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File Swapping Decline: The number of online Americans downloading Internet music files has dropped by 50% and the numbers who are downloading files on any given day have plunged since the RIAA began filing copyright infringement suits in September. Conversely, comScore has observed that in recent ...read more
Tags: Sin General
Buster Pastors: The number of Busters (currently ages 20 to 38) who serve as senior pastors has doubled in just 2 years from 22,000 to 45,000 (nearly 14% of all 324,000 Protestant senior pastors in the U.S.). Buster pastors are more likely to use drama (32% to 21%); show movies, videos, and DVDs ...read more
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 13:1-14
Tags: Church Practices
Choices: The overall number of products offered in an average-size supermarket stands at around 22,000. Last year, there were over 21,000 new products introduced. An eye-popping 1,500 actually made it into stores, the highest ...read more
Tags: Money
Episcopal Turmoil: A growing number of American Episcopal churches are leaving the Episcopal Church U.S.A. and aligning themselves with the Anglican Church of Uganda. The rupture occurred over the Church’s decision last year to permit the blessing of same-sex unions and to consecrate an openly gay ...read more
Tags: Unity
Cell Phone Codependency A growing number of experts have identified and begun to study a distinct downside in that: cell phone use may be making us less autonomous and less capable of solving problems on our own, even when the answers are right in front of us. The ease of obtaining instant advice ...read more
Tags: Communication General
Wealth Vs. Happiness: The number of households with more than $1 million in net worth (excluding primary residence) has risen to a record high and at a record rate according to recent research by TNS Financial Services. The number of wealthy U.S. households has shot to 8.2 million as of mid-‘04, a ...read more
Tags: Finding Fulfillment
More Unchurched: The number of unchurched adults in the U.S. has doubled since ‘91. That growth has been especially pronounced among men, people under 40, singles, and people ...read more
Tags: Church General
A federal survey in ‘02 put the number of Americans who have tried acupuncture at 8.2 million. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Hardship Of Life
The number of American gamblers has increased by 20 million in the past 5 years. 73 million will visit a casino this year with the average gambler making 6 such visits ...read more
Tags: Addiction
The number of active duty soldiers getting a divorce rose 28% in ’04. Long separations and stress are blamed. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Divorce
Less Flex: The number of employees with flexible work schedules is dropping even as research shows non-traditional hours can enhance productivity. The number of full-time workers on flexible schedules dropped from 29 million in ‘01 to 27.4 million in ‘04, according to a U.S. Department of Labor a ...read more
Tags: Workplace Balance
The number of billionaires in the world grew from 587 in ‘04 to a record 691 people from 45 countries this year. (Foster ...read more
The number of college students who think that abortion should be legal has decreased from 67% 10 years ago to just a slight majority today. ...read more
Tags: Abortion
Porn Plague: The number of commercial pornography Web sites has increased 1,800% in the last 5 years, with an estimated 260 million pages classified as porn. In a single month (July ‘03), N2H2, an Internet filtering company, says more than 28 million new porn web pages appeared. That one-month jump ...read more
Estimates for the number of X-rated sites on the net range from 20,000 to 7 million ...read more
Denomination: Baptist
A number of statistical studies from around thirty years ago seemed to suggest that if neither parent was involved in worship then there was a 5% likelihood that their children would do so. Where the mother alone was involved in worship there was a 30% likelihood that her children would be ...read more
Scripture: Psalm 78:1-4
Tags: Discipleship
Denomination: Lutheran
A number of years ago the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas’s company for the DC-8 were close to ...read more
Tags: Faith
I believe the power of observation in numbers of very small children to be quite wonderful ...read more
Tags: Children
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there ...read more
Tags: Culture
“A Boulder With Your Name On It!” Numbers 13:25-29 Key verse(s) 27:“They gave Moses this account: ‘We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. But . . .” Sometimes the things that we are able to do surprise even ourselves. Have you ever had ...read more
Scripture: Numbers 13:25-29
Tags: Doubt, Faith General
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