Hillsong Worship Releases Three New Songs for Holy Is the Name Album February 2027

Jad Gillies stood in front of a congregation that had already sung the new songs before the rest of the world heard them, and he asked a question that has nothing to do with charts. If he was going to ask a congregation to sing a song, Gillies said, it needed to be not just biblically correct, but pointed at God. That test shaped the three new live songs Hillsong Worship released on 23 October 2026, ahead of a full live album called Holy Is the Name, due in February 2027.

The three songs are Praise the Lord, Hallelujah, Amen, As You Are and Flood, Charisma reports. The full album draws its central theme from 1 Peter 1:16, where God's people are told to be holy because God is holy. Hillsong's official introduction, quoted by Christian Newswire, puts it this way: the pursuit of holiness begins with a revelation of who God is, and the response must reach beyond the songs people sing and into the way they live.

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As You Are is the most searching of the three songs. Written by Nigel Hendroff, Alexander Pappas and Harrison Wood, it asks Jesus to cleanse hands, purify hearts and remove idols, Charisma reports. Its declaration of God's holiness becomes a personal plea to become holy as God is holy. A congregation singing it is not describing someone else's goodness, but asking for its own hands and hearts to be changed.

Praise the Lord, Hallelujah, Amen takes the wider view. It traces the sweep of Christ's incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection before looking toward His return, Charisma reports. Flood addresses the Father, Son and Holy Spirit while declaring God's grace, mercy and unchanging faithfulness. Together the three songs cover the ground a Sunday service needs: a plea for a clean heart, a retelling of what Christ has done, and a declaration of who God is.

The songs were not written in a studio and then handed to a congregation. According to an announcement on 15 October 2026, Hillsong congregations were already singing them, and enthusiastic feedback helped determine which songs the wider public would recieve, Charisma reports. Christian Newswire, carrying the same announcement, says the songs were selected after enthusiastic feedback from local Hillsong congregations, and are already being sung at Hillsong churches around the globe. The congregation was the first audience and the first editor.

Gillies's own words about the work are simple, and they explain why the group keeps writing. He said he hopes Hillsong never loses sight of the fact that new songs are written so people can draw near to God, Charisma reports. He added that the team wants to give people the language to approach God and put Him in the place He should be. In the Christian Newswire announcement he put the same conviction more bluntly: God is worthy to be praised, and if people do not worship Him, even the rocks will cry out.

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The new project follows years of leadership upheaval at Hillsong, Charisma reports. Gillies told The Christian Post that the team had questioned whether it should continue making music at all. His answer, quoted by Charisma, was a reset: the team got to ask what was important to them, who they were, who God wanted them to be, and to behave accordingly. That honesty gives the new songs a weight they would not carry as a routine release. They are not presented as a comeback, but as a decision to keep singing, made deliberately.

Gillies told The Christian Post that directing attention toward God's character remains central to the music, Charisma reports. The songs glorify and magnify God, he said, but at the same time they remind worshippers of who He is. A song can praise God loudly and still leave the singer thinking mostly about the music and the feeling of the room. Gillies wants the songs to turn the singer's eyes outward, toward the character of the God being praised.

The album is described as songs of consecration and declarations of praise, and an invitation to lift eyes and turn them toward God, Christian Newswire reports. Involving worship team members from around the world, the project keeps Hillsong's aim of worship that is simple and flowing from the congregation. Hillsong Worship began at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, and now has churches in 36 countries, Christian Newswire reports. The collective has released more than 40 albums and more than 300 songs, sung by an estimated 50 million people each week, with music surpassing 15 billion streams, according to the release announcement.

The group hopes the songs will help local congregations beyond the Hillsong community draw nearer to God, Christian Newswire reports. That hope is the measure by which the three songs will be judged, not by streaming numbers or by how they sound on a recording. A song that works in a stadium can fail in a small church with a piano and an acoustic guitar, and the congregation-first testing was meant to catch that difference before the songs travelled.

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When Holy Is the Name arrives in full in February 2027, congregations will decide whether these three songs have earned a place in Sunday worship. A congregation that sings As You Are will have asked for clean hands and a pure heart before it ever reaches the praise, and that is a beginning worth watching, wherever the next verse is sung.

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