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Contentment in sermons

Contentment comes up in 0.5% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Presbyterian (1.0%), Christian / non-denominational (1.0%), Baptist (0.9%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (0.8% of sermons, up from 0.4%).

0.5% of sermons263 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about contentment, i have learned to be content, enough in christ, the trap of comparison, godliness with contentment. Part of Human Experience & Emotion. Least common in Jewish churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%1%2%3%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 1.0%Progressive 2017: 0.0%Progressive 2018: 0.3%Progressive 2019: 0.0%Progressive 2020: 0.1%Progressive 2021: 0.2%Progressive 2022: 0.4%Progressive 2023: 0.5%Progressive 2024: 0.6%Progressive 2025: 0.7%Progressive 2026: 0.3%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 0.0%Mainline 2021: 0.1%Mainline 2022: 0.2%Mainline 2023: 1.0%Mainline 2024: 0.3%Mainline 2025: 0.0%Mainline 2026: 0.3%Black church 2022: 2.9%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.9%Black church 2025: 0.6%Black church 2026: 0.9%Evangelical 2016: 1.7%Evangelical 2017: 2.0%Evangelical 2018: 0.4%Evangelical 2019: 0.8%Evangelical 2020: 1.1%Evangelical 2021: 0.5%Evangelical 2022: 0.4%Evangelical 2023: 0.8%Evangelical 2024: 0.9%Evangelical 2025: 1.1%Evangelical 2026: 1.3%All churches 2016: 1.1%All churches 2017: 0.9%All churches 2018: 0.3%All churches 2019: 0.3%All churches 2020: 0.3%All churches 2021: 0.3%All churches 2022: 0.4%All churches 2023: 0.6%All churches 2024: 0.6%All churches 2025: 0.7%All churches 2026: 0.8%

By denomination

Presbyterian: 1.0% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian1.0%Christian / non-denominational: 1.0% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational1.0%Baptist: 0.9% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.9%Mennonite: 0.9% of 227 sermonsMennonite0.9%African Methodist Episcopal: 0.9% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal0.9%Unitarian Universalist: 0.4% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist0.4%United Methodist: 0.4% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist0.4%United Church of Christ: 0.1% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ0.1%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%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%Jewish: 0.0% of 242 sermonsJewish0.0%

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

Preached alongside

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

Suffering & Perseverance ×2.1Humanism ×2.0Hope & Encouragement ×1.9Joy & Gratitude ×1.8Sin & Repentance ×1.8Spiritual Growth ×1.8Fear & Anxiety ×1.8God the Father / Creator ×1.5

Churches that preach it most

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Share of transcribed sermons on Divining with at least one chapter on a theme, from Divining’s topic segmenter; 2016 to Nov 2026. Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Site map · Divining: a deeper search for meaning · build_seo_pages v0.0.1