sermon

Example Sentences

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An imam standing on a plastic stool delivered a short sermon.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

It’s a sermon we’ve heard plenty of times before and possibly even delivered ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Rev Cremin spoke to BBC News NI before giving a sermon during a service marking Racial Justice Sunday at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

One Connecticut pastor in 1784 preached a sermon that compared the Continental Army’s soldiers’ deaths to martyrs whose blood should “be ever treated as sacred.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

From her mouth issued a torrent of words, a roiling sermon on injustice, inequality, and divine retribution worthy of the Baptist preachers of her youth.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson