In Sermon Illustrations: "Http"

Pornography Revenues Now Exceed The Combined ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

Pornography revenues now exceed the combined revenues of Coca-Cola and McDonnell Douglas. ’96 porn video sales & rental profits were $4.2 billion. Americans spend more money at strip clubs than at Broadway, off-Broadway, regional and nonprofit theaters; at the opera, the ballet, ...read more

Tags: Addiction

The Fastest Growing Churches In America Since ‘80 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

The fastest growing churches in America since ‘80 have been the mega-churches. According to Leadership Network’s NetFax there are about 20,000 of them, while traditional denominations are steadily shrinking. Why? Experts credit it to the pastoral mega-churches asking “What is value?” to a ...read more

Tags: Church General

91% Of Americans Admit To Lying Regularly To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006

· 91% of Americans admit to lying regularly to the people closest to them. · 77% see no point in observing the Sabbath. · 74% would steal items from those who would not really miss them. · 55% would consider cheating on their spouse · 93% of adults and teens say, “they and nobody else determine ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Search Engine Secrets: Getting Listed On A Search ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Search Engine Secrets: Getting listed on a search engine is the easy part- getting your site to show up when a customer is searching for it is another. One place to go for help is www.searchenginewatch.com. This free site provides very detailed explanations on how to submit a site, the use of ...read more

E-Brand Power: "Anyone Can Launch A Web Site, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

E-Brand Power: “Anyone can launch a Web site, anyone can offer almost anything for sale. Only a brand offers trust, reliability and ongoing quality. Thus, the brand becomes more important in the e-environment for it differentiates the firm in what would appear to be a common-level situation, “ ...read more

Tags: Evangelism How To

Retro Twist: For A Growing Number Of Affluent ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006

Retro Twist: For a growing number of affluent families, the husband is earning enough for the wife to become a stay-at-home mom. Nearly 50% of households earning between $250,000 and $499,999 have only one bread-winner, up from just 38% 6 years earlier. ...read more

Tags: Parenting

Women Rule The Web Women Are The Dominating ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006

Women Rule the Web Women are the dominating presence on the web. U.S. women over the age of 18 comprise 40.9% of all online users, up from 40.3% in May ‘00. Men 18 and older now compose 39.8% of all online users, ...read more

Tags: Women

Prestige Professions Americans List The Following ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Prestige Professions Americans list the following professions and occupations in the order of having "great prestige" according to The Harris Poll: · Doctor (61%) · Teacher (54%) · Scientist (53%) · Minister/clergy (43%) · Military officer (40%) · Policeman (37%) · Engineer (36%) · Architect ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

Love/Hate Technology: An Annual Mit Survey Found ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Love/Hate Technology: An annual MIT survey found that among adults asked what invention they hate most but can’t live without, 30% said the cell phone. Alarm clocks were a close second at 25%, followed by the television at 23% and razors at 14%. Microwave ovens, computers, and ...read more

Tags: Finding Fulfillment

Where Are You Going? A Franklin Covey Survey ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Where Are You Going? A Franklin Covey survey finds less than half of U.S. workers are aware or are committed to their company’s goals. Only 48% say their employers have a clear, strategic direction. 44% say their organization has effectively communicated its goals. 54% understand what they ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Where Are The Pastors? Presbyterian Church, Usa, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Where Are The Pastors? Presbyterian Church, USA, reports that almost 50% of PCUSA churches with 51 to 100 members are without a pastor. Over 76.6% of these Presbyterian congregations of less than 50 have no pastor. A significant number of small rural and inner-city churches do not have a pastor, ...read more

Tags: Church General

Web Activity 18.8% Of Web Activity Is For Adult ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006

Web Activity 18.8% of Web activity is for adult content, 13.8% are visits to search engines, 8% are for entertainment topics, and 7.4% are related business & finance while 4% are for classified ads. Google is the leading search engine attracting 2.8% of all ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Fewer Protestants: A University Of Chicago Survey ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006

Fewer Protestants: A University of Chicago survey shows U.S. Protestants are now 52% of the population, down from 62% in ‘93, and may no longer be the nation’s largest religious group by year’s end. The 52% included about 2% of respondents who said they were Church ...read more

Tags: Church General

Mixed Messages: A Recent Harvard School Of Public ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Mixed Messages: A recent Harvard School of Public Health study confirmed what entertainment consumers already suspected: “ratings creep” in the last decade has allowed more profanity, violence and sexual content in the same movie ratings categories. At the same time the FTC imposed ...read more

Tags: Television And Movies

Pg Profit: For The First Time In 20 Years, Pg ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

PG Profit: For the first time in 20 years, PG films made more money domestically than R-rated films. PG films grossed $2.3 billion, vs. $2.1 billion for R-rated, reports the National Association of Theatre Owners. PG-13 movies did the most ...read more

Tags: Entertainment

American Religion: Gallup's ‘04 Data Shows More ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

American Religion: Gallup’s ‘04 data shows more than 8 in 10 Americans identify with a Christian religion, 24% Catholic, 50% Protestant, and 10% as some other form of Christianity. It also indicates 9% have no religious preference, and another 2% don’t answer the question, leaving 5% ...read more

Tags: Church General

Camera, Action 16% Of American Adult Internet ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Camera, Action 16% of American adult internet users have gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam. That translates into roughly 21 million people who have viewed material on web cams. And on any given day, about two million internet users are checking ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Aging America: According To Data From Census ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Aging America: According to data from Census 2000, the median age in America reached its highest point ever at 35.3 years, up from 32.9 years in 1990. The most rapid increase in size of any age group was the 49% jump in the population of ...read more

Tags: Evangelism Urgency

Is Spiritually Passing On? A New Barna Group ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Is Spiritually Passing On? A new Barna Group study finds 62% of Americans consider themselves to be deeply spiritual, unchanged n the past decade. Yet, the younger a person is, the less likely they are to claim to be deeply spiritual. In fact only 4% of Mosaics made such a claim compared to 55% of ...read more

Tags: Disciplines General

Merchantmania: According To A July Ebay Survey, ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Merchantmania: According to a July eBay survey, more than 724,000 Americans report eBay is their primary or secondary income source. Another 1.5 million say they supplement their income by selling on eBay. A separate MasterCard study estimates there are 5 million web-driven ...read more

Tags: Money