Choral anthems are stirring rally-cries of faith. These songs have become the anthems of choirs across the United States and the world. These are the most popular choral anthems downloaded from PraiseCharts in 2020. Sing one of these with your church choir this weekend!

Easter Sunday is probably the biggest day of the year for church choirs around the world. While this year might look different, choirs are still preparing for Easter Sunday in different ways. For all your virtual choir needs, here are the choir sheets and sheet music for our Top 100 Easter Choral Worship Anthems to sing with your church family this Easter, whatever it may look like!

Blessed is our Lord. A Father of comfort, a provider of peace. With warmth and waiting, He beckons us to come with our heavy laden, and He replaces our weight with His rest. As His Spirit intercedes our mourning, His love abides within the moments where our flesh fails us. It is a gift to be so graciously met by Him. Here is a list of songs focusing on this ever-present comfort.

The standard of righteousness is God, and if we are in Christ, our righteousness is Jesus' own, imputed to us. "That I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. Philippians 3:8b-9. Here is a list of songs about righteousness.

Assurance in the Christian life is two-fold. Our assurance of salvation comes from Christ’s saving work that purchased and granted to us and keeps the fulfillment of all his promises to us (2 Peter 1:4.) Our assurance of faith that Hebrews 10 speaks of is both a gift of God and something we must grow. It comes from walking through trials, conflict, sorrow, hardship that refines, strengthens and deepens our trust in God. Here are songs about assurance.

While walking in beautiful South Carolina along the May River, where majestic Oak trees form canopies over the walkways, I took in the spectacular views. With each breath as I walked, I felt my entire nervous system settle. With each step, each intake of breath, I entered further into a place of rest. I whispered a prayer of gratitude for this time of rest. Finding rest is not easy.   Biblical resting isn't a call to stop moving but an inclination towards settling on the inside. If you are prone to anxiety, you are well acquainted with the internal energetic waves or a sense of constant churning. Author Bonnie Gray calls rest emotional honesty. We go to Him as we are...our tired, worn-out selves. We can be ourselves at best or ourselves at worst and invited close regardless.    "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:28   Our Difference-Maker We have the confident assurance that Christ in us is how we can enter fully into rest. He is the difference-maker. He is our how and our why: How we find peace amidst the heartache? Why we can rise from the ash heap and the reason we carry on through our weaknesses; the double-edged sword of the Kingdom. He is my strength when I am weak. His presence brings peace in the middle of my storms.    Not in our strength alone, but because of who He is in us—Christ in us, the hope of glory. As chosen by God, we are loved by the Father and fully restored to Him through the cross. He has created us; we are His workmanship...our identity in Him is one we can rest in without striving to prove ourselves or getting lost in climbing up the ladder of success. We can rest in Him.    Go and Dwell "Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty." - Psalm 91:1   We are invited to dwell in the shelter of the Most High and go to Him to be for rest. Go and dwell. Dwell means to live in a specified place, to think, speak or write at length about a particular subject. We take our whole selves somewhere to remain. We don't pop in now and again…we dwell, remain, and linger longer.    Tim Challies, a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Ontario, and co-founder of Cruciform Press interviewed Richard Thompson and Jonny Robinson of CityAlight about their new music:   "Our most recent hymn "Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me" took us 12 weeks to write. We dove deep into the idea of what it meant to have Christ dwell in us. What an incredibly profound, mysterious truth. It needed time. We wrote and rewrote the songs many, many times. We struggled for every word. If there are any songwriters reading this, we would encourage you to slow down. Your songs will be richer for it."   Find rest in your writing. Slow down and notice God's presence surrounds you. Speak from that place of emotional honesty.    "Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me" was written by Jonny Robinson, Michael Farren, and Rich Thompson, and performed by CityAlight.   Tracey Dahl, M.A. is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) at Shoreline Counselling in Langley, BC (Canada). She is married to Ryan Dahl (Founder of PraiseCharts) and the mother of four grown children.