11.   But the imam, Nidal Abuasi, preached a sermon of reconciliation, saying Muslims never accepted violence aimed at the innocent.

12.   Every graduation season, some community tests the limits of church-state relations by sponsoring school prayer or allowing a sectarian graduation sermon to be preached.

13.   For instance, it is said of St. Francis of Assisi that he once preached a sermon to the birds.

14.   He moves easily among his people at worship, offering a pastoral prayer in American Sign Language, signing Scripture and preaching sermons with his hands.

15.   He preached four sermons through Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

16.   His Internet home page says he gave up preaching church sermons after discovering that they were forgotten before Sunday.

17.   Instead of preaching sermons of understanding and compassion and offering assistance, too many black pastors merely rail and condemn.

18.   It is tempting to preach a sermon here.

19.   Later, other sermons were preached in other private homes.

20.   Most recently he stirred the waters by preaching a sermon in which he said the Antichrist probably is a live today and is a male Jew.