Worries, fears, and stress--the people of minister Jeremiah Burroughs' congregations had them in 1645 during the English Civil War. His call to faithful contentment was a comfort to them then and has been to many readers in the centuries since. Now his classic text has been reworded in modern English and abridged to focus his points for today's reader. Burroughs' wisdom from a bygone age may be just what you need now.

Blessed are the poor in spirit…blessed are those who mourn…and six others. All very well in the Bible, but what do Christ's Beatitudes mean for those struggling with present-day stresses? Surprisingly, answers may come from long ago when 17th century Minister Jeremiah Burroughs explained and applied Jesus' words with clarity, gentle encouragement, and not-so gentle challenges that have never been forgotten. His classic text is now reworded in modern English and abridged for today's reader....

Many a person achieves prosperity but hardly knows what to do with it. Is wealth enough? What now? In the 1640's Puritan preacher Jeremiah Burroughs knew how to improve on prosperity. Wealth is not evil, he taught, but is certainly dangerous to you and others unless you know how to handle it.Whether you are well-off or wish to be, insights from the 17th century may give you the answers you need in the 21st; and this modernized text provides easier reading if you do not want to strug...

What with doing the laundry and preparing for her son Danny's fourth birthday, does innkeeper and young mother Julie Himmel have time to deal with arch-villain Blackroot? Then the drop-in guests start to arrive at the inn: Magi, good fairies, evil fairies, English royalty, her husband Bob's aunt and uncle. Looks like it's going to be another one of those days.This, the last book of the Wizards' Inn series, will make clearer than ever that saving the world does not require one's full...

Why doesn't the world give a washed up sorceress a break? It isn't bad enough that Deirdre the Damned blinded Lile, but now the wicked fairy Blackroot is planning to murder her. She needs a Mage to heal her eyes, but perhaps even more, needs to rely on a twisted cane that once belonged to Merlin. Then she may become the pivotal person in an Eonic battle that is rocking 1860 Philadelphia.

In a spaceship equipped with a powerful secret weapon, eleven-year-old Jill and her father must try to change the course of a space war. After piloting the ship in a wildly risky raid on the enemy's largest space station, Jill will attempt to rescue a young alien sister and brother. Wherever she goes she is under the threat of capture by the enemy, for she knows the plans of the secret weapon. In the end her choices will decide the fate of trillions of people on thousands of planets.

Hila Grant attends a charismatic house church that is being taken over by a highly questionable teacher. Because she tends to overdo it when challenging false teachers, she does not want to oppose Mrs. Vortgern. How can she take a stand for her faith without becoming self-righteous and vindictive?Meanwhile, there are all these weddings going on, and she has to admit that she is a little concerned about still being single at twenty-nine. She could probably lure good-looking and witty...

Innkeeper Bob Himmel's rotten teenage cousin Deirdre appears destined to become a hardened criminal—or just possibly a Mage. She thinks either will do as long as she can get out of dead-end Rayburn County, Indiana. But if a Mage, will she accept electrifying Mrs. Rollins as a mentor? Or a Curse Mage as a best friend? Or leave all that behind and enroll in Morgan Le Fay's School of Evil?

If young church deacon Stan Morrison is to save his friends Bob and Julie from a dangerous fantasy of being innkeepers for wizards, he must first find out what is really happening at Wizards' Inn. He must also overcome his infatuation with Deirdre the Damned, and above all, not fall through a magic portal into a far off time and place and have wild adventures with goblins, fairies, and a chimera.

Jill Titan has lived all her eleven years in outer space of a far future century. When a 'life shell' she occupies is damaged and hurtles out beyond the edge of the galaxy, she must try to survive all alone. It's a good thing she's smart and courageous, because she's about to meet dangers such as an out-of-control robot and space pirates. More like 1950's space stories than modern ones, this series is written to please preteens and anyone else who enjoys the 'three R's': rockets, robots, a...

For five hundred years Queen Tanaquill has ruled Faerie splendidly by herself. She does not need any help from young Magi, whether to meet threats from Queen Morgan Le Fay, from a so-called King of Terrors, or from her own bad temper. But Tanaquill owes a humbling debt to Deirdre the Damned and may yet be indebted to another of her guests whom the Faerie Court calls the Queen of Death.

River Grove Community Church voted out elder Ollie Fulborne, who was under suspicion of heresy and of sexually harassing a young teenage girl. But Ollie had been the driving force behind the church. Now, two years later, with numbers dwindling and church debt piling up, the people are considering allowing him to return to his former authority. Church member Hila Grant is dead set against Ollie's return. This intelligent, lovely, and remote twenty-eight year old is willing to use even quest...