I just watched Matt Adair’s talk from the Fight Club 09 conference, and thought it was an excellent sermon on corrections to our perspective of Jesus and biblical manhood. I’d encourage you to give it a listen: http://www.fightclub09.com/home/medi/ It is session #4.

  • Summary | Exploring College Ministry

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    My new friend Benson Hines has just posted an excellent summary of his ministry over the course of the summer, along with a summary of a number of excellent posts related to college ministry.  Head over to his blog and check out some of the links: Exploring College Ministry | Summer Wrap Up

  • Book Review | Total Church

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    The second book I read over my vacation was Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester. The overall perspective of the book is applying to the church the two foundational principles of gospel and community.  As a short synopsis, it is an excellent basic theology primer coupled…

  • Sunday is for Questions

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    I was hoping to have some time to write down some thoughts today, but between morning services with the family and preparation for an evening class, I’m tapped out.  I figured a good quick post would be to ask for some dialog from you, my faithful readers: What questions would you like me to address…

  • Culture Making and Plant Growing | 9 Marks

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    Greg Gilbert does an excellent job of providing a parallel analogy in order to show the relative strength over at the 9 Marks Blog in his post discussing a review of Crouch’s Culture Making. I haven’t read Culture Making, and therefore have no basis for whether or not Gilbert’s conclusions about the book are correct,…