sermons
Clergy deliver these
Sermons are religious addresses delivered during worship services, typically expounding on scripture or moral teaching.
The word extends to any lengthy lecture on conduct or duty, often unwelcome: I don't need a sermon from you about my choices.
To preach to the choir is to deliver a sermon to those already convinced.
Church speaking platform
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
homiletics · exhortation · proclamation · discourse · address · congregation · pastor · minister
Trust without proof
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- prayerAddress to deity
worship · holiness · sanctity · devotion · providence · revelation · prophecy · repentance
Study of right conduct
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- valuesPrinciples held worthwhile
admonition · conscience · exhortation · parable · allegory · proverbs · teachings · moral lesson
Formal worship structure
- lectionaryScheduled scripture for services
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- psalmsReligious songs of praise
- hymnsReligious songs of worship
altar · sanctuary · congregation · scripture reading · offertory · invocation · benediction · responsive reading
Support spurring continued effort
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- upliftRaise emotionally or physically
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- transformationThorough change in form
perseverance · renewal · testimony · calling · purpose · overcoming · healing · strength
pulpit
Church speaking platform
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
rhetoric · homiletics · exhortation · proclamation · discourse · address · congregation · pastor · minister · clergy
faith
Trust without proof
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
prayer · worship · holiness · sanctity · devotion · providence · revelation · prophecy · repentance · forgiveness
ethics
Study of right conduct
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
values · admonition · conscience · exhortation · parable · allegory · proverbs · teachings · moral lesson · cautionary tale
liturgy
Formal worship structure
- lectionaryScheduled scripture for services
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- psalmsReligious songs of praise
hymns · altar · sanctuary · congregation · scripture reading · offertory · invocation · benediction · responsive reading · doxology
encouragement
Support spurring continued effort
transformation · perseverance · renewal · testimony · calling · purpose · overcoming · healing · strength · reassurance
- early literatureessay, novel, pamphlet, early novels, treatise
- religious writingshomilies, meditations, epistles, biblical commentary, catechisms
- literary formsnovel, novels, novella, poetry, poetry collections
- writingsessay, essays, article, articles, stories
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, history books, letter
- speechesspeech, addresses, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy
sermonscasual conversation
Informal spoken exchange
small talk · chitchat · chit-chat · banter · gossip
sermonslocker room talk
Crude speech among men
profanity · political speeches · business presentations · sales pitches · blasphemies
- 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
sermon, sermonize, sermonizing, sermonic, sermonized, sermonizer, sermonizers