Joe Wheeler
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Abraham Lincoln A Man Of Faith And Courage
$23.49Add to cartLearn how faith influenced one of American history’s most beloved and admired
presidents–Abraham Lincoln–in this thoroughly researched and thought-provoking account.There is no shortage of books chronicling the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, one of the most revered leaders in our nation’s history. But for all that’s been written on our sixteenth president, surprisingly little has focused on his faith and how it shaped the man who led our country during its most tumultuous years–until now.
In Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage, historian and scholar Joe Wheeler, brings to the light the story of Lincoln’s enduring faith. With insightful research collected through ten years of extensive study, Wheeler skillfully weaving his own narrative with direct quotes from Lincoln and poignant excerpts from other Lincoln biographers, and brings a refreshingly friendly rendition of Lincoln’s life, faith, and courage.
The stories, historical details, and powerful quotes on the pages of Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage will forever impact the way you think about Lincoln, and will inspire your own faith along the way.
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My Favorite Life Changing Stories
$22.39Add to cartJimmy reached the hayloft. He was alone. Suddenly, like a gopher, he ducked down a burrow. He groped a moment, elbow-deep in the hay, and drew forth a leather-hinged box of light pine. It was closed with a clasp and a padlock whose key hung from a string round his neck. Inside were a .22 caliber revolver, two boxes of cartridges, a jackknife, a sort of brown canvas knapsack, and three dollars and eighty-eight cents. He picked up the revolver, raised the hammer and lowered it, took out the chamber, filled it with cartridges and then removed them; with an oily rag he polished it. He opened the knapsack slowly, lovingly and then a voice broke in on his preoccupation. Jim! O Jim! His father was calling from the orchard. Jim hesitated. If he stayed where he was, his father might think he was out of hearing, in the wood lot or perhaps in the far pasture. But the voice was coming nearer. Jim! O Jim! Suddenly it was within the barn itself, and cramming everything into the box again, Jim shouted, in a tone not too pleasant, All right! I m comin, and bolted down the ladder. What he wanted was freedom, freedom from all the orders and restraints, and he meant to have it. Throughout my adult lifetime, I’ve been searching for stories having to do with pivotal moments or experiences in a person’s life. What a joy to gather some of the most inspirational, powerful ones into one collection. The beauty of such stories is that we can learn from the mistakes of others rather than making them ourselves. JOE L. WHEELER
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Christmas In My Heart Book 25
$21.79Add to cartThe year 1991 saw the end of the Cold War. The price of a postage stamp went from $0.25 to $0.29, and gas sold for $1.14 a gallon. It was also the year Christmas in My Heart first went to print, unnumbered, for no one imagined there would be a second book. Or a third. Now, this edition marks the 25th anniversary of the series-with a total of 402 stories and more than 3,000 pages to date, it is the longest running Christmas story anthology series in America. Loved by thousands, the release of each additional book marks the beginning of the Christmas season in homes all across the country. Sit back and enjoy Christmas in My Heart 25!
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My Favorite Prayer Stories
$26.59Add to cartDusk was approaching as Lynn set out. The path lay before him dark and mysterious, but he was a good woodsman, and without hesitation struck out rapidly, making surprising progress through the quiet forest.
Snap! The sound of a twig breaking some distance to the right broke the stillness. Again, some moments later, the same sound came from ahead of the lone boy. Every nerve in his body grew tense. .a mountain lion was following him!
With a whispered prayer, Lynn asked God to protect him from this danger and to allow him to fulfill his mission and bring help for his stricken comrade. . .
The crackling of the brush made by the stealthy march of the prowler told Lynn that the lion was walking around him in a large circle. It was still fully a mile to the ranger’s cabin. Could he make it? Round and round him the lion crept, making each circle smaller than the preceding one.
It seemed to Lynn that he had gone miles at that furious pace. In vain his eyes searched for the light of the cabin he knew must be near, but he could see only deep blackness on all sides of him. Then he heard the soft padding of the mountain lion’s paws. How close the animal was! He knew that the beast might spring at almost any moment now…
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Christmas In My Heart Book 24
$21.79Add to cartIn a world that oftentimes seems to have lost its moorings, where knowledge increases at such a dizzying rate that no one can keep up with it, it is good to back away from it all in islands of serenity-and ponder the deeper meaning.
Which brings each of us to the ultimate question: Where in all this nonstop chaotic frenzy of hype and self-promotion is God?
When we do this, inevitably our thoughts travel back, back, back in time to a lowly stable in a little hamlet called Bethlehem, inside which a baby was being born. And high overhead: a blazing star.
Christmas was also born that day.
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Amelia : The Flying Squirrel
$20.29Add to cartOnce again, Joe Wheeler has compiled a fascinating collection that’s sure to become a classic.
In his sixth book of The Good Lord Made Them All series, Joe L. Wheeler has turned his attention to stories of God’s smallest animals-doodlebugs, a pet mouse named Guinevere, a chipmunk named Chatter, a story of a dragonfly, another about a skylark, and several more remarkable adventures of God’s smallest creatures.
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Christmas In My Heart 20
$20.29Add to cartIt’s truly a miracle in today’s publishing world for any book series to last five – much less twenty years! Yet this is what Christmas in My Heart has done. No one is more surprised at this than Joe Wheeler; he attributes the series’ stubborn refusal to die to be a God-thing. That somehow there is something about each year’s collection of stories that so speaks to hearts everywhere that “completists” (those who have all the books in the series) cannot even imagine facing a new Christmas season without a new collection to feed their souls.
This stellar collection features luminaries such as Elizabeth Goudge, Margaret E. Sangster, Temple Bailey, Margaret Weymouth Jackson, Mike Huckabee, David Doig, Christine Whiting Parmenter, Grace Noll Crowell, and Isobel Stewart.
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Christmas In My Heart 19
$20.29Add to cartIt takes a lot more work to keep a marriage together for life than any bride and groom ever conceptualize. so many stress points over so many years that it’s a miracle any marriage survives.
Half of this year’s Christmas stories have to do with marriage, most of them tackling such related subjects as alienation, separation, misunderstandings, divorce, reconciliation, and, of course, love.
But with all these roadblocks barring the way to a marriage that lasts a lifetime (half of all marriages end in divorce), there are solutions to almost every problem. Kathleen Norris puts it this way: “Marriage is a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it. There was never a marriage that could no be made a success, nor a marriage that could not have ended in bitterness and failure.”
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Christmas In My Heart 18
$20.29Add to cartA treasury of old-fashioned Christmas stories.
In this 18th volume of Christmas in My Heart, Joe Wheeler calls us to “restore the simplicity and sanity to a Christmas season that has lost its spiritual moorings.” It is a message for our times.
This Christmas, we can return to a simpler holiday model: families getting together, making Christmas gifts by hand, giving gifts to those who can’t give in return (anonymously if possible), visiting the sick and lonely, and above all, letting Christ reign at the heart of all we do and say. The outstanding stories in this book will provide ample inspiration!“If a child has never had to sacrifice for the good of others, that child will most likely grow up to be spiritually stunted. . . . the fondest memories generally have to do with tough times.”-Joe L. Wheeler
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Spot : The Dog That Broke The Rules
$23.79Add to cartIn his fiftieth story anthology, and the fifth book of The Good Lord Made Them All series, Joe L. Wheeler has gathered a diverse collection of stories about animal heroes. Thirteen of the sixteen animal heroes chosen for this collection either risked their lives or gave their lives for people – some of whom were men, women, or children they barely knew!
These stories remind us that God created all creatures – the wise, the wonderful, the great, and the small – with an amazing capacity for courage and forgiveness, love and sacrifice.
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Christmas In My Heart 17
$20.29Add to cartKeeping the spirit of Christmas alive.The Christmas in My Heart series has become a regular part of thousands of Adventists’ and others’ Christmas holidays. Now you can share with friends and family the uplifting and inspirational stories of the 17th volume.
You can keep Christ in Christmas and Christmas in your heart all year by assimilating the values worth living by in these stories-the values that Jesus exemplified in His life on earth.
Don’t miss this new release! These books just keep getting better and better.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 16
$20.29Add to cartAs we reach the proverbial age of “sweet sixteen” (young for a woman, but old indeed for a book series), it is appropriate to ask, “Why?” Today, when almost nothing lasts and fame itself supposedly expires in 15 minutes, here we have this simple little series of Christmas story anthologies that perversely refuses to die. Like the timeless Velveteen Rabbit, it becomes but more cherished as the years go by.
If the formula could be bottled, it would be priceless. In essence, it would be an indefinable mixture of stories–new, recent, old, and very old–by authors famous and never-heard-of-before; stories that deeply touch the heartstrings, unlock the tear ducts, make you laugh, yet retain the spiritual dimension of Christmas.
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Dick The Babysitting Bear
$20.29Add to cartFourth in the series The Good Lord Made Them All, Joe L. Wheeler provides one of the most powerful collections of wild animal stories. The cover story features Dick, an unusual black bear that loves to hold cats, pigs, and even human babies in a most motherly way.
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Christmas In My Heart Book 14
$20.29Add to cartEven though Christmas in My Heart is now the longest-running Christmas story series in America, none of us take its continued survival for granted. Certainly Joe Wheeler does not. He and his wife, Connie, are determined that each collection will be the best yet. And that is a tall order- yet readers have been telling them year after year, “This is the best one yet!” From the very beginning they have worried, “What if we run out of the best stories?” However, so many heart-touching Christmas stories (new, recent, and old) have flooded in-and the Wheelers have unearthed many more in old magazines and books-that their supply of “five-tissue stories” is greater now than it was at the beginning! For every story that makes it, hundreds do not. Only those stories that deeply touch the heart are admitted into these pages.
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Showdown And Other Sports Stories For Boys
$18.19Add to cartIn this compilation of short stories, editor/compiler Joe Wheeler captures the physical challenges and character-building choices of twelve young athletes.What will Terry do when he faces the firing squad of public opinion after a botched shot costs his team the game?How will a sponge diver, who desperately needs $100 for a sloop, handle diving into the dangerous reef where his father died and his grandfather lost the use of his legs?When a hockey player’s grand-standing costs his team points, what will the coach–his father–do and how will his son respond?
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Christmas In My Heart Book 23
$20.29Add to cartFor twenty-three years now, readers have been writing to Joe Wheeler, letting him know how much the Christmas in My Heart series means to them.”I so enjoy your introductory comments before each story, and since I grew up with Currier & Ives calendars, I love your choice of book covers.””I have collected all of your Christmas in My Heart books–thank you for being ‘America’s Keeper of the Story.'””How [so] many stories of wonderful content are able to come from one person is behond me. Each one has its own special emotion, and I never cease to be drawn into the plot. I am so thankful you make sure God is the center of all you share with us.”In this volume, Joe L. Wheeler gives the reader a treasury of old-fashioned Christmas stories.
