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sermon

noun as in instructive speech with a moral

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A Gaylard Williams Sunday sermon (which lasted for 45 minutes on average) was something to behold.

King says in a sermon a month later at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama.

In Germany, a prominent Muslim imam gave a sermon asking Allah to kill all of the “Zionist Jews.”

“I agree with what the sermon was and what it was about,” she said.

Your sermon this Sunday morning: Is the power of prayer enough to overcome the German defense?

I felt just the same when I was married myself; but it's nothing to preaching one's first sermon.

The author of the life of St. Francis Xavier, asserts, that "by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island."

A clergyman observed in his sermon, that this was unpardonable, as people did it with their eyes open.

Many years ago, while a clergyman on the coast of Cornwall was in the midst of his sermon, the alarm was given, A wreck!

In the churchyard, under a great tree, still standing, John Wesley preached his last open-air sermon.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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