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Teens Who Are Under High Stress, Are Often Bored, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Teens who are under high stress, are often bored, or have $25 or more a week in spending money, are twice as likely to smoke, get drunk, and use illegal drugs, according to a survey released this ...read more

Tags: Children

Sober Souls: 27% Of American Adults Never Drink ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Sober Souls: 27% of American adults never drink alcoholic beverages--such as liquor, wine or beer—and 25% only drink them on special occasions, such as New Years and holidays, ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Individuals Are Biggest Donors Foundations ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2006

Individuals Are Biggest Donors Foundations account for 7% of all American donations, corporations give 5%, but individuals account for 80% of giving and 57% of those gifts ($66 billion) went to religious non-profits in 1995. ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Daily Religion Widespread In The U.s., 9 Out Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

Daily Religion Widespread In the U.S., 9 out of 10 people claim to engage regularly in prayer; and 3 of 4 say they do so on a daily basis. In the 21st century, the pull of religion ...read more

Tags: Character

Working Mothers Miss An Average Of 8.5 Days Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006

Working mothers miss an average of 8.5 days of work per year due to child-care problems, fathers average 5 days. Worker absenteeism is down 7% this year from last.. ...read more

Tags: Children

America's Immigrant Population Has Gone From 4.7% ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

America’s Immigrant Population has gone from 4.7% in ’70 to 10.4% today accounting for 28.3 million people. About 1 of every 10 persons in America was foreign ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

According To A Recent Newsweek Poll, 40% Of All ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

According to a recent Newsweek poll, 40% of all Americans and only 45% of U.S. Christians expect the world will end in a final battle between Jesus Christ and the Anti-Christ at Armageddon. ...read more

Tags: Judgment

Most Influential Christians: I.believe.com Has ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Most Influential Christians: i.Believe.com has selected the 5 “Most influential Christians of the 20th Century.” They are C.C. Lewis, Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, Dr. James ...read more

Tags: Faith

Alzheimer's: About 10% Of People Age 65 And Older ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Alzheimer’s: About 10% of people age 65 and older and 50% of those over 85 develop Alzheimer’s. 4 million people current suffer from this degenerative, incurable and always fatal ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

Ladies Waiting: According To The Centers For ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Ladies Waiting: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average age at which American women are having their first child has climbed to an all-time high of 25.1—up ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Fundraisers In New York State Kept 69% Of Funds ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Fundraisers in New York state kept 69% of funds raised via telemarketing in ’02 Overall, charities kept less than half the money raised in 78% of campaigns reports the Better ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Volunteerism: About 59 Million People, Or 27.6% ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Volunteerism: About 59 million people, or 27.6% of the civilian non-institutional population, volunteered through or for an organization at some point from September ‘01 to September ’02 (The most recent ...read more

Scripture: 1 Peter 4:8-11

Tags: Giving General

Americans Average About 7 Hours Of Sleep A Night, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Americans average about 7 hours of sleep a night, little changed over the past decade. But more people today say they don’t get enough sleep than said so 15 ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

Planned Parenthood Performed 244,628 Abortions ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Planned Parenthood performed 244,628 abortions last year, up 6.1% from ’03. Their FY 2004 annual report reveals the organization relied on abortion for 34% of its clinic ...read more

Tags: Abortion

Evangelicals: Barna Research Group Reports That ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Evangelicals: Barna Research Group reports that about 72 million of the 235 million Christians in the U.S., or 30.6%, say they are born-again. Some 14 million of that group, or 19.4%, consider ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

Scrapbook Boom: There Are 4.4 Million New ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Scrapbook Boom: There are 4.4 million new scrap-booking households in the U.S. since ’01 according to the 2004 National Survey of Scrapbooking. The industry has seen a 27.8% sales growth ...read more

The Popes Death Triggered A Boost In Religious ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The Popes Death triggered a boost in religious website traffic. Catholic sites recorded a 118% rise in online visits the week following, Mormon traffic rose 40%, Judaism sites 22% and ...read more

Tags: Death

Sleepless

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Sleepless: National Institute on Aging studies show that among twentysomethings about 1 out of 8 are insomniacs. By ages 50 to 64, it’s 1 out of 5 and rises to 1 in 4 ...read more

Tags: Workplace

George Barna Says, "As Long As Churches Measure ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

George Barna says, “As long as churches measure success on the basis of popularity and efficiency, we will continue to see a nation filled with people who can recite Bible stories but fail to live ...read more

Tags: Bible Influence

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