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Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt opens the door to the world behind the words of Scripture—bringing fresh understanding to familiar passages by exploring the cultural details that made Jesus’ teachings so vivid to His first listeners. Each chapter focuses on a single phrase, image, or action rooted in the daily life of the ancient world and draws out the spiritual depth we sometimes miss in modern readings. With warmth, clarity, and pastoral insight, Dr. Schmitt weaves together biblical teaching, personal reflection, poetry, and questions for study or discussion. Whether you’re reading alone...

A Life Shaped by Love is the tender spiritual memoir of a pilgrim shaped not by achievement or certainty but by the gentle, persistent love of God. Through childhood faith, seasons of wandering, the wilderness of grief, the joys of ministry, and the surprising grace that appears in unexpected places, Geoffrey Schmitt traces the long arc of God’s transforming presence in an ordinary life made extraordinary by love. Each chapter invites readers to see their own story within the pilgrimage — shaped by companions, deepened by suffering, brightened by surprise, softened by aging, and ...

What is normal Christianity? For many believers, the Christian life has been reduced to fragments — forgiveness without transformation, worship without power, evangelism without sacrament, structure without Spirit. In Normal Christianity: The River of Sacrament, Gospel, and Spirit, Geoffrey “Willingheart” Schmitt explores a return to the biblical pattern of the early Church — a Church rooted in Word and Table, bold in Gospel proclamation, and alive in the power of the Holy Spirit. Drawing deeply from the Book of Acts and the letters of Paul, and inspired by the vision of Patriarch ...

Secure in Love, Free to Grow Formed by Grace, Found Faithful What if faithfulness does not begin with effort — but with security? In Secure in Love, Free to Grow, Geoffrey Schmitt explores a simple but life-altering sequence: grace secures us, security frees us, freedom forms us, and formation produces faithfulness. Many believers live with subtle pressure — striving to prove worth, fearing failure, measuring growth by performance. Others, reacting against pressure, drift into passivity. This book offers a third way: a life rooted in secure love that naturally matures into steady ...

Learning to See with Faith: More Than Just Optimism explores the quiet, transformative work of faith as a way of seeing the world truthfully and lovingly—especially when certainty is elusive and outcomes remain unresolved. Rather than equating faith with positive thinking or religious certainty, this study invites readers into a deeper vision shaped by humility, endurance, community, suffering, and love. Drawing on Scripture, pastoral experience, prison ministry, hospice work, long marriages marked by illness, and ordinary moments of grace, the author shows how faith matures not by ...

Conversion is often described as a single dramatic event—or dismissed as a slow, lifelong process. In truth, it is both. In When the Scale Tips: Moments of Conversion, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the decisive moments when faith shifts from possibility to commitment—when resistance gives way, when truth becomes unavoidable, when mercy disarms the heart. Drawing on Scripture, history, pastoral experience, and prison ministry, this book examines the varied ways conversion begins and deepens. Each chapter focuses on a distinct pattern: crisis and rock bottom, reasoned conviction, sudden ...

Seventeen-year-old RJ always gets what she wants. So when her soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the afterlife better figure out a way to send her back from the dead, or heads will roll. But in her quest for mortality, she becomes a pawn in a power struggle between an overzealous archangel and Death Himself. The tribunal presents her with two options.

Sauvage, révolté, Jun promène ses quinze ans dans les rues de Tokyo, loin d'une famille dont il refuse de parler. Sa rencontre avec un maître du sumo, qui décèle un "gros" en lui malgré son physique efflanqué, l'entraîne dans la pratique du plus mystérieux des arts martiaux. Avec lui, Jun découvre le monde insoupçonné de la force, de l'intelligence et de l'acceptation de soi. Mais comment atteindre le zen lorsque l'on n'est que douleur et violence ?

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.

Share the classic novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a chapter storybook made for young readers! Perfectly thrilling, beginner readers will find the irresistible mystery of Kid Classics Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles just the right amount of detective work! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

What we remember shapes how we live. In Remember and Live: Memory, Identity, and Faithfulness, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the spiritual importance of remembering as a central practice of faith. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral experience, and deeply personal stories, this study invites readers to see memory not as nostalgia or regret, but as a living act of obedience. From family stories and national history to suffering, healing, communion, and resurrection hope, Schmitt traces how God calls His people to remember truthfully — and how holy forgetting can free us from what no longer gives ...

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 “...

“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 ...

I Am: Finding Life in Jesus is a devotional study of the seven “I Am” sayings of Christ in the Gospel of John. From the Bread of Life to the True Vine, each chapter reveals another facet of who Jesus is and what He offers to His people. Blending Scripture, historical insight, personal reflections from ministry and family life, poems, prayers, and practical questions, Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Schmitt (Willingheart) invites readers to encounter Jesus in His own words. Along the way, we discover that He is not only a teacher of truth but the very Truth Himself, not only a giver of life but Life ...

In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the New York Times tell the story of how a group of analysts within the military, at spy agencies, and in law enforcement has fashioned an innovative and effective new strategy to fight terrorism, unbeknownst to most Americans and in sharp contrast to the cowboy slogans that characterized the U.S. government's public posture.

New Babylon is the capital of the mighty Second Empire. Dirigibles drift over the city, steam trains race down its tracks, and the factory chimneys never stop billowing smoke, even for a moment. The hegemony of science is unquestioned, and yet magic hasn't disappeared from the world. It remains dissolved in the blood of those who are called Illustrious. Hardline reductionists find that hard to accept, but it is not in their power to change the longstanding status quo.

Sacred Geography: Encountering God Through the Land of the Bible By Geoffrey Schmitt What if the places of the Bible weren’t just backdrops—but invitations? From Eden to the wilderness, from Mount Sinai to Jerusalem, from exile to the quiet terrain of your own heart, this book explores how God reveals Himself in places—and how those places become holy when He is present. Blending rich biblical insight, personal stories, meditations, poetry, and questions for reflection, Sacred Geography invites readers to: Discover the spiritual meaning of key biblical landscapes Reflect on how ...

The Symbolic Bible: Seeing God’s Message in Metaphor invites readers to explore the rich, evocative language of Scripture’s most enduring symbols — from light and salt to the lamb, lion, rock, cross, and more. Each chapter unpacks a key biblical image, offering thoughtful teaching, meditations, personal reflections, poems, questions for deeper engagement, and prayers. Designed for both individual reflection and small group study, this book helps readers discover how God communicates profound truth through images that speak to the mind, heart, and imagination. Whether you are a ...

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.