Love songs from heaven are filling the earth

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Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Psalms 37:7-9
  • Psalms 73:3-12
  • Matthew 12:21
  • Matthew 5:14-16
  • John 1:5
  • John 3:19-21
  • John 8:12
  • Acts 4:15-20
  • Acts 5:27-32
  • Acts 7:54-60
  • Romans 12:1
  • Romans 14:7-8
  • Romans 15:12
  • Philippians 1:21-23
  • 2 Timothy 4:6-8
  • Hebrews 11:35-40
Book Number:
  • 626

Love songs from heaven are filling the earth,
bringing great hope to all nations;
evil has prospered but truth is alive
in this dark world the light still shines.

2. Nothing has silenced this gospel of Christ;
it echoes down through the ages.
Blood of the martyrs has made your church strong
in this dark world the light still shines.

For you we live
and for you we may die,
through us may Jesus be seen;
for you alone we will offer our lives,
in this dark world our light will shine.

3. Let every nation be filled with your song;
this is the cry of your people,
‘We will not settle for anything less
in this dark world, our light must shine.’

© 1996 Kingsway's Thankyou Music
Noel Richards Tricia Richards

The Church - Evangelism and Mission

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The story behind the hymn

This exuberant joint composition by Noel and Tricia Richards is dated 1996; launched at Spring Harvest, it appeared in the later MP editions (Complete MP) from 1999. The theme of the light shining in darkness, to which all 3 stzs and the refrain lead, is as old as the OT, expounded in the NT and especially prominent in the Gospel according to John. The saying that ‘the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church’, echoed in stz 2, is attributed to Tertullian but has never been more in evidence than in the later 20th c and since. The tune LOVE SONGS FROM HEAVEN is also credited equally to both writers.

A look at the author

Noel and Tricia Richards