Joey's Rainbow

A Simple Truth A simple truth Jesus proclaimed By living pure in word and name God’s plan for all in spirit find His will to do and live in kind A new order He did set forth In spirit’s truth was worships worth Heartfelt and pure the thoughts behind Each living task of human mind Christ unshod boldly traveling led Twelve fishermen from seashore head With miracles and sufferings hard God’s truth He charged them to impart In dying He revealed His love Then rising He returned above Jesus, God’s Son for mankind came From Satan’s grasp them to reclaim Disciples then and ever since Have preached our need of repentance Turn from prescribed religions way Let God’s Spirit and Truth have sway Brothers and Sisters both alike Speak freely with the Spirits guide Proclaiming truth in word and way Showing the path to brighter Day                     ...

A Life of Prayer One simple candle in window stands A flick’ring light to Dark Its motion stills nights’ pressing bands And warms the needy heart So, oft a prayer can singly move The mind to daring deed By faith in Him who hears us speak Through cloud and veil unseen Not in the rote delivery Of record   words and psalm But from the stirrings of the heart Doth God receive our call On bended knee or walking foot Christ knows his friends always From bustling town or quiet wood No distance can our prayer delay So, Christian friend and faithful all Live speaking every day In praying to our living God And walking in His way Then shall a little candle shine From out our hearts below A window to that promised World Where all in glory glow

A young child grows to learn and love Touching to feel and know Sights, sounds and light from sun above Help youth to adults go With open mind and heart we share Our gifts and love with all No strange foreigner do we know For all are friends to call Yet somehow later on in life Our minds are taught to hate Some friends are good, and others not Bias put in our pate God made our hearts with love o’er flow In every human space No gender, race or creed should be Denied by us, a place Heart’s love and kindness freely given Is how God made us be Mindless bigotry, fear and hate Clouds His truth to see Conflicts come from lusts within Showing the minds of them Who judging think themselves the best, While others live in ‘sin’. Oh may our hearts, like Christ’s, live love And tell our minds today That love is love for humankind No matter Bi, or Straight, or Gay So, then like in our childhood days Our friends are friends al...

What Did the Old Orders Keep? In days of ole when preachers sang And families bent the knee What did the fathers then portend For their children’s lives to be? The nineteenth century preyed upon with industrial pulse Most everyone, to seize with joy the New Order’s course The church foretold its doom and prayed God’s will be done while yet twas day Sunday Schools and picnics came New clothes and bonnets too Next revivals, higher institutions and Foreign missions across the blue Against these changes some who stood Were parted from the rest Planted in their proven ways They were sentenced to a test Could they keep their piety? Could they manage God’s own truth? Could they handle change without? Could they harbor true renown? The Old Order felt the World’s way Was by far a dangerous path They felt it’s evangelicalness Would soon incur God’s wrath So strong they stood for Order And hard they preached for good Long they s...

Confirmed to Be One night to Shepherds low A Babe was born to show Angels announced with Peace God with us confirmed was He In Cana’s joyful marriage hall The guests were filled with instant awe As water turned to wine, did see A miracle confirmed to be When fishing boat of men did sail And stormy sea on it prevailed Then spoke He who from Galilee Tempest stilled, all confirmed to see By waters well, in heat of day Christ with Samaritan did say “Drink of me Living Water free” Then none need be confirmed thirsty As thunder rent the skies of dark The rocks did break on hillside stark Raised on that rugged tree was He Died Christ for all confirmed to see Then Angels on the tombstone stood Gone was the cross of nail and wood Nothing of earth’s mere frailty Held back His rising confirmed free Now on through all the ages past This Truth endures in hearts to last Jesus of Nazareth, Christ to be Lord and Saviour, confirme...

                                     Christ Has arisen from the Grave On that great new grain harvest day In that long time ago Disciples met to sing and pray Seeking Christ’s will to know God’s Holy Spirit down did come Upon their bow-ed heads Like cloven fiery redden tongues Spoke they of Christ once dead From the Judea and beyond Resurrection was named As hope in a believer’s heart Who for Jesus proclaimed Ever since that empow’ring day Christians have much to say Rejoice and be exceeding glad For Heavn’s our home for aye That dreadful day of death is past Behold the morn is bright Christ has arisen from the grave And   banished sins dark night

In the Book of John, loved scribe of old We read the story of That Word Its presence and form with God before time Created all life and lighted the world In That Word was life and that life was light Shining through bewildering and blinding dark A witness did Jordan’s prophet make Believing all may have hope of heart That Word, made flesh and dwelt among Lowly creatures here below Declaring God’s grace and truth Willing His fullness to bestow That Word was Christ, who lightened humankind Each and everyone one Welcoming all who in faith believe His Spirit of Truth to receive.