David & Goliath in sermons

David & Goliath comes up in 0.4% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in African Methodist Episcopal (0.8%), Unity (0.6%), Baptist (0.5%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (0.5% of sermons, up from 0.3%).

0.4% of sermons179 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about david and goliath, the philistine, five smooth stones, the giant fell, a sling and a stone, in the name of the lord of hosts. Part of Old Testament: Stories. Least common in Jewish churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%0.5%1%1.5%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 0.5%Progressive 2017: 0.6%Progressive 2018: 0.0%Progressive 2019: 0.3%Progressive 2020: 0.2%Progressive 2021: 0.3%Progressive 2022: 0.3%Progressive 2023: 0.2%Progressive 2024: 0.4%Progressive 2025: 0.2%Progressive 2026: 0.3%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 0.0%Mainline 2021: 0.4%Mainline 2022: 0.1%Mainline 2023: 0.5%Mainline 2024: 0.2%Mainline 2025: 0.4%Mainline 2026: 0.3%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.0%Black church 2025: 0.3%Black church 2026: 1.2%Evangelical 2016: 0.8%Evangelical 2017: 1.4%Evangelical 2018: 0.8%Evangelical 2019: 0.0%Evangelical 2020: 0.0%Evangelical 2021: 0.2%Evangelical 2022: 0.7%Evangelical 2023: 0.5%Evangelical 2024: 0.4%Evangelical 2025: 0.2%Evangelical 2026: 0.7%All churches 2016: 0.6%All churches 2017: 0.9%All churches 2018: 0.3%All churches 2019: 0.2%All churches 2020: 0.2%All churches 2021: 0.3%All churches 2022: 0.3%All churches 2023: 0.3%All churches 2024: 0.4%All churches 2025: 0.2%All churches 2026: 0.6%

By denomination

African Methodist Episcopal: 0.8% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal0.8%Unity: 0.6% of 844 sermonsUnity0.6%Baptist: 0.5% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.5%Christian / non-denominational: 0.5% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.5%Lutheran: 0.5% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.5%Mennonite: 0.4% of 227 sermonsMennonite0.4%United Methodist: 0.3% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist0.3%Unitarian Universalist: 0.3% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist0.3%Episcopal: 0.2% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.2%United Church of Christ: 0.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ0.2%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%Presbyterian: 0.0% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.0%Jewish: 0.0% of 242 sermonsJewish0.0%

All churches: 0.4%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Marriage ×1.8Bible & Exposition ×1.5

Churches that preach it most

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