Luke in sermons

Luke comes up in 1.5% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Presbyterian (4.3%), African Methodist Episcopal (4.3%), Baptist (3.4%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (2.6% of sermons, up from 1.0%).

1.5% of sermons756 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about the gospel of luke, in luke, lukes gospel. Part of Bible Books & Passages. Least common in Jewish churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%2%4%6%8%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 0.5%Progressive 2017: 0.0%Progressive 2018: 0.7%Progressive 2019: 4.0%Progressive 2020: 0.3%Progressive 2021: 0.2%Progressive 2022: 0.3%Progressive 2023: 0.4%Progressive 2024: 0.7%Progressive 2025: 0.4%Progressive 2026: 0.5%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 0.6%Mainline 2021: 0.5%Mainline 2022: 1.5%Mainline 2023: 0.7%Mainline 2024: 1.1%Mainline 2025: 2.8%Mainline 2026: 1.6%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 2.7%Black church 2025: 2.8%Black church 2026: 5.8%Evangelical 2016: 1.7%Evangelical 2017: 6.8%Evangelical 2018: 2.4%Evangelical 2019: 5.1%Evangelical 2020: 3.2%Evangelical 2021: 2.4%Evangelical 2022: 1.4%Evangelical 2023: 3.4%Evangelical 2024: 3.4%Evangelical 2025: 3.1%Evangelical 2026: 3.7%All churches 2016: 0.8%All churches 2017: 3.0%All churches 2018: 1.3%All churches 2019: 4.2%All churches 2020: 0.9%All churches 2021: 0.9%All churches 2022: 0.7%All churches 2023: 1.0%All churches 2024: 1.5%All churches 2025: 1.7%All churches 2026: 2.8%

By denomination

Presbyterian: 4.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian4.3%African Methodist Episcopal: 4.3% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal4.3%Baptist: 3.4% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist3.4%Christian / non-denominational: 2.9% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational2.9%Mennonite: 2.6% of 227 sermonsMennonite2.6%Orthodox: 2.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox2.0%United Methodist: 1.7% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist1.7%Lutheran: 1.4% of 639 sermonsLutheran1.4%United Church of Christ: 1.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ1.2%Catholic: 0.6% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.6%Unitarian Universalist: 0.4% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist0.4%Unity: 0.4% of 844 sermonsUnity0.4%Episcopal: 0.3% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.3%Jewish: 0.0% of 242 sermonsJewish0.0%

All churches: 1.5%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Mark ×5.7Matthew ×5.1Jesus: Life & Teachings ×5.0Sabbath & Rest ×4.0Elijah ×3.7The Kingdom of God ×3.7Acts ×3.1Prophecy & End Times ×2.9

Churches that preach it most

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