For pastors, churches & Biblical Counselors

Songs to carry Sunday’s truth
into the rest of the week.

This music is here to come alongside your ministry, reinforcing through the week what is preached on Sunday. Each song below is matched to a real struggle and rooted in Scripture.

Free to use in your church and counseling ministry

A word from Thomas

I was a pastor once. Twice I tried to lead a church, and both times it ended over differences in direction. I left wounded and disillusioned, and I pulled away from ministry and from people. But God didn’t leave me there. He healed that hurt, and these songs grew out of it.

Writing about those years still opens old wounds. But my prayer is that God will use them for His glory, to comfort others the way He has comforted me: “that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God” (2 Corinthians 1:4).

That’s the purpose of all this.

Find the right song

What is someone in your church walking through?

Scripture-rooted songs for the struggles people bring to church, small groups, and Biblical Counseling. Press play to hear the full song here, or share it with the person who needs it.

Sovereign HandTrust when life is out of your control

Choose the need. Hear the song. Share the encouragement.

When you’ve been running from GodAs the Road Goes OnEphesians 2:4–5
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When life feels out of controlSovereign HandProverbs 3:5
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When everything is falling apartMercy Reaches DownLamentations 3:22
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When you feel trapped and need God to break throughComing DawnJohn 8:36
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When you’re tempted to doubt your salvationNew Me2 Corinthians 5:17
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When you’re grieving someone who walked with the LordGrandma’s JoyProverbs 31:26
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When your past still tries to pull you backGlory and GraceEphesians 1:6
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When you’re worn downHold SteadyPhilippians 1:6
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When you need to stand firmStanding on the StonePsalm 18:2
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When you’re tempted to give upOnward to ZionGalatians 6:9
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When you’re feeling defeatedVictory1 Corinthians 15:55–57
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When you’re comparing your walk to someone else’sFollow Thou MeJohn 21:22
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Put them to work

Ways to use these songs in church, small groups, and Biblical Counseling

Alongside a sermon

Play a song before or after a message on the same truth, or point the congregation to it for the week ahead.

In small groups

Listen together, read the Scripture behind the song, and talk about where that truth meets everyday life.

For someone who’s hurting

Send a song to the person walking through that exact season. A song can stay with them long after a conversation ends.

In Biblical Counseling

Give a song as listening between sessions, so the Scripture you opened together stays in front of them all week. As biblical counselor Bijou Green writes for ACBC, “Give your counselees songs that are saying the same things about God that you are telling them in the counseling room.”

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Permission

Free to use in your church

You’re welcome to play these songs in worship services, small groups, Biblical Counseling sessions, and other ministry settings, to show the lyrics on screens or in bulletins, and to share links to the songs with anyone who needs them. No permission request needed.

If a livestream or video ever gets an automatic copyright notice for one of these songs, email us and we’ll help clear it.

We’d love to hear how God uses them: info@maverickatc.com

— Maverick at the Cross LLC

Every lyric written by Thomas Gibbs. Music and vocals made with AI tools at his direction. How it’s made · Is AI music okay for a Christian? · The Redeemed Country standard