Earlier today, at least 2,000 people crowded the First Baptist Church here and spilled into the street outside to hear Mr. Jackson's Easter sermon.

It is this theology that will compel him once again to challenge the city's conscience in his Easter sermon.

At the start of April 1831 Taylor was again indicted for blasphemy over two Easter sermons in the last days of The Rotunda.

Then Reverend Lovoy stood up again to deliver his Easter sermon, and that was when the wasp landed on my hand.

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, referred to this story in his 2011 Easter sermon, on the subject of happiness and joy.

Wherever members of the clergy prepare their Easter sermons, those words from St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians almost certainly echo in their minds.

Emphasis was placed on the scriptural readings, congregational singing and on the Easter sermon.

It was said of him that he was preparing his Easter sermon early one Easter Day when the significance of the resurrection dawned on him.

His Easter sermons were written down at the request of the Brescian nobleman Benivolus, who had been too ill to listen to Gaudentius speak.

Church services with special Easter sermons were held and worshipers gathered to pray for those who had lost their lives and homes.