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Red States And Blue States Really Differ When It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Red States And Blue States really differ when it comes to marriage reports the Census Bureau. Generally, men and women in the Northeast marry later than those in Midwest, West or South. In the Northeast the median age of first marriage is 29 for men and 27 for women, about 4 years later than other ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Origins On The Mind: A Recent Cnn/Usa ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Origins On The Mind: A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds 75% of Americans have thought at least a moderate amount about human origins, and 66% say it matters to them which theory is correct. Americans are more likely to endorse a purely creationist view than an evolutionary one. The majority ...read more

Customer Evangelism And Word-Of-Mouth Marketing ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Customer Evangelism and word-of-mouth marketing have become the most dominant forms of advertising to college students. According to a study by Alloy Marketing + Media, 91% of today’s college students pay the most attention to advertising ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

U.s. Charitable Giving Rose 11.6% In '04 Over ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

U.S. charitable giving rose 11.6% in ’04 over ’03, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The United Way topped the list with $3.9 billion received followed by The Salvation Army at ...read more

Tags: Giving General

More Than 4 Out Of 10 Evangelical Adults Are ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More than 4 out of 10 evangelical adults are involved in an alternative form of church on a regular basis. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Church General

More Than 80 Million People Go Online Each Month ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More than 80 million people go online each month to play games and online adults spend about 6 hours a week on video games according to Jupiter ...read more

Tags: Entertainment

New Federal Data Finds That More Than Half Of 15- ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

New federal data finds that more than half of 15- to 19-year-olds have received or given oral sex. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Sexuality

Blackberry Thumb Is A Repetitive Stress Injury Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

BlackBerry Thumb is a repetitive stress injury of the thumb as a result of overusing small gadget keypads. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Generation C (C Is For Creative): A New ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Generation C (C is for Creative): A new generation of parents is abandoning its obsession with children becoming doctors, lawyers or business executives; they are realizing that creative careers are not necessarily doomed to poverty. Fuelling the trend: (1) The creative urges each consumer ...read more

Tags: Children

Family Structure: According To The Institute For ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Family Structure: According to the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, 20 of 23 studies find a link between family structure and delinquency, affirming that kids from broken homes are much more likely to enter lives of crime. 90% of the increase in violent-crime rates can be attributed to the ...read more

Tags: Children

Major Cell Phone Carriers Have Adopted A Content ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Major Cell Phone carriers have adopted a content rating system, a move that could pave the way for them to sell sex-oriented content on mobile ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Alternative Church: In A Typical Week, 22% Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Alternative Church: In a typical week, 22% of American adults engage in spiritual encounters outside the traditional church, 9% participate in a house church while more than 10% turn to the Internet as their foundation for interactive faith experience (Most in tandem with another form). Revolution, ...read more

Tags: Disciplines General

Lost Youth: Ron Luce, President Of Teen Mania ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Lost Youth: Ron Luce, President of Teen Mania Ministries, says, “At the present rate of evangelism, we will soon only have 4% Bible-believing Evangelical Christians, compared to baby boomers with 35% and their parents ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

Costly Interruptions From Emails, Instant ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Costly Interruptions from emails, instant messages, the Web, and phone are decreasing U.S. business productivity by $588 billion annually finds a Basix study. Interruptions to workflow can cost the average knowledge worker ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

Multi-Site Churches There Are Now At Least 1,500 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Multi-Site Churches There are now at least 1,500 multi-site churches in the U.S. finds a new Leadership Network survey. 51% say their reason for going multi-site was evangelistic outreach, and 21% did it to get closer to their target audience. The remaining 19% view it as a solution to overcrowding ...read more

Tags: Church General

Stress Costs: Up To 70% Of Employers Benefit ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Stress Costs: Up to 70% of employers benefit costs are incurred in 6 disease categories: hypertension, gastro-obesity related issues, diabetes, heart disease, muscular-skeletal injuries, and cancer—all ...read more

Tags: Workplace

The National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and the non-partisan research group Child Trends finds almost 25% of teens who say they are virgins have had oral sex. Teens who define themselves as abstinent may ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Info Hunger: According To A Recent Ball State ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Info Hunger: According to a recent Ball State University poll, average Americans spend more time online, on the phone, punching the remote, the radio and the game console than they do sleeping—9 hours a day. Much of that time they are using ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

Consumers Intend To Spend An Average Of $248 On ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Consumers intend to spend an average of $248 on gift cards this holiday season, up from $223 in ‘04 and $183 in 2003 finds a Stored Value Systems ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Shoppers Expect To Spend An Average Of Only $671 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Shoppers expect to spend an average of only $671 on Christmas gifts this year, down 1% from last year, reports Gift Tracker survey. American consumers feel wrung out and are not particularly bullish about their holiday gift shopping. But what consumers say and what they ...read more

Tags: Christmas