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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...

Contentment: Finding Peace in Every Circumstance In a restless world that constantly urges us to chase more, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt — known to many as Willingheart — invites readers to discover the calm strength of contentment. Drawing from Scripture, personal stories, ministry experiences, and hard-won wisdom, he explores how peace can be found not in perfect conditions but in a trusting heart. Through six thoughtful chapters — The Shepherd’s Provision, The Wisdom of Enough, Learning in the Hard Places, Comparison and the Thief of Joy, The Peace of Letting Go, and The Joy of ...

Bearing One Another’s Burdens: Faithful Love Along the Long Road is a pastoral, lived-faith reflection on what it truly means to love one another over time—through grief, aging, illness, friendship, prison walls, and the ordinary demands of daily faithfulness. Drawing from Scripture, decades of ministry, personal loss, and prison and hospice chaplaincy, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the biblical call of Galatians 6:2 with honesty and discernment. This book carefully distinguishes bearing burdens together from unhealthy co-dependency, showing how love can be both generous and wise, present ...

“I was in prison and you came to visit me.” —Matthew 25:36 Prison walls may separate men and women from society, but they do not separate them from the love of God. Breaking Chains: The Gospel and Prison Ministry is a powerful call to action for individuals, churches, and communities to engage in life-changing prison ministry. This book explores: • The biblical foundation for ministering to the incarcerated. • The spiritual needs of inmates and the power of redemption. • How individuals and churches can step into prison outreach. • The impact of movements like Kairos Prison ...

God in the City: A Biblical Vision for Urban Ministry By Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt In a world of towering skylines and crowded streets, where poverty and wealth share city blocks and cultures collide daily, what is God’s vision for the city? God in the City explores how Scripture reveals a deep concern for urban places—from the cries of Nineveh to the mission of Paul in Corinth, from Jesus’ weeping over Jerusalem to the vision of the New Jerusalem itself. Drawing on decades of pastoral ministry in cities across America, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt brings biblical insights, personal ...

What’s in a name? In the biblical world—and in your life—everything. From the Garden of Eden to the last pages of Revelation, Every Name Holds a Story explores how names reveal identity, shape destiny, and connect us to the ongoing story of God. In this deeply personal and richly biblical book, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers on a journey through Scripture, spiritual reflection, and real-life stories to discover the power of being named—by God, by others, and by the unfolding of our own lives. With warmth, pastoral wisdom, and poetic insight, Geoffrey helps us uncover: The...

The Kingdom of Glory: Living for the Eternal King completes the Kingdom on Earth series by exploring the radiant theme of divine glory from Genesis to Revelation — from the first dawn of creation to the everlasting light of heaven. Through Scripture, teaching, reflection, and prayer, this study shows how God’s glory shines in Christ, lives through the Spirit, unites the Church, inspires worship, and transforms daily life. Stories from the author’s pastoral journey — including moving accounts of faith, loss, service, and renewal — make this book both personal and practical. ...

Fear Not: The Courage God Gives is a heartfelt Bible study exploring ten forms of courage — courage to trust God’s presence, answer His call, face giants, walk dark roads, stand firm, do what is right, endure storms, wait patiently, admit weakness, and strengthen the Church today. With Scripture, teaching, personal stories, poems, prayers, questions, and practical exercises, this study invites readers to discover that courage is not found in ourselves but in the God who walks beside us.

The devil is a deceiver, and his schemes are many — distraction, deception, division, doubt, delay, discouragement, demoralization, despair, defilement, domination, and destruction. Yet God equips His people with disciplines to counter every device: focus, discernment, unity, steadfastness, trust, readiness, perseverance, encouragement, hope, purity, humility, and restoration. In this twelve-chapter Bible study, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt draws on Scripture, church history, personal stories, and Kairos Prison Ministry experiences to reveal how believers can recognize the enemy’s tactics ...

Come, Let Us Reason Together: Discovering God’s Wisdom explores one of Scripture’s most profound invitations — to engage the mind and heart in conversation with God. From creation’s divine logic to Christ’s compassionate reasoning, from Paul’s persuasive faith to the humble wisdom of Job, this study traces the harmony between faith and thought across the pages of Scripture. Each chapter offers Scripture, reflection, poetry, and prayer to guide believers toward deeper understanding. Dr. Geoffrey G. Schmitt (“Willingheart”) invites readers to see that faith and reason are not ...

God’s World, Our Care: Stewardship of Earth and Life explores the biblical call to stewardship as a way of life. Beginning in Genesis, this study traces God’s covenant with creation, Jesus’ lordship over nature, and the parables that teach us to tend faithfully what we’ve been given. It emphasizes stewardship of body and soul, stewardship in our churches, and stewardship in the public sphere—from neighborhood gardens to national life. Through Scripture, reflection, poetry, and prayer, the book reminds us that stewardship is both personal and communal, practical and spiritual. ...

The Promises of God invites readers on a rich and deeply personal exploration of the promises God offers in Scripture—promises that touch every area of life. From His promise to forgive and guide, to His provision, peace, and presence, this study takes a thoughtful and pastoral look at how God meets us in joy, sorrow, weakness, confusion, and hope. Bonus chapters add even more depth, exploring His promises of comfort in sorrow, joy amid trials, rest for the weary, faithfulness when we fail, and victory over evil. With Scripture, teaching, meditation, personal reflection, poetry, ...

The Soul Within Us explores one of life’s greatest mysteries: what are we, really? Drawing from Scripture, modern science, near-death research, conscience, love, suffering, and personal testimony, Geoffrey Schmitt reveals that human beings are far more than bodies or minds—we are God-breathed souls, eternal and beloved. This book blends apologetics and pastoral care, showing how: • Genesis reveals our origin • Psalms reveal our emotions • Prophets reveal eternity • Jesus reveals our worth • Paul reveals transformation • Science reveals mystery • Love reveals identity • ...

The Grace That Calls, The Will That Answers explores one of the greatest mysteries of the Christian faith: how God’s sovereign call meets the freedom of the human heart. Through Scripture, Church history, theology, and deeply personal stories, this book traces the divine pattern that runs through every believer’s life — God initiates, and we respond.h From the Garden of Eden to the prophets, from Jesus and Paul to the early Church and the Reformation, the Bible holds grace and human freedom together in a beautiful tension. This study shows how that tension is not a problem to solve ...

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 ...

Marriage in the Bible takes readers on a journey from Genesis to Revelation, exploring the beauty and brokenness of marriage through Scripture, history, and contemporary challenges. Part One looks at Old Testament foundations, where covenant love is revealed amid polygamy and human failure. Part Two highlights Jesus’ teaching, lifting marriage to its God-given dignity while pointing to the eternal banquet to come. Part Three explores Paul’s balance between marriage and singleness, his profound vision of marriage as a mystery, and his insistence that leaders model covenant fidelity. Part...

Apologetics: Foundations of Faith—Why We Believe explores the meeting place between belief and understanding. In a world of doubt, division, and distraction, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) offers a thoughtful and pastoral guide to defending the faith not with argument alone, but with integrity, humility, and hope. Across ten chapters, this study journeys through revelation, reason, science, morality, suffering, the witness of the Church, and the enduring evidence of hope. Drawing insight from Scripture, C. S. Lewis and the Inklings, historical theology, and the author’s own conversion ...

What does it mean to be a man of God in a world full of confusion? Forged is a call to strength—not the loud, aggressive kind the world celebrates, but the steady, faithful strength shaped in the fire of Scripture and grace. Through the lives of ten biblical men—Adam, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Job, Jesus, and others—pastor and prison chaplain Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers into a journey of transformation. Each chapter explores a different facet of biblical manhood: responsibility, faith, integrity, courage, vulnerability, endurance, sacrificial love, fatherhood, and spiritual ...

Reason to Believe: Conversations in a Skeptical World explores how Christian faith speaks not only through argument but through authenticity — through the living voice of love, truth, and grace. From public debates to quiet listening, from cross-cultural understanding to the silent witness of presence, this book reveals that apologetics is less about winning discussions and more about winning hearts. Following Faith and Reason for a Skeptical Age and The Logic of Love: Speaking Truth with Grace, this third volume completes the trilogy’s arc — uniting the intellect, the heart, and the ...

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 ...