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

Chris Tomlin Christopher Dwayne Tomlin (born May 4, 1972) is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, and worship leader from Grand Saline, Texas, United States, who has sold over 7 million records. He is a member of Passion Conferences ...

, Jesse Reeves and

Ed Cash Edmond Martin Cash (born August 6, 1971) is a producer, songwriter, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist. AllMusic/ref> He was named the "Producer of the Year" at the Gospel Music Awards for four consecutive years (2004–2007) and gains recogn ...

. It was originally featured on Tomlin's album ''

Arriving Arriving is a studio 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 L ...

'', that reached No. 1 on the '' Billboard''

Hot Christian Songs Hot Christian Songs is a music chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It ranks the popularity of Christian songs using the same methodology developed for the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, the magazine's flagship songs ...

chart. It is also featured live on Tomlin's '' Live from Austin Music Hall'' album. As of November 2014, it also is the fifth most popular worship song today, according to CCLI's top 25 worship songs chart. It also reached No. 1 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 (born January 10, 1964) is an American gospel/smooth jazz musician, producer, and arranger. Biography Tankard's father was a minister and his mother a missionary. In church, he played drums at an early age. He played tuba in school ...

, presented his instrumental rendition of the song from Tankard's No. 1 charting album, ''Mercy, Mercy, Mercy''. At Passion 2012, Tomlin performed a new edition of this song called "How Great Is Our God: World Edition". This new version included the original lyrics sung in several different languages: English, Hindi, Indonesian, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Zulu, Afrikaans and Mandarin. It is the first track of his ''Chris Tomlin: The Essential Collection'' album.

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