Author: Todd Engstrom
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Malatya Film
For those of you in Austin, I would highly recommend carving out some time next Saturday to view Malatya. Malatya is a documentary about the first martyrs of the Turkish Church. On April 18th, 2007, Necati Aydin, Uğur Yüksel, and Tillmann Geske were brutally killed in Malatya, Turkey for proclaiming that Jesus Christ is the…
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Hyperlinks – 4.11.09
Here are some links that have captured my attention lately: The Austin Stone Make Disciples Blog: Priority of the Unreached The Austin Stone Missional Communities Blog: Seeds of a Movement Between Two Worlds: Practical Advice for Young Pastors Haskins Adoption: Save us from Selfish Adoption Dream Awakener: Equippers as Environmentalists
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Resurrection Hope through Death
I am reflecting on the cross of Christ this Good Friday, and anticipating celebration of the resurrection on Easter Sunday. I think I am more painfully aware today of our simultaneous joy and sorrow as I am reflecting on the cross of Christ. It was at the cross that the fullness of God’s character was…
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The Easter Incarnation | Ben Coleman’s Blog
Ben has some great thoughts on the incarnation at Easter here. Below is an excerpt: You normally don’t think about the Incarnation of Christ at Easter time. That’s a doctrine we normally highlight at Christmas…when it actually happened. But, as we celebrated Palm Sunday over the weekend I was struck by the shocking similarity between…
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Out of Business | A Holy Discontent
There is some good conversation happening on mega/micro church at Aaron Snow’s blog.
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St. John’s Day Camp Storyframe
Steven Bush, a resident in the Make Disciples ministry at The Austin Stone, catalogued our Spring Break St. John’s Day Camp that was put on by students and volunteers from The Stone and other neighborhood churches. I really recommend you give it a look. From Bush’s website: ‘St. John Daycamp 2009′ is the first edition…
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The Ordinary: The Rabbit and The Elephant.
We have some great students who think deeply about the church universal and the church local, and are living expressions of mission on their campus. Aaron is one of them, and I’ve been blessed to watch him wrestle with the concepts of missional community. He’s writing about it at The Ordinary, and here is an…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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: