43 Best Christian Songs About Love

Lead Me by Sanctus Real

Song year: 2010

Sanctus Real’s Lead Me is from their Pieces of a Real Heart album. Here, a husband and father are praying to the Lord for strength to be everything his family needs him to be.

The singer is afraid he is not strong enough and that while things look good on the outside, they’re breaking on the inside. The song is about asking for guidance on leading and worrying that you’ll fail your family with your love.

Unending Love by Hillsong Worship

Song year: 2011

Hillsong Worship’s Unending Love is a Christian love song about the love of Jesus.

The song’s speaker would not trade Jesus’s love and grace for anything in the world, not jewels or success. It’s about submitting to Jesus and finding everything you need through his love.

I Will Be Here by Steven Curtis Chapman

Song year: 1989

Now from Steven Curtis Chapman’s album, More to This Life, we have I Will Be Here.

This is a song from a husband to a wife, assuring her that he will be there for her no matter what happens. If the sun doesn’t come up again, if they lose everything they had, he’ll be there.

This song is about honoring the promises of love and the examples God sets.

Reckless Love by Cory Asbury

Song year: 2017

Cory Asbury’s Reckless Love praises the love God has for him. The singer says God’s love is reckless, reasonless, and senseless. Why should he love someone unworthy? But He does it anyway.

This song says not only does God love you, but nothing can stop him from loving you or from the effects of His love reaching you.

How He Loves by David Crowder Band

Song year: 2009

The David Crowder Band’s How He Loves is about the fierceness of God’s love in the face of this turbulent life. It’s about being caught up, swirling around, and taking a minute to stop and be aware of God and His love.

Love Has a Name by Jesus Culture

Song year: 2017

Love Has a Name by Jesus Culture tells the listener that love’s name is Jesus. Everything good and right shares Jesus’ name. This a worship song full of praise and rejoicing.

It’s about recognizing what the core of love means in your faith.

Like You Love Me by Tauren Wells

Song year: 2020

From Citizen of Heaven, Like You Love Me by Tauren Wells is about God’s love being the purest biggest love. Everything God creates, He creates with love.

This song works not only as a song of love but also as a song of hope. Whenever the singer is having a challenging moment or a bad day, all he has to do is remember God’s love, and he instantly feels better.

Hold Me by Jamie Grace

Song year: 2011

Next, we have Jamie Grace’s Hold Me from her album One Song at a Time. This is another of the many Christian songs about love that would work well for a wedding. It operates on two levels and can be seen as a love song to a spouse or a song praising the Lord for His love.

The love this song portrays is a joyful, supporting, orienting, and comforting love.

Love Came Down by Brian Johnson

Song year: 2011

Brian Johnson’s Love Came Down is from the Brian Johnson and Bethel Music album, Be Lifted High. This joyous song celebrates divine love.

Through this song, the singer recognizes that God’s love has saved and freed him. Because of this love, because of all, it’s made possible, the singer is dedicating himself to God.

This speaks to the ability to recognize and appreciate love and a purpose more important than your own.

God Gave Me You by Dave Barnes

Song year: 2010

Pop Christian artist Dave Barnes released God Gave Me You on his album, What We Want, What We Get.

In this song, the singer tells his wife, his love, that she is God’s gift to him. Her love holds him together on this earth, to work with God’s love to help him deal with the roller coaster of love.

This song is a tribute to all partners who support their spouses in love and faith and make their world a better place.

Your Love Awakens Me by Phil Wickham

Song year: 2016

Phil Wickham’s Your Love Awakens Me is another Christian love song that can be interpreted as either a traditional love song or a song expressing gratitude for God’s love.

In this song, love has pulled the speaker out of darkness and woken him back into life. The love he is being given is stronger than anything that can be taken away from him. It’s about a love that is ongoing, more powerful than death.