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  • Giving By Foundations Hit A Record Last Year, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Giving By Foundations hit a record last year, reversing 2 years of declines thanks to gains in asset values and continued gifts from philanthropists. The nation’s 66,000 independent, community and corporate foundations gave $32.4 billion in ’04 vs. $30.3 billion in ’03, an inflation adjusted 4.1% ...read more

  • Wal-Mart, With Sales Of $285 Billion, Accounts ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Wal-Mart, with sales of $285 billion, accounts for 8% of all U.S. retail sales, excluding autos and gasoline, and is expected to hit 12% by ’10 when sales will hit $500 billion. Al Meyers, Retail Forward VP, says the company “will have a material influence on gross domestic product” by ’10-’11. ...read more

  • Pastor's Prayer Lives: A Recent Ellis Research ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Pastor’s Prayer Lives: A recent Ellis Research survey for Facts & Trends finds just 16% of pastors are very satisfied with thier personal prayer lives, 47% are somewhat satisfied, 30% somewhat dissatisfied and 7% very dissatisfied. Their median amount of prayer time per day is 30 minutes. During ...read more

  • Online Donations To The Biggest U.s. Charities ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Online Donations to the biggest U.S. charities surged 63% last year from ‘03, finds a new Chronicle of Philanthropy study. The 164 groups surveyed raised a combined $166.2 million online. That is less than 1% of the total raised by most of the charities, but the growth will spur more online ...read more

  • Cohabitating Families Falling Apart: In Great ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    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

  • Teen Gifts: A Stored Value Systems Inc. Study ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Teen Gifts: A Stored Value Systems Inc. study reveals 93% of American high-schoolers have received at least one gift card in the last year. Of teens that receive a gift card, 59% use it up in the first month, in the first visit. A majority of teens spend up to 10% of their disposable income on ...read more

  • Serious Video Games Are Gaining Momentum Against ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Serious Video Games are gaining momentum against the shoot-em up variety. Eventually, “serious games will take over the world” of gaming, predicts Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Assn. People will use video games for learning so easily and so often that ...read more

  • Belief Vs. Reality: More Than Four Out Of Five ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Belief Vs. Reality: More than four out of five Americans claim to be Christian and half as many can be classified as born again Christians. Nine out of ten adults own a Bible. Most adults read the Bible during the year and a huge majority claims they know all of the basic teachings of the Bible. ...read more

  • Americans Are More Worried About Their Job ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Americans are more worried about their job prospects than at any time since ‘93, raising the risk that consumer spending may slow. In February, 11% of people said jobs were plentiful, while 59% said they were not plentiful and 30% said they were hard to get, the group announced this week, the ...read more

  • Confusing Beliefs: Although A Statement Passed By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Confusing Beliefs: Although a statement passed by the Presbyterian Church (USA) 2001 General Assembly affirmed salvation through Jesus, recent survey results from the denomination reveal some puzzling beliefs among its clergy and laity. The survey found that at least 70% of members, elders and ...read more

  • Church Influence On Teens Nominal: New Barna ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Church Influence On Teens Nominal: New Barna research finds that 56% of teens say they attended church-related activities an average of two or more times per month prior to turning 13. Most likely attendees were those living in the South or Midwest. 26% received general information about God, such ...read more

  • Sharing Our Faith: According To A New Study From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Sharing Our Faith: According to a new study from the Barna Research Group, there are nearly 50 million born again adults who shared their faith in Christ with non-believers during the past year. That constitutes 60% of the born again adult population, which itself represents 38% of all adults. The ...read more

  • Two Income Trap: Even Though The Modern ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Two Income Trap: Even though the modern two-earner family brings in 75% more inflation-adjusted income than the one-earner family of a generation ago, it actually has les discretionary income—and far more financial instability. The decline of public education has dramatically raised the price of ...read more

  • Biblical Worldview Lacking: Only 4% Of Adults ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Biblical Worldview Lacking: Only 4% of adults have a biblical worldview as the basis of their decision-making according to recent Barna Research findings. Most Americans have little idea how to integrate core biblical principles to form a unified and meaningful response to the challenges and ...read more

  • Abortion Views Changing: A New Gallup Survey Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Abortion Views Changing: A new Gallup survey of 13 to 17 year olds finds their views on abortion significantly more conservative than their parents’ generation: Abortion is morally wrong, Teens: 72% Adults: 26%; Abortion should be legal in all circumstances, Teens: 19% Adults: 26%; Abortion should ...read more

  • Do You Feel Intimidated? Marty Springstead, ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 24, 2006
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    Do you feel intimidated? Marty Springstead, supervisor of American League umpires, said he will never forget his first assignment behind the plate. It was in a 1966 game at Washington. Frank Howard was playing for the Senators, and on the first pitch to the mountainous slugger, Springstead called a ...read more

  • Daddy's Footprints

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 26, 2006
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    DADDY’S FOOTPRINTS "Walk a little slower Daddy", said a child so small. "I’m following in your footsteps and I don’t want to fall. Sometimes your steps are very fast. Sometimes they’re hard to see; So walk a little slower, Daddy, For you are leading me. Someday when I’m all grown up, You’re what ...read more

  • Daddy's Footprints

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Sep 27, 2006
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    DADDY’S FOOTPRINTS "Walk a little slower Daddy", said a child so small. "I’m following in your footsteps and I don’t want to fall. Sometimes your steps are very fast. Sometimes they’re hard to see; So walk a little slower, Daddy, For you are leading me. Someday when I’m all grown up, You’re what ...read more

  • In His Early Years, American Landscape ...

    Contributed by James Westmoreland on Oct 23, 2006
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    In his early years, American landscape photographer Ansel Adams studied piano and showed some talent. At one party, however, as Adams played Chopin’s F Major Nocturne, he recalled that "In some strange way my right had started off in F-sharp major while my left had behaved well in F-major. I could ...read more

  • When One Is Searching For The Lost Property Both ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 19, 2007
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    When one is searching for the lost property both of his father and of his teacher, his teacher’s loss takes precedence over that of his father since his father brought him only into the life of this world, whereas his teacher, who taught him wisdom [i.e., Torah], has brought him into the life of ...read more