Notable LDS-Written Hymns
that have not yet appeared in a hymnal

 
CLICK HERE to go the music section of www.LDS.org,
where they have posted many of the hymns that have appeared in the church magazines;
listed below are some that have become very popular with adults and with children:

FAITH IN EVERY FOOTSTEP, K. Newell Dayley (Goes to another website.)
THIS IS THE CHRIST, James E. Faust, Jan Pinborough, Michael F. Moody ... performed at the end of the "Testaments" movie and included on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's 2003 'Consider the Lilies' CD. (Goes to another website.)
SCRIPTURE POWER, Clive Romney (Goes to another website.)
HOLDING HANDS AROUND THE WORLD, Janice Kapp Perry (Goes to another website.)

 
I LOVE THE LORD

Text: John Sears Tanner; based on Nephi’s Psalm
Tune: “Finlandia,” Jean Sibelius (used for hymn #124 in the current LDS hymnal)
This has been sung several times in General Conference; often by a male choir

I love the Lord. In him my soul delights.
Upon his word, I ponder day and night.
He’s heard my cry, brought visions to my sleep,
And kept me safe o’er deserts and the deep.
He’s filled my heart with his consuming love,
And borne me high on wings of his great dove.

Yet oft I groan, ‘O wretched man am I!’
My flesh is weak and I’m encompassed by
A world of sin, which holds me in its thrall,
If I give in and to temptations fall.
Then strength grows slack, I waste in sorrow’s vale.
My peace destroyed, my enemies prevail.

Awake, my soul! No longer droop in sin.
Rejoice, my heart! And let me praise again
The Lord my God, who is my rock and stay
To keep me strict upon his straight, plain way.
O let me shake at the first sight of sin
And thus escape my foes without and in.

(I am not currently aware of copyright information; I will post it when I find it.
CLICK HERE to read the author's explanation about this. (Goes to another website.)
A second hymn text (written to the folk tune 'Poor Wayfaring Stranger') based on the same scripture.)

WHAT IS THIS THING THAT MEN CALL DEATH?

Text: Gordon B. Hinckley; Music: Janice Kapp Perry
CLICK HERE for sheet music.
In a 1988 General Conference address (“The Empty Tomb Bore Testimony,” Ensign, May 1988), President Hinckley recited this poem, explaining that "I penned these lines some years ago while seated in the funeral service of a friend." (How many wonderful hymn texts were so written and hidden away in journals or scrapbooks...?) Church members in general were introduced to this hymn as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang it at President Hinckley's 2008 funeral service.

What is this thing that men call death,
This quiet passing in the night?
’Tis not the end, but genesis
Of better worlds and greater light.

O God, touch Thou my aching heart,
And calm my troubled, haunting fears.
Let hope and faith, transcendent, pure,
Give strength and peace beyond my tears.

There is no death, but only change
With recompense for victory won;
The gift of Him who loved all men,
The Son of God, the Holy One.

Copyright © 2007 Gordon B. Hinckley & Janice Kapp Perry.
Photocopying permitted for non-commercial use in home or church.