by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Featured Poems, Good Friday Poems About the Cross, Gospel Poems
Where all My Hopes Are Built Yes, I deserve to die, My sin condemns my soul; And by myself I can’t escape Or shake its full control. But Jesus died for me – He took my sin and guilt, He paid my debt upon the cross Where all my hopes are built. Now I am free...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Easter Poems for Resurrection Day, Good Friday Poems About the Cross, Gospel Poems
He Faced the Cross for Me He took my sin and faced the cross Then counted gain what first was loss; He saw the joy that pain obscured, And endless life through death secured. Though He was rich, He came here poor, The God that sinners would ignore; Though He was...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Gospel Poems, Christian Poetry, Easter Poems for Resurrection Day, Good Friday Poems About the Cross
The Nail Prints in His Hands His hands and feet still bear the marks From hanging on the tree; The nail-scars tell a silent tale That speaks to you and me. They mark humiliation’s day When Jesus bore our sin; In lonely shame He died for us That we might enter...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Easter Poems for Resurrection Day, Good Friday Poems About the Cross
(Abbreviated version below full poem.) Seeing Jesus at the Cross I see Him in the Garden bowed In agony to pray, “Lord, if you can, remove this cup, But do your will I pray.” I see Him in His captor’s hands As gentle as a Lamb, Though He had just displayed His...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Good Friday Poems About the Cross, Gospel Poems
Displayed at the Cross The Cross displays the love of Christ So deep and broad and high – He showed the greatest love of all In coming here to die. The Cross displays the grace of God So rich and full and free – In giving us His only Son The greatest grace we see. The...
