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Christine Hoover

Christine Hoover is the author of numerous books, including Searching for Spring: How God Makes All Things Beautiful in Time. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband Kyle and their three boys.

Mom Enough

The Fearless Mother’s Heart and Hope

This short book by eight women explores the daily trials, worries, and hopes in motherhood.

Two Words to Stop Self-Condemnation

Two Words to Stop Self-Condemnation

I am not sweet. I should be, but I’m not. That’s what I thought to myself as I pulled into the garage and closed it behind me, sitting safe in the cocoon of my home and free from the opinions…

The Everyday Question of Motherhood

The Everyday Question of Motherhood

Motherhood is not so much the big, dramatic acts of sacrifice, but the small, unseen ones. We form our children through a thousand everyday moments.

Hope for Unhealthy Friendships

Hope for Unhealthy Friendships

Deep, intentional friendships are vital for anyone wanting to follow Jesus, but what should we do when those friendships become unhealthy?

Three Lessons from the Farmer About Faith

Three Lessons from the Farmer About Faith

How do we continue in all God has called us to do without growing weary, especially when the work is demanding and the harvest appears so far into the future? We look to the farmer for answers.

What Cravings Will Take from You: How Jesus Fulfills the Longing Heart

What Cravings Will Take from You

How Jesus Fulfills the Longing Heart

When we follow the false kings of comfort, security, or belonging, they only take from us. When we follow King Jesus, he gives more than we ever give up.

A Weak Mother Is a Good Mother

If there is one thing I want to do well, it’s rearing my children to know God's voice and love his ways. But if there is one area that I feel most inadequate in, it's rearing my children to know…

Like Water to a Plant

Words of encouragement to a wife are like water to a plant. When I read that quote recently, I thought about how true that statement is, how every wife needs and craves encouragement from her husband. My husband is masterful…

Every Hard Day Will Be Beautiful Someday

Every Hard Day Will Be Beautiful Someday

Our experience of the present will always be tainted by sin on this side of heaven, but one day God will make even the hardest moments beautiful.

Make This Christmas Unforgettable for Your Children (One Simple Tip)

Make This Christmas Unforgettable for Your Children (One Simple Tip)

My happiest Christmas memory is the time each year that my aunt Nancy directed my cousins and me in a reenactment of the nativity. The youngest among us — a girl — was always baby Jesus, and as Mary, my…

No Longer an Orphan (But Tempted to Live Like It)

Until my late twenties, I spent the majority of my Christian life striving — striving for perfection, for God’s favor, for the approval of others, and for the joy and freedom that the Bible spoke of yet completely eluded me.…

Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist

As a recovering perfectionist, I sometimes confuse holiness and perfection. Rather than try to reflect on God’s grace or allow its natural compelling work in my life (holiness), I try really hard to do godly things, produce spiritual fruit, and…

The End of Mommy Wars

Every other week this spring, I opened my home to a group of new moms to discuss biblical motherhood. Each of them arrived with their babies and baby gear in tow, as well a palpable fear that they were getting…

Our Needs Point Us to God

Our Needs Point Us to God

If we let them, our needs point us to God and usher us to his side, seeking an outlet, an answer, a fulfillment in him.

Christ Is Our Treasure, Not Our Homes

The home exists for Christ. Our marriages, our children, our physical spaces — all these are means of joyful response to Him. Through the home, we treasure Christ and show others how to treasure Him also (Titus 2:3–5; Proverbs 31:10–31).…

Battling the Bitterness of Parenting a Disabled Child

On October 16, 2006, my oldest son was diagnosed with autism. That word — autism — spoken over my son and over my life on that day sent me into a year-long spiral of grief and confusion. One of the…

From Rubble to Restoration

But you are God, ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them. (Nehemiah 9:17) Jerusalem, the city meant to declare God’s name, lies in rubble on the ground. The glory of…

Am I Willing?

Unpacking in our new home in a new state far from our families, I opened a box marked Fragile in big black letters. Inside, buried under bubble wrap, I found my framed wedding vows. While I searched the master bedroom…

Precious Lessons of Rebuke

Precious Lessons of Rebuke

Last spring I spoke flippant words and those words hurt someone in the church. And although we talked about it openly and everything was made right, a weird remnant of insecurity hung over my interactions with others. God reminded me…

He Wants Your Heart: A Word to Church Planting Wives

When God called my husband and me to plant a church, I said yes. My yes to church planting echoed the vow I made on my wedding day, that I would support my husband in any ministry God…

Thanksgiving Is a Taste of Home

Thanksgiving Is a Taste of Home

I grew up in East Texas, where the chicken is fried, the pine trees grow tall, and the accents drip thick with “honeys” and “bless-your-hearts.” And on Thanksgiving, it was my family’s tradition to take the two-lane-highway straight-shot over to…

The Pleasures of God, the Praise of Others

The more I know God and what he thinks and says, the less it matters whether others are impressed with me. It’s almost unexplainable, the sense of satiation and completeness that invade the heart when our eyes are fixed on…

Dum Dums

My bank teller must be a dad. Every time I go to the bank, he gives my children the exact same colored lollipops. I’ve never asked him to do this, but, without fail, he digs through the lollipop basket until…

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