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“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 Behind Locked Doors: Freedom of the Spirit Under Constraint explores how authentic faith takes root where freedom is limited and hope is tested. Drawing on years of prison ministry, pastoral reflection, and Scripture read slowly, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) invites readers inside places designed for isolation—and discovers a God who is already there. Through reflections on prayer learned without escape, Scripture encountered at a human pace, community formed under constraint, and responsibility reclaimed one choice at a time, the book challenges the assumption that freedom of the ...

Always Reforming: The Protestant Reformation and What the Church Must Keep Learning explores the Reformation not as a settled argument of the past, but as an ongoing spiritual challenge for the Church today. Beginning with the biblical pattern of reform and moving through the causes, key figures, divisions, and unintended consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation, this Bible-history study examines how sincere faith led both to renewal and to fracture. It gives careful attention to the voices of multiple reformers, the Catholic Reformation, and the long-term costs of confessional ...

How did Apple rebound from a decade-long slump? By creating a product, the iPod, that transformed not just the company, but the entire music industry. How did Whole Foods turn itself into a supermarket empire? By challenging the sacred cows of the food business. And how did Dove differentiate its line of beauty products? By creating the concept of "real beauty". In Big Think Strategy, Bernd Schmitt shows you how to "think big" by sourcing and implementing bold ideas that change markets.

In an age that questions everything, faith still speaks — gently, wisely, and true. Sharing Faith in a Skeptical Age explores how reason and relationship can work together to open hearts to the Gospel once again. The Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt (known to many as Willingheart) guides readers through ten chapters that trace the rebirth of belief in our time — from doubt that leads to faith, to reasoned witness, compassion, wonder, hope, and the revival now stirring among a new generation. Drawing on decades of pastoral ministry, Kairos prison work, and spiritual reflection, Dr. Schmitt ...

12 Steps and the Bible: Coming to Christ in Recovery is a spiritually grounded journey through the Twelve Steps, woven with Scripture, honest storytelling, and pastoral wisdom. Drawing from decades of ministry, recovery work, and Kairos Prison Ministry, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) shows how the natural movement of the Twelve Steps leads directly toward Christ—through honesty, surrender, confession, amends, prayer, and service. Each chapter includes Scripture, teaching, meditation, a personal reflection from the author’s life, a poem, questions for deeper thought, a prayer, and a “...

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 ...

A Personal Relationship with God: From Knowing About Him to Walking With Him invites readers beyond religious familiarity into living fellowship with the God of Scripture. Beginning in Eden and tracing the biblical story through covenant, incarnation, cross, indwelling Spirit, prayer, trials, obedience, and friendship, this study shows that the Bible is not merely a collection of doctrines or moral instructions. It is the unfolding story of a God who seeks relationship. Through pastoral insight, personal testimony, and careful engagement with Scripture (KJV), Geoffrey Schmitt explores what ...

Eigentlich haben Ben und Esther alles, was sie brauchen: eine lebendige Beziehung zu Jesus Christus und wichtige Funktionen in ihrer Gemeinde – dem göttlich funkelnden Safespace, in dem der Pastor teure Sneaker trägt, seine Frau Highlights aus der Predigt auf Instagram teilt und Gott uns so sehr liebt, dass er seinen einzigen Sohn hingab, und so weiter. Doch Ben hat ein Problem, das zwischen ihm und seinem göttlichen Vater steht. Niemand weiß davon, nicht mal seine Schwester Esther. Je verzweifelter er sich aus den Fängen der Sünde befreien will, desto mehr tyrannisiert sie sein Leben.

Does God still speak—and can we really hear Him? In Prayer and Discernment: Listening for God, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers on a practical and personal journey into recognizing the voice of God in everyday life. Drawing from decades of pastoral experience, rich biblical insight, and stories from his own life and ministry, Schmitt explores how God communicates through Scripture, silence, dreams, other people, and even surprising coincidences. Whether you’re facing a big decision, longing for spiritual direction, or simply wanting to grow closer to God, this book offers ...

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...

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 ...

Der elfjährige Moses lebt allein mit seinem Vater, einem verknöcherten Rechtsanwalt, in Paris. Täglich kauft er in Monsieur Ibrahims Laden ein, dem Araber in der Rue Bleue, die so wenig blau wie Monsieur Ibrahim ein Araber ist. Zwischen dem alten Mann und dem Jungen, der am Haushaltsgeld spart, um zu den Huren zu gehen, entspinnt sich eine wunderbare Freundschaft.

Biblical Leadership Lessons: Success, Failure, and Faith In this practical and devotional study, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the lives of some of the Bible’s greatest leaders — Moses, Deborah, Nehemiah, David, Esther, Peter, and Paul — drawing out lessons about leadership that apply to pastors, lay leaders, and anyone called to lead in church, community, or home. Through reflections on their successes, failures, and enduring faith, readers will discover the timeless qualities that define godly leadership: humility, courage, integrity, compassion, and trust in God’s providence. With ...

The objective is clear—to reach the original world and get to the bottom of what is going on here. But I don't want to waste decades on it like people from other worlds. In fact, I'd like to be done in a month. After all, am I a Keeper, or just a pretty face? However, the System is keeping me on my toes. Moscow looks more like a military training zone every day, and this strange slime has been oozing out of the metro.

Ecclesiastes: Meaning in a Meaningless World is a journey through one of the Bible’s most enigmatic and powerful books. With poetic reflections, personal stories, and pastoral insight, Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt helps readers wrestle with life’s hardest questions: Is there purpose in my pain? Why does injustice persist? What’s the point of wisdom or work? How do we live in a world that often feels upside down? Drawing from decades of ministry and personal grief, the author guides readers toward a faith that isn’t afraid of doubt—but finds God in the middle of it. Whether you’re new to...

The God Who Waits: Divine Patience with Our Wandering and Growth explores a truth many believers struggle to trust: God is not in a hurry. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral ministry, prison ministry, grief, discernment, and decades of lived faith, Geoffrey Schmitt reflects on how God waits with us — not out of indifference, but out of love. This book addresses the places where waiting feels hardest: weakness, wandering, delay, learning, silence, refinement, aging, grief, and calling. Rather than offering techniques for waiting better, The God Who Waits invites readers to see God more ...

From the whispered call of Samuel in the night to the final words of King David, The Call, the Crown, and the Crossroads takes you on a journey through 1 & 2 Samuel, uncovering timeless lessons on leadership, faith, and obedience. Through the triumphs and failures of Saul, David, and those around them, you’ll see how God shapes leaders, tests hearts, and fulfills His covenant promises. Each chapter offers Scripture, teaching, reflection, personal stories, poetry, and questions for study, making this a rich resource for both personal devotions and group discussion. More than a history of ...

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, ...

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 ...