The unidentified narrator or preacher speaks in the first person throughout the work.

The preacher spoke to the people.

Churchgoers still value the sermon, with 96.6% looking forward to hear the preacher speak.

The videos feature several songs that play as the preacher speaks.

Perkinite preachers spoke of a utopic end to all violence, uncertainty, chaos.

Then he shuddered, the desire to learn plainly fled from him, and the preacher spoke now with contempt.

The music stops, and a preacher with a microphone speaks.

I didn't understand the prayer, but the preacher spoke to the crowd in English.

The style by which the preacher speaks is no substitute for the sermon's having good content.

I suspect their preachers speak much in the same manner as you have just done.