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The Pilgrim’s Path: From Repetition to Relationship Sequel to The Way of the Pilgrim. Where the first volume explored the simplicity and power of the Jesus Prayer, this study moves deeper — tracing how repetition matures into relationship, how stillness awakens awareness, and how the indwelling Christ transforms character over time. Rooted in Scripture (KJV), informed by the ancient wisdom of the Philokalia, and inspired by the classic The Way of a Pilgrim, this sequel bridges Eastern contemplative tradition, Evangelical devotion, and Charismatic experience — the “Three Streams” ...

Law and Grace: Commandments That Guide, Grace That Saves Many Christians live with a quiet tension between Law and Grace—between obedience and mercy, truth and love. Some fear the Law as harsh and condemning. Others cling to grace while quietly dismissing the need for obedience. Scripture, however, never treats Law and Grace as rivals. It presents them as partners in God’s patient work of shaping faithful lives. In Law and Grace, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) traces this biblical theme from Genesis to the Gospels and into daily discipleship. The Law is explored not as a weapon or ...

Promises Made, Promises Kept — The Faithfulness of God traces one of Scripture’s most enduring and comforting themes: God speaks, God waits, and God acts—always faithfully, often slowly, and sometimes in ways we never expect. From the opening words of creation to the final witness of the Church, the Bible tells a long story of promise and fulfillment shaped by waiting, suffering, obedience, failure, exile, and hope. God’s promises are rarely fulfilled quickly. They are almost never fulfilled easily. Yet they are never abandoned. This study follows that recurring pattern across ...

A Theology of Dying: Preparing for the Next Life Now is not a book about hospice procedures or end-of-life planning. It is a spiritual exploration of what it means to learn how to die before we die—so that death, when it comes, does not arrive as a stranger. Drawing on Scripture, pastoral ministry, prison outreach, hospice experience, and a lifetime of lived faith, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers into the quiet, courageous work of surrender that shapes a faithful life. Each chapter explores a different form of “spiritual dying”: the death of ego, the release of control, the letting ...

Pilgrimage: Walking with God through Life, Loss, and Sacred Places by Geoffrey Schmitt This book invites readers on a journey—not only across ancient trails and holy destinations, but into the deeper spiritual landscape of the soul. Blending biblical reflection, historical insight, personal storytelling, poetry, and guided questions, Pilgrimage explores both the metaphor and the practice of sacred journeying. Part One traces the inner path we walk as believers: from the initial call to follow, through wilderness and weeping, up mountaintops, and into a clearer sense of purpose. Part Two ...

The Great Threads invites readers to step back and see the Bible as a single, coherent story—woven patiently across centuries, cultures, and lives. Rather than approaching Scripture as a collection of disconnected passages or doctrines, this study traces seven recurring themes that appear again and again from Genesis to Revelation: God’s presence, creation and renewal, promise and covenant, deliverance and freedom, wisdom for daily living, suffering and redemption, and the hope of God’s kingdom. Each chapter follows one of these threads through the biblical story, showing how it ...

Exodus / Deliverance — When God Hears and Chains Fall explores one of Scripture’s most enduring and hope-filled patterns: God hears the cry of the oppressed and makes a way to freedom. From the slavery of Egypt to the wilderness, from exile and return to the Cross and Resurrection of Christ, this study traces deliverance as a recurring theme woven through the entire Bible. Deliverance is shown not as a single dramatic event, but as a faithful movement of God—sometimes sudden, sometimes slow, always purposeful. Along the way, readers encounter honest reflections on fear, waiting, ...

In a world that measures worth by success, certainty, and visibility, faith can quietly become another performance. What Does God Value? — Learning to See What Truly Matters invites readers to step back and recalibrate their vision according to the heart of God. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral experience, prison ministry, and a lifetime of reflection, this study explores the values God consistently lifts up: the heart over performance, mercy over sacrifice, the lowly over the powerful, relationship over rule-keeping, trust over control, perseverance over quick results, repentance over ...

Prayer is often treated as a technique, a transaction, or a last resort. In The Power of Prayer: How God Works Across Time, Distance, and the Human Heart, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers into a deeper, truer understanding: prayer as relationship, presence, and formation. Drawing on Scripture (KJV), decades of pastoral ministry, prison outreach, prayer groups, and lived experience, this study explores how prayer operates beyond ordinary limits—across time and distance, through suffering and silence, within community notes and personal longing. Each chapter unfolds prayer not as something ...

Many people long to hear God clearly — especially when decisions matter most. Yet much of real life is lived without certainty, in seasons where clarity does not come and faith feels incomplete. Discernment Without Certainty invites readers into a wiser, humbler way of listening. Drawing on Scripture, pastoral experience, marriage, leadership, prison ministry, and personal loss, Geoffrey Schmitt explores discernment not as a method for securing answers, but as a lifelong practice of attentiveness, patience, and trust. Through themes such as consolation and desolation, false peace and true...

Willpower Isn’t Enough explores why lasting spiritual change does not come through effort alone, but through the healing and re-ordering of desire. Drawing on Scripture, Augustine’s ordo amoris, recovery wisdom, prison ministry experience, and personal reflection, Geoff Schmitt invites readers into a gentler, deeper path of transformation—one rooted in love rather than control. This book is for anyone weary of striving, caught in compulsive patterns, or longing for a faith that heals rather than exhausts.

What we remember shapes how we live. In Remember and Live: Memory, Identity, and Faithfulness, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the spiritual importance of remembering as a central practice of faith. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral experience, and deeply personal stories, this study invites readers to see memory not as nostalgia or regret, but as a living act of obedience. From family stories and national history to suffering, healing, communion, and resurrection hope, Schmitt traces how God calls His people to remember truthfully — and how holy forgetting can free us from what no longer gives ...

When God Is Silent is written for those who have prayed faithfully and found no answer—those for whom God’s absence feels more frightening than suffering itself. Rather than explaining silence away, this book explores how darkness, waiting, and unanswered prayer can become places of encounter rather than abandonment. Drawing from Scripture—Job’s unanswered questions, the unresolved lament of Psalm 88, Jesus’ silence in the wilderness, the cry from the cross, and the long waiting of Holy Saturday—this study traces a quiet, faithful path through the places where explanations fail....

For generations, Christians have treasured the saying attributed to Francis of Assisi: “Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.” Its wisdom has shaped lives of compassion, humility, and service. Yet in a changing cultural landscape, that wisdom has often been misunderstood—and its unintended consequences quietly felt. If Necessary, Use Words traces the journey of the Social Gospel from its faithful roots through a season of silence that contributed to secularization, declining church influence, and a thinning of Christian meaning. Drawing on Scripture, history, and ...

War has never been an abstract question for the Christian faith. From the earliest days of the Church to the present age of drones and nuclear deterrence, believers have wrestled with how to follow Jesus in a world where violence persists. Just War vs. Christian Pacifism: Holding the Tension Without Losing the Gospel does not attempt to settle the debate once and for all. Instead, it invites readers into the long, honest struggle to remain faithful when moral clarity is costly and certainty proves elusive. Drawing on Scripture, Christian tradition, modern theology, and lived pastoral ...

We Hold These Truths explores the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the biblical moral imagination that shaped it — without claiming that America is a Christian nation or that Scripture belongs to any political system. Through careful reflection on truth, human dignity, unalienable rights, moral law, accountability of authority, liberty, responsibility, and formation, this book traces how biblical ideas influenced foundational American ideals — and how Scripture continues to judge, refine, and challenge those ideals today. Written from a pastoral rather than ...

In a time when faith is often either privatized or politicized, Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount sound both gentle and bracing: “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world.” In Salt and Light: Living the Kingdom in a Fading World, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) explores what it means to live these metaphors faithfully—not loudly, not defensively, but with quiet conviction and enduring hope. Through ten reflective chapters, this study unfolds the everyday power of Christian presence. Salt preserves what might otherwise decay; light reveals what might ...

He was there all along. From the first breath of creation to the final cries of the prophets, the Old Testament whispers the name of Jesus. In its promises, symbols, sacrifices, and shadows, the Messiah’s story unfolds—waiting for eyes to see and hearts to understand. In Jesus in the Old Testament: Foreshadowings of the Messiah, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt guides you on a prayerful and illuminating journey through ten powerful images of Christ hidden in plain sight: The Seed in the Garden The Lamb at Passover The Rock in the Wilderness The Suffering Servant The Son of Man The Bridegroom ...

The Symbolic Bible: Seeing God’s Message in Metaphor invites readers to explore the rich, evocative language of Scripture’s most enduring symbols — from light and salt to the lamb, lion, rock, cross, and more. Each chapter unpacks a key biblical image, offering thoughtful teaching, meditations, personal reflections, poems, questions for deeper engagement, and prayers. Designed for both individual reflection and small group study, this book helps readers discover how God communicates profound truth through images that speak to the mind, heart, and imagination. Whether you are a ...

In a world saturated with slogans, symbols, and noise, Christian faith is often seen before it is understood—and sometimes misunderstood before it is heard. Faith on Display: When Witness Helps — and When It Hurts invites readers into a thoughtful, pastoral exploration of how Christian witness functions in everyday life. Drawing on Scripture, lived ministry experience, and gentle cultural reflection, this study examines the benefits and dangers of visible faith—from crosses and Bibles to bumper stickers and slogans. It asks not whether faith should be visible, but how, when, and for ...