Romans in sermons

Romans comes up in 2.0% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Baptist (6.0%), African Methodist Episcopal (5.1%), Lutheran (3.9%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (3.4% of sermons, up from 1.3%).

2.0% of sermons977 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about the book of romans, pauls letter to the romans, in romans, romans chapter. Part of Bible Books & Passages. Least common in Jewish churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%5%10%15%20%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 0.0%Progressive 2017: 1.9%Progressive 2018: 1.0%Progressive 2019: 1.2%Progressive 2020: 0.2%Progressive 2021: 0.3%Progressive 2022: 0.1%Progressive 2023: 0.5%Progressive 2024: 0.6%Progressive 2025: 0.5%Progressive 2026: 0.3%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 0.0%Mainline 2021: 0.6%Mainline 2022: 0.7%Mainline 2023: 0.2%Mainline 2024: 2.5%Mainline 2025: 1.1%Mainline 2026: 2.0%Black church 2022: 1.4%Black church 2023: 2.4%Black church 2024: 5.4%Black church 2025: 6.8%Black church 2026: 4.9%Evangelical 2016: 19%Evangelical 2017: 3.4%Evangelical 2018: 9.3%Evangelical 2019: 3.6%Evangelical 2020: 4.8%Evangelical 2021: 2.7%Evangelical 2022: 3.3%Evangelical 2023: 4.6%Evangelical 2024: 4.9%Evangelical 2025: 3.4%Evangelical 2026: 5.5%All churches 2016: 6.1%All churches 2017: 2.4%All churches 2018: 4.2%All churches 2019: 2.1%All churches 2020: 1.0%All churches 2021: 1.0%All churches 2022: 0.8%All churches 2023: 1.3%All churches 2024: 2.1%All churches 2025: 2.0%All churches 2026: 3.7%

By denomination

Baptist: 6.0% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist6.0%African Methodist Episcopal: 5.1% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal5.1%Lutheran: 3.9% of 639 sermonsLutheran3.9%Christian / non-denominational: 3.5% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational3.5%Mennonite: 2.2% of 227 sermonsMennonite2.2%United Church of Christ: 1.6% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ1.6%Presbyterian: 1.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian1.3%United Methodist: 1.2% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist1.2%Episcopal: 0.8% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.8%Unitarian Universalist: 0.3% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist0.3%Unity: 0.0% of 844 sermonsUnity0.0%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%Jewish: 0.0% of 242 sermonsJewish0.0%

All churches: 2.0%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Acts ×4.2Corinthians ×4.2The Ten Commandments ×4.1The Fall ×4.0Salvation & Grace ×4.0Names & Titles of God ×3.7Revelation / End Vision ×3.6Genesis ×3.4

Churches that preach it most

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