Latter-day Saint Life

The prompting behind the new hymn ‘When the Savior Comes Again’

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Author and composer, Lane Johnson, works on an arrangement at his piano in August 2025. Johnson wrote “When the Savior Comes Again,” song No. 1002 found in “Hymns—For Home and Church.”
Provided to Church News by Alyse Janae Photography

Lane Johnson started composing musical arrangements in mid-1970, when his choir teacher at Westwood High School in Mesa, Arizona, encouraged him to arrange a choral version of a song he had learned in Primary for the choir to sing. His choir teacher’s support in those beginning days gave him the motivation to press forward and pursue studying music.

Though he ultimately chose a different career path, music has remained a constant thread in his life. Through the years, Johnson, now living in Lindon, Utah, has composed many pieces, including several choral arrangements for schools and church.

One morning about 10 years ago, he felt an impression that he would, at some point in time, write music about the Second Coming. The details of what this meant were still not clear. Who was he to write this for? For his ward? For others? Would he write it after the Savior returned?

“I knew I was supposed to do this but nothing beyond that,” he said.

Read the full story at the Church News.

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