Ms. Sparks and Rabbi Alper, invited as part of the seminary's "field-based" program to teach some of the intangibles of ministry not covered in the divinity curriculum, surveyed the arc of potentially humorous situations — including weddings, funerals and long, hot summer days when even the sermonizer can lose the thread of a sermon.
Some Sundays ago, I was part of a sermon in my university's church.
The quote is a paraphrased segment of a sermon Dr. King delivered in February 1968.
With the precision of a sermon, we just want to correct an error," said Nelson, 94.
Juneteenth, by contrast, is something of a sermon, and somewhat imprisoning.
There was a barnburner of a sermon by a man of the cloth from North Carolina.
We see Constance at her easel, then Felix at his desk, scratching out the draft of a sermon.
And then, just as it had begun in the style of a sermon, so it ended with a lesson.
He goes on, "It's the structure, essentially, of a sermon; you hear a little story from the Bible, then the clergyperson tells you what it means".
At one point, Sam recalls the prayer hut: "Claire and I always got excited that we might hear a story instead of a sermon".
Mostly, viewers can trust that Mr. Nighy will deliver the most subtle, colorful performance that can be squeezed out of a sermon.
