Hymns Based on 1 John 4:9

Above the Hills of Time is Thomas Tiplady's hymn of the cross as the enduring disclosure of God's saving love.

Ah, Dearest Jesus, Holy Child is not an independent German hymn but a three-stanza English extract from the conclusion of Martin Luther's Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her.

Jesus Loves Me began not in a hymnal but in a Victorian novel, where a teacher sings to a gravely ill child.

This hymn is a sustained act of Christian praise in which joy arises from God's character, gifts, forgiveness, and rule rather than from favorable circumstances alone.

Love Came Down at Christmas is Christina Georgina Rossetti's compact meditation on Christmas as the revelation of divine love.

Love Lifted Me is a three-stanza gospel testimony built around one controlling picture: a helpless person is being overwhelmed, hears no promise in self-rescue, and is brought to safety by the active love of Christ.

Love, Wonderful Love is a compact gospel song built around one governing conviction: God’s love becomes most clearly visible in the saving work of Christ.

O Love of God Most Full is a compact prayer that asks for divine love to become an experienced, governing reality rather than a merely stated doctrine.

O Love of God, How Strong and True is Horatius Bonar's expansive meditation on divine love as something far greater than religious sentiment.

O Thou Who Hearest Every Heartfelt Prayer is a compact sung invocation that turns the beginning of worship into an explicit act of dependence on God.

Pasko Na Naman is a Filipino Christmas carol created in 1965 by composer Felipe Padilla de Leon and lyricist Levi Celerio.

There's a Wideness in God's Mercy celebrates divine compassion as larger than the limits people habitually place upon it.

“What Wondrous Love Is This” is an anonymous American folk hymn whose central response to the gospel is astonishment.

“When Our Confidence Is Shaken” gives a congregation language for a crisis of belief without treating uncertainty as either a virtue in itself or an unforgivable failure.

Where Charity and Love Prevail is Omer Westendorf's 1961 English adaptation of the historic Latin Ubi caritas tradition, a text long associated with Christian love, unity, and the worship of Maundy Thursday.

Your Love, O God is an English translation of Anders Frostenson's 1968 Swedish hymn Guds kärlek är som stranden och som gräset.

Your Love, O God, Has Called Us Here is a modern Christian marriage hymn that begins not with romantic feeling but with the prior love of God.