"With heavy hearts, we share the news that our beloved Bishop TF Tenney has passed from this life to be forever with Jesus. Bishop Tenney has been a valiant and faithful soldier of the Lord, leading and serving this district, the UPCI, and churches around the world. He will be greatly missed by all of us, but we rejoice with this mighty man of God as he has met his Savior. Please keep his wife, Sis. Thetus & their family in your prayers."
Just got the news. its a gut punch even though I knew it was coming.
He was a dear friend of my dad... they went to highschool together.
He was my pastor when I was a kid.
LOL. I remember as a kid, going to youth camp and avoiding him on Monday so I could get in the alter and get prayed up before going to see him! LOL. It seemed to us kids, that the man could look into your soul and see every sin!
he was a mentor and hero and a giant in my life.
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
Just got the news. its a gut punch even though I knew it was coming.
He was a dear friend of my dad... they went to highschool together.
He was my pastor when I was a kid.
LOL. I remember as a kid, going to youth camp and avoiding him on Monday so I could get in the alter and get prayed up before going to see him! LOL. It seemed to us kids, that the man could look into your soul and see every sin!
he was a mentor and hero and a giant in my life.
I remember him and Bro. Murrell E. at camp.
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Blessed are the merciful for they SHALL obtain mercy.
Another great man of the UPC has passed. He was one of those preachers who did not have a great speaking voice (high pitched) but boy what he had to say more than made up for it. A lot of words of wisdom from this man over the years.
TFT is one of the few people that over the last 40+ years I have known of him I have never heard a bad word.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Jentezen Franklin made these comments on Facebook, and thousands of people have responded to this post:
I don't have words to say what TFTenney has meant to me and cherise and our family. Today he went Home to be with Jesus. Jesus was the magnificent obsession of his life. To his dear wife Thetus , and his son Tommy and daughter Teri and many grandchildren our hearts and prayers are with you. He was a spiritual Giant to me and many others and and I will forever be grateful God put us together. Greatness is the only word I can think of to describe this man.
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The love of learning, sequestered nooks,
All the sweet serenity of books.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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