ABOUT ERIC KAMPMANN
As an entrepreneurial innovator in the publishing and book-distribution industry, Eric Kampmann has packed many significant milestones into a long and varied career. Even still, he tempers whatever he might claim as his own success with the reality that everything good that has happened in his life can be attributed to God’s awesome grace made manifest during the very lowest moments when his business was on life support.
“I was facing one of life’s defining moments,”
“But whether or not I knew it, I was not about to pass through this crisis alone. In this desperate moment, when all the normal answers had been exhausted, I quietly and inconspicuously stepped into St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York to say a simple prayer asking for help. When I said that prayer, I did not really expect to receive an answer. But not long after that visit, an answer did arrive in a most unexpected way.”
The first part of the answer arrived when Eric, his new company in the throes of financial crisis, found himself overwhelmingly drawn to the best known book ever written, the Bible. Overcome with the impulse to buy a Bible, he left his desk one day, did so, and began a discipline of daily reading that he credits with dramatically altering the course of his life. But that wasn’t the only benefit. After reading Signposts, numerous acclaimed pastors and professors endorsed the book and praised his biblical insight and found his scriptural discernment both highly intuitive and theologically accessible.
The first part of the answer arrived when Eric, his new company in the throes of financial crisis, found himself overwhelmingly drawn to the best known book ever written, the Bible. Overcome with the impulse to buy a Bible, he left his desk one day, did so, and began a discipline of daily reading that he credits with dramatically altering the course of his life. But that wasn’t the only benefit. After reading Signposts, numerous acclaimed pastors and professors endorsed the book and praised his biblical insight and found his scriptural discernment both highly intuitive and theologically accessible.
During the rebuilding of his company, he adopted another formative pastime, hiking the Appalachian Trail—a 2,178-mile-long trek he revisits regularly. His daily Bible study and the hikes inspired the profound wisdom and rich imagery of Signposts, as well as informed two devotionals he wrote earlier, Tree of Life: A Book of Wisdom for Men and Trail Thoughts: A Daily Companion for Your Journey of Faith. He also wrote The Insider’s Guide to Book Publishing Success.