"How Great Is Our God" is a song written by Chris Tomlin

Chris Tomlin

Christopher Dwayne "Chris" Tomlin is an American Christian Contemporary Music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Grand Saline, Texas, United States. He is a former staff member at Austin Stone Community Church and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Tomlin also leads worship at many...

, Jesse Reeves, and Ed Cash

Ed Cash

Ed Cash is a producer, songwriter, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was named the “Producer of the Year” at the Gospel Music Awards for four consecutive years and gains recognition for his work with Christian singer, Chris Tomlin...

, originally featured on Tomlin's album Arriving

Arriving

Arriving is an album released in 2004 by Chris Tomlin. The album has received RIAA "Platinum" status and peaked at No. 3 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart. As of October 2008, "How Great Is Our God" is No. 1, and "Holy Is the Lord" is No...

, that reached number one on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Christian Songs

Hot Christian Songs

Christian Songs is a Billboard chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States....

 chart. It is also featured live on Tomlin's Live From Austin Music Hall

Live From Austin Music Hall

Live from Austin Music Hall is a live album released by Chris Tomlin in 2005.The album was recorded at Austin Music Hall on September 18, 2005. The Austin Music Hall was packed, and over 2000 people had to be turned away...

album. As of February 2007, it also is the most popular worship song today, according to CCLI's top 25 worship songs chart. It also reached number one on Christian Music Weekly's 20 the Countdown Magazine's Top 20 Worship Songs Chart. The song won "Song of the Year" and "Worship Song of the Year" at the 2006 GMA Dove Awards, and "Worship Song of the Year" again at the 2008 GMA Dove Awards.

In 2009, gospel/jazz keyboardist Ben Tankard

Ben Tankard

Ben Tankard is a former professional basketball player and an American gospel, jazz keyboardist producer, songwriter and motivational speaker. Ben dropped out of college after one year to play minor league pro basketball in Canada. He was invited to an NBA camp but was injured and cut...

, presented his instrumental rendition of the song from Ben's number #1 charting album, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy."

Notable covers

• WOW Hits 2007
  WOW Hits 2007
  WOW Hits 2007 is a two-disc compilation album of songs that have been touted to represent the best of Christian music of 2006. It was released on October 3, 2006. The album features songs by Jeremy Camp, Casting Crowns, MercyMe, Chris Tomlin, and many more highly renowned groups and singers. The...
  
  
• WOW Worship Aqua
  WOW Worship Aqua
  WOW Worship: Aqua is the sixth installment in the WOW Worship series. The collection features 33 "powerful worship songs from today's top artists", eight of which were newly recorded for this album. WOW Worship: Aqua was marketed to both the praise and worship lover and to fans of popular artists...
  
  
• How Great Is Our God
  How Great Is Our God
  How Great Is Our God is the 2005 album recorded live at Passion 05, a conference held yearly in January in Nashville, TN.The album was released on May 1, 2005. There is also a Worship Music Book Available...
  
  (Passion Event Album)
• Jesus Is
  Jesus Is
  Jesus Is is the second live album of Christian Contemporary music from Hillsong London.-Making of the album:Jesus Is was recorded live in October 2005 by the Hillsong London team, Matt Redman and Stuart Garrard, in which over 6000 people attended....
  
  
• Mighty to Save (DVD version only)
• A Kid's Point of View
  A Kid's Point of View
  A Kid's Point of View is the first studio album by American singer Dijon Prioleau. Reviews for the album have been mixed with SoulTracks rating the album as "mildly recommended" while GospelFlava.com says it is "real, genuine, a great listen."...
  
  
• Take Everything
  Take Everything
  Take Everything is the 8th full-length studio album released by the Christian rock group, Seventh Day Slumber. Most of the songs are remakes of other artists songs done with different arrangement. Their song "Oceans From The Rain" was originally released on the album Once Upon a Shattered Life....
  
  (Seventh Day Slumber)

External links

• "How Great Is Our God" Music Video and Lyrics