The phrase "a sermon for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a speech or discourse on a religious or moral topic intended for a specific audience.
Example: "The pastor delivered a powerful sermon for the congregation, focusing on the importance of compassion and forgiveness."
Alternatives: "a message for" or "a discourse for".
All Princeton University undergraduates are invited to submit a sermon for the Chapel Sermon Competition.
It is here that "Guantánamo" feels more like a sermon for the converted than a drama.
He wrote a sermon for her funeral that praises her submissive piety her "exact and regular" devotions as well as her charitable disposition.
In a sermon for Friday prayers at a mosque in Gaza City, Haniyeh said: "We are calling for the strengthening and increasing of the intifada.
In 1931, Winston Churchill wrote a sermon for Strand magazine in praise of "this power called science which has laid hold of us".
BERLIN — The Swiss authorities have charged an imam from Ethiopia with inciting violence by calling in a sermon for local Muslims who refused to pray to be burned alive, prosecutors said on Friday.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Israel's influential Shas party, preached a sermon calling for God's annihilation of Arabs.
If you telephone him at Circle 6-6483 he will give you a sermon, pray for you, or dissuade you from suicide.
But while Lloyd Ward's father could deliver a sermon fit for a revival tent, he would also step down from his pulpit.
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU, a winner of the Nobel prize for peace, was the guest of honour at South Sudan's first birthday party on July 9th where he gave a sermon calling for peace.
The protests in the eastern region were mainly to call for the release of Sheikh Tawfiq al-Amer, who had been detained after giving a sermon calling for a constitutional monarchy.
