Parenting & Children in sermons

Parenting & Children comes up in 9.1% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Mennonite (19%), United Methodist (14%), Jewish (13%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (12% of sermons, up from 7.6%).

9.1% of sermons4,470 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about parenting, children, raise up a child, family devotions, honor your father, train up, our kids, the next generation. Part of Love, Family & Relationships. Least common in Catholic churches (0.9%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%5%10%15%20%25%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 7.4%Progressive 2017: 8.1%Progressive 2018: 7.7%Progressive 2019: 9.0%Progressive 2020: 7.7%Progressive 2021: 4.9%Progressive 2022: 7.6%Progressive 2023: 9.2%Progressive 2024: 9.7%Progressive 2025: 9.6%Progressive 2026: 9.4%Mainline 2016: 2.5%Mainline 2018: 7.5%Mainline 2019: 2.5%Mainline 2020: 16%Mainline 2021: 2.7%Mainline 2022: 3.2%Mainline 2023: 12%Mainline 2024: 16%Mainline 2025: 12%Mainline 2026: 14%Black church 2022: 20%Black church 2023: 12%Black church 2024: 19%Black church 2025: 11%Black church 2026: 11%Evangelical 2016: 15%Evangelical 2017: 21%Evangelical 2018: 12%Evangelical 2019: 11%Evangelical 2020: 8.8%Evangelical 2021: 5.9%Evangelical 2022: 6.8%Evangelical 2023: 10%Evangelical 2024: 14%Evangelical 2025: 13%Evangelical 2026: 12%All churches 2016: 9.4%All churches 2017: 13%All churches 2018: 9.3%All churches 2019: 9.6%All churches 2020: 8.3%All churches 2021: 4.7%All churches 2022: 6.8%All churches 2023: 9.7%All churches 2024: 12%All churches 2025: 11%All churches 2026: 12%

By denomination

Mennonite: 19% of 227 sermonsMennonite19%United Methodist: 14% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist14%Jewish: 13% of 242 sermonsJewish13%United Church of Christ: 12% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ12%African Methodist Episcopal: 12% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal12%Christian / non-denominational: 11% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational11%Baptist: 9.3% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist9.3%Unitarian Universalist: 8.0% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist8.0%Presbyterian: 6.7% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian6.7%Lutheran: 5.5% of 639 sermonsLutheran5.5%Orthodox: 4.3% of 305 sermonsOrthodox4.3%Unity: 3.3% of 844 sermonsUnity3.3%Episcopal: 1.7% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal1.7%Catholic: 0.9% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.9%

All churches: 9.1%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Infertility & Child Loss ×3.3Dating & Godly Relationships ×2.1Intercessory Prayer ×2.1Divorce & Broken Relationships ×2.0Economic Justice & Wealth ×1.9Proverbs ×1.9Marriage ×1.8Faith & Mental Health ×1.8

Churches that preach it most

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