by Christina Joy Hommes | Praising the Lord, Christian Poetry, Featured Poems, Poems for Holidays
A Summer Morning The birds are sweetly singingThe praises of their King,The breeze is gently bringingTheir tune to everything. The sun is warmly greetingWhatever it can find,The moon and stars retreatingSeem glad to be outshined. With unassuming beautyThe flowers...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Poems for the Christian Life, Christian Poetry, Featured Poems, Poems to Pray
If You Can Use Me If You can use these hands of mineTo do Your work each day,Then take them, Lord, and keep them tooTo build Your work, I pray. If You can use these lips of mineTo speak Your words of love,Then take them, Lord, and keep them, too,For words that point...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry
Free I am no more a slave of sin Since Jesus set me free; He broke the chains that held me in, He made my blind eyes see. Once I was bound to serve the flesh, Its passions I obeyed; Now Christ’s commands my soul refresh, My debts are fully payed. My feet were headed...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Poems about Eternity
Then, with a flash of glory, He’ll burst upon our sight, And we will all behold Him In raptures of delight. For in His blinding glory We’ll find ourselves transformed – Made lastingly immortal, Like Him at last re-formed. O what a day of glory! O...
by Christina Joy Hommes | Christian Poetry, Poems for the Christian Life
I’m on the King’s business, His servant am I, Selected by Jesus To serve the Most High. How could I be bothered Or find it a chore? The least task takes meaning From Whom it is for. Each duty is joyful, Each burden is light, Since serving my Sovereign Is such a...