Hymns Based on Hebrews 4:16

“And Can It Be” is a hymn of astonishment before the grace of God in Jesus Christ.

Approach, My Soul, the Mercy Seat is John Newton's hymn for a believer who knows both the need to pray and the difficulty of approaching God with a burdened conscience.

Christ Is Alive is an Easter hymn that insists the resurrection belongs to the present tense.

“Come, Ye Disconsolate” is a hymn for people who do not need their suffering minimized.

Dare to Be Brave, Dare to Be True is a late-Victorian Christian character hymn that links courage with integrity, resistance to sin, dependence on divine help, and practical concern for vulnerable people.

Does Jesus Care? is an early twentieth-century gospel hymn built around one of pastoral ministry's most persistent questions: whether Christ's care remains personal and dependable when suffering becomes difficult to explain.

Grace Greater Than Our Sin is an American gospel hymn about the superabundance of divine grace in the face of real human guilt.

Heal Us, Emmanuel, Hear Our Prayer is a hymn of hesitant but persistent faith.

Hear Thou in Love is a two-line congregational prayer response rather than a conventional multi-stanza hymn.

How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds is John Newton's devotional meditation on the identity and saving work gathered into the name of Jesus.

I Must Tell Jesus is a gospel hymn of prayerful dependence on Christ in the ordinary pressures of Christian life.

I Need Thee Every Hour is a gospel hymn of continual dependence on Christ.

I Remember When My Burdens Rolled Away is a testimony song built around remembered deliverance.

Jesus Remember Me is a short Taizé prayer song built around the appeal of the repentant criminal in Luke 23:42.

Jesus, Where'er Thy People Meet turns the opening of a meeting room into a confession about the church itself.

Kyrie eleison is the ancient Greek acclamation meaning “Lord, have mercy.

Lord Have Mercy is the title used for James A.

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days is Claudia Frances Hernaman’s five-stanza Lenten prayer built around Christ’s forty-day fast and temptation in the wilderness.

Nobody Knows the Trouble I See is an African American spiritual in which lament and praise occupy the same song.

O Hear Our Prayer, O Lord Our God is a short congregational prayer response used in the worship life of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines.

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.

O Thou, in Whose Presence is a hymn of longing for Christ that joins personal prayer with the richly figurative language of the Song of Solomon.

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior is a gospel hymn of urgent prayer and humble dependence on Christ.

Remember Me is a very brief traditional Christian prayer song whose spiritual force comes from direct petition rather than extended narrative.

Softly Now the Light of Day is George Washington Doane’s 1824 evening hymn, originally published in Songs by the Way.

Sweet Hour of Prayer is a devotional hymn about the privilege, consolation, and persistence of Christian prayer.

Tell It to Jesus is a late-nineteenth-century gospel hymn built around a direct pastoral counsel: bring sorrow, guilt, anxiety, mortality, and hope to Christ in prayer.

This early twentieth-century gospel hymn portrays prayer as hospitable communion with Jesus Christ.

We Bear the Strain of Earthly Care is a compact hymn about Christian discipleship in the middle of ordinary work.

“What a Friend We Have in Jesus” is a nineteenth-century hymn about prayer under pressure.