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My Journey Through the Three Streams : Discovering the Beauty and Balance of the Charismatic Episcopal Church is an accessible and inspiring guide of the author’s journey to the Charismatic Episcopal Church (CEC), a Christian community rooted in the ancient faith, alive in the power of the Holy Spirit, and grounded in the authority of Scripture. Drawing from the rich heritage of the Church through the ages, the CEC embodies the convergence of three vital streams: evangelical, sacramental, and charismatic. Whether you are a seeker curious about liturgical worship, a believer longing for ...

Prayer takes many forms — spoken and silent, ancient and spontaneous, joyful and aching. Yet beneath every method lies a single purpose: communion with God. In Prayer: Many Methods — One Goal, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers into an honest, spacious exploration of prayer as lived relationship rather than spiritual performance. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral ministry, prison chaplaincy, hospice work, marriage, grief, and decades of faith, this study honors both structure and freedom, words and silence. Each chapter explores a different dimension of prayer — words given, words found,...

Permission to Grieve is written for those whose faith has not failed—but has been wounded. There are seasons when Scripture remains true and love remains sincere, yet neither feels sufficient to carry the weight of loss. In those seasons, grief does not ask to be explained or corrected. It asks to be honored. Drawing from decades of pastoral ministry, personal loss, hospice work, and lived faith, Geoffrey Schmitt writes as a companion rather than a guide. This book does not rush healing, demand optimism, or offer tidy answers. Instead, it offers permission—permission to grieve honestly,...

History Without Illusion is an honest, pastoral exploration of how memory shapes faith, identity, and hope. Rather than treating history as a collection of facts to defend or dismiss, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers to remember truthfully—without erasing pain, denying complexity, or surrendering to nostalgia. Through personal story, Scripture, poetry, and reflection, the book moves from childhood faith and family inheritance through loss, regret, culture, nationhood, and progress, finally arriving at a mature practice of “remembering forward.” Along the way, Schmitt shows how ...

Love Without Illusion: Loving Real People in Real Life explores what it means to love honestly in a world where disappointment, difference, and limitation are unavoidable. Moving through relationships that shape every life—parents, siblings, spouses, friends, mentors, leaders, the poor, enemies, and the self—Geoffrey Schmitt writes with pastoral wisdom and lived experience. This book does not offer sentimental answers or quick resolutions. Instead, it invites readers to release idealization, confront reality with courage, and discover a love that endures precisely because it sees ...

Love Under Pressure: Faithful Living When Love Is Tested explores what it means to remain faithful when love is strained by suffering, loss, disappointment, fear, doubt, anger, silence, fatigue, and time. Drawing on Scripture, ministry experience, marriage, caregiving, aging, and seasons of unseen labor, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) reflects on love not as sentiment or success, but as endurance shaped by grace. This book does not offer quick solutions or spiritual shortcuts. Instead, it invites readers to discern when to stay, when to rest, when to speak, and when to let go—without ...

Untroubled Hearts: Christ’s Peace in an Anxious World is a pastoral, Scripture-anchored journey into a question many believers quietly carry: Is it truly possible to live with peace in a world that feels increasingly anxious? Rather than offering quick fixes or spiritual clichés, this book invites readers into a deeper, steadier way of faith—one shaped by presence, trust, and lived experience. Drawing from the teachings of Jesus, the wisdom of Scripture, and decades of pastoral ministry, the author explores peace not as the absence of trouble, but as the gift of Christ’s presence ...

Here I Am, As I Am is a gentle yet deeply honest spiritual study about learning to live from being rather than doing. Written out of a lifetime of ministry, grief, caregiving, and quiet discovery, this book invites readers to step off the treadmill of performance and rediscover faith as presence. The study begins with a simple, vulnerable question—“Can’t I just be?”—and God’s equally simple answer: “Yes—and I AM.” From that encounter unfolds a journey that reframes identity, worth, prayer, and spiritual growth. Rather than offering techniques for self-improvement, this ...

The Sword and the Cup: Prepared Without Losing the Soul is a pastoral exploration of faithful readiness in uncertain times. Rooted in Luke 22:36–38, this book examines what it means to walk forward with clarity and courage without surrendering tenderness, humility, or love. Rather than calling readers to fear, aggression, or withdrawal, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) traces a spiritually coherent path from being to readiness, from presence to discernment, and from strength to surrender. Through the paired symbols of the sword and the cup, the book explores preparedness without paranoia, ...

Seeing with the Heart: Biblical Faith and Human Awareness invites readers to rediscover faith not merely as belief or behavior, but as a way of seeing. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral experience, and lived prayer, Geoffrey Schmitt explores how the Bible consistently addresses human awareness—how we perceive God, ourselves, others, and the world. From creation’s first light to resurrection recognition, this book traces how awareness is given, distorted, healed, and renewed. It examines fear, anxiety, distraction, suffering, and trauma as forces that shape perception, and shows how Jesus...

Walking with God is one of the most familiar images of faith — and one of the most misunderstood. In Walking with the Lord: Learning to Share the Road — One Step at a Time, priest, chaplain, and writer Willingheart, Geoffrey Schmitt, invites readers into a deeply personal, pastorally grounded exploration of what it truly means to walk with God across a lifetime. Drawing from decades of ministry in congregations, prisons, hospice care, and ordinary daily life, this book traces the spiritual road through beginnings and callings, companionship and solitude, detours and valleys, stumbles ...

Set Apart for Love: Why God Calls Us to Be Holy reframes holiness as a life shaped by grace rather than perfection. Drawing on Scripture, pastoral experience, prison ministry, aging, suffering, and everyday faith, this study invites readers to see holiness as relational, compassionate, and deeply human. Through twelve chapters, readers are guided from God’s holiness to Spirit-led transformation, ordinary faithfulness, shared community, compassion, and finally a life offered in love. Written with warmth, honesty, and humility, this book speaks to seekers, longtime believers, and anyone ...

The Blessing of Limits invites readers into a surprising truth: the boundaries of our humanity are not burdens but blessings. With pastoral warmth and lived honesty, Willingheart explores ten essential limits — time, strength, knowledge, control, capacity, resources, wounds, mortality, and more — revealing each as a doorway to deeper rest, dependence, humility, and love. Through Scripture, reflection, personal stories, prayers, and meditative exercises, this study shows how God uses our limitations not to diminish us but to draw us nearer to Himself. Rather than striving to be limitless...

The Pilgrim’s Hope: Encouragement for the Long Journey Home is a warm, pastoral, deeply personal devotional for those walking through the winding roads of life. Drawing on Scripture, decades of ministry, prison outreach, grief, restoration, and the surprising joys found along the way, Geoffrey Schmitt offers twelve rich chapters of: • teaching • meditation • reflection from real life • poetry • prayer • a Smithy’s Forge exercise for spiritual formation From valleys to dawn signs, from weary hearts to heaven’s light, this book guides the reader with gentle wisdom and steady...

We live by the clock—but we are called by something deeper. In Between the Clock and the Call, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the tension between Chronos, the measured time that structures our days, and Kairos, the lived time in which God meets us with grace. Drawing on Scripture, pastoral ministry, prison outreach, caregiving, aging, and long experience with waiting, this book invites readers to reconsider how time forms the soul. Rather than offering techniques for managing time more efficiently, Schmitt invites readers to receive time as gift—to recognize that waiting can change us, that ...

We live in a world that prizes clarity, certainty, and control. We sort our lives into categories—political, psychological, theological—hoping they will steady us when life feels uncertain. Even faith can become something we try to manage: a set of beliefs that align with our views, soothe our wounds, or provide clear answers. The God Who Refuses Our Categories: Trust Beyond the Need for Control invites readers to encounter a different God—the living God of Scripture who consistently resists being boxed in by human expectations. Through reflection, Scripture, prayer, and lived ...

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Fear is a universal human experience, yet it is often misunderstood in the life of faith. Many believers assume that fear signals weak faith, while courage is reserved for the bold and fearless. In Faith and Courage: Standing Firm When Fear Presses In, pastor and chaplain Geoffrey Schmitt gently dismantles these assumptions, offering a wiser and more compassionate understanding rooted in Scripture and lived experience. This book explores the deep connection between faith and fear in the inner life, and courage and cowardice in outward action. Through biblical teaching, pastoral reflection, ...

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 ...

In a world marked by anxiety, division, exhaustion, and uncertainty, many people sense that something essential is missing beneath the surface of modern life. Techniques abound, opinions multiply, and information overflows — yet stability, meaning, and wholeness remain elusive. Christianity as Foundation explores the Christian faith not as an ideology to defend or a system to manage, but as a grounding reality — a foundation capable of forming mature, healthy lives in a fractured world. Drawing from decades of ministry experience in parish life, prison ministry, hospice care, and ...