Hymns Based on 2 Corinthians 5:17

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

“Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow” is Charles Wesley’s New Year hymn built around the biblical Year of Jubilee.

Christ Is Risen is Brian Wren’s 1984 Easter hymn, more fully known by its opening phrase “Christ is risen! Shout hosanna!” The text proclaims the resurrection as an event that changes the whole creation, not merely as a private source of comfort.

Christian People, Raise Your Song is a 1975 hymn by Colin Peter Thompson that brings together Holy Communion, resurrection joy, and the shared life of the church.

Freely, Freely is a short gospel song that moves from forgiveness to mission.

He Touched Me is Bill Gaither’s 1963 gospel song of conversion, release, and testimony.

Heaven Came Down is a twentieth-century gospel song built around personal testimony of conversion.

O Come and Dwell in Me is a Charles Wesley hymn of sanctifying grace that asks the Holy Spirit to make divine freedom, holiness, assurance, and Christlike life an inward reality.

Ring Out, Wild Bells is a New Year hymn drawn from Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam A.

Since Jesus Came into My Heart is a first-person gospel testimony about the change associated with conversion to Christ.

Something Beautiful is a compact gospel testimony about divine grace meeting human inadequacy.

This Is a Day of New Beginnings is a hymn about Christian renewal rooted in the saving work of Christ rather than in the mere turning of a calendar page.

Walk On, O People of God is the English form of Cesáreo Gabaráin’s Spanish hymn “Camina, pueblo de Dios,” also associated with the title “Nueva Creación.

We Know That Christ Is Raised is John Brownlow Geyer's 1967 confession of Easter faith interpreted through baptism.

“Wonderful Grace of Jesus” is a gospel hymn of exuberant praise centered on the conviction that the grace of Christ exceeds the reach of human sin.

You Have Put On Christ is a brief baptismal acclamation from the Roman Catholic Rite of Baptism for Children.