Hymns Based on Matthew 5:16

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

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.

“Brighten the Corner Where You Are” is a gospel song about the spiritual importance of ordinary faithfulness.

“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.

Dear Jesus, in Whose Life I See is a brief prayer of confession and discipleship.

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.

Go, Make of All Disciples is a twentieth-century Christian mission hymn by Methodist minister and educator Leon McKinley Adkins.

God Is With Us Alleluia is a hymnal display title for Graham Kendrick’s The Candle Song, also known by its opening words, Like a Candle Flame.

Good King Wenceslas is a St.

I Sing a Song of the Saints of God is a children’s hymn about the communion of saints and the Christian calling to holiness in ordinary life.

Is Your Life a Channel of Blessing? is an early twentieth-century gospel song that joins evangelistic witness with searching self-examination.

Lord, Be Glorified is a compact contemporary worship song that turns the biblical theme of God’s glory into a repeated prayer of dedication.

Out in the Highways and Byways of Life, more commonly known by the refrain title Make Me a Blessing, is a gospel song about Christian vocation expressed through ordinary acts of witness and mercy.

Send the Light is a missionary gospel song built around a simple but demanding conviction: the good news entrusted to the church is meant to move outward.

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

You Are the Seed is the English form of Cesáreo Gabaráin’s Spanish mission hymn Sois la Semilla, also known by the refrain title Id y Enseñad.