'sermons' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'sermons' when referring to a religious discourse or moral discourse given by a religious leader. For example, "The pastor's sermons on compassion and forgiveness were inspiring to many of the parishioners."
Once again, while myopic politicians preach tired sermons pioneered by President Richard Nixon about defeating the scourge of narcotics, there is a safer and more sensible alternative if only they displayed a little courage.
(Teddy Kollek, a long-term mayor of Jerusalem, was reported in the 1980s to have told a group of clerics who were hectoring him about access to the holy sites: "Gentlemen, gentlemen! Spare me your sermons and I will fix your sewers!") The US government closed twice in the last several years, and few ordinary citizens even noticed.
And, for the love of God, you have to stop saying, "Ay caramba" in your sermons.
I pulled out Jemima's Journal, flipping to her encounter with "the pointed Eiger, cowled Mönch and glistening Jungfrau": she quoted Longfellow, who'd called them "the Apostles of nature whose sermons are avalanches".
The Madeleine would never have been built in its classical style if it had been designed to be the home of sermons preached by Rousseau and Voltaire.
Where possible, show people that you've been watching by sporadically feeding the terms "D'oh", "Ay caramba" and "Okily-dokily" into your sermons.
Today's mega-churches have dispensed with traditional hymns and learned sermons in favour of rock bands and a recent favourite pastors who preach from inside mock-up prisons, a reference to Fox's hit show, "Prison Break".
The Book of Common Prayer we knew Was that of 1662: Though with-it sermons may be well, Liturgical reforms are hell.
The state-run religious-affairs directorate, Diyanet, which writes their sermons, demanded that it be taken off the air.
But Mr Nateq-Noori, as speaker, has been enjoying pre-election exposure for months, his name and face kept steadily in front of the public.In their Friday sermons, Iran's mullahs, some of them specially dispatched from the country's conservative centres of learning, are finding it their duty to help people to make up their minds how to vote.
Following sustained pressure from Islamist Sunni members of parliament, the emirate revoked the Kuwaiti passport of Yasser al-Habib, a Shia preacher exiled in London, whose sermons suggesting that one of Muhammad's wives had poisoned the prophet prompted widespread outrage, including condemnation by fellow Shia clerics.
