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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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Personal Transformation Depth Work Volume 5 of Quantum Energetics and Spirituality is written for the committed personal transformation reader who has already done meaningful inner work and is ready to go deeper. This volume delivers an advanced, daily-reading style progression of short essays focused on transcending ego-driven patterns, removing fear at the root, and developing stable inner knowing through heart-conscious awareness. Rather than offering quick fixes, it supports lasting internal change, refining attention, upgrading emotional alignment, releasing limiting attachments, and ...

What if the shift you’ve been waiting for isn’t “out there”—but begins with a single change in how you perceive, feel, and choose your inner state? In Quantum Energetics & Spirituality, Volume 2, Kenneth Schmitt expands the journey of alignment with universal consciousness into a clearer, more action-oriented exploration of perspective, ascension, and conscious creation. Building on the idea that consciousness is foundational—and that your lived experience reflects the energetic “signal” you consistently embody. This volume shows how to recognize limiting patterns and ...

We’ll talk about all things that will make your business better like personal and professional development, leadership, healing, parenting, wellness of your mind, body, and spirit…What?? Not the list you expected?? Tune in and walk with my guests and I on a journey toward improving yourself that will not only get you better business results but will get you the life you want.

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 ...

What does it really mean to love your neighbor? In a world shaped by division, fatigue, and constant moral pressure, love can feel either overwhelming or abstract. We know the command. We struggle with the practice. In Here You Are, As You Are: Loving My Neighbor, Geoffrey Schmitt (writing as Willingheart) invites readers into a grounded, humane exploration of love as it is actually lived—imperfectly, wisely, and faithfully—among real people in real situations. This book is not a theory of love. It is a companion on the road. Beginning with Jesus’ reversal of the familiar question—...

Trei femei, trei epoci. Ana trăiește la Bruges în timpul Renașterii, Hanna, în Viena imperială de la începutul secolului XX, iar Anny, în Hollywoodul actual. Toate trei se simt profund diferite de contemporanii lor. Și dacă ele reprezintă una și aceeași femeie?...

Nach einem Überfall auf die königliche Familie ist das Leben des Kronprinzen Leonhard in Gefahr. Seine Zwillingsschwester Saphira muss hilflos mitansehen, wie ihr Vater, der König, von seinem größten Widersacher erpresst wird. Da taucht ein geheimnisvoller junger Mann vor dem Schloss auf, der dem König ein unglaubliches Angebot macht. Aber kann man ihm trauen? Ist seine Geschichte wahr? Während der König ihn für einen Lügner hält, beginnt Saphira sich dem Fremden anzunähern ...

What does it mean to live faithfully in a culture that no longer naturally supports Christian belief? In Citizens of Heaven, Neighbors on Earth, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the enduring challenge of being in the world without being shaped by it. Rather than offering slogans or culture-war strategies, this book invites readers into a deeper way of living—one formed by discernment, patience, and embodied love. Drawing on Scripture, pastoral experience, and decades of ministry—including extensive work in prison settings—Schmitt examines how culture quietly forms us through stories, rhythms...

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)...