Todd Engstrom

Author: Todd Engstrom

  • Out of Business | A Holy Discontent

    There is some good conversation happening on mega/micro church at Aaron Snow’s blog.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…