Welcome to a place where you can find encouragement for your daily walk with God!
Everything from HOPE Refined is designed to:
1) Encourage you in your daily walk with God
2) Help you share God’s love and truth with others
This is a place where you can …
• remember who God is
• renew your peace and joy in the Savior
• figure out what’s between you and God so you can get closer to Him
• equip yourself with motivation and tools to share God’s love and truth with others
This is a haven where you can remember and be refreshed so that you can …
• walk with God step by step through life
• get to know Him for yourself through His Word
• enjoy sweet fellowship with Him
• find and fulfill His purpose for your life
• grow in confidence that you are pleasing Him
• encourage and disciple other Christians
• graciously and boldly share the gospel
This is a place where …
• God is central and always exalted
• God’s Word is the basis and always trusted
• God’s way is the focus and always expected
This is a place for you to meet with the Lord.
If this sounds like the kind of place you’re looking for, then please join us …
• whether you have known the Lord for a long time or just met Him
• whether you are weary and discouraged or excited and motivated
• whether you have a minute or an hour
May you …
“taste and see that the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8)
“grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18)
“know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” (Ephesians 3:19)
“let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16)
“[look] for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13)
“magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His Name together” (Psalm 34:3)
Hi! I’m Christina Joy Hommes, a follower of Jesus Christ who loves to use words to encourage other Christians. I’m so glad you’ve come and pray that you will be refreshed, encouraged, and equipped while you’re here.
One of my favorite things to do is write beautiful, biblical resources that help Christians know God better and share His love with others. Some of the things I write include devotional poetry, Bible studies, devotionals, evangelistic tools like booklets and bookmarks, and books like Jesus Our Example.
I also take the pictures that accompany the posts on this site. I love to travel and enjoy nature photography – you might notice I especially like mountains! As I pick pictures for each post, I try to find something that reflects the message of the poem in some way.
I know that your email inbox can sometimes feel overwhelming. If you’d like to find a bright spot there, I send out an encouraging poem on Thursday or Friday each week. I’d love to have you join us!
May the Lord bless you richly and help you look for the little blessings He scatters throughout each day to remind you how well He knows you and how much He cares for you.
If you’re wondering about the name HOPE Refined …
HOPE stands for Helping One another Prepare for Eternity. This life is so short compared to eternity – it’s just a preparation time. Here we lay up treasures for eternity by getting to know God, serving Him in love, and trying to help others get to know Him and serve Him.
Refined refers to the way that the Lord wants to use everything in our lives – pleasant and difficult – to make us more like the Lord Jesus. Like a metal refiner, He is trying to get rid of what is useless and harmful so that we are pure and precious – prepared for the One we love.
Everything from HOPE Refined is designed to
1) encourage you in your daily walk with God
2) help you share God’s love and truth with others.
The resources at HOPE Refined are prayerfully created to help you keep this perspective in mind and live it in the practical moments of life …
walking with God step by step
looking for what He’s doing in your life
remembering that each moment is from and for Him
laying up treasures in heaven
helping others know the Lord and live in light of eternity.
I hope you’ll find encouragement here and come back often to spend time with the Lord and get closer to Him.
May He get all the glory!
Featured Poems
Everything from HOPE Refined is designed to:
1) Encourage you in your daily walk with God
2) Help you share God’s love and truth with others