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Suffering & Perseverance in sermons

Suffering & Perseverance comes up in 6.9% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Jewish (9.5%), Baptist (9.3%), African Methodist Episcopal (9.3%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (8.9% of sermons, up from 5.8%).

6.9% of sermons3,385 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about suffering, trials, perseverance, endurance, through the valley, affliction, the thorn, count it all joy. Part of Christian Living. Least common in Catholic churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%5%10%15%20%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 11%Progressive 2017: 11%Progressive 2018: 8.0%Progressive 2019: 9.3%Progressive 2020: 7.8%Progressive 2021: 5.0%Progressive 2022: 5.9%Progressive 2023: 6.5%Progressive 2024: 7.2%Progressive 2025: 8.7%Progressive 2026: 9.5%Mainline 2016: 2.5%Mainline 2018: 3.0%Mainline 2019: 2.5%Mainline 2020: 5.7%Mainline 2021: 1.9%Mainline 2022: 1.6%Mainline 2023: 4.9%Mainline 2024: 7.8%Mainline 2025: 4.5%Mainline 2026: 6.6%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 2.4%Black church 2024: 6.3%Black church 2025: 13%Black church 2026: 9.5%Evangelical 2016: 6.8%Evangelical 2017: 8.2%Evangelical 2018: 18%Evangelical 2019: 11%Evangelical 2020: 9.6%Evangelical 2021: 3.7%Evangelical 2022: 5.6%Evangelical 2023: 6.5%Evangelical 2024: 9.2%Evangelical 2025: 8.7%Evangelical 2026: 11%All churches 2016: 8.6%All churches 2017: 9.0%All churches 2018: 12%All churches 2019: 9.6%All churches 2020: 8.0%All churches 2021: 3.9%All churches 2022: 5.1%All churches 2023: 6.2%All churches 2024: 7.8%All churches 2025: 8.6%All churches 2026: 9.0%

By denomination

Jewish: 9.5% of 242 sermonsJewish9.5%Baptist: 9.3% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist9.3%African Methodist Episcopal: 9.3% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal9.3%Mennonite: 8.8% of 227 sermonsMennonite8.8%Lutheran: 7.8% of 639 sermonsLutheran7.8%Christian / non-denominational: 7.6% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational7.6%Unitarian Universalist: 6.9% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist6.9%Presbyterian: 6.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian6.3%United Church of Christ: 6.0% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ6.0%United Methodist: 5.0% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist5.0%Unity: 2.3% of 844 sermonsUnity2.3%Orthodox: 2.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox2.0%Episcopal: 1.5% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal1.5%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%

All churches: 6.9%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

James ×3.4Psalm 23 / The Shepherd ×2.6Angels & Spiritual Warfare ×2.1Contentment ×2.1Contemplative Prayer & Silence ×1.9Prison & Restorative Justice ×1.9Psalms ×1.9The Fall ×1.8

Churches that preach it most

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Share of transcribed sermons on Divining with at least one chapter on a theme, from Divining’s topic segmenter; 2016 to Nov 2026. Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Site map · Divining: a deeper search for meaning · build_seo_pages v0.0.1