Christmas Poems by Christina Joy Hommes
Enjoy these Christmas poems that celebrate the birth and incarnation of our glorious Savior Jesus Christ – Emmanuel.
A Birthday Gift for Jesus
A Birthday Gift for Jesus
What can I give to Jesus
For Christmastime this year –
A birthday gift for Someone
So holy, kind, and dear?
What’s on the Savior’s wish list
That I could choose to do
To show His love to others
And tell Him “I love You”?
Perhaps an act of kindness
In His behalf today
To bless a weary pilgrim
And help them on their way.
Or maybe time or treasure
That’s given in His Name
Would pass along His goodness
And showcase why He came.
Lord, help me think of something
To make Your birthday bright –
A birthday gift for Jesus
That brings You true delight.
Christina Joy Hommes
Come, See! The God of Heaven
Come, see! The God of heaven
Is walking on this earth;
The angels He created
Announce His humble birth.
Come, see! The God of heaven
Is healing blind and lame
And making friends of outcasts
Who call upon His Name.
Come, see! The God of heaven
Is dying on the tree –
The innocent found guilty
To pardon you and me.
Come, see! The God of heaven
Is rising from the grave
Exalted and triumphant
To prove His pow’r to save.
Come, see! The God of heaven
Ascending to His throne
To intercede forever
For those He calls His own.
Come, see! The God of heaven
Is coming back to reign
With all His saints who follow
Exultant in His train.
Come, see! The God of heaven
Is making all things new.
Our King and our Redeemer
We bring our praise to You!
Christina Joy Hommes
A Christmas Invitation
A Christmas Invitation
The Christmas star is shining bright
To lead us to the place
Where Jesus came and lived with us
To save us by His grace.
The angels tell the joyful news
That Christ our Savior came
To offer peace to everyone
Who trusts His holy Name.
The shepherds call us all to come
And worship Him today,
To trust the One who came and died
To wash our sins away.
The Child Himself invites us each
To come so we’ll receive
His gift of love and endless life
For all who will believe.
So won’t you come and turn from sin
To trust in Christ alone?
He died and rose to save your soul
So you can be His own.
Christina Joy Hommes
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A Childhood Memory
A Childhood Memory
I saw those old Brach’s peppermints
This Christmas at the store –
The tears began and took me back
Through recollection’s door.
I seemed to see dear farmer Hann
In boots and coveralls
Come walking up beside me there
As in the old church halls.
Where every week he’d search me out
And say these words I hear:
Just, “Jesus loves you, I do too.”
So simple yet so clear.
He’d search that big, deep pocket through
To find a mint for me –
His words were etched in red and white
Upon my heart, you see.
You never know how God can use
A simple act of love
To touch a heart, to shape a life,
To point a soul above.
Christina Joy Hommes
Based on a true story I heard
What Is Christmas?
What Is Christmas?
The wonder of a baby
So tiny, sweet, and new,
Of angels gladly singing –
The Savior’s here for you!
The joy of startled shepherds
To hear the Lord was near,
Of Mary, now a mother,
Who held a Son so dear.
The love of God to send us
His only Son that day,
Of Jesus to be willing
To come to us that way.
The peace that Christ was bringing
To those once lost in sin,
Of knowing God can welcome
Repentant sinners in.
The spirit of that Christmas
Can still be ours today
If we will stop to wonder
To worship, sing, and pray.
Christina Joy Hommes
Is He Welcome?
Is He Welcome?
The inn was full and busy,
But somewhere in a stall
They made a space to welcome
The Savior for us all.
The world seems far too busy
To welcome Him today,
The noted, rich, and famous
Have turned the Lord away.
But if we’ll make Him welcome,
He’ll take us as His own
To dwell with us forever
And make our hearts His throne.
Christina Joy Hommes
Emmanuel Is with Us
Emmanuel Is with Us
Emmanuel is with us –
He came on Christmas day
To be our Friend and Savior
And wash our sins away.
Emmanuel is with us –
He comes to us each day
To bring us grace and favor
And hear us when we pray.
Emmanuel is with us –
He’ll come again someday
To bring His own dear children
To heaven’s home to stay.
Emmanuel is with us –
Are we with Him today
To worship and adore Him
And walk with Him each day?
Christina Joy Hommes
“Behold, a virgin shall be with child,
and shall bring forth a son,
and they shall call His name Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is, God with us.”
Matthew 1:23
The Christmas Star
The Christmas Star
When Christ was born in Bethlehem
A shining star appeared
That led the wise men from the east
Who wondered, hoped, and feared.
It led them to the very place
Through desert heat and cold
Right to the house in Bethlehem
As Micah had foretold.
It led them on until they saw
The child Himself, the King,
With joyful hearts they worshiped Him
And gave Him everything.
They gave Him gold – a royal gift,
They gave Him myrrh – death’s sign,
They also gave Him frankincense –
To show that He’s divine.
Now we’ve received the Morning Star,
As Christ is called today;
We’ll see Him too if, like those men,
We follow all the way.
Christina Joy Hommes
“I Jesus am … the bright and morning star.” Revelation 22:16
Thank You for Christmas
Thank You for Christmas
Thank you, Lord, for Christmas –
For coming down to earth
And telling us the story
About Your lowly birth.
Thank you, Lord, for living
As one of us – our own –
And facing all the troubles
To which we’re all so prone.
Thank you, Lord, for dying
To pay our debt from sin,
To give us peace and mercy
And make us clean within.
Thank you, Lord for rising
To give us life above
And joy and hope in knowing
Your never-ending love.
Thank you, Lord, for Christmas –
For coming down to me
To make me Yours in kindness
For all eternity.
Christina Joy Hommes
Contrasts
Contrasts
Born in a cattle stall
Though He was earth’s Creator
And ruled from heaven’s hall.
He came to live among us
And share our pain and tears
Though He was Lord of nations
The God of endless years.
He came to be rejected
By those He loved to death
Though He was King of glory
And gave each person breath.
He came to die like sinners
To take our guilt and sin
Though He was true and sinless
Completely pure within.
He came to rise immortal
The firstfruits from the grave;
Though He was life’s Composer
He died and rose to save.
He came to be our Savior,
Our Brother, Lord, and Friend
So we would love and trust Him
Whose mercy has no end.
Christina Joy Hommes