Hymns to Sing During Easter Besides “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today!”

Christ Is Risen! Shout Hosanna! (HYMN TO JOY)

Brian Wren, 1984

Christ is risen! Earth and heaven
Nevermore shall be the same.
Break the bread of new creation
Where the world is still in pain.
Tell its grim, demonic chorus:
“Christ is risen! Get you gone!”
God the First and Las is with us.
Sing Hosanna everyone!

Because You Live, O Christ (VRUECHTEN)
Shirley Erena Murray, 1987

The stone has rolled away
And death cannot imprison!
O sing this Easter day,
For Jesus Christ has risen,
Has risen, has risen, has risen!

Hymn of Promise (PROMISE)
Natalie Sleeth, 1986

In our end is our beginning;
In our time, infinity;
In our doubt there is believing;
In our life, eternity.
In our death, a resurrection;
At the last, a victory,
Unrevealed until its season,
Something God alone can see.

Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia (MFURAHINI, HALELUYA)
Bernard Kyamanywa, 1966; trans. Howard S. Olson, 1969

Christ has arisen to set us free.
Alleluia, to him praises be.
Jesus is living! Let us all sing;
He reigns triumphant, heavenly King.

These Things Did Thomas Count as Real (Singin’ Billy tune, KEDRON)
Thomas H. Troeger, 1984

May we, O God, by grace believe
And thus the risen Christ receive,
Whose raw imprinted hands reached out
And beckoned Thomas from his doubt.