“Within the church, good questions and good listening kill the assumptions we make about others that often exacerbate divisions and gaps between us. How can we love and bear with one another if we don’t know and listen to one… — Christine Hoover Copy Share Image
“Within the church, good questions and good listening kill the assumptions we make about others that often exacerbate divisions and gaps between us. How… — Christine Hoover Copy Share
“Vulnerability feels risky because it involves embracing weakness and imperfection. Image-keeping feels far less risky because we believe it protects our sensitive areas from… — Christine Hoover Copy Share
“we must never move our gaze of hope and longing away from fellowship with God. He is guaranteed—a sure and steady anchor for our… — Christine Hoover Copy Share
“God allowed the difficulty of church planting to sift me, to bring the issues of my heart to the surface. I realized that if… — Christine Hoover Copy Share
“When we hold an ideal of friendship in our minds, believing it’s attainable, we hold a standard above the heads of real women God… — Christine Hoover Copy Share
“Because where we name common need, we can also name common grace in Christ and grasp him together.” — Christine Hoover Copy Share
“Friendship is hard to come by because a lot of people don’t voluntarily choose to enter into other people’s worlds or into their pain.… — Christine Hoover Copy Share
“God was giving me a friendship do-over, and I determined to learn from my false starts, mistakes, and all those seedling friendships I’d never… — Christine Hoover Copy Share
