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In a time when faith is often either privatized or politicized, Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount sound both gentle and bracing: “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world.” In Salt and Light: Living the Kingdom in a Fading World, Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) explores what it means to live these metaphors faithfully—not loudly, not defensively, but with quiet conviction and enduring hope. Through ten reflective chapters, this study unfolds the everyday power of Christian presence. Salt preserves what might otherwise decay; light reveals what might ...

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 ...

For generations, Christians have treasured the saying attributed to Francis of Assisi: “Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.” Its wisdom has shaped lives of compassion, humility, and service. Yet in a changing cultural landscape, that wisdom has often been misunderstood—and its unintended consequences quietly felt. If Necessary, Use Words traces the journey of the Social Gospel from its faithful roots through a season of silence that contributed to secularization, declining church influence, and a thinning of Christian meaning. Drawing on Scripture, history, and ...

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 ...

Pilgrimage: Walking with God through Life, Loss, and Sacred Places by Geoffrey Schmitt This book invites readers on a journey—not only across ancient trails and holy destinations, but into the deeper spiritual landscape of the soul. Blending biblical reflection, historical insight, personal storytelling, poetry, and guided questions, Pilgrimage explores both the metaphor and the practice of sacred journeying. Part One traces the inner path we walk as believers: from the initial call to follow, through wilderness and weeping, up mountaintops, and into a clearer sense of purpose. Part Two ...

Armor of God: Standing Firm in a Spiritual Battle is a powerful and practical Bible study born from years of frontline ministry, especially within the Kairos Prison Ministry. Drawing from Ephesians 6:10–18, this study explores each piece of the spiritual armor God provides—truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, the Word, and prayer—and helps readers understand how to wear them daily. With real-life stories, personal reflections, and biblical insights, Armor of God is more than a study—it’s a spiritual call to arms. Whether you face battles in the workplace, at home, in the...

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 “...

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,...

Many men live faithfully yet quietly—carrying responsibility, enduring loss, and showing up day after day without much language for what they hold inside. The Long Way Forward is written for those men. This book is not about reclaiming masculinity or winning cultural arguments. It is about formation—how faith is shaped over time through presence, restraint, honesty, and love lived quietly. Drawing on Scripture, pastoral ministry, prison ministry, and lived experience, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers to walk a different road: one marked by endurance rather than speed, faithfulness ...

My Journey Through the Three Streams : Discovering the Beauty and Balance of the Charismatic Episcopal Church is an accessible and inspiring guide of the author’s journey to the Charismatic Episcopal Church (CEC), a Christian community rooted in the ancient faith, alive in the power of the Holy Spirit, and grounded in the authority of Scripture. Drawing from the rich heritage of the Church through the ages, the CEC embodies the convergence of three vital streams: evangelical, sacramental, and charismatic. Whether you are a seeker curious about liturgical worship, a believer longing for ...

Here I Am, As I Am is a gentle yet deeply honest spiritual study about learning to live from being rather than doing. Written out of a lifetime of ministry, grief, caregiving, and quiet discovery, this book invites readers to step off the treadmill of performance and rediscover faith as presence. The study begins with a simple, vulnerable question—“Can’t I just be?”—and God’s equally simple answer: “Yes—and I AM.” From that encounter unfolds a journey that reframes identity, worth, prayer, and spiritual growth. Rather than offering techniques for self-improvement, this ...

What if faith is not about arriving at certainty, but learning how to walk faithfully when answers are incomplete? A Rule of the Road offers a gentle, lived approach to Christian spirituality shaped by decades of ministry, marriage, loss, prison chaplaincy, and pastoral presence. Rather than presenting doctrines to master or techniques to perfect, this book offers a set of guiding commitments — a rule of life for those walking the long road of faith. Each chapter explores a simple but demanding choice: presence over answers, relationship over results, love before usefulness, being before ...

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 ...

Just a Fool for Christ is a gentle, story-driven exploration of joy, presence, and holy foolishness, told through the unexpected lens of clown ministry. Drawing on decades of experience as a priest, chaplain, hospice caregiver, prison volunteer, and clown—known affectionately as Pockets—Geoffrey Schmitt reflects on how laughter lowers defenses, silence creates space for grace, and vulnerability opens doors that authority cannot. From churches and hospitals to prisons and nursing homes, he discovers that the most faithful ministry often happens when performance is laid aside and presence...

Why did Jesus so often say, “Tell no one”? The Gospel of Mark — and other Gospel accounts — show a surprising pattern: demons silenced, healings hidden, confessions cautioned, and even mountaintop visions kept secret. This has long puzzled readers and theologians, who call it the Messianic Secret. In this study, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart, God’s Peaceful Smithy) explores why Jesus concealed His identity until the Cross and Resurrection. Through Scripture, teaching, meditation, personal reflection, poetry, and prayer, this book uncovers the wisdom of God’s timing: ...

Walking with God is one of the most familiar images of faith — and one of the most misunderstood. In Walking with the Lord: Learning to Share the Road — One Step at a Time, priest, chaplain, and writer Willingheart, Geoffrey Schmitt, invites readers into a deeply personal, pastorally grounded exploration of what it truly means to walk with God across a lifetime. Drawing from decades of ministry in congregations, prisons, hospice care, and ordinary daily life, this book traces the spiritual road through beginnings and callings, companionship and solitude, detours and valleys, stumbles ...

You Are Not Lost: Waiting Without Panic Until the Path Is Clear is a gentle, honest spiritual companion for anyone who has felt disoriented—on the road, in life, or in faith. Beginning with a simple, relatable experience of panic when losing one’s way while driving, Geoffrey Schmitt (writing as Willingheart) opens a deeper exploration of why uncertainty unsettles us so deeply. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral ministry, hospice work, prison ministry, marriage, and a lifetime of movement and change, he reframes panic not as failure, but as a doorway to trust. Through reflections on ...

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 ...

When the Trumpet Sounds: Anticipating Jesus’ Return invites readers on a journey through Scripture’s most powerful promises about the Second Coming of Christ. From Jesus’ words in the Upper Room to Paul’s vision of the trumpet call, from the prophets’ warnings to John’s vision of the New Jerusalem, this study explores what it means to live in hope, not fear. Rev. Dr. Geoffrey G. Schmitt — God’s Peaceful Smithy — weaves together Scripture, teaching, personal reflection, poetry, and prayer. Along the way he shares glimpses of his own journey: a high school audition singing ...