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The Average College Student Spends About $900 A ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The average college student spends about $900 a year on textbooks and supplies. Textbook prices have risen 186% since ’86 vs. a 72% rise in general consumer ...read more

Tags: Money

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

Tags: Workplace Evangelism

Nuns In Crisis: According To A ‘04 Survey, The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Nuns In Crisis: According to a ‘04 survey, the number of nuns in the U.S. has dropped by 50% from the 60s. Adding to the crisis, the average age of the nuns today is ...read more

Tags: Church General

Ten Years Ago For Every Wife Who Left Her Family, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 29, 2002

Ten years ago for every wife who left her family, 600 husbands did. Today for each man who leaves, two women do. Charles Swindoll, Starting ...read more

People Who Attend Church, Synagogue Or Other ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

People who attend church, synagogue or other religious services once a week live 7 years longer than those who never go, according to a study that appears in this month’s ...read more

Tags: Nehemiah, Church General

41% Of 1st Births To Women Ages 15 To 29, Between ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006

41% of 1st births to women ages 15 to 29, between ’90 and ’94 were by out-of-wedlock mothers. 70% of Americans favor prayer in public schools. ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Sweet Tooth: Americans Spend $23.5 Billion ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006

Sweet Tooth: Americans spend $23.5 billion annually for 7.3 billion pound of candy. Average per capita annual con-sumption is over 25 pounds. Now ...read more

Tags: Church Practices

Bible Survey A New Zondervan Survey Reveals Adult ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006

Bible Survey A new Zondervan survey reveals adult Americans’ perceptions about the Bible. Only 59% read the Bible occasionally, down from 73% in the ‘80’s and at least weekly ...read more

Tags: Bible Study

Web Churches 83% Of Churches With Web Sites Say ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006

Web Churches 83% of churches with Web sites say their use of the Internet has helped congregational life and 83% report e-mail communication from the church staff has helped ...read more

Tags: Church General

Campus Crusade Raised $2.5 Million Of Its $350 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Campus Crusade raised $2.5 million of its $350 million private support budget online in fiscal ’00, more than any other charity poled by The Chronicle of ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Leisure: What Do We Do With Our Dwindling ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Leisure: What do we do with our dwindling personal time? Reading tops the list, followed by watching TV. Spending time with families comes in 3rd, followed by fishing ...read more

Tags: Entertainment

Barna Research Reports U.s. Adult Church ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Barna Research reports U.S. adult church attendance in the Western states has risen 27% in the last decade. At the same time small group participation has grown ...read more

Tags: Church Body Of Christ

Education Pays: The Unemployment Rate For All ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Education Pays: The unemployment rate for all people with a bachelor’s degree or better was just 2.9% in February, vs. 8.5% for people with less than a high school ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Protect Marriage: A Recent New York Times/Cbs ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Protect Marriage: A recent New York Times/CBS News poll finds 59% of Americans now support a marriage protection amendment while 35% oppose it. ...read more

Heart Attacks: About 60,000 People A Year Suffer ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Heart Attacks: About 60,000 people a year suffer an electrical short-circuit in the heart that can be reversed only with a shock from a defibrillator. Of these patients, 6% to 10% ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

Divine Lottery: Born-Again Christians And Adults ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Divine Lottery: Born-again Christians and adults who attend Christian churches are more likely than atheists, agnostics, and adherents of non-Christian faiths to buy lottery ...read more

Tags: Money

Those Who Embrace Christ Before Age 13 Are More ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Those who embrace Christ before age 13 are more likely to remain absolutely committed to Christ in their adult years than those who accept Christ in their teen or ...read more

Tags: Commitment To Christ

Muslims Turn To Christ: Baptist Missiologist And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Muslims Turn To Christ: Baptist missiologist and author David Garrison says, “More Muslims have come to Christ in the past two decades than at any other point in ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Fear Of

Relevant, A Magazine About "God, Life And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Relevant, a magazine about “God, life and progressive culture” for 18-34-year-olds, has a 65,000 circulation and attracts 340,000 Web site visitors monthly. ...read more

Tags: Entertainment

More Than 80 Million People Go Online Each Month ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

More than 80 million people go online each month to play games and online adults spend about 6 hours a week on video games according to Jupiter ...read more

Tags: Entertainment