50 Best Worship Songs About Heaven
Top Worship Songs That Point Toward Heaven
There’s something strange that happens when a song starts talking about heaven, not in the floaty, golden-harp kind of way, but in the tired-hands, worn-heart, eyes-fixed kind of way. It lands differently when you’ve hit your limit. When prayers feel heavy. When your feet are dragging but your mind keeps drifting somewhere lighter, someplace that holds the ache without numbing it. These songs don’t aim for perfect theology or polished comfort. They reach for something beyond this mess but drag all the mess along with them. And sometimes that’s exactly what makes them hit.
These tracks don’t all shimmer with churchy sweetness. Some sound cracked. Some carry that Sunday night fatigue where hope feels more like hanging on by a thread than singing in triumph. A few of them are barely holding it together, which makes them feel closer than all the polished anthems in the world. There’s a weariness under the surface, a sense that the longing isn’t new, it’s lived-in, baked into every note. And when that chorus swells, it doesn’t rush to a neat resolve. It lingers in the tension. That’s where it gets real.
It’s not all hushed choirs and cathedral echoes either. A few lean into gritty guitar lines, others thread through stripped-down piano or folk-inflected verses. You’ll find hints of the same honesty that’s laced through pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that stare down sorrow with something like defiance. These worship songs reach for the eternal without skipping past the pain of the present. Here are the ones that carry that ache and still look upward.
Top 10 Heaven Songs
1. 'I Can Only Imagine'—MercyMe
2. 'Hymn of Heaven'—Phil Wickham
3. 'Heaven Song'—Phil Wickham
4. 'When We All Get to Heaven'—Traditional Hymn
5. 'Soon and Very Soon'—Andraé Crouch
6. 'There Will Be a Day'—Jeremy Camp
7. 'Scars in Heaven'—Casting Crowns
8. 'One Day (When We All Get To Heaven)'—Matt Redman
9. 'Here As In Heaven'—Elevation Worship
10. 'Touch Of Heaven'—Hillsong Worship
Best Heavenly Worship Music #11—20
11. 'I Will Rise'—Chris Tomlin
12. 'Heaven Come'—Bethel Music & Jenn Johnson
13. 'What An Awesome God'—Phil Wickham
14. 'King Of Kings'—Hillsong Worship
15. 'Even So Come'—Passion (feat. Kristian Stanfill)
16. 'People of Heaven'—Phil Wickham
17. 'Heaven Is My Home'—Gaither Vocal Band
18. 'New Jerusalem'—Twila Paris
19. 'I'll Fly Away'—Traditional Hymn
20. 'Worthy'—Elevation Worship
Worship Songs About Eternal Life #21—30
21. 'Build Your Kingdom Here'—Rend Collective
22. 'Spirit Break Out'—Kim Walker-Smith
23. 'Heart Like Heaven'—Hillsong Young & Free
24. 'Within Your Love'—Hillsong Worship
25. 'What He's Done'—Passion
26. 'Mighty To Save'—Hillsong Worship
27. 'Living Hope'—Phil Wickham
28. 'Revelation Song'—Kari Jobe
29. 'Holy Holy Holy (Nicaea)'—John Bacchus Dykes
30. 'The Solid Rock'—Edward Mote
Songs About Heaven's Hope #31—40
31. 'Be Thou My Vision'—Traditional Hymn
32. 'O Come O Come Emmanuel'—Traditional Hymn
33. 'Heaven Came Down'—John W. Peterson
34. 'Mansion on a Hilltop'—Ira Stanphill
35. 'Surely Goodness and Mercy'—John W. Peterson
36. 'When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder'—James M. Black
37. 'Welcome Home'—Michael W. Smith
38. 'Dancing with the Angels'—Monk & Neagle
39. 'It Is Not Death to Die'—Sovereign Grace Music
40. 'On My Way Home'—The Booth Brothers
Heavenly Christian Music #41—50
41. 'When the Tears Fall'—Tim Hughes
42. 'You Hold Me Now'—Hillsong Worship
43. 'I See Heaven'—Jesus Culture
44. 'Save a Place for Me'—The Booth Brothers
45. 'Heaven's Song'—Jason Upton
46. 'Face to Face'—Hymn
47. 'A Place Called Earth'—Selah
48. 'No One Like Jesus'—Matt Redman
49. 'Acquired in Heaven'—Shane & Shane
50. 'I'm Going Home'—Bill & Gloria Gaither
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