sermon
Sunday worship talk
A sermon is a religious talk delivered during a worship service, typically by clergy expounding on scripture or moral teaching.
The word extends to any lengthy moralizing lecture: I asked one question and got a thirty-minute sermon.
To sermonize is to preach or lecture tediously.
Spare me the sermon requests someone stop moralizing.
Express sharp disapproval
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- hellfireEternal punishment by flame
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
sin · guilt · warning · condemnation · tirade · harangue · scolding · censure
Church speaking platform
- preacherReligious sermon deliverer
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- pastorChristian congregation leader
- ministerReligious leader or serve
clergy · scripture · homily · liturgy · parish · chapel · sanctuary · pews
Formal public speech
- addressSpeak to formally
- speechOral communication ability
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
delivery · elocution · proclamation · exhortation · monologue · discourse · persuasion · cadence
Trust without proof
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- prayerAddress to deity
worship · revelation · divinity · holiness · sacred · blessing · sanctity · soul
Study of right conduct
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
conscience · duty · morality · decency · justice · honesty · temperance · charity
rebuke
Express sharp disapproval
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- hellfireEternal punishment by flame
- damnationEternal punishment decree
judgment · sin · guilt · warning · condemnation · tirade · harangue · scolding · censure · reproach
pulpit
Church speaking platform
- preacherReligious sermon deliverer
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- pastorChristian congregation leader
minister · clergy · scripture · homily · liturgy · parish · chapel · sanctuary · pews · altar
oration
Formal public speech
rhetoric · delivery · elocution · proclamation · exhortation · monologue · discourse · persuasion · cadence · intonation
faith
Trust without proof
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
prayer · worship · revelation · divinity · holiness · sacred · blessing · sanctity · soul · eternal
ethics
Study of right conduct
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
integrity · conscience · duty · morality · decency · justice · honesty · temperance · charity · humility
uplift
Raise emotionally or physically
enlighten · transform · awaken · exhort · hearten · invigorate · edify · comfort · reassure · hope
- churchnave, pew, pews, altar, altars
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- speechesspeech, addresses, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy
- spoken languagespeech, spoken word, pronunciation, accent, dialect
- rhetoricrhetoric, persuasion, oratory, argumentation, debate
- church servicehymnal, prelude, postlude, readings, pew
sermoncasual conversation
Informal spoken exchange
small talk · chitchat · banter · gossip · chatter
sermonsilence
Total lack of sound
speechlessness · muteness · quiet · wordlessness · taciturnity
sermoncomedy routine
Scripted humor performance
stand-up comedy · jest · entertainment · amusement · dirty joke
- Christian sermonsClergy's scriptural teachings
- Sermon on the MountGospel hillside teaching
- Sunday sermonReligious weekly address
- sermon on mountFoundational ethical teaching, hillside
- religious sermonsSpoken teachings during worship
- church sermonsSpoken religious instruction
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