Crucifixion & Atonement in sermons

Crucifixion & Atonement comes up in 10.0% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in African Methodist Episcopal (21%), Baptist (21%), Lutheran (21%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (15% of sermons, up from 7.5%).

10.0% of sermons4,932 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about the cross, crucified, crucifixion, atonement, the blood of, lamb of god, calvary, died for our sins. Part of God & the Trinity. Least common in Unity churches (2.1%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%10%20%30%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 4.9%Progressive 2017: 6.8%Progressive 2018: 6.3%Progressive 2019: 9.9%Progressive 2020: 3.7%Progressive 2021: 3.1%Progressive 2022: 4.1%Progressive 2023: 7.3%Progressive 2024: 5.6%Progressive 2025: 5.1%Progressive 2026: 5.4%Mainline 2016: 7.5%Mainline 2018: 10%Mainline 2019: 7.5%Mainline 2020: 6.3%Mainline 2021: 6.5%Mainline 2022: 8.0%Mainline 2023: 6.9%Mainline 2024: 8.9%Mainline 2025: 10%Mainline 2026: 11%Black church 2022: 12%Black church 2023: 21%Black church 2024: 16%Black church 2025: 20%Black church 2026: 23%Evangelical 2016: 28%Evangelical 2017: 20%Evangelical 2018: 23%Evangelical 2019: 18%Evangelical 2020: 19%Evangelical 2021: 12%Evangelical 2022: 13%Evangelical 2023: 16%Evangelical 2024: 20%Evangelical 2025: 18%Evangelical 2026: 21%All churches 2016: 13%All churches 2017: 13%All churches 2018: 13%All churches 2019: 13%All churches 2020: 6.6%All churches 2021: 6.2%All churches 2022: 6.6%All churches 2023: 9.0%All churches 2024: 10.0%All churches 2025: 11%All churches 2026: 16%

By denomination

African Methodist Episcopal: 21% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal21%Baptist: 21% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist21%Lutheran: 21% of 639 sermonsLutheran21%Christian / non-denominational: 15% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational15%Presbyterian: 10% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian10%Episcopal: 8.9% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal8.9%Mennonite: 8.4% of 227 sermonsMennonite8.4%United Church of Christ: 8.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ8.2%United Methodist: 8.0% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist8.0%Jewish: 5.8% of 242 sermonsJewish5.8%Orthodox: 5.2% of 305 sermonsOrthodox5.2%Unitarian Universalist: 4.7% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist4.7%Catholic: 4.5% of 334 sermonsCatholic4.5%Unity: 2.1% of 844 sermonsUnity2.1%

All churches: 10.0%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Gethsemane ×4.1Covenant ×3.9Palm Sunday / Triumphal Entry ×3.8The Last Supper ×3.4Resurrection & Easter ×3.2Romans ×3.0The Road to Damascus ×3.0Pentecost ×3.0

Churches that preach it most

Listen to sermons on Divining

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