Mighty Name of Jesus

“Mighty Name of Jesus” runs on the oldest trick in contemporary worship songwriting – repeat a short, declarative phrase until a room full of strangers can sing it back without looking at a lyric screen – and it earns its two 2026 GMA Dove Award nominations (Worship Recorded Song of the Year and Song of the Year) by executing that trick with real discipline. Hope Darst and Josh Baldwin trade lead lines rather than harmonizing throughout, which keeps the arrangement from ever feeling crowded even as it builds toward a full-band climax built for arena and festival stages.

Baldwin, a Bethel Music veteran with writing credits on songs like “Way Maker” and “Stand in Your Love” already carrying real institutional weight in the genre, brings a steadier, more measured delivery that anchors Darst’s higher, more urgent lead vocal – a pairing that works the same way most successful worship duets do, by giving the song two distinct emotional registers to escalate between rather than one voice doing all the work alone. The production doesn’t reinvent anything about the current CCM sound – swelling pads, a hook built for crowd participation, a bridge that exists mainly to justify one more key change – but it doesn’t need to. This genre’s job is repeatability across thousands of church services, not novelty, and the song is built cleanly enough to survive that repetition without wearing thin.

7.5/10 – a well-crafted, formula-literate worship anthem that does exactly what it’s built to do, without pretending to be more than that.

Hero image: “In The Mighty Name” single artwork, Bethel Music. Used under fair use for editorial commentary.