Are you exhausted from going through the motions of following Jesus?
“Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” — Matthew 11:30
Many Christian women find themselves stuck in spiritual routines that feel more like religious obligation than genuine relationship. You love Jesus, you serve faithfully, you check all the boxes, but underneath it all, something feels thin. Like your soul is a phone perpetually at 15%, never quite full.
In Keeping Company with Jesus: Finding Peace in His Presence, Christine Hoy invites you into the vine-and-branch imagery of John 15 and Jesus’ radical invitation to abide. This isn’t about adding more spiritual disciplines to your busy life. It’s about discovering what it means to remain, to let your connection with Jesus become as natural as breathing.
A branch doesn’t strive to produce fruit. It simply stays connected to the vine and receives what it needs. That’s the kind of faith Jesus is inviting you into, one where His presence becomes the foundation from which everything else flows.
Christine guides you from invitation to practice, through the obstacles that pull you away, and into the quiet fruit that grows when you learn to stay close:
- The Invitation to Abide — Understanding Jesus’ heart for companionship, not just compliance
- Practices of Abiding — Prayer as presence, Scripture as home, and the surprising role of community
- Obstacles to Abiding — Working through the divided heart, busy seasons, and spiritual winter
- The Fruit of Abiding — Becoming someone who naturally draws others toward Jesus
Christine writes with the warmth of a trusted friend who’s walked this path herself, from performance-driven faith to the peace of genuine companionship with Jesus. Each chapter includes a “Presence-Seeking Practice” to help you experience what you’re reading, not just understand it.
This book is perfect for any woman ready to move from managing her relationship with Jesus to being captivated by Him.
Ready to discover what it means to keep company with Jesus? Order your copy of Keeping Company with Jesus today and step into the freely and lightly life He’s been offering all along.
What Readers Are Saying
If your soul feels depleted by the weight of performance, read Keeping Company with Jesus. This is a book I will return to again and again—and press into the hands of every woman I know who wants to grow in her faith.
Reading this book was like releasing a long, deep exhale—one I didn’t even realize I’d been holding onto. Each chapter felt like a wave of peace washing over my tired soul. This book feels like coming home.
If your quiet time has become more task than conversation, this book will gently lead you back.
I actually felt myself relax as I read this book, every page leading me away from striving and towards what I was created for—abiding with Jesus. This is not a book about doing better, it’s an invitation to simply be loved.
Christine reminds us that intimacy with Jesus is not a transaction to complete, but a relationship to enter fully. This book is a refreshing breath for the soul.
A Letter from Christine
Dear Reader,
When I finished writing Peace Beyond Perfection, I thought I had said everything I needed to say about rest and surrender. But as I began to experience that peace more deeply, a new question emerged: If I’m not striving anymore, what am I doing instead?
That question led me straight to John 15 and Jesus’ invitation to abide—to remain, to stay close, to let nearness itself be the practice. I discovered that there’s something even more beautiful than finding peace: learning to keep company with the One who is our peace.
This book was born from that discovery. It’s about moving from managing your relationship with Jesus to being captivated by Him. From spiritual disciplines that feel like obligation to practices that feel like coming home.
If you love Jesus but feel exhausted from going through the motions, if your soul feels like a phone perpetually at 15%, or if you’re simply hungry for the “more” that Jesus promises, this book is for you.
My hope is that these pages will guide you into the unhurried, life-giving companionship that Jesus has been offering all along—the kind that transforms everything without adding anything to your already-full life.
With love,
Christine