In Sermon Illustrations: "Fire In That Sermon"

Persistent Kids: The Center For A New American ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Persistent Kids: The Center for a New American Dream reports 55% of young people say they are usually successful on getting their parents to give in. 40% have asked their parents for an advertised product they thought their parents would not approve of, and of those 59% say they don’t give up—they ...read more

Tags: Children

Myspace.com, The Controversial Social Networking ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

MySpace.com, the controversial social networking site, is the second most popular site on the Internet, trumping even Google. It has over 57 million users, and is ...read more

Tags: Children

Boston Has Seen Its Number Of Protestant ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Boston has seen its number of Protestant churches double in the past 30 years, from 300 in ’70 to over 600 today. Emmanuel Gospel Center research finds ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

100 Years Old: The April 1906 Azusa Street ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

100 Years Old: The April 1906 Azusa Street revivals in Los Angeles are considered the birth the modern Pentecostal movement. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, adherents to Charismatic faiths now number more ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

E-Mail Content Sharing 63% Of Internet Users ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

E-mail Content Sharing 63% of Internet users share various content via e-mail at least once a week, 25% daily, and 11% never. Of those who share content, 88% share jokes or cartoons, 56% news, 32% health care ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Gaming Growth Dfc Intelligence Expects Worldwide ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Gaming Growth DFC Intelligence expects worldwide online gaming subscription revenue to reach nearly $7 billion by 2011, more than tripling in the next 5 years. Business Week reports more than 50% of ’05 subscription revenue came ...read more

Tags: Church General

Individuals Read Web Pages In An "F" Pattern. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Individuals Read Web Pages in an “F” pattern. They’re more inclined to read longer sentences at the top of a page and less and less as they scroll down says a recent Nielsen Norman Group study. That makes the first 2-3 words of a sentence very important. Surfers connect well with images of people ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

Atheist Paid To Attend Church: Jim Henderson, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Atheist Paid To Attend Church: Jim Henderson, author and President of Off the Map, placed a winning eBay auction bid of $504 to send a Chicago atheist to church (one visit per $10 bid). Off the ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

Marketing Myth: There Is The Long-Held Belief ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Marketing Myth: There is the long-held belief that older TV viewers (ages 40 to 50) rarely change brand loyalty. Age Wave research company says boomers are, in fact, more open to new things such as new cell phone technology, Internet shopping, and other products. Marketers shouldn’t fall into ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

Dynamic E-Books: The Biggest Barrier To E-Book ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Dynamic E-Books: The biggest barrier to e-book world domination has to be the screen. An LCD display has much lower resolution than paper, and is reflective. On a PDA reading time is severely limited by battery life. But the dedicated e-book reader is about to make a comeback. Soon to be released ...read more

Tags: Bible Influence

More Channels: The Average U.s. Household ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

More Channels: The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4, ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

Public Acceptance Of Homosexuality Has Increased ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue ...read more

Online News The Daily Audience Online For News ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Online News The daily audience online for news has grown dramatically since ‘02 - a surge fueled by the rise in home broadband connections. Some 50 million Americans now seek out news on the internet on a typical day. 71% of these news consumers go online for news on the average day, while 59% get ...read more

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Rousing Music Research Shows That People Who Use ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Rousing Music Research shows that people who use high- energy music to start their day before they face challenging situations can increase their ...read more

Tags: Emotions

Among Boomers Of All Ages, 50% Have Positive ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Among Boomers of all ages, 50% have positive feelings of anticipation about their retirement and 50% have neutral or negative feelings. “Retirement” generates ...read more

Tags: Guilt

Media Danger For Kids: Just-Released Medical ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Media Danger For Kids: Just-released medical studies find constant exposure to media may be harmful to children. The studies link TV and video games to a host of modern youth ills, including obesity, sexual activity, consumerism, and antisocial behavior. The more TV 3rd-and-4th-graders watch, the ...read more

Tags: Children

Abortion An Analysis Of Gallup Polls Conducted ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Abortion An analysis of Gallup Polls conducted over 2004-05 shows that 55% of Americans believe abortion should be legal “only under certain circumstances,” while 24% think it should be legal “under any ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Follow The Money The National Geographic Society ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

Follow The Money The National Geographic Society (NGS) garnered front-page coverage when they recently unveiled a restored version of The Gospel of Judas--which asserts that Judas was Jesus’ closest friend rather than a traitor, and that he only did what Jesus asked of him: NGS has invested over $1 ...read more

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43% Of Evangelical Protestant Americans Say They ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

43% of evangelical Protestant Americans say they are very happy, vs. 34% of all ...read more

U.s. Adult Church Attendance Has Risen From A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006

U.S. adult church attendance has risen from a low of 37% in ‘96 to 47% in ...read more

Tags: Church General