Will you listen to one Scripture song?

I built Vanguard Verse to help Scripture get heard, remembered, and retrieved in real life. The surprise is this: I've started trading my normal car playlists for these songs.

Start Here

For Growth Group Memory

Start here if you want help with the 24 Growth Group verses.

Listen to a Growth Group Verse

For Parents and Families

Start here if you want Scripture songs that could help kids and parents.

Listen as a Parent

For Hard Moments

Start here if you're thinking about recovery, anxiety, shame, temptation, or someone in a hard place.

Listen for a Hard Moment

For Growth Group Memory

Titus 2:11–12 · Grace To Live

Listen for: does the reference and verse start to come back after the song ends?

For Parents and Families

Matthew 5:1–12 · The Beatitudes

Listen for: could this be the song playing in the car on the way to school?

For the Hard Hour

Romans 8:29–30 · God's Plan for Redemption

Listen for: does this feel like something you'd want playing at 2 a.m.?

A Note From CJ

I did not set out to make background Christian music. I was trying to solve a Scripture memory problem I've watched for years.

At Grace, we ask Growth Group members to memorize 24 specific verses. I believe in that deeply. But most people do not actually get those verses down — not because they don't love Scripture, and not because they're lazy. Most people just need a better way to get the Word into normal life.

So I started setting the verses to music. And the result surprised me. I keep listening to them.

— CJ Coolidge

Try More Than One Style

One song may not be your style. That is okay.

The goal of Vanguard Verse is not to make one kind of Scripture song for everyone. The goal is to carry Scripture in music people will actually want to hear again.

A child may need one sound. A parent may need another. A Growth Group member may need another. Someone in recovery at 2:00 a.m. may need another.

So listen to more than one — then ask a better question than "Is this my favorite style?"

Ask: "Could this help the Word stay with someone?"

Quiet / Reflective

Driving / Energetic

Worshipful

Family-Friendly

For Hard Moments

Titus 2:11–12 · Post-Grunge

Titus 2:11–12 · Folk