Because He Lives
Bill & Gloria’s best-known song — “Because He lives, I can face tomorrow.”
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” — John 5:39
The song of the crusade, the camp meeting and the tent revival — Bill & Gloria Gaither and their Homecoming friends, Jimmy Swaggart at the piano, the worship of Benny Hinn’s miracle crusades, and Keith Green, the prophet at the piano. Every song stands at its maker’s own door on YouTube and plays right here on the page; nothing is hosted here. “And they sung a new song.” — Revelation 5:9
Bill & Gloria Gaither wrote the songs a generation of the church learned by heart, and the Gaither Vocal Band and the Homecoming friends made them ring. Every video here is from the Gaithers’ own channel.
Bill & Gloria’s best-known song — “Because He lives, I can face tomorrow.”
The Gaither Vocal Band: “Then the hand of Jesus touched me, and now I am no longer the same.”
“Jesus, Jesus, Jesus — there’s just something about that name.”
The marketplace is empty, no more traffic in the streets — the King is coming.
The battle on Golgotha’s hill, and the cry that ended the conflict.
Revelation sung: “He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.”
The white-robed multitude of Revelation 7 — “these are they which came out of great tribulation.”
“Jesus’ blood can make the vilest sinner clean.”
Jimmy Lee Swaggart (1935–2025) was born in Ferriday, Louisiana, and began preaching full-time in 1955. Before the crowds ever heard him preach, they heard him sing: at the piano, with that rolling left hand and a voice that could carry a camp meeting, he made the gospel song itself a sermon. From the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, his music went out by radio, television and record to the ends of the earth, and his recordings sold in the millions around the world.
“And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.” — Psalm 40:3
For seventy years he sang of the Saviour he preached — of the river of God, of the Healer, and of the home beyond this world. Brother Swaggart passed away on July 1, 2025, in Baton Rouge, at ninety years of age. The piano is silent now, but the songs remain, and they still point where he always pointed: to Jesus. We thank God for the music, and we commend it to you here.
His signature song — the river that makes glad the city of God, from his own SonLife Broadcasting Network.
Sung live — his prayer for the free flow of the Holy Spirit.
Sung live — the Name above every name, the way he loved to sing it.
Sung live — the blind man’s testimony in song: he washed my eyes with tears, that I might see.
Sung on crusade in Port Elizabeth, South Africa — mercy rewrote the story of his life, and of multitudes who heard him.
From the 2025 JSM Camp Meeting — sung at ninety, in the last year of his life.
Sung live — the old gospel favourite he carried at the piano for decades.
Sung live — the love of God, richer measure, sung the old way.
Sung on crusade in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Jimmy Lee Swaggart and Jerry Lee Lewis together — first cousins from Ferriday, Louisiana, singing the gospel they grew up on.
A crusade-era performance, preserved by the Our God Reigns channel — the Great Physician, now is near.
A crusade-era performance, preserved by the Our God Reigns channel — fill my cup, Lord, I lift it up, Lord.
A crusade-era performance, preserved by the Our God Reigns channel — just a closer walk with Thee.
Brother Swaggart at the piano, with the Family Worship Center musicians — an instrumental goodbye to the world.
His recording of the Doris Akers classic, from his official album channel.
His recording of the Gaither song, from his official album channel — shackled by a heavy burden, then the hand of Jesus touched him.
Worship from Benny Hinn’s crusades and albums — the sound of the miracle crusades, where thousands sing to the Lord together. Set one playing in the morning with the Worship and Prayer Alarm.
Benny Hinn’s official worship album — an atmosphere of worship for healing, from Benny Hinn Ministries.
Worship from the historic Atlanta crusade, Good Friday 2010.
A set of Benny Hinn worship songs — the very set chosen for the university’s morning wake-up.
Keith Green (1953–1982) sang like a prophet and played like a concert pianist — no compromise, no token prayers. He gave his albums away for whatever people could pay, preached between the songs, and was gone at twenty-eight. These are his best-known songs, from his own recordings.
His prayer of pure worship — “Oh Lord, You’re beautiful, Your face is all I seek.”
Written by his wife Melody — the modern hymn of the Lamb for sinners slain.
His testimony in song: like waking up from the longest dream.
Psalm 51 set to music — David’s prayer after his fall, word for word.
“No empty words and no white lies, no token prayers, no compromise.”
“Rushing wind, blow through this temple, blowing out the dust within.”
Annie Herring’s resurrection song, sung the way only Keith sang it — “Christ is risen from the dead!”
“Lord, the feelings are not the same — I know Your mercies never change.”
Luke 15 told whole at the piano — twelve minutes, the son, the father, and the homecoming.
Paul’s war within, sung honestly: the good I would, I do not.