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More Than 9 Out Of Every 10 Churches Offer Sunday ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More than 9 out of every 10 churches offer Sunday school for elementary grades (92%) and adults (91%).(Foster ...read more

Tags: Church General

26% Of Churches Buy Sunday School Curriculum From ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

26% of churches buy Sunday school curriculum from an independent publisher while 52% obtain it from their denomination. ...read more

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No Marriage—no Divorce: Couples Who Once Might ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

No Marriage—No Divorce: Couples who once might have wed and then divorced now are not marrying at all, reports The State of our Unions 2005, an annual report issued by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. The U.S. divorce rate is 17.7 per 1,000 married women, down from 22.6 in ‘80. ...read more

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Teen Gambling: A Recent Annenberg Public Policy ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Teen Gambling: A recent Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found 11% (almost double from last year) of high-school boys play cards for money weekly; 26% report gambling in the last month. Researcher Rachel Volberg notes one of the biggest problems with teen gambling is that hitting the jackpot ...read more

Tags: Addiction

More Mega-Churches: New Research Reveals That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More Mega-Churches: New research reveals that their may be 1200 or more mega churches in the U.S. rather than the widely assumed 850 count. A cooperative project by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and the Leadership Network discovered the discrepancy when the two groups, each of ...read more

Tags: Church General

Less Flex: The Number Of Employees With Flexible ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

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

Brand Must Tell A Story: Story Telling Is A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Brand Must Tell A Story: Story telling is a fundamental way humans transmit and process information. Brand recognition is no substitute for brand connection and it’s through brand stories where consumers can connect. It is through brand story telling that corporate ...read more

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Pastors & Marriage: 88% Of Evangelical Ministers ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Pastors & Marriage: 88% of evangelical ministers and 69% of mainline Protestant ministers in the U.S. are currently on their first marriage. 8% of evangelical pastors have been divorced compared to 23% of ...read more

Tags: Divorce

Aging America: According To Data From Census ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Aging America: According to data from Census 2000, the median age in America reached its highest point ever at 35.3 years, up from 32.9 years in 1990. The most rapid increase in size of any age group was the 49% jump in the population of ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

Sleepless

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Sleepless: National Institute on Aging studies show that among twentysomethings about 1 out of 8 are insomniacs. By ages 50 to 64, it’s 1 out of 5 and rises to 1 in 4 ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Cohabitating Families Falling Apart: In Great ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Cohabitating Families Falling Apart: In Great Britain 75% of all family breakdowns affecting young children now involve unmarried parents, finds new research. An estimated 88,000 children aged under 5 were affected by the separation of their unmarried parents in ‘03, compared with about 31,000 ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Christian Music Sales Totaled $720 Million In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Christian Music sales totaled $720 million in ’04, making the genre bigger than classical and jazz combined. ...read more

Tags: Entertainment

Pastors Families: According To Recent Ellison ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Pastors Families: According to recent Ellison Research for Facts & Trends, 93% of pastors have children, including 43% with adolescents, and 50% whose children are 18 or older. 14% are the child of a pastor. 93% believe there is extra pressure being married to a pastor and 91% feel there is extra ...read more

Tags: Church General

Child Porn Up: The National Center For Missing ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Child Porn Up: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reports of suspected child porn jumped 39% to 106,000 last year. ...read more

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Total Estimated U.s. Charitable Giving Reached ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Total estimated U.S. charitable giving reached $248.52 billion for ‘04 — a new record for philanthropic giving. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Giving General

76% Of American Doctors Say They Believe In God; ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

76% of American doctors say they believe in God; 59% believe in some kind of afterlife and 55% say their beliefs influence how they practice ...read more

Tags: Faith General

The Government Consumes 50.4% Of All Personal ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The government consumes 50.4% of all personal income in the U.S. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Money

3 In 10 Americans Report That Alcohol Has Been ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

3 in 10 Americans report that alcohol has been the source of trouble within their own families. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Addiction

26% Of Members Have Officially Left The Episcopal ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

26% of members have officially left the Episcopal Church since General Convention in August ’03. (Foster ...read more

60% Of India's 24 Million Christians Are Dalits ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

60% of India’s 24 million Christians are Dalits otherwise knows as untouchables. (Foster Letter ...read more

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