50 Best Worship Songs About Losing a Loved One
Worship Tracks That Hold the Weight of Grief
There’s a kind of silence that follows the loss of someone close, and not the peaceful kind. It’s thick, loud in your chest, weirdly quiet everywhere else. Friends start tiptoeing, plans feel hollow, and you find yourself zoning out in public like your body showed up but your mind’s still back there, wherever there was. And then a song creeps in. One with no tidy message, no shiny bow of closure. Just raw honesty wrapped in melodies that feel like they cracked open mid-prayer.
You won’t find slick anthems or big choruses pretending everything’s fine here. These are tracks that stay with the ache. They stretch across long drives to nowhere and sit with you when nobody really knows what to say. The lyrics stumble sometimes, the voices crack, and that’s the point. In a world of polished pop, rock, country, and R&B songs trying to cheer you up, these worship tracks slow down and say what actually needs to be said, even if it’s messy or strange or barely held together.
There’s a kind of grace in that. Letting things hurt without rushing the fix. Letting the melody carry what the words can’t quite land on. And if you’ve been looking for songs that don't try to wrap grief in platitudes but stay with it long enough to feel real, these are the ones worth pressing play on. Here are the best worship songs for when you've lost someone you love.
Top 10 Comfort Songs
1. 'I Can Only Imagine'—MercyMe
2. 'Scars in Heaven'—Casting Crowns
3. 'I Will Rise'—Chris Tomlin
4. 'It Is Well with My Soul'—Horatio G. Spafford
5. 'In Christ Alone'—Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
6. 'Amazing Grace'—John Newton
7. '10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)'—Matt Redman
8. 'Because He Lives'—Bill Gaither
9. 'How Great Thou Art'—Stuart K. Hine
10. 'Save a Place for Me'—Matthew West
Christian Songs About Loss and Hope #11—20
11. 'Even If'—MercyMe
12. 'Homesick'—MercyMe
13. 'Blessed Be Your Name'—Matt Redman and Beth Redman
14. 'He Will Hold Me Fast'—Ada Habershon and Matt Merker
15. 'Give Me Jesus'—Fernando Ortega
16. 'Heaven Song'—Phil Wickham
17. 'You Are My All in All'—Dennis Jernigan
18. 'Be Still My Soul (In You I Rest)'—Kari Jobe
19. 'On Eagles' Wings'—Michael Joncas
20. 'Thy Will'—Hillary Scott & The Scott Family
Songs of Faith for Times of Sorrow #21—30
21. 'Praise You in This Storm'—Casting Crowns
22. 'Oh My Soul'—Casting Crowns
23. 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness'—Thomas O. Chisholm
24. 'Precious Lord, Take My Hand'—Thomas A. Dorsey
25. 'Holy, Holy, Holy'—Reginald Heber
26. 'Shout to the Lord'—Darlene Zschech
27. 'He Touched Me'—William J. Gaither
28. 'Victory in Jesus'—Eugene M. Bartlett
29. 'The Old Rugged Cross'—George Bennard
30. 'How Deep the Father's Love for Us'—Stuart Townend
Comforting Christian Songs After Loss #31—40
31. 'Your Grace Is Enough'—Matt Maher
32. 'The Power of Your Love'—Geoff Bullock
33. 'Here As In Heaven'—Elevation Worship
34. 'Homecoming'—Bethel Music
35. 'Halls of Heaven'—Jesus Culture
36. 'Might Get Loud'—Elevation Worship
37. 'Build Your Kingdom Here'—Rend Collective
38. 'Heart Like Heaven'—Hillsong Worship
39. 'Spirit Break Out'—William McDowell
40. 'Cornerstone'—Hillsong Worship
Reflective Worship Songs for Grief #41—50
41. 'God Is In This Story'—Katy Nichole and Big Daddy Weave
42. 'I Will Carry You'—Ellie Holcomb
43. 'Even When It Hurts (Praise Song)'—Hillsong United
44. 'Homeward'—Benjamin Hastings
45. 'Control'—For King & Country
46. 'Who Am I'—NeedToBreathe
47. 'Maybe It's Okay'—We Are Messengers
48. 'Living Hope'—Phil Wickham
49. 'Hymn of Heaven'—Phil Wickham
50. 'No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus'—Steffany Gretzinger
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