Please consider this poem I was asked to write and read for a human trafficking awareness event:
My days are filled with sorrow,
With heaviness and pain,
With fear that holds me captive –
A tool of other’s gain.
Is there a friend or sister
Who hears my groans, my tears,
And cares enough to tell me
A word which ends all fears?
A word of hope that Jesus
Became a man to live
A life of shame and suffering
This hope to me to give.
A word of hope that Jesus,
Though sinless, came to die,
To bear my sin and anguish,
To suffer, hunger, sigh.
A word of hope that Jesus,
Now risen, lives above,
And that He wants to save me,
Give me His matchless love.
O sister, are you willing
To feel the pain I feel
That you might tell a sinner
Of One whose wounds can heal?
He can forgive and heal me,
His love can make me whole.
Will you reach out and tell me
The value of my soul?
Christina Joy Hommes
Why Won’t I Sin?
Cause Jesus bore each wicked stain
And hung upon the tree.
How could I make another blot
Upon His misery?
Cause Jesus walked to Calvary
Accounted sin for me,
My sin was laid on His account
Though pure and white was He.
Cause Jesus loves me, washed me white.
How could I sin when He
Has made me clean in His own blood,
From sin to set me free?
Cause Jesus and His Father say
And with the Spirit too,
That when I sin it grieves them so –
I will not sin, will you?
Christina Joy Hommes
The Wagner family is leaving for Myanmar at the end of the year. As they go, I want them to know I will be praying, so I wrote this sending off hymn for them. This is a video of the men’s quartet that sang the hymn at their commissioning service (see the text, music, or audio).
The Wagner family is leaving for Myanmar at the end of the year. As they go, I want them to know I will be praying, so I wrote this sending off hymn for them. Here is the music (see the text, audio, or video):
Open PDF –> Go Forth to Burma’s Golden Land
The Wagner family is leaving for Myanmar at the end of the year. As they go, I want them to know I will be praying, so I wrote this sending off hymn for them. Here is a simple recording of the hymn (see the text, music, video):
The Wagner family is leaving for Myanmar at the end of the year. As they go, I want them to know I will be praying, so I wrote this sending off hymn for them. Here is the text (see the music, audio, or video):
Go forth to Burma’s golden land
As bearers of the light,
As messengers of Christ our King
To those who dwell in night.
The Lord who calls you from our midst
Will surely go with you
To guide you in His grace and might
In all that you will do.
Go forth to share the gospel hope
Of God’s redeeming Word,
And take to arm you for the fight
The armor of our Lord.
When you have fought, you will prevail,
And when the battle’s done
You will receive the prize of life
An everlasting crown.
Go forth, let nothing hold you back,
As heralds of the cross,
But live and love for Jesus’ sake
With all things counted loss.
For He is faithful – cannot fail –
His foes cannot prevail,
The tears we shed this side the veil
Before those joys will pale.
Go forth in faith to yonder home
For Jesus goes as well,
And He is ever near to bless
Wherever we may dwell.
Whatever lies beyond this step
Is planned for you in love;
Here we will bear you up in prayer
Before God’s throne above.
For the Wagner Family
The Lord bless you and keep you
Christina Joy Hommes
