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Faithful to the Finish
Peter's final call to a young and growing church
Grace and Glory
A short series through the highlights of 1 Peter
Entrusted
Gifts, risk, and the return of the King
CHRISTIAN BOOK PUBLISHER STATS Christian Book Publishers receive a combined total of almost 250,000 manuscripts during a typical year with some of the 300 publishers receiving more than 10,000. On average about 5% of those submissions get published or approximately 12,000 titles a year. The ...read more
Tags: Books And Literature
CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES Nearly 70% of U.S. churches provide direct health services and 65% provide educational health programs, according to the National Council of Churches (NCC) USA Congregational Health Survey. Only 6.4% offer no programs of any kind in health care ministries. The congregations ...read more
Tags: Church Purpose Of
WAL-MART NET SALES RISING Wal-Mart’s net sales for 2008 Q4 came in at $106.3 billion, an 8.3% jump over a year ago. Income from continuing operations for the quarter gained 4% to $4.1 billion. Same-store sales at its U.S. stores rose ...read more
Tags: Materialism
NFL OK’S SUPERBOWL PARTIES AT CHURCHES Churches can now host Super Bowl parties without opposition from the National Football League. The League will not object to live showings of the Super Bowl by a religious organization on a routine and customary basis. The League will implement this policy ...read more
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:22
Tags: Evangelism How To
ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION INCREASING Wine consumption increased 4% in 2007, while distilled spirits were up 3.2% and beer 1.2%. Distilled spirits sales reached more than 182 million nine-liter cases (their 10th straight year of growth) and wine sales reached 294.4 million cases, the 14th consecutive ...read more
Scripture: Ephesians 5:18
Tags: Alcohol
WOMEN CEOs Nearly 10.4 million U.S. firms are owned (50% or more) by women, employing more than 12.8 million people, and generating $1.9 trillion in sales. Their firms have continued to grow at nearly double the rate of all firms (42% vs. 24%). Women-owned firms, account for 41% of all privately ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 31:1-31
Tags: Women
Christian publishers preferred Bible versions for their books are, in rank order: NIV, KJV, NRSV ...read more
Tags: Bible Study
Almost 1 in 16 children ages 5-12 in America was enrolled in a Southern Baptist VBS in ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 22:6
Tags: Children
65% of the Builder generation (born 1927-1945) are evangelical ...read more
Scripture: Proverbs 16:31
Tags: Church Body Of Christ
65% of the Builder generation (born 1927-1945) are evangelical Christians. 35% of the Boomer generation (born 1946-1964) are evangelical Christians. 16% of Generation X (born 1965-1976) are evangelical Christians. 4% of ...read more
The average attendance of a U.S. Protestant church (adults + kids) is 124. The median is 70. ...read more
Tags: Church Growth
27% of the U.S. population contend that Mormons are not ...read more
Tags: Cults
87% of people who were Hindus as children remain so as ...read more
Tags: Evangelism The Lost
Just 37% of people who were Jehovah’s Witnesses as children remain so as ...read more
59% of U.S. adults not attached to a church consider themselves to be Christian, 17% born-again ...read more
19% of U.S. adults not attached to a church read the Bible and 62% pray to God during a ...read more
67% of Baby Boomers believe they will or could run out of money in their ...read more
Scripture: Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:13-21
Tags: Greed, God's Provision
51% of baby boomers say they are doing financial planning and their goals are set and on ...read more
Scripture: Luke 12:22-34
Tags: God's Provision
U.S. Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online during the month of ...read more
Tags: Technology
82% of the U.S. population increase between 2005 and 2050 will be due to immigrants and their U.S.-born ...read more
Scripture: Jeremiah 7:5-7, Jeremiah 7:2-10
Tags: America
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