Palm Sunday / Triumphal Entry in sermons

Palm Sunday / Triumphal Entry comes up in 0.4% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Lutheran (1.1%), Mennonite (0.9%), Baptist (0.8%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (0.5% of sermons, up from 0.3%).

0.4% of sermons183 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about the triumphal entry, hosanna in the highest, palm branches, riding on a donkey, blessed is he who comes, the colt. Part of New Testament: Stories & Parables. Least common in Jewish churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%0.5%1%1.5%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 0.0%Progressive 2017: 0.0%Progressive 2018: 0.0%Progressive 2019: 0.3%Progressive 2020: 0.1%Progressive 2021: 0.1%Progressive 2022: 0.2%Progressive 2023: 0.1%Progressive 2024: 0.1%Progressive 2025: 0.0%Progressive 2026: 0.4%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 0.6%Mainline 2021: 0.9%Mainline 2022: 0.7%Mainline 2023: 0.2%Mainline 2024: 0.3%Mainline 2025: 1.1%Mainline 2026: 0.3%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.0%Black church 2025: 0.8%Black church 2026: 0.9%Evangelical 2016: 0.0%Evangelical 2017: 0.0%Evangelical 2018: 0.0%Evangelical 2019: 1.2%Evangelical 2020: 0.7%Evangelical 2021: 0.4%Evangelical 2022: 0.6%Evangelical 2023: 0.8%Evangelical 2024: 0.8%Evangelical 2025: 0.4%Evangelical 2026: 0.7%All churches 2016: 0.0%All churches 2017: 0.0%All churches 2018: 0.0%All churches 2019: 0.6%All churches 2020: 0.3%All churches 2021: 0.3%All churches 2022: 0.3%All churches 2023: 0.3%All churches 2024: 0.3%All churches 2025: 0.3%All churches 2026: 0.5%

By denomination

Lutheran: 1.1% of 639 sermonsLutheran1.1%Mennonite: 0.9% of 227 sermonsMennonite0.9%Baptist: 0.8% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.8%African Methodist Episcopal: 0.7% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal0.7%Episcopal: 0.6% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.6%United Methodist: 0.5% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist0.5%Christian / non-denominational: 0.5% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.5%Unity: 0.4% of 844 sermonsUnity0.4%Presbyterian: 0.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.3%Orthodox: 0.3% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.3%United Church of Christ: 0.3% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ0.3%Unitarian Universalist: 0.1% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist0.1%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%Jewish: 0.0% of 242 sermonsJewish0.0%

All churches: 0.4%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with Palm Sunday / Triumphal Entry more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

Lent & Holy Week ×8.5Crucifixion & Atonement ×3.8Bible & Exposition ×2.2God the Father / Creator ×2.2Worship & Praise ×1.9Baptism & Communion ×1.6Evangelism & Mission ×1.5Joy & Gratitude ×1.3

Churches that preach it most

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