God the Father / Creator in sermons

God the Father / Creator comes up in 9.6% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Episcopal (19%), Baptist (17%), African Methodist Episcopal (15%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (13% of sermons, up from 8.0%).

9.6% of sermons4,729 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about creator, creation, almighty, sovereign, providence, heavenly father, maker of heaven, the lord god. Part of God & the Trinity. Least common in Orthodox churches (2.3%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%10%20%30%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 9.3%Progressive 2017: 5.0%Progressive 2018: 6.7%Progressive 2019: 8.1%Progressive 2020: 4.9%Progressive 2021: 3.9%Progressive 2022: 5.1%Progressive 2023: 6.5%Progressive 2024: 6.2%Progressive 2025: 5.5%Progressive 2026: 7.0%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 3.0%Mainline 2019: 7.5%Mainline 2020: 4.0%Mainline 2021: 14%Mainline 2022: 14%Mainline 2023: 6.2%Mainline 2024: 6.9%Mainline 2025: 6.2%Mainline 2026: 9.0%Black church 2022: 7.2%Black church 2023: 21%Black church 2024: 19%Black church 2025: 14%Black church 2026: 15%Evangelical 2016: 26%Evangelical 2017: 18%Evangelical 2018: 26%Evangelical 2019: 17%Evangelical 2020: 18%Evangelical 2021: 10.0%Evangelical 2022: 12%Evangelical 2023: 12%Evangelical 2024: 15%Evangelical 2025: 13%Evangelical 2026: 18%All churches 2016: 14%All churches 2017: 10%All churches 2018: 14%All churches 2019: 12%All churches 2020: 7.3%All churches 2021: 7.5%All churches 2022: 7.7%All churches 2023: 7.6%All churches 2024: 8.9%All churches 2025: 8.3%All churches 2026: 14%

By denomination

Episcopal: 19% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal19%Baptist: 17% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist17%African Methodist Episcopal: 15% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal15%Christian / non-denominational: 14% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational14%Presbyterian: 13% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian13%Lutheran: 12% of 639 sermonsLutheran12%Mennonite: 9.7% of 227 sermonsMennonite9.7%United Methodist: 6.8% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist6.8%United Church of Christ: 6.8% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ6.8%Unity: 5.5% of 844 sermonsUnity5.5%Unitarian Universalist: 5.4% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist5.4%Jewish: 5.0% of 242 sermonsJewish5.0%Catholic: 3.3% of 334 sermonsCatholic3.3%Orthodox: 2.3% of 305 sermonsOrthodox2.3%

All churches: 9.6%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with God the Father / Creator more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

Attributes of God ×3.5Genesis ×3.3Names & Titles of God ×2.9Romans ×2.9The Fall ×2.9Isaiah ×2.8The Trinity ×2.8Covenant ×2.6

Churches that preach it most

Listen to sermons on Divining

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