In Sermon Illustrations: "Boring Sermons"

Do Not Offend Visitors To Your Website. A New ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Do Not Offend visitors to your website. A new Hostway, Inc survey reports 93% of web users do not like pop-up ads, 59% view moving text as bothersome, and 55% are annoyed by certain colors, type fonts and page formats. Other irksome issues are: 89%-the need to install extra software to use site ...read more

Tags: Communication General

Twixters, 20-Somethings Caught Between Youth And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Twixters, 20-somethings caught between youth and adulthood, as a generation is more interested in job satisfaction than in settling down. The driving question in their lives: “What ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Christian College: In Favor Since '97, Enrollment ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Christian College: In Favor Since ’97, enrollment in the nation’s 104 Christ-centered colleges has risen 27% vs. 9% for all 4-year ...read more

Tags: Wisdom

Love My Job: Gallup's Annual Work And Education ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Love My Job: Gallup’s annual Work and Education Poll finds most employed adults in the U.S. enjoy their jobs, including 59% who “like” and 32% who “love” them. Only 9% dislike or hate them. Non-profit organization, government, or self-employed workers are much more likely than those ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Campus Drugs: A Recent Columbia National Center ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Campus Drugs: A recent Columbia National Center survey finds that 28% of middle-school-students reported drugs are used, kept or sold at their schools, up 47% since ’02. 62% of high schoolers say ...read more

Tags: Children

Absolute Moral Truth: 35% Of Adult Americans Say ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Absolute Moral Truth: 35% of adult Americans say moral truth is absolute, not dependent upon circumstances. 32% say it is always determined by the situation and 33% don’t know if it is absolute or relative. 70% of evangelicals believe it’s absolute and 42% of non-evangelical born again adults ...read more

Tags: Truth Absolute

Prayer In School: Large Majorities Favor Allowing ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Prayer In School: Large majorities favor allowing voluntary prayer in public schools, and believe that religion has too little presence there. A Gallup poll finds 76% of Americans favor “a constitutional amendment to allow voluntary prayer in public schools,” while just 23% oppose it. This is not ...read more

Tags: Prayer Adoration

Build & Grow: Church Researcher, The Rainer ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Build & Grow: Church researcher, The Rainer Group, reports that 81% of churches experienced growth following a building program. ...read more

Tags: Church General

Personal Letters Of All Sorts, Or "Household To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Personal Letters of all sorts, or “household to household” correspondence, account for less than 1% of the 100 billion pieces of first-class mail the USPS handles each year. Most of it mail consists of greeting cards, invitations, ...read more

Tags: Communication General

Where Evangelicals Live: 7% Of The U.s Adult ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Where Evangelicals Live: 7% of the U.S adult population (15 million people) is evangelical. Little Rock has the highest percentage of evangelicals (22%) of all large U.S. metro areas. Los Angeles has more evangelicals than New York, Chicago and Boston areas combined! A new Barna Group report shows ...read more

Tags: Character

Teach Creationism: 64% Of Americans Say That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Teach Creationism: 64% of Americans say that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools according to a new Pew Forum on Religion poll. 38% favor replacing evolution with creationism. The poll found that 42% hold strict creationist views (living things have existed in their ...read more

Metro Minority: Just 3 Of The Nation's 25 Largest ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Metro Minority: Just 3 of the nation’s 25 largest metro areas have a born again majority. However, 15 of the 27 mid-sized markets (adult population of 500,000-1,000,000) have a born ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

Dramatic Drop: Government Figures Show The Rate ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Dramatic Drop: Government figures show the rate of sexual assaults against adolescents ages 12-17 plunged 79% between ‘93 and ‘03, and the number of substantiated sex-abuse cases involving kids of all ages fell 39%. Crimes Against Children Research Center credits multiple reasons for the decline: ...read more

Tags: Sin General

1 In 6 Residents Of Massachusetts, Connecticut ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

1 in 6 residents of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Washington are atheist or agnostic, twice the national average. ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

70% Of Americans Support Posting The Ten ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

70% of Americans support posting the Ten Commandments in government buildings. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

31% Of Americans Say They Have Too Little ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

31% of Americans say they have too little religious freedom in the workplace. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Workplace Evangelism

54% Of Protestant Teens Shared Their Faith With ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

54% of Protestant teens shared their faith with someone of a different faith within the past year. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Sharing My Testimony

Russia Reports 1.6 Million Women Had Abortions In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Russia reports 1.6 million women had abortions in ‘04, while 1.5 million gave birth. Economics is blamed. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Last Year 1.9 Billion Christmas Cards Were ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Last year 1.9 billion Christmas cards were exchanged in the U.S. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Christmas

86% Of U.s. Consumers Have Reduced The Amount Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

86% of U.S. consumers have reduced the amount of time they spend shopping in the past 5 years. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment