Tommy Tenney - Finding Your Way: ... to Things that Really Matter

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Finding Your Way

In the class of life, some teachers you choose, others are thrust upon you; but you learn from all.

Thank you to E. W. and Johnnie Ruth Caughron, Doyle and Faith Spears, T. W. and Lucille Barnes, Charles and Barbara Green, T. F. and Thetus Tenney, and G. E. and Mildred Switzer.

If the names sound old, they are. You can often learn better how to get somewhere from someone who has been there.

I n the classic fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, the youngsters, worried about becoming lost in the woods, leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind them so that they can find their way back home. The animals of the forest, however, eat the crumbs, and they end up lost with no hope of finding their way back.

Today, Hansel and Gretel would not have walked through the forest; they would have driven in an SUV that was fully equipped with a navigation system to ensure they never became lost on their journey.

If only life came with a GPS system. We would never take a wrong turn, and we would never lose our way.

Tommy Tenneys new book Finding Your Way... to things that really matter provides just such a GPS navigation system for blazing a path to what really matters in your life. It also helps you figure out what to do when you lose your way, and how to get back on the right road.

At some point in everyones life, we become lost and doubt our current place in the world. Tenney helps you make sense out of it all.

I am sure you will enjoy Finding Your Way, and that you will find it an irreplaceable resource as you travel through this beautiful journey we call life.

And you can keep the bread to make sandwiches.

Bishop T. D. Jakes, Sr., Pastor
The Potters House of Dallas

M any cars now come equipped with GPS (Global Positioning System) technology. Perhaps youve entered the address of your destination on one of these dashboard electronic navigators and easily found your way, even avoided detours.

Do you wish finding your way through life was that easy? Wouldnt it be great if you could just punch in some data and follow the voice from inside the car, with detailed turn-by-turn verbal directions, along with the electronic map displayed on the dashboard?

Fortunately there exists an EPSEternal Positioning System. That EPS is the Bible, with its record of people from ancient times. Culture may have changed. Geography may have been altered. But people have always had the same fundamental needs regardless of where they live geographically or chronologically. After essential needs like food and shelter are met, what makes life worth living? What really matters? These stories from antiquity provide clear directions for us, if we take the time to study their lives and apply them to ours today.

I found an ancient road map where two generations journeyed together to a place that reflected what was really valuable: a place of family, friends, and a purpose to their lifes work and a connection to the eternal. The lead characters from this historical account include Naomi the mother, Elimelech the father, and their two sons, Mahlon and Chilion; Ruth the Moabite, who left; Orpah, her sister, who stayed; Boaz of Bethlehem; and an anonymous character whom Jewish rabbis often call Ploniy Almoniy (the Jewish equivalent of John Doe).

Perhaps you, too, are finding your way to things that really matter. May these modern musings of mine on an ancient story guide you to that place of comfort and security.

Destination and Destiny

GPS vs. EPS

S trange cities and strange places seem to bring out the best or the worst in me. Because I travel so much, my family and I often find ourselves in unfamiliar places. Some years, Ive been in over a hundred cities across the United States and twenty different nations. There is no way possible I could know my way around every one of these places.

In fact, I am grateful that we can now rent cars that have GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation devices installed. The Global Positioning System is a network of twenty-four satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS satellites circle the earth twice a day in a very precise orbit and transmit signal information to earth. GPS was originally intended for military applications, but in the 1980s, the government made the system available for civilian use. GPS works in any weather conditions, anywhere in the world, twenty-four hours a day. The government charges no subscription fees or setup charges to use GPS.