Hymns Based on Ephesians 3:17

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.

“Awake, O Sleeper” is a modern Scripture-shaped hymn in which Francis Bland Tucker gathers language from Ephesians into a call from spiritual death and darkness toward the life and light of Christ.

Come Down, O Love Divine is Richard Frederick Littledale's 1867 English translation and reshaping of a late-medieval Italian prayer by Bianco da Siena.

Come, Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire is first of all a prayer for illumination.

Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove is Isaac Watts's prayer for inward renewal by the Holy Spirit.

“Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life” is a sung prayer drawn from George Herbert’s poem “The Call.

This gospel hymn presents Christian conversion as the beginning of continuing spiritual formation.

Father of Lights is a four-stanza American hymn of praise, Christian unity, and service written by Elizabeth Wilson and Helen Thoburn for the Young Women’s Christian Association in 1913.

His Love Is Far Better Than Gold is an early twentieth-century gospel song by Alfred Henry Ackley, who wrote both its words and music.

Holy Spirit, Come, Confirm Us is William Brian Foley's four-stanza prayer for the continuing work of the Holy Spirit in Christian faith and community.

Jesu, Thy Boundless Love to Me is a prayer that asks Christ’s love to occupy the whole life of the believer.

Jesus the Very Thought of Thee is Edward Caswall's nineteenth-century English rendering of verses from the medieval Latin devotional poem commonly known as Jesu dulcis memoria.

Love Divine, All Loves Excelling is a prayer for God’s transforming love to fill human life completely.

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.

More About Jesus is a late nineteenth-century gospel hymn shaped as a sustained prayer for deeper knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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.

O For a Heart to Praise My God is Charles Wesley’s prayer for the inward renewal that makes a life of praise possible.

O Jesus, Thou Art Standing is a hymn of repentance and response built around the image of Christ at a closed door.

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

“Of Jesus’ Love That Sought Me,” more commonly titled “Sweeter as the Years Go By,” is a 1912 gospel song by Lelia Naylor Morris, who wrote both its text and tune.

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

“Spirit Song” is a late twentieth-century worship song centered on Christ’s love and the renewing work of the Holy Spirit.

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

Thou Hidden Love of God is an English translation by John Wesley of Gerhard Tersteegen’s German hymn “Verborgne Gottesliebe, du.

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