The word 'sermon' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a talk or lecture given by a religious figure (such as a minister, priest, rabbi, etc.) in order to provide spiritual guidance or moral teaching. For example, "The minister gave an inspiring sermon at Sunday church service."
"Is it true that one can go to the Champs-Elysées in Paris, grab a woman's hand, and have sex with her any time he wants?" he inquires, as if hoping to confirm something heard in a sermon or indoctrination session.
Abd al-Barr al-Rawdhi, an imam from the north eastern town of San Donà di Piave, is to be deported after being video-recorded giving a sermon calling for the extermination of the Jews.
Welby, delivering the sermon at the annual journalists commemorative service at St Bride's Church in London's Fleet Street, reflected on a year in which journalists faced an unprecedented threat from Islamic State (Isis) and the danger of reporting the Ebola outbreak from west Africa.
As we hear the call to prayer from a mosque, he asks to stop: "I try to never miss Friday prayers, especially the sermon".
So it was left to the some schoolchildren to ask the programme's only challenging questions of Jenkins (he ducked them), leaving the banker to depart from the studio no doubt congratulating himself and his PR handlers on a sermon skilfully delivered.
So why is the Conservative party not shouting about these percentage-point advances in GWP? Mainly, you guess, because of the difficulty of marrying that message with the daily sermon on the necessary virtues of austerity.
Assad listened to a sermon at the prayers, during which Sheikh Abdul-Haq said: "It's our responsibility today to respond to the message of Prophet Mohammad … which is to love each other".
The audience included representatives of TV and newspaper organisations including Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, Daily Mail columnist and consultant editor Andrew Pierce and Victoria Newton, editor of the Sun on Sunday, who also read a sermon.
"We are happy to reject anger and endless conflict, because we don't believe in chaos and disorder … Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful," he said in a public sermon.
He added: "Nick could deliver the Sermon on the Mount; they are just not listening".
What if it features a meaty political sermon?
