The hymn, "In Christ Alone" by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend, is also called "In Christ Alone (My Hope is Found") and ("In Christ Alone (I Stand").  The song opens with:

In Christ alone my hope is found

He is my light, my strength, my song.

And it ends with:

Till He returns or calls me home

Here in the power of Christ I'll stand.

Keith and Stuart were introduced to each other by a mutual friend at a worship conference.  After visiting together, Keith promised to send a CD with some melodies he had been working on to Stuart.

A few days, later, the CD came, and the first melody Stuart listened to really hit him.  The life, death, and resurrection of Christ came to him as a theme for it.  On his website, Steward says that as the third verse developed, he was getting pretty excited about the amazing implications of Christ's finished work on the cross.

Then in the ground His body lay

Light of the world by darkness slain

Then bursting forth in glorious day

Up from the grave He rose again

And as He stands in victory

Sin's curse has lost its grip on me

For I am His and He is mine

Bought with the precious blood of Christ.

Stuart wanted to write a fourth verse that was about us--an undeniable statement of the power of Christ to sustain us in this life.

No guilt in life, no fear in death

This is the power of Christ in me

From life's first cry to final breath

Jesus commands my destiny

No power of hell, no scheme of man

Can ever pluck me from His hand

Till He returns or calls me home

Here in the power of Christ I'll stand.

The song was released in 2001.  Both Keith and Stuart are songwriters from the United Kingdom.  The words to the first two verses are:

In Christ alone my hope is found

He is my light, my strength, my song

This cornerstone, this solid ground

Firm through the fiercest drought and storm

What heights of love, what depths of peace

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease

My comforter, my all in all

Here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone who took on flesh

Fullness of God in helpless babe

This gift of love and righteousness

Scorned by the ones He came to save

Till on that cross as Jesus died

The wrath of God was satisfied

For every sin on Him was laid

Here in the death of Christ I live.