James in sermons

James comes up in 0.5% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in African Methodist Episcopal (2.3%), Baptist (1.3%), United Methodist (1.1%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (0.8% of sermons, up from 0.3%).

0.5% of sermons243 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about the book of james, faith without works, the tongue is a fire, consider it pure joy. Part of Bible Books & Passages. Least common in Jewish churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%1%2%3%4%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 0.0%Progressive 2017: 0.0%Progressive 2018: 0.0%Progressive 2019: 0.3%Progressive 2020: 0.2%Progressive 2021: 0.1%Progressive 2022: 0.1%Progressive 2023: 0.0%Progressive 2024: 0.1%Progressive 2025: 0.0%Progressive 2026: 0.0%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 1.1%Mainline 2021: 0.1%Mainline 2022: 0.4%Mainline 2023: 2.5%Mainline 2024: 1.4%Mainline 2025: 1.3%Mainline 2026: 0.2%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.0%Black church 2025: 3.1%Black church 2026: 2.6%Evangelical 2016: 0.8%Evangelical 2017: 0.0%Evangelical 2018: 1.6%Evangelical 2019: 3.2%Evangelical 2020: 0.4%Evangelical 2021: 0.5%Evangelical 2022: 1.0%Evangelical 2023: 0.6%Evangelical 2024: 0.3%Evangelical 2025: 0.6%Evangelical 2026: 1.2%All churches 2016: 0.3%All churches 2017: 0.0%All churches 2018: 0.7%All churches 2019: 1.5%All churches 2020: 0.3%All churches 2021: 0.2%All churches 2022: 0.3%All churches 2023: 0.4%All churches 2024: 0.4%All churches 2025: 0.7%All churches 2026: 0.8%

By denomination

African Methodist Episcopal: 2.3% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal2.3%Baptist: 1.3% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist1.3%United Methodist: 1.1% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist1.1%Mennonite: 0.9% of 227 sermonsMennonite0.9%Christian / non-denominational: 0.6% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.6%Orthodox: 0.3% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.3%United Church of Christ: 0.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ0.2%Unitarian Universalist: 0.1% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist0.1%Episcopal: 0.0% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.0%Unity: 0.0% of 844 sermonsUnity0.0%Lutheran: 0.0% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.0%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%Presbyterian: 0.0% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.0%Jewish: 0.0% of 242 sermonsJewish0.0%

All churches: 0.5%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Suffering & Perseverance ×3.4Spiritual Growth ×2.5Sin & Repentance ×2.4Faith & Doubt ×2.4Salvation & Grace ×2.1Holy Spirit ×2.0Bible & Exposition ×2.0Hope & Encouragement ×1.9

Churches that preach it most

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