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Starting with Scripture: A New Christian’s Guide to the Bible is a warm, practical companion for anyone beginning their journey with God’s Word. Rather than overwhelming you with academic details or rigid expectations, this guide gently walks you through: Understanding what the Bible is—and why it matters Choosing a translation that fits your life Using free tools like BibleGateway and Bible apps Finding reading plans that work for real people Listening for God’s voice, not just reading for information Growing in community through Bible study groups and friendships Embracing the ...

When Faith Meets Empire: The People of God and Political Authority From Joshua’s conquest to Babylonian exile… From the Roman Empire to Constantine… From crusade and reformation to frontier expansion… From constitutional liberty to modern polarization… When Faith Meets Empire traces the long and often uneasy relationship between the people of God and political power. Rather than offering partisan conclusions, Geoffrey “Willingheart” Schmitt invites readers into a careful biblical and historical reflection. Drawing from both Old and New Testaments, church history, American ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

For nearly a century, Christianity in the Western world has appeared to be in steady decline. Sanctuaries thinned, cultural influence waned, and many faithful believers quietly wondered whether the Church had entered a long season of exile—not unlike Israel’s displacement in Babylon. This book is written from within that tension: honest about loss, yet alert to hope. Drawing on Scripture, history, and lived experience, the author suggests that what we have been witnessing is not simply decline, but pruning. Beneath the surface, something unexpected has been stirring. In recent years, ...

The Bible’s Recurring Themes: Creation, Fracture, and Renewal traces one of Scripture’s most enduring patterns—the story God tells again and again because we need it again and again. The Bible begins with goodness. God creates the world as gift, calling it very good before it ever proves itself. Yet trust fractures. Humanity doubts God’s goodness, and what begins as mistrust spreads into shame, violence, and broken relationships. Still, God does not abandon what He loves. He restrains destruction, calls His people to return, binds Himself in covenant, and patiently works toward ...

Our Story in the Psalms: Finding Your Life in God’s Songs takes readers on a journey through nineteen psalms that mirror every stage of life—childhood wonder, struggles with fear and failure, the blessings of family and friendship, the wisdom of maturity, and the hope of resurrection. Each chapter blends biblical teaching with personal reflection, poetry, questions, and prayer, showing how the Psalms speak directly into our joys and sorrows today. This book invites you not only to study the Psalms but to pray them, sing them, and discover your own story within God’s eternal songbook.

Christian Virtues: Formed in the Character of Christ is not a guide to moral improvement, but an invitation into spiritual formation. Rather than presenting virtues as ideals to achieve, this study explores how faith, hope, love, prudence, justice, temperance, courage, humility, patience, gentleness, perseverance, and gratitude are formed slowly through lived experience—often in weakness, waiting, and quiet faithfulness. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral ministry, caregiving, prison worship, and long obedience in ordinary places, the author invites readers to consider virtue as the shape ...

The Holy No: Learning Faithful Limits is a pastoral and deeply personal exploration of boundaries as a spiritual practice rather than a failure of love. Drawing from decades of ministry, caregiving, and lived experience, Geoffrey Schmitt challenges the quiet assumption that faithfulness requires constant availability, exhaustion, or self-erasure. Through Scripture, reflection, prayer, and honest confession, he examines how good intentions can become bad theology, how love can slip into rescue, how guilt and unspoken expectations bind us, and why burnout is not a spiritual virtue. At the ...

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 ...

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, ...

What if the voice of God has been calling you all along—and you just didn’t recognize it? Called by Name: Hearing God’s Voice Through the Noise is a gentle yet powerful guide to discovering the ways God calls us—not just once, but over a lifetime. Drawing from biblical examples, personal testimony, and decades of ministry, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers into a deeper understanding of vocation as relationship, not just assignment. From Abraham’s first step into the unknown to Paul’s dramatic conversion, from prison ministry to pastoral burnout, this book explores how ...

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,...

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 ...

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,...

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 ...