Sin & Repentance in sermons

Sin & Repentance comes up in 9.9% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in African Methodist Episcopal (21%), Mennonite (19%), Baptist (16%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (15% of sermons, up from 7.0%).

9.9% of sermons4,891 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about repent, repentance, confession of sin, turn away from, forgiveness of sins, fallen, temptation, conviction. Part of Scripture & Doctrine. Least common in Catholic churches (0.6%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%5%10%15%20%25%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 8.8%Progressive 2017: 11%Progressive 2018: 6.7%Progressive 2019: 7.8%Progressive 2020: 6.4%Progressive 2021: 3.8%Progressive 2022: 5.5%Progressive 2023: 9.1%Progressive 2024: 8.9%Progressive 2025: 9.2%Progressive 2026: 9.3%Mainline 2016: 7.5%Mainline 2018: 7.5%Mainline 2019: 2.5%Mainline 2020: 4.6%Mainline 2021: 3.4%Mainline 2022: 3.7%Mainline 2023: 6.7%Mainline 2024: 10%Mainline 2025: 13%Mainline 2026: 13%Black church 2022: 17%Black church 2023: 14%Black church 2024: 14%Black church 2025: 18%Black church 2026: 24%Evangelical 2016: 12%Evangelical 2017: 24%Evangelical 2018: 21%Evangelical 2019: 19%Evangelical 2020: 12%Evangelical 2021: 6.2%Evangelical 2022: 8.5%Evangelical 2023: 12%Evangelical 2024: 18%Evangelical 2025: 17%Evangelical 2026: 19%All churches 2016: 9.7%All churches 2017: 16%All churches 2018: 13%All churches 2019: 12%All churches 2020: 7.4%All churches 2021: 4.3%All churches 2022: 5.8%All churches 2023: 9.4%All churches 2024: 12%All churches 2025: 13%All churches 2026: 16%

By denomination

African Methodist Episcopal: 21% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal21%Mennonite: 19% of 227 sermonsMennonite19%Baptist: 16% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist16%Lutheran: 14% of 639 sermonsLutheran14%Christian / non-denominational: 14% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational14%Presbyterian: 13% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian13%United Church of Christ: 10% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ10%Jewish: 9.5% of 242 sermonsJewish9.5%United Methodist: 9.3% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist9.3%Unitarian Universalist: 6.8% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist6.8%Episcopal: 5.1% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal5.1%Unity: 3.4% of 844 sermonsUnity3.4%Orthodox: 3.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox3.0%Catholic: 0.6% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.6%

All churches: 9.9%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Romans ×2.7Intercessory Prayer ×2.7Attributes of God ×2.7Ephesians ×2.6Covenant ×2.6Gethsemane ×2.6The Prodigal Son ×2.5Matthew ×2.4

Churches that preach it most

Listen to sermons on Divining

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