Hymns Based on John 8:12

A Candle Is Burning is Sandra Dean's 1986 song for the lighting of the Advent wreath.

An Invitation to Christ is a brief translated prayer attributed to Dimitri of Rostov, not a metrical hymn with a documented tune.

Arise, Shine Out, Your Light Has Come is Brian Arthur Wren's 1986 hymn inspired by Isaiah 60 and its vision of a radiant restored city drawing the nations toward God's glory.

As with Gladness Men of Old is an Epiphany hymn by William Chatterton Dix that turns the journey of the Magi into a pattern for Christian discipleship.

“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.

Beams of Heaven as I Go is Charles Albert Tindley's gospel hymn of pilgrimage, struggle, and durable hope.

Blessed Be the God of Israel is Michael Perry's metrical paraphrase of the Benedictus, Zechariah's prophetic song in Luke 1:68-79.

“Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy,” also widely known by the heading “Let the Lower Lights Be Burning,” is a gospel song about the relationship between God's saving mercy and the church's responsibility to bear faithful witness.

Christ Is the World's Light is a compact modern hymn about the uniqueness of Christ and the way his identity reshapes Christian worship and witness.

Christ, Mighty Savior is an evening hymn built around the Christian symbolism of light and darkness.

Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies is one of Charles Wesley’s most concentrated prayers for the light of Christ to become an inward reality.

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.

Hope of the World is a twentieth-century prayer hymn that addresses Christ as the church’s true hope in the midst of conflict, hunger, moral failure, suffering, and death.

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say is a hymn of invitation and response built from several of Christ’s most recognizable Gospel promises.

Kathleen Armstrong Thomerson's 1966 hymn is a first-person prayer of discipleship shaped by the biblical contrast between light and darkness.

Lead, Kindly Light is a prayer of trust for people who must move forward without seeing the whole course ahead.

O Gladsome Light brings one of Christianity's oldest surviving patterns of evening praise into a compact English hymn.

O Splendor of God's Glory Bright is an English form of the ancient Latin morning hymn Splendor paternae gloriae, a text widely accepted as the work of Ambrose of Milan.

Sun of My Soul, Thou Savior Dear is an evening hymn centered on the abiding presence of Christ.

“Sunlight,” beginning “I wandered in the shades of night,” is a late nineteenth-century gospel song of Christian testimony by Judson W.

The Light of God Is Falling brings Christian discipleship into the ordinary places of life.

Philip Paul Bliss's 1875 gospel song centers on one of the Gospel of John's most important Christological images: Jesus as the light of the world.

“There Is Sunshine in My Soul Today” is a late nineteenth-century gospel song centered on Christian joy as a gift rooted in Jesus Christ.

This Little Light of Mine is an African American sacred song whose power lies in turning a small image into a public vocation.

“Walking in Sunlight All of My Journey,” historically published under the title “Heavenly Sunlight,” is a gospel hymn of Christian assurance built around the biblical image of light.