Southern churches are hardly the only ones that use signs to do more than give the time for Sunday services, the preacher's name and the sermon topic.

Yesterday, at Mr. Ferrer's suggestion, several Bronx ministers made racial bias their sermon topic.

The pastor shared the sermon topic and by the end of the week the boy had written a song for that Sunday, words and music.

"Some might have suspected that this sermon topic was chosen with the eye to a possible Presidential appearance," he told the congregation.

His sermon topic, as promised, was "No Hiding Place Down Here."

Performances regularly include songs improvised both musically and lyrically by accepting audience recommendations, sermon topics, or guest speaker stories as their basis.

The Church has counteracted this with numerous seminars, and it requests that ministers of each congregation coordinate their sermon topics together.

It is also a common sermon topic on church unity.

While bishop, Weseham wrote an Instituta for his clergy, in order to teach them Christian doctrine and help them select sermon topics.

And it has given him what all rabbis worry about and plan for at this time of year, a sermon topic for Yom Kippur.