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 is a joyful hymn that calls believers to celebrate God's goodness with grateful hearts.

Canticle of Thanksgiving (Jubilate) celebrates the joy of praising God with grateful hearts.

Canticle of the Holy Trinity is a hymn of joyful praise celebrating God's sovereign rule and faithful care over creation.

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 one of the most concise and durable expressions of Christian praise in English hymnody.

Father of Lights is a hymn or worship song centered on the biblical portrayal of God as the source of all goodness truth and illumination.

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.

Great Spirit, Now I Pray is a hymn that reflects the intersection of Christian faith and Indigenous expressions of reverence for the Creator.

His Gifts is a modern Thanksgiving hymn that reflects on the good things God gives and the saving gifts revealed in Christ.

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

Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee is a hymn of exuberant praise that celebrates the joy rooted in the character and generosity of God.

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

Mountains Are All Aglow is a hymn of thanksgiving that celebrates the beauty of the autumn landscape and the generosity of God's provision.

My God, I Thank Thee is a hymn of gratitude that invites believers to begin each day with praise for God's goodness revealed in creation and daily life.

Now Thank We All Our God is one of the most beloved hymns of thanksgiving in the Christian tradition.

O God in Heaven is a hymn that reflects the growing movement of contextual Christian hymnody in Asia during the twentieth century.

Praise and Thanksgiving Be to God is a hymn of gratitude celebrating God's generosity and sustaining care.

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 a joyful hymn of worship written by Charles Wesley during the eighteenth century Methodist revival.

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty is a triumphant hymn of adoration that summons the whole self to bless God as creator and sustainer.

Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven is one of the most beloved hymns of Christian praise.

There Shall Be Showers of Blessing is a gospel hymn of prayerful expectation.