Todd Engstrom

Author: Todd Engstrom

  • Leadership | Being Led

    Hebrews 13 has some excellent things to say about how we ought to respond to our leaders: 7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do…

  • 5 Big Issues in College Ministry | The Sentinel

    Steve Lutz at The Sentinel has a great post on 5 major issues in campus ministry.  Below is a summary, and I’ll definitely be writing some responses to this soon. 1. MISSIOLOGY: We need more work on a missiology of our people-group, including information on sociology, demographics, psychology, and worldview of college students. We also…

  • Francis Collins to Lead National Institute of Health

    I’m definitely not a journalist, but this is one particular piece of news that I am particularly excited about, so I’ll pass it on. For those of you who do not follow the intersection of science and faith, Francis Collins may not be a familiar person to you.  For an introduction, I’d recommend reading his…

  • Leadership | Contexts

    Before the next section, below is a short personal aside: — As I’m working on writing this series of posts on leadership, it is proving to be a really great learning experience.  Although it seems incredibly pretentious to write about this topic, especially when I have such little experience, I decided that it is beneficial…

  • Oversight

    Last night I had a great realization of all that God has allowed me to steward in ministry. As college students from a variety of ministries on UT’s campus gathered to worship together and hear God’s word taught from my College team, I was overseeing baptism, communion, worship and prayer that the Connections team had…

  • Preaching | Gentrified

    My good friend Logan Gentry has some excellent thoughts on preaching, and asks some great questions.  Below is a quote from the synthesis of his thoughts on what the point of preaching is: It seems to me that our preaching has a 3-fold reach in regards to focus and application. It seems that each message…

  • Leadership | Service

    As I’ve been thinking on discipleship for the last few weeks, it naturally has been provoking thoughts of leadership.  I’m going to start a new series with my philosophy and practice of leadership and leadership development, especially within the church. Service The foundation on leadership is very simply service.  Godly leadership is very simply a…

  • Triperspectival Leadership | Church Matters

    There is a good compilation of resources on Triperspectival Leadership at the 9 Marks blog.  Here’s an intro to the idea from the post: To over-simplify, the insight is that church leaders tend to be prophets, priests, or kings. Prophets love to proclaim the word of God and dream about where God is leading the…

  • Independence Day

    Happy Independence Day! I’m celebrating by performing a wedding ceremony this evening, followed by a great night of fireworks in the neighborhood (fireworks are legal in our neck of suburbia…it’s like Beirut on the 4th in Wells Branch). On another note, Chris Tomlin’s rendition of Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) has been playing in…

  • Hyperlinks – 7.2.09 (College Ministry Edition)

    Below are some links for those who are interested in College Ministry: Exploring College Ministry – Benson Hines writes his observations and thoughts on college ministry after 2 years worth of research. College Ministry Thoughts – Chuck Bomar posts some good research that is useful as you think through ministering to a specific demographic. Campus…

  • Integration vs. Mission | Exploring College Ministry

    Benson Hines has a great discussion about integration of college ministry relative to mission here. This has been a consistent struggle for us in the College Ministry at The Austin Stone, but definitely one that has yielded great fruit in ministry.  To summarize where we have landed, we: Deliberately integrate our weekly worship service, and…

  • Discipleship | Wrap Up

    Below is a link summary of the series I just finished on discipleship: Part 1 – Foundations of Discipleship Part 2 – Practice of Discipleship Part 3 – Process of Discipleship 1 Part 4 – Process of Discipleship 2 Part 5 – Tools I Use I’ve thoroughly enjoyed writing through my discipleship philosophy, and hope…