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World Vision Has Over 22,000 Employees And Works ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

World Vision has over 22,000 employees and works in 100 countries serving 100 million people with nearly $1 billion in aid annually. ...read more

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More Believers: It Took 1900 Years For The Number ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More Believers: It took 1900 years for the number of dedicated believers to grow to 2.5% percent of the population, but only 70 years to double that to 5%. Since ‘70 – just 35 years – it has more than doubled again, to 11.2% today. At this rate, in 20 years the numbers will grow to 50%. ...read more

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Spiritual Growth Is A Low Priority: A Recent ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Spiritual Growth Is A Low Priority: A recent Barna survey explored seven dimensions of spiritual development, asking respondents to rate themselves in each area on a 5-point scale. Researcher George Barna noted, “most people do not feel as if they are learning enough about God, the Christian faith, ...read more

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Revolution, George Barna's Newest Book, Describes ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Revolution, George Barna’s newest book, describes what he believes will be the most massive reshaping of the nation’s faith community in more than a century. “These are people who are less interested in attending church than in being the church,” he explains. He found that while some people leave ...read more

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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

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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

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Global Church Growth: Ted Haggard, Pastor And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Global Church Growth: Ted Haggard, Pastor and current President of the National Association of Evangelicals, reports that about 69,000 people around the world are becoming Christians daily. That’s roughly one-third of the global ...read more

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Motivate: Half Of All Companies Use Cash Awards ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Motivate: Half of all companies use cash awards to motivate employees according to a National Employee Recognition Assoc. 83% used special events, 74% gift cards and 64% ...read more

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Mission Omission: In 1920, 10¢ Of Every $1 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Mission Omission: In 1920, 10¢ of every $1 donated to a church was spent on overseas missions vs. just 2¢ today. ...read more

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There Are Roughly 97,000 Western Missionaries And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

There are roughly 97,000 Western missionaries and about 101,000 non-Westerners working cross culturally in ...read more

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As Of July 1, The U.s. Population Was At 296.4 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

As of July 1, the U.S. population was at 296.4 million, but it may hit 300 million in ‘07. (Foster ...read more

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Nevada Is The Fastest-Growing State, According To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Nevada is the fastest-growing state, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with 2.2 million inhabitants. (Foster ...read more

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Compassion International Recruited Nearly 4,000 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Compassion International recruited nearly 4,000 child sponsorships in just 6-weeks through the recent efforts of Michael W. Smith at two concerts. ...read more

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Dialog Encouraged: The Nae Has Adopted Guidelines ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Dialog Encouraged: The NAE has adopted guidelines for churches for urging evangelicals, who have not made a priority of interfaith dialogue, to interact more with Muslims. But the guidelines promote a fundamentally different approach to interfaith relations than that used by mainline Protestant ...read more

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Failure To Communicate: Research By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Failure To Communicate: Research by FranklinCovey, a training firm, finds that a majority of American workers cannot correctly identify their employers’ main goals, and fewer than 10% believe their day-to-day activities are actually ...read more

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My Colleague And Friend, Rev David Snuggs, Spent ...

Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 3, 2006

My colleague and friend, Rev David Snuggs, spent three weeks in Israel recently and he was deeply affected by hearing young Hebrew voices calling out, “abba!” One young lad was really excited about showing something to his dad: “abba, abba!” At the beach a boy was struggling in the water and he ...read more

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Denomination: Anglican

Discussing Religion Or Politics Is No Longer ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Discussing Religion or politics is no longer considered taboo in our society, according to a new Barna Research Group survey. The seven most talked about topics (by American adults) in a typical week are: 66% talked about the content of movies or TV programs, 57% discussed money, 55% focused on ...read more

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American Chat Some 53 Million Americans, 1 In 6, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

American Chat Some 53 million Americans, 1 in 6, now visit a chat room every month, up from one in 10 million in ‘01, finds Nielsen/Net Rating and Forrester Research. E-mail is now the most popular online activity for 93% of Web regulars ...read more

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The Fastest Growing Age Group In America Is The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

The fastest growing age group in America is the 85 and over crowd. (Foster Letter ...read more

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Boomers Read: Once Viewed As Spiritual ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Boomers Read: Once viewed as spiritual antagonists, political activists, and non-traditionalists, Boomers have retained their penchant for confounding the experts. Though they were the first generation raised with omnipresent television and were instrumental in introducing computers to the world, ...read more

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