Todd Engstrom

  • iPhone Blogging

    Enjoying writing this from my new iPhone!

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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:

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  • Memphis

    For an update on what is going on in Memphis, go to The Austin Stone College Blog here. Back to blogging next week!

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • Choosing Who to Mentor | Touchpoint

    The more I read David Watson’s Blog, the more I am enjoying his insights.  He has some excellent words in a post about who to choose and mentorship/discipleship, and what he looks for before investing in…

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  • Preparing Young Men to be Husbands | Pure Church

    This was a great thought from Voddie Baucham’s book What Must He Be…If He Wants to Marry My Daughter on preparing young men for marriage (via Pure Church). Imagine a family who did not prepare their children…

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  • Deep Thoughts from Graeme Goldsworthy

    This may be the single most awesome paragraph I have read in a long while from a sheer depth of thought. So, the long and the short of it all is that somehow the biblical theologian…

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