New Year & Watch Night in sermons

New Year & Watch Night comes up in 1.0% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Jewish (2.1%), Unity (1.8%), Mennonite (1.8%) churches. It is preached less since 2025 (0.6% of sermons, down from 1.1%).

1.0% of sermons474 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about the new year, watch night service, a new beginning this year, new years resolutions, behold i make all things new. Part of Seasons & the Church Calendar. Least common in Orthodox churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%1%2%3%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 0.5%Progressive 2017: 0.6%Progressive 2018: 0.3%Progressive 2019: 0.9%Progressive 2020: 1.5%Progressive 2021: 1.4%Progressive 2022: 1.2%Progressive 2023: 2.3%Progressive 2024: 1.9%Progressive 2025: 1.0%Progressive 2026: 1.1%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 1.1%Mainline 2021: 0.4%Mainline 2022: 0.6%Mainline 2023: 1.5%Mainline 2024: 1.7%Mainline 2025: 2.1%Mainline 2026: 0.4%Black church 2022: 2.9%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.9%Black church 2025: 1.7%Black church 2026: 0.7%Evangelical 2016: 1.7%Evangelical 2017: 1.4%Evangelical 2018: 0.0%Evangelical 2019: 0.0%Evangelical 2020: 0.5%Evangelical 2021: 0.6%Evangelical 2022: 0.7%Evangelical 2023: 0.9%Evangelical 2024: 0.5%Evangelical 2025: 1.1%Evangelical 2026: 0.3%All churches 2016: 0.8%All churches 2017: 0.9%All churches 2018: 0.2%All churches 2019: 0.5%All churches 2020: 1.3%All churches 2021: 0.9%All churches 2022: 1.0%All churches 2023: 2.0%All churches 2024: 1.5%All churches 2025: 1.3%All churches 2026: 0.4%

By denomination

Jewish: 2.1% of 242 sermonsJewish2.1%Unity: 1.8% of 844 sermonsUnity1.8%Mennonite: 1.8% of 227 sermonsMennonite1.8%Unitarian Universalist: 1.4% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist1.4%United Church of Christ: 1.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ1.2%African Methodist Episcopal: 1.1% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal1.1%United Methodist: 0.6% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist0.6%Christian / non-denominational: 0.6% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.6%Baptist: 0.4% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.4%Presbyterian: 0.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.3%Catholic: 0.3% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.3%Episcopal: 0.1% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.1%Lutheran: 0.0% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.0%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%

All churches: 1.0%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with New Year & Watch Night more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

Advent & Christmas ×2.6Thanksgiving & Harvest ×1.6Church Life & Membership ×1.5Stewardship & Giving ×1.5Forgiveness & Reconciliation ×1.3Immigration & Refuge ×1.2Joy & Gratitude ×1.2Identity & Worth ×1.2

Churches that preach it most

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