by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Good Friday Poems About the Cross, Gospel Poems
He Bore the Cross for Me Oh, what a lot of suffering My Jesus bore for me – How deep His anguished misery Upon that awful tree! He bore my sin with all its guilt Alone upon that day; He drank the wrath that I deserved And felt God turn away. He felt the scourge, the...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Gospel Poems, Christian Poetry, Good Friday Poems About the Cross, Poems for the Christian Life
What Jesus Makes of Me Who knows the mighty power Of Jesus’ precious blood Shed freely for my pardon A perfect cleansing flood? Its power takes a sinner Defiled and stained with sin And makes him pure and holy At peace with God within. Its power takes a beggar...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Gospel Poems, Christian Poetry, Good Friday Poems About the Cross
To Make a Sinner Clean He died, the holy Lamb of God, Upon the cross of shame To pardon all who by His grace Will call upon His Name. He took the guilt that was my own And died on my account; My sin was nailed to Calvary – Too long a list to count. He bore God’s...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Good Friday Poems About the Cross
Romans 5:6-8 How great Christ’s love to die for me His enemy through sin! I cannot thank Him fittingly For changing me within. For scarcely for a righteous man Would someone dare to die, But it was in God’s gracious plan My life with His to buy. For when I...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Easter Poems for Resurrection Day, Good Friday Poems About the Cross
My Savior took my place and died – He gave His life for me. His precious blood to me applied Has made me ever free. For on the cross my sin was laid Upon God’s perfect Son; The sinless One for me was made As if my sin He’d done. My record, black with guilt...
