Pivotal Thought's

Merry Christmas from The Darr Family!

Wishing you and your's a very Merry Christmas!!!

We pray that your day is filled with His Presence in all you do and wherever you may go. May your New Year bring all your heart desires.

Merry Christmas!

Daily Wisdom

"A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do."

-Anthony T. Dadovano

Family Gathering

Several weeks ago my family gathered with my Aunt, Uncle, Cousins, and extended Family.

As I reflect on the Goodness of God and all He did that day I am again overwhelmed by His Presence. We were surrounded by Family, Good Food, Love, and Merriment (Wife's favorite word). As the day went on something just felt incomplete. Something that still needed to be done or finished before we headed for home.

Within a hour or so.......my cousin engaged a conversation with my wife and other cousin Tracey. Long story short........she gave her life to Jesus Christ. What a gift! What a present! What a Loving God that He would overwhelm us with His Presence! He is a Good God!

This Holiday Season: Let His all Consuming ways overwhelm whatever you may be going through. His Presence is ready to overtake you, your worries, your circumstances, and your fear.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Daily Wisdom

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

-Warren G. Bennis

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Attention All Subscribers

I have seen a few Bloggers do this so I am going to attempt this as well.

As you can see (picture) Feedburner is showing that there are 12 Readers. All day long this changes as people log on and off. Also, I know that majority of the readers are viewing these postings through my MyChurch profile.

I want to ask all readers, subscribers, MyChurch, and alike to send me a email and or comment letting me know who you are and what you like or don't like about the Pivotal Thoughts Blog. Look forward to hearing from you and possibly meeting you for the first time.

Daily Wisdom

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

- Douglas Everett

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Christmas - New Year 2008!

I cannot believe that Christmas is only 6 days away!

This year has flew by like a runaway train. I look back to try and hold on to some '07 memeories and need to grab my journal in order to fully remember them all. My questions is: Do you journal and if you do, what catagories to you keep note (journal) of?

Its starting to look a lot like Christmas! Really excited about the Advent Message this Sunday on "Presence"......... Little something to get my spirit alive and focused for this coming Tuesday (Christmas).

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Daily Wisdom

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

- Eva Young

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Daily Wisdom

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Sad but True!

Post from MMI Weblog:

Pastor David Trotter says that in ten years of ministry at three different churches, he has heard hundreds of people say that they aren't being 'fed' enough -- they they are getting too much milk and not enough meat. But he makes the point that several other prominent pastors and bloggers have made recently: As followers of Jesus, we are called to feed ourselves and feed others who are new in the faith...

David then shares some quotes on this subject from Steven Furtick, Perry Noble, and Ben Arment on this subject:

Steven Furtick says: “Churches are filled with those who have known Christ for decades, and still need a bib, a high chair, and want Daddy to do ‘open wide, here comes the airplane’ tricks with the fork before shoving it into their mouths. I try to serve up the Word, hot and fresh every single Sunday. But if you refuse to apply it, study your Bible and pray some during the week, join a small group and dig deeper with others…if you refuse to bring it back to your mouth, I can’t help you.

Get your own fork, and learn to feed yourself. Stop burying your hand in the dish and spitting out every thing that doesn’t give you a spiritual sugar high. Eat some vegetables. Serve. Pray. Practically apply the Bible to your life.”

Perry Noble says: “I’ve heard it…you have too…’Christians’ saying, ‘I just want to be fed!’ It blows my mind! This would be equal to you and I going to an all you can eat restaurant and crying because no one would bring us any food. Food is all around in this environment…but if the person is lazy and self centered, wanting to be waited on hand and foot, then they could possibly starve to death when food is merely a few feet away.

“Today as Christians we have WAY more information than we could ever apply. However, I think many people use ‘going deep’ as an excuse as to not actually apply any of the knowledge they claim to be soaking up. I believe it breaks the heart of God when arrogant people claim intellectual superiority out of pride and stupidity rather than just seeking Jesus and trying to honor Him on a daily basis.

“In reading through the Scriptures I have found that Jesus’ strongest words of rebuke were for the ‘deep,’ the professional religious people of the day. If ‘deep’ is being a part of the group that knows tons about the Bible but missed Jesus–then I don’t want to be affiliated with them. Give me Jesus Christ, crucified, risen and who will one day return…not another Bible study on the weight of the Ark of the Covenant.”

Ben Arment says: “I’ve always felt troubled by phrases such as ‘I need to be fed’ or ‘I need meat’ when referring to spiritual growth. And not just because they’re usually meant to be critical of a pastor’s content… but I could never see this thinking in Scripture. Paul uses ‘feed’ and ‘meat’ in terms of where he expects Christians to be in their maturity, but it’s never used by people to demand something.”

You can read David’s entire post here...

David is starting a new series specifically about how members of his church can do this.
How have you combatted the “I’m not being fed” cry at your church?

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry