Hymns Based on James 1:17

“Abide with Me” is a prayer for Christ’s continuing presence when human supports fail, circumstances change, strength diminishes, and death draws near.

All Things Bright and Beautiful is a creation hymn that teaches worshipers to move from attentive observation to praise.

All Things Come of Thee is a compact biblical offertory sentence rather than a conventional multi-stanza hymn.

Canticle of Thanksgiving (Jubilate) is not a conventional multi-stanza hymn.

This hymn is both an invitation to praise and an honest prayer for sustaining grace.

Count Your Blessings is a late nineteenth-century gospel song by Johnson Oatman Jr.

Doxology is a compact act of Christian praise traditionally associated with Thomas Ken's devotional hymns.

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.

For the Beauty of the Earth trains the worshiper to notice before it asks the worshiper to speak.

Great Is Thy Faithfulness is a hymn of thanksgiving built on a simple but demanding confession: God’s character does not fluctuate with human circumstances.

His Gifts is a ten-stanza Christian hymn written by Brian J.

Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise is Walter Chalmers Smith's meditation on the mystery and majesty of God.

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.

Morning Glory, Starlit Sky begins with the abundance of what human beings receive as gift—beauty in the created world, intellectual discovery, artistic achievement, memory, and love—but it does not remain a simple hymn of creation.

Morning Has Broken is a twentieth-century hymn of morning thanksgiving and praise for creation.

Mountains Are All Aglow is a Korean harvest hymn that turns the colors, water, fruitfulness, and labor of the autumn season into a communal act of thanksgiving.

My God, I Thank Thee is a hymn of gratitude with a deeper argument than simple thanksgiving for pleasant things.

Now Thank We All Our God is a hymn of thanksgiving that joins remembrance, petition, and doxology.

Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow, commonly called the Doxology, is a four-line act of Christian praise that grew out of Thomas Ken’s devotional hymns for students at Winchester College.

Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above is Charles Wesley’s metrical paraphrase of Psalm 150, shaped as an expansive summons to worship.

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty is a vigorous call to worship that addresses the singer's own soul and then widens the summons to the gathered people and every breathing creature.

There Shall Be Showers of Blessing is a gospel hymn built around one of Scripture’s most memorable images of divine generosity: rain falling on a land that needs life.