Kenneth Collins

After powerful religious artifacts are discovered during the Talomay War, the wise Cador is tasked with creating a Great Order to unlock their potential. Chosen are: * Ibrik, a respected priest willing to do almost anything for the temple;* Omero, an engineer who feels she has something to prove;* Ywaine, a playboy mathematician, as genius as he is arrogant;* Tarquin, a widower and scholar ready for his next intellectual challenge;But when four flawed people get a taste of godlike powers, will they change the world for the better or will they be changed for the worse?

Thirty two years after the founding of Levnar, The young kingdom thrives. Yet a series of brutal attacks by the neighboring kingdom of batlike Talomay threatens to send the continent into war.The new king of Levnar aided by his mother, Gwynora, and Cador the Seer, attempts to keep his people safe while learning to fill his admired father's shoes. The Talomay king also sends an investigator to discover the true motive of the attacks on the humans as he believes someone is undermining his sovereignty.As more bloodshed occurs, the investigator teams up with two humans affected by the attacks, Bran and Katta, to bring the murderers to justice before the kingdoms are at war. However there may be more at stake than the fates of two kingdoms; clues to the origin of their world may lie at the center of the turmoil.

In the kingdom of Corallora, the tides are turning. A rebellion led by the charismatic Darrius threatens the nobility who rule the land with an iron fist. Melias, the kingdom's shipbuilder and harbormaster, tries to focus on his growing family's safety and stay out of the way of the rebels and the nobles. However, when the rebellions wants access to the harbor for their cause, Melias is reluctantly thrust into the turmoil. Unbeknownst to them, the king's royal seer, Cador, has forseen a cataclysmic flood that could destroy the known world. The actions of Melias, Darrius, Cador, and others will decide the fate of not just the kingdom, but the fate of the human race.

This new collection of essays explores the subject of conversion in the Wesleyan tradition from biblical, historical, theological, and practical points of view. Written by leading Wesleyan scholars, the essays reinvoke the notion of conversion as an identifiable experience in the Christian's life. The contributors, drawn from a diversity of backgrounds, rightly call for a much needed, and inclusive, balance: process and instantaneousness, nurture and regeneration, holy living and vibrant faith. The recovery of conversion as an illuminating paradigm of saving grace promises both renewal and revitalization in the Wesleyan tradition.

A Real Christian: The Life of John Wesley fills a void in available books in Wesleyan studies by providing a brief, solid biography that focuses on Wesley himself. While exploring Wesley's ancestry, birth, death, and every major biographical and theological event between, Collins also explores the theme of John Wesley's spiritual growth and maturation. Wesley came to the conclusion that real Christians are those whose inward (and outward) lives have been transformed by the bountiful sanctifying grace of God -- what he termed real Christianity--and this he strove to obtain for himself. Real Christianity, as Wesley understood it, embraces both works of piety and mercy, the person and the social.

Taking its title from one of John Wesley's most important sermons, The Scripture Way of Salvation explores the soteriological content of Wesley's entire literary corpus (sermons, letters, theological treatises, journals, and the notes on the Old and New Testaments). Fundamentally a doctrinal study, it is historically sensitive to the subtle shifts and nuances of Wesley's continuing reflections about the processes of salvation and the nature of Christian life. Collins provides a clear discussion of Wesley's emerging views about the development and maturation of Christian life, and in so doing highlights the essential structure that undergirds and provides the framework for Wesley's way of thinking about the processes of salvation.