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Life rarely unfolds as planned. Roles change, seasons shift, certainty fades, and the familiar gives way to something new. In the midst of these changes, many people find themselves asking quiet but urgent questions: Who am I now? Where is God in this season? How do I walk forward without losing my way? The Road Before You: Faith, Wisdom, and Purpose as Life Changes is a reflective Bible study for anyone navigating transition—by choice or by circumstance. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral experience, prison ministry, hospice care, and lived faith, Geoffrey Schmitt (writing as Willingheart)...

Courage to Be Gentle: Where Strength Meets Compassion explores the paradox at the heart of Christian character: that true strength is revealed not through force, but through restraint, kindness, presence, and love. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral ministry, prison work, marriage, aging, and personal stories, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers to rediscover courage as something quiet and enduring. Each chapter offers reflection, prayer, poetry, and practical practices for living with strength shaped by compassion. This book is written for those who are weary of loud strength and longing for ...

We all carry wounds. Some come from loss, failure, disappointment, or sorrow; others arise from the simple challenges of being human. But when these wounds are touched by God’s grace, something extraordinary happens: they become wisdom. In Turning Hurt into Help: Wounds That Become Wisdom, Geoffrey “Willingheart” Schmitt reveals how our scars can become lanterns for others—lights that shine not because we are perfect, but because God has healed us in imperfect places. Through Scripture, personal narrative, prison ministry stories, and years of pastoral experience, he shows how ...

The Church in the World, but Not of It: Influence Without Compromise explores the timeless tension of Christian living: how to engage the world faithfully without being shaped by it. Through Scripture, teaching, meditation, personal stories from parish and prison ministry, and gentle pastoral wisdom, Geoffrey Schmitt guides readers into a deeper understanding of influence rooted in Christlikeness. Each chapter offers practices for shaping character, cultivating discernment, speaking truth with grace, serving without losing one’s center, and shining with hope in a cynical age. The book ...

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 ...

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 • ...

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 ...

Blending Scripture with personal stories of caregiving, grief, renewal, and unexpected calling, this study invites older believers to discover that God is not finished with them. Every chapter explores a new dimension of spiritual growth: renewed strength, seasoned wisdom, honest lament, gentle surrender, quiet ministry, meaningful connection, and the hope of heaven. Each section includes teaching, meditation, reflection, poetry, questions, prayer, and “Smithy’s Forge” exercises to help readers live with purpose, peace, and gratitude. This is not a book about surviving old age — it ...

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...

Held Fast: God’s Strength in Our Fragile Seasons is a gentle and deeply personal guide for anyone walking through moments when life feels unsteady, uncertain, or overwhelming. Drawing from Scripture, caregiving, grief, anxiety, ministry, and lived experience, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers to discover the God who holds them with unwavering tenderness. Through ten reflective chapters—each shaped by teaching, meditation, personal narrative, poetry, and prayer—this book offers a sacred companion for fragile days. Whether the challenge is illness, loss, fear, aging, caregiving, or the ...

The Unseen Road: Walking with God in the Ordinary invites readers to discover the sacred beauty hidden in the simplest moments of life — small tasks, daily routines, quiet drives, unexpected conversations, and places that anchor the soul. Through Scripture, personal stories, reflections, poems, and gentle spiritual practices, Willingheart shows that God’s presence is not reserved for mountaintops, miracles, or extraordinary events. Instead, He walks with us in the unnoticed pathways of everyday life. This book is a gentle companion for anyone seeking peace, steadiness, and the grace of ...

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...

The Work of Love: Serving God in the Ordinary and Overlooked invites readers into the quiet places where God’s presence often hides — the small tasks, unnoticed acts, and everyday moments that shape a life of faith. Drawing from Scripture and decades of pastoral ministry, Willingheart explores twelve simple themes: seeing the overlooked, the holiness of small tasks, showing up, listening deeply, blessing with words, serving behind the scenes, and offering what little we have to God. Through stories of Boy Scouts, church volunteers, altar guild members, prison ministry, food pantries, ...

The Courage to Be Small invites readers into the gentle, countercultural way of humility — not as weakness, but as strength surrendered to God. Through Scripture, personal stories, Kairos experiences, meditation, poetry, prayer, and the Smithy’s Forge, Geoffrey Schmitt guides us down the “small path” Jesus walked. From the hidden life of Nazareth to the secret service of unseen kindness, from weakness made strong to Christ’s great descent in Philippians 2, this study reveals that humility is not about becoming less but becoming free. Free from striving. Free from comparison. Free ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Eastertide: He Lives! continues the Following the Church Year series with seven radiant chapters tracing the fifty days from Resurrection morning to Pentecost. From the empty tomb to the rushing wind of the Spirit, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers to walk with the risen Christ through Scripture, meditation, and reflection. Each chapter includes Scripture Anchor, Teaching, Meditation, Reflection, Poem, Prayer, and Smithy’s Forge — a practice for living resurrection life every day. More than a retelling of familiar stories, this book becomes a journey into joy: discovering that the risen ...

Scripture’s Best Wisdom: 12 Guides for Daily Living By Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt What does it really mean to “aim up” in life — not toward ambition, but toward goodness, faith, and peace? In this reflective and practical Bible study, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt — pastor, teacher, and lifelong “peaceful smithy” — gathers twelve timeless guides from Scripture to shape a rule of life rooted in God’s Word. From Love God with All You Are to Abide in Love, for Love Is the Greatest, each chapter blends Scripture, teaching, meditation, and personal story with poetry, prayer, and ...