1.   The first sermon she preached reiterated the message.

2.   A single word spoken by James Carroll during his first sermon would cause a rupture between him and his father that would never heal.

3.   Last Monday evening, Rabbi Linda Joseph had just finished writing her first High Holy Day sermon for her new congregation at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton.

4.   Sosland planned to use her first sermon to address her unease at having to say the traditional prayer about who will live and who will die.

5.   The rain stopped before Graham walked to the pulpit to deliver his first sermon in nine months.

6.   When Graham steps to the pulpit that evening, it will be the first sermon he has preached in nearly nine months.

7.   Worrell recently preached his first sermon as the new pastor.