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  • It's Not Your Imagination In 2006; The Average ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    It’s Not Your Imagination In 2006; the average American household received 80 credit card solicitations, according to data compiled by ...read more

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  • Pay Off A Pew Survey Finds The Most Common Way ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    PAY OFF A Pew survey finds the most common way 28% of U.S. adults take care of their regular monthly bills is by an online or electronic payment while 54% still ...read more

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  • Small Church Growth In '06 Outreach Magazine ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Small Church Growth In '06 Outreach magazine cited a growth of 21.5% for megachurches from 1994 to 2004. At the same time congregations of less ...read more

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  • Money Raised Online For Many Nonprofit ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Money Raised Online for many nonprofit organizations grew from virtually nothing only a few years ago to a median 27% increase an annual amount $362,485 from 7/1/05 to 6/30/06, according to a Convio study. Organizations with the most monthly unique Web site visitors built the largest e-mail ...read more

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  • The Top Attributes Employees Look For In An ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    The Top Attributes employees look for in an employer are good career advancement opportunities (23%), company’s stability and longevity in the market (23%), good work ...read more

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  • Volunteers Down

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    VOLUNTEERS DOWN In ’06 more than 61 million Americans donated their time to charity, the fewest since ’02, and down 4.4 million from ’05, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts note volunteering spiked after 9/11/01 and Hurricane Katrina may have played a role in that it wiped out ...read more

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  • Corporate Social Conscience

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    CORPORATE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE In ’05, one-third of America’s top rated companies issued voluntary SSE (Social, Environmental, Ethical) reports on their social responsibility. In Great Britain, 70% of top companies issue social progress reports, half of which are ...read more

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  • Crowded Loneliness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    CROWDED LONELINESS At a recent small groups conference at Saddleback Church Randy Frazee spoke on the "call to community." He reported the average American family manages 35 separate relationships on a day-to-day basis--children, extended family, neighbors, government, school, friends, work, ...read more

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  • Religious Literacy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    RELIGIOUS LITERACY Just as schools teach reading, writing and arithmetic, Boston University's Stephen Prothero thinks religion ought to become the "4th R" of American education. He notes although 90% of people in the U.S. claim they are Christian, only a few know anything about religion. Only 10% ...read more

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  • Kids Are Buying Books In Quantities We've Never ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Kids Are Buying Books in quantities we've never seen before reports Booklist magazine. Credit a bulging teen population (30 million plus), a surge of global talent and perhaps a bit of Harry Potter afterglow. Teen book sales rose 25% between '99 and '05. Fantasy and graphic novels are especially ...read more

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  • Women Sleep Deprived A National Sleep Foundation ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Women Sleep Deprived A National Sleep Foundation study finds the majority of American women are continually sleep deprived, either because of young children, biological changes (pregnancy and menopause), stress or pets. The impact on families, personal and professional lives, and society is ...read more

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  • Prison Population

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    PRISON POPULATION The Pew Charitable Trust reports that by 2011 the U.S. prison population will grow 12% retain, 1.7 million men and women and cost American taxpayers an additional $27.5 billion. That’s more than the population of Atlanta, Baltimore and Denver combined. Every year ...read more

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  • It's About Relationships  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    IT'S ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS According to the Stanford Research Institute, the money made in any endeavor is determined only 12.5% by knowledge, and 87.5% by your ability to deal with people. 68% of customers quit shopping with you because of an attitude of indifference toward them by an employee. ...read more

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  • Children At Risk

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    CHILDREN AT RISK According to recent reports, there are 120 million street children, 15 million AIDS orphans, 10 million child prostitutes, 2 million deaths/year from treatable ...read more

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  • Affluent Americans Spend More Time On The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Affluent Americans spend more time on the Internet searching instead of surfing according to a JupiterResearch study. Americans with annual household income over $100,000 spend a median of 17 hours a week online, vs. 14 for everyone else. They also are more aware of advertising and are more active ...read more

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  • Fewer Abortions

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    FEWER ABORTIONS A study led by Michael New, Univ. of Alabama Political Science Professor, reveals that while the abortion rate in the overall population fell 29% between '85 and '99, it fell almost 50% among minors. Parental involve-ment laws reduced the minor ...read more

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  • Best Christian Workplaces Among Christian ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Best Christian Workplaces among Christian publishers according to the 2007 Best Christian Places to Work are Harvest House Publishers and Tyndale House Publishers in the Media and Publishing companies with 100-500 employees and Howard Books and InterVarsity Press were winners in up to 100 employees ...read more

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  • Christian Publishers Receive A Combined Total Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Christian Publishers receive a combined total of about 250,000 manuscripts per year. All Christian publishers combined (slightly over 300) publish approximately 12,000 new tittles per year. This indicates that about 5% of manuscripts get ...read more

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  • Bible Study Boom

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Bible Study Boom According to the International Coalition of Workplace Ministries in 2000, there were 79 books published about faith and work compared to 2,000 titles in the past two years. More ...read more

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  • Divorce Cost Us All Each Year About 1.2 Million ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Divorce Cost Us All Each year about 1.2 million couples divorce in the U.S., costing taxpayers an estimated $30 billion in federal and state expenditures. Each divorce costs society $25,000 to $30,000 because of the increased costs of helping people with housing, food stamps, bankruptcies, problems ...read more

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