The Windshield Is Bigger Than the Rearview Mirror: Changing Your Focus from Past to Promise - Softcover

Wickwire, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800794044 ISBN 13: 9780800794040

Publisher: Chosen, 2006

Synopsis

There is a reason that the approaching horizon along life's journey looms large, explains author Jeff Wickwire in this probing and encouraging wake-up call. Yet the human tendency is to view life through the rearview mirror-a tendency encouraged by a nostalgia-obsessed culture. This mulling over the past--a wrong job choice, a lost chance at love, a hundred missed opportunities--can be paralyzing. Wickwire helps readers let go of skeletons that have kept them in bondage to events that are dead and gone. His scriptural, common-sense approach shows that the best days are ahead for those who learn to keep God's promises in clear view.

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About the Author

Jeff Wickwire has served as prison minister, youth pastor, college and career director, radio evangelist, and, for more than two decades, senior pastor, currently of Turning Point Fellowship in Fort Worth, Texas. The author of Making It Right When You Feel Wronged, he has founded three successful, growing churches.

From the Back Cover

Start looking forward to the life God has for you! God created you with a great future planned for your life. What you might not realize is that the enemy also has a plan for you-to steal, kill and destroy that future. One of his most effective tactics is to keep you looking backward to the past with would-have-beens, could-have-beens and should-have-beens. This "rearview mirror" focus robs you of present happiness and future promise. The Windshield Is Bigger Than the Rearview Mirror highlights six chains Satan uses to keep people tied to the past: inordinate attachments, past successes, heartbreak, failure, trauma and bitterness. Using powerful illustrations from the Bible and from candid personal experience, Wickwire shows how you can break free from these chains to embrace the future God intended. "Thank you, Jeff Wickwire, for sharing your life, character and even a problem or two with the rest of us. Pardon me while I adjust my rearview mirror and set my cruise control."--The Rev. Tommy Tenney, GodChasers.Network "An outstanding, uplifting book!"--John Bevere, author; speaker; president, Messenger International "This book will give you or a friend fresh vision. Jeff Wickwire provides clear biblical and present-day examples to show how living in the past keeps us from fulfilling God's call and purpose."--James Robison, president and founder, LIFE Outreach International "A must-read for those attempting to make the most out of their 'messes'! In fact, there is a miracle in your mess, if only you'll look for it."--Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., author; speaker; senior pastor, Hope Christian Church

Reviews

From a long career of ministry—in radio, as a church planter and as a senior pastor—Wickwire has witnessed the tragic results when people are mired in the past. He examines six "chains" that often keep people from moving ahead with a sense of hope: inordinate attachments, past successes, heartbreak, failure, trauma and bitterness. He then seeks to motivate the reader by describing the wonderful benefits of a forward-looking perspective. Although he describes the problem accurately, Wickwire doesn't supply solutions of much depth. To people who have experienced terrible trauma, he suggests that they spend time with Jesus and Scripture, likening every trauma situation to the pain of the disciples on the road to Emmaus: "The two disciples were delivered from trauma by spending time with Jesus and listening to His Word. What a simple solution!" His use of metaphor after metaphor, and frequent mixing of them, does not inspire confidence: "There are some needles only God can thread. On our life tapestries, the valley is too deep, the mountain is too high, the danger is too great or the sin is too dark for us to do the mending we need." Although Wickwire diagnoses a serious spiritual malady, his prescription is too generic. (Feb.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Chosen
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800794044
• ISBN 13: 9780800794040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192