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Anchored in Hope: Holding Fast When Life Feels Uncertain is a heartfelt guide to understanding and living out Christian hope in a world often filled with despair, delay, and doubt. Drawing from Scripture, personal stories, and pastoral wisdom, Rev. Geoffrey Schmitt walks readers through how biblical hope sustains us—in wilderness seasons, through suffering, in community, and all the way to the grave and beyond. This book is ideal for personal study, small groups, or church classes. Each chapter offers a clear teaching, personal reflection, thought-provoking questions, and a prayer. ...

Life Is Hard: How the Bible Teaches Us to Be Resilient in Difficult Times By Geoffrey Schmitt Life is hard—but you are not alone. From unexpected losses to long-term illness, from everyday stress to life-shattering events, every believer eventually faces seasons of suffering. In Life Is Hard, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt offers honest, hopeful wisdom drawn from Scripture, personal experience, and decades of ministry. With warmth and vulnerability, he shares stories from his own journey and the lives of others who have persevered through pain—not with platitudes, but with resilient faith. ...

Peace doesn’t have to wait for perfect circumstances. It begins where you are—right now. In a world saturated with bad news, rising tensions, and soul-deep exhaustion, Pathway to Peace in a World of Anxiety offers a gentle, scripture-rooted guide to rediscovering the kind of peace Jesus promised—a peace not as the world gives, but as only He can give. With honesty, warmth, and pastoral wisdom, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt leads readers on a journey through the Bible’s richest teachings on peace. Each chapter includes: A teaching grounded in Scripture A meditation to draw you into ...

Small Business in the Bible: Lessons for Today explores the sacred connection between faith and work — from ancient potters and farmers to modern entrepreneurs, caregivers, and craftsmen. Through eight rich chapters, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) shows how the Bible honors honest labor, just trade, and creative enterprise as reflections of God’s image in us. From the shepherd’s field to the carpenter’s shop, from the vineyard to the marketplace, the study reveals how daily work — done with love and integrity — becomes a form of worship. Blending Scripture, teaching, ...

Virtue, Integrity and Love: Living in the Image of God is a spiritual journey through the three great movements of Christian character — the virtues God forms within us, the integrity He shapes in the hidden places of the heart, and the love that reveals His image through our lives. Drawing from Scripture, decades of pastoral ministry, prison worship in faith-based barracks, a faithful men’s group of twenty-five years, family joys and sorrows, and the surprising ways God uses ordinary moments, Willingheart invites readers into a gentle but transformative path of discipleship. Each ...

Hidden in the Heart: Learning God’s Word for Life is a warm and practical Bible study designed to help readers memorize, understand, and live some of the most important verses in Scripture. Through eighteen carefully chosen passages—from Genesis to Revelation—this study blends teaching, meditation, reflection, poetry, and prayer into a journey of spiritual formation. Each chapter invites readers to slow down, breathe deeply, and let God’s Word sink gently into the soul. With personal stories from decades of ministry, caregiving, prison outreach, and early-morning writing, Geoffrey ...

Joseph — From Pit to Promise traces the dramatic arc of one of Scripture’s most beloved stories. Through betrayal, injustice, temptation, waiting, reconciliation, and redemption, Joseph’s life becomes a living testimony of God’s faithfulness in every season. Each chapter blends Scripture, teaching, meditation, personal reflection, poetry, and prayer—inviting readers to discover how God shapes their own stories through trials and triumphs. The study ends with Joseph’s stunning declaration: “God meant it for good.” This book will help you see your life through that same lens ...

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.

Medicine in the Bible: God’s Healing Ways explores how Scripture reveals both the mystery and the practicality of divine healing. From the fig poultice applied to Hezekiah’s wound to Jesus’ compassionate touch, from Luke’s medical insight to Paul’s wisdom about weakness, this study uncovers the many ways God brings restoration to body, mind, and spirit. Drawing from biblical narratives, ancient remedies, modern experience, and personal stories from decades of pastoral ministry, Geoffrey “Willingheart” Schmitt shows that healing is not only what God does — healing reveals who...

Waiting on the Lord: Lessons in God’s Perfect Timing invites readers to discover the hidden strength, hope, and peace that can only be found in life’s seasons of delay. From Abraham’s long wait for a son, to Joseph’s years in prison, to David’s hidden years before the crown, to Simeon and Anna’s lifelong expectation of the Messiah, Scripture is rich with stories of waiting. Through biblical teaching, personal stories from ministry and family life, poetry, prayer, and creative sidebars, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt (“Willingheart”) shows that waiting is never wasted. Instead, ...

Storms are inevitable. They come as loss, illness, fear, disappointment, and change — testing what we believe and revealing who we trust. In Faith in the Storm: Standing Firm When the Winds Rise, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt draws on Scripture, personal stories, and decades of ministry to show how faith can not only survive life’s tempests but grow stronger through them. From the cry of desperation to the calm of Christ’s presence, from the dark of night to the rainbow of renewal, each chapter guides readers toward peace that cannot be shaken. This book invites you to discover that the ...

You Believe God Exists — Now Grow Into the Life God Intends for You is a gentle, practical, and deeply personal guide to living out a mature, grounded Christian faith. Building on the first five books of the Keeping the Faith series, this volume explores the ten essential pillars of a growing spiritual life: believing God is real, experiencing His nearness, receiving His love, being transformed in character, living in repentance and grace, trusting God in every season, following Jesus in the way of love, witnessing through daily life, and discovering your unique calling. Drawing from ...

The Long Obedience: Daily Faithfulness and Spiritual Discipline invites readers into the quiet strength of a life rooted in steady devotion. Inspired by Eugene Peterson’s famous phrase, this volume explores what it means to walk with Christ one faithful step at a time — through prayer, Scripture, service, gratitude, simplicity, perseverance, and joy. Drawing from decades of ministry and reflection, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt writes as a fellow traveler who has learned that faith is not a sprint but a pilgrimage. Through heartfelt teaching, personal stories, poems, and prayers, he guides ...

Christians in the Age of Technology is a sweeping, pastoral journey through the inventions that have reshaped the world — and the faith that has remained steadfast through them all. From the first electric lights to the rise of radio, from the dawn of air travel to the humble hum of early computers, from dial-up modems to global digital communities, from secure tablets in prison to the strange new frontier of artificial intelligence — this book traces the astonishing pace of change across one lifetime. Yet through every chapter, one truth shines: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, ...

Every believer is called — not only the prophets, priests, or preachers, but all who follow the voice of Christ. The Call of God to Every Believer traces that divine summons from the first “Follow Me” to the final “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Through Scripture, reflection, and real-life stories, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) explores ten dimensions of the call: to follow, to be, to holiness, to love, to serve, to witness, to suffer and persevere, to peace, to joyful obedience, and to finish well. Each chapter blends biblical truth with personal experience, poems, ...

In a divided and restless age, The Kingdom of Peace: Living as Christ’s Ambassadors calls believers to rediscover the lasting calm of Christ’s rule. Drawing from Scripture, personal reflection, and years of ministry experience, Geoffrey Schmitt (writing as Willingheart) shows how peace is both a gift from God and a mission for His people. From peace with God to peace in the world, each chapter unfolds like a pilgrimage — teaching us how to live as Christ’s representatives in every circumstance, how to stand firm under pressure, and how to let the fruit of peace transform our ...

Willingheart: A Personal Theology traces one pilgrim’s lifelong conversation with God — from the transforming “Yes — and I AM” of awakening faith, through the fires of suffering, into the peace and hope of resurrection life. Through Scripture, teaching, meditation, reflection, poetry, and prayer, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers to discover their own story within God’s shaping love. This is theology not from the pulpit but from the road — lived, tested, and redeemed.

Tested and True: Faith Refined in the Fire explores the sacred mystery of how God transforms adversity into maturity, sorrow into compassion, and trials into testimony. Through Scripture, story, poetry, and prayer, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey W. Schmitt leads readers through the seven forges of faith — suffering, temptation, opposition, waiting, loss, conscience, and relationship — showing that every test carries the potential for grace. Drawing from nearly five decades of ordained ministry, prison outreach, and personal reflection, Schmitt offers honest insight into how the fires of life refine ...

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. ...

The Kingdom Unshaken: Faith That Stands When the World Falls Apart explores how God’s eternal Kingdom endures amid the tremors of history and the storms of life. From the shaking of nations to the refining of faith, from the endurance of the Church to the peace of Christ within, this study reminds believers that what is of God cannot be moved. Each chapter combines Scripture, teaching, meditation, reflection, poetry, and prayer to lead readers from fear to faith, from chaos to calm, and from endurance to glory. Whether read alone or shared in study groups, it offers hope for all who long ...