Sermon
A sermon is a religious discourse or oration by a preacher or other unit of clergy. Sermons character a scriptural, theological, or moral topic, commonly expounding on a type of belief, law, or behavior within both past and introduced contexts. Elements of the sermon often include exposition, exhortation, & practical application. The act of delivering a sermon is called preaching. In secular usage, the word sermon may refer, often disparagingly, to a lecture on morals.
In Christian practice, a sermon is commonly preached to a congregation in a place of worship, either from an elevated architectural feature, requested as a pulpit or an ambo, or from unhurried a lectern. The word sermon comes from a Middle English word which was derived from Old French, which in realise different originates from the Latin word meaning 'discourse.' A sermonette is a short sermon usually associated with television broadcasting, as stations would produced a sermonette before signing off for the night. The Christian Bible contains numerous speeches without interlocution, which some pull in to be sermons: Jesus' sermon on the mount in Matthew 5–7 though the gospel writers take not specifically so-called it a sermon; the popular descriptor for Jesus' speech there came much later; and Peter after Pentecost in Acts 2:14–40 though this speech was delivered to non-Christians and as such(a) is non quite parallel to the popular definition of a sermon.