Advent & Christmas in sermons

Advent & Christmas comes up in 9.1% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Mennonite (17%), United Church of Christ (11%), United Methodist (11%) churches. It is preached less since 2025 (7.5% of sermons, down from 9.9%).

9.1% of sermons4,484 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about advent, christmas, the nativity, born in bethlehem, the manger, wise men, incarnation, emmanuel. Part of Seasons & the Church Calendar. Least common in Jewish churches (2.9%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%10%20%30%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 5.9%Progressive 2017: 1.9%Progressive 2018: 11%Progressive 2019: 8.7%Progressive 2020: 10%Progressive 2021: 9.7%Progressive 2022: 9.6%Progressive 2023: 15%Progressive 2024: 12%Progressive 2025: 12%Progressive 2026: 6.9%Mainline 2016: 7.5%Mainline 2018: 1.5%Mainline 2019: 5.0%Mainline 2020: 25%Mainline 2021: 10%Mainline 2022: 4.1%Mainline 2023: 17%Mainline 2024: 19%Mainline 2025: 19%Mainline 2026: 8.3%Black church 2022: 7.2%Black church 2023: 17%Black church 2024: 12%Black church 2025: 18%Black church 2026: 4.7%Evangelical 2016: 15%Evangelical 2017: 20%Evangelical 2018: 8.5%Evangelical 2019: 13%Evangelical 2020: 12%Evangelical 2021: 10%Evangelical 2022: 5.2%Evangelical 2023: 9.8%Evangelical 2024: 12%Evangelical 2025: 8.3%Evangelical 2026: 5.0%All churches 2016: 9.1%All churches 2017: 10%All churches 2018: 8.8%All churches 2019: 10%All churches 2020: 11%All churches 2021: 9.8%All churches 2022: 7.6%All churches 2023: 14%All churches 2024: 13%All churches 2025: 13%All churches 2026: 6.3%

By denomination

Mennonite: 17% of 227 sermonsMennonite17%United Church of Christ: 11% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ11%United Methodist: 11% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist11%Unitarian Universalist: 11% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist11%African Methodist Episcopal: 9.3% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal9.3%Lutheran: 7.8% of 639 sermonsLutheran7.8%Baptist: 7.6% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist7.6%Unity: 7.2% of 844 sermonsUnity7.2%Christian / non-denominational: 6.9% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational6.9%Presbyterian: 6.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian6.3%Episcopal: 4.6% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal4.6%Catholic: 4.2% of 334 sermonsCatholic4.2%Orthodox: 3.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox3.0%Jewish: 2.9% of 242 sermonsJewish2.9%

All churches: 9.1%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with Advent & Christmas more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

The Nativity ×6.0The Persecuted Church ×3.6New Year & Watch Night ×2.6Earth-Centered Spirituality ×2.3Joseph ×2.2Infertility & Child Loss ×2.2Gun Violence & Safety ×1.8Isaiah ×1.7

Churches that preach it most

Listen to sermons on Divining

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