God's Eye View: Worshiping Your Way to a Higher Perspective

by Tommy Tenney

Book Overview

In God's Eye View, Tommy Tenney explores how worship lifts us up to see the trouble we face from God's perspective instead of being trapped in an earthly, time-bound viewpoint. The higher we go, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785265600
• ISBN13: 9780785265603
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

I like Tommy Tunney Books

I am looking forward to diving into this with the book club

Our perspective of worships changes....

This book gives you a viewpoint on worship that never has been before published. Imagine being a kid and daddy lifts you up, you see more and your problems become small. It changes your perspective. This book is about focus and releases a refreshment on the topic of worship. I highly recommend it.

Practical teaching from one of today's leading Evangelists

The main purpose of Tenney's book is to instruct the Body of Christ in how to transcend the meagre perspective of their everyday life and gain the higher perspective from "God's eye-view" through the process of worship. He is a very practical teacher and isn't afraid to use analogies and anecdotes plucked from the mundane experiences of life. Perhaps this is his gift. However, his efforts to sustain the interest of this reader through these sometimes repetitive "personal anecdotes" left me with the impression of saccharine sentimentalism rather than the spiritual profundity and precision that has made him so reputable. Catch phrases such as "seek his presence not his presents," become too familiar and can grow tired on the reader. This is not to belittle their poignancy and relevance but such things tend to try to supplement where scripture and/or revelation is lacking. Other than that criticism, I admit it was a good read and the time invested in it has probably made me a better man in the end, and perhaps a more informed Christian in the process.

so awesome!

i have been so blessed with this book. Tenney wrote it in simple language that anyone can understand. He uses his personal examples from his life, from his relationships with his daughters to know how God is our Father! He emphasizes how we have to worship in whatever circumstances, and everything would look smaller than they appear to be, when we worship our Lord Jesus Christ. This book has been just very insightful in many ways, a must read.

A contemporary guide to worship

If you have ever felt frustrated and unfulfilled by what passes for "worship" in some churches, or in your personal relationship with God, then this book could crystalize many things for you! I loved Tenney's illustration about how we like to "gather around the church coffeepot" to talk ABOUT God, but virtually ignore His very presence there with us! I remember feeling exactly that way before, I have wept through church services in years past, not because I felt the Holy Spirit there, but because I didn't! It was just as he described in the book, everything was ABOUT Him, yet He was not allowed in. This book helps us direct our attention TO our loving and wise Heavenly Father. Tenney tends to be repetetive and belabor his points in this book too, but apparently that's just his style and we'll have to live with it to receive his message. Jesus makes more of an appearance in this book than He did in the God Chasers; I do not believe Tenney intended to exclude or bypass Jesus ever, rather, many of his scripture illustrations are from the Old Testament where Christ is not yet manifest in person. Also, I think Tenney ASSUMES we understand our salvation is based on the finished work of Christ. Perhaps this is one point he SHOULD clarify more. I doubt an unbeliever would read this book. If he tried, he would be confused as a goose trying to fly in a snowstorm. In summary, this book has me going around singing that song, "I CAN'T WAIT TO WORSHIP THE LORD!"

Amazing! A Must Read.

This book brings new meaning to worship. It puts new light to what worship really means and how it changes your view on any issue that you are facing. Tommy's common sense approach to getting into God's Presence is refreshing. This book will show that your problems are only as big as the way that you look at them. When you worship, you go from looking at things from your prospective and are lifted up to God's prospective. (When you look at Mt. Everest, it is the tallest mountain in the world. But look at it from an airplane at 35,000 ft. it is nothing.) I have had problems putting this book down. This is a nice complement to the God Chaser series. If you are interested to going higher in God, then this book is a must.