The phrase "long sermon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sermon that is lengthy in duration, often in a religious context.
Example: "The pastor delivered a long sermon that lasted over an hour, covering various topics of faith."
Alternatives: "extended sermon" or "lengthy sermon".
Matthew is the most familiar of the gospels, best known for its parables, miracle narratives, and the long Sermon on the Mount.
But what I resent in contemporary criticism is this taking a work of attempted, supposed art, as a text for a long sermon on something rather different.
One evening, he said, listening to a long sermon about "how we're all evil, lying people, and our hearts are deceitful, I was getting uncomfortable and got up to leave," he said.
I have drawn some thoughts from them, as well as other books on Lincoln, which I have read over the years.* Indeed, my biggest struggle in preparing for today was not to let a short speech become a long sermon.
We eventually take it to Crissy Point and we dig a grave there, and I gave him this long sermon about how precious and fragile life is, and how Rocky, during his short life, taught us some lessons from the way it was curious, from the way it was warm.
Instead, the walls are full of women and children, paintings including Grecian nymphs, serene Victorian ladies arranging flowers on a sunny window seat, a little girl painted by John Everett Millais yawning through a long sermon, and two Victorian children, a match girl and a crossing sweeper, shivering in the snow as they look yearningly at a pantomime poster.
It doesn't go in for long sermons about its sustainable credentials, but they are there in every honest, homely dish.
Those videotaped snippets have focused on his most provocative moments in long sermons, in particular, one in which he said: "The government gives them drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America'.
Through long sermons posted on the Internet and on CDs, Awlaki began denouncing the United States and aligning himself with Al Qaeda.
There are plenty of joyous reasons to be Jewish that don't involve traffic jams, tickets, fasting and long sermons".
Its 34 chapters consist of three long sermons delivered by Moses to the Israelites on the banks of the Jordan River, across from Jericho, as they prepared to enter the Promised Land.
