In Sermon Illustrations: "Sermon Delivery"

Wal-Mart Facts Business Week Reported This ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Wal-Mart Facts Business Week reported this interesting data on Wal-Mart: · 82% of American households made at least one purchase at Wal-Mart last year. · 138 million shoppers visit Wal-Mart every week. · It commands about 30% of total U.S. market share for toothpaste, shampoo, and paper ...read more

Tags: Money

Decorate To Celebrate: Consumer Purchases Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Decorate To Celebrate: Consumer purchases of Christmas and seasonal decorations have risen sharply since ‘00, according to a new research report from Unity Marketing, Gifts & Decorative Accents Report, 2003:The Market, The Competitors, The Future Trends. Over 60% percent of consumers bought ...read more

Tags: Christmas

Job Satisfaction Is Waning. A New Conference ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Job Satisfaction is waning. A new Conference Board survey finds that just 49% of Americans are satisfied with their jobs today versus 58% in ’95. It fell most among workers aged 35 to 54, ...read more

Tags: Workplace Evangelism

Church Attendance: Roughly 40% Of Americans Say ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Church Attendance: Roughly 40% of Americans say they seldom or never attend church or synagogue according to a recent Gallup poll. 29% attend church once a week. 11% attend almost every week and ...read more

Tags: Church General

Marriage Dividend: A New Study By Thomas ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Marriage Dividend: A new study by Thomas Rutledge, a psychologist at the University of California at San Diego, finds that of women 65 and older, those with a longtime husband coped with stress of aging, clocked lower blood pressure, and had stronger immune ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Porn Plague: The Number Of Commercial Pornography ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Porn Plague: The number of commercial pornography Web sites has increased 1,800% in the last 5 years, with an estimated 260 million pages classified as porn. In a single month (July ‘03), N2H2, an Internet filtering company, says more than 28 million new porn web pages appeared. That one-month jump ...read more

Tags: Addiction

The U.s. Church Market Is $49 Billion Per Year. ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

The U.S. church market is $49 billion per year. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Church General

58% Of Americans Cannot Name 5 Of The 10 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

58% of Americans cannot name 5 of the 10 Commandments. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Commandments General

American Households Spend About $240 A Year On ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

American households spend about $240 a year on fast food, and typically only $5 a year helping children in poverty. ...read more

Tags: Giving General

President George W. Bush Regularly Reads The One ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

President George W. Bush regularly reads the One Year Bible published by Tyndale. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Bible Study

Young People Ages 15 To 24 Account For Half Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Young people ages 15 to 24 account for half of the world’s new cases of HIV/AIDS. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Children

A Nation Of Singles: The U.s. Census Bureau's ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

A Nation Of Singles: The U.S. Census Bureau’s newest numbers show that married-couple households have slipped from nearly 80% in the ‘50s to just 50.7% today. That means that the U.S.’s 86 million single adults could soon define the new majority. Already, unmarrieds make up 42% of the workforce, ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

The Donorpulse 2003, An Annual Poll Conducted By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

The DonorPulse 2003, an annual poll conducted by Campbell Research, reports what types of organizations Americans gave to last year. 33% of the population has given to health, medical or hospital charities and 34% to social service organizations. 30% have given to religious charities in ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Living Longer: In 1900, A Newborn American Could ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Living Longer: In 1900, a newborn American could expect to live 47.3 years; in ‘50, life expectancy was 68.2. Overall life expectancy in the U.S. in ‘01, however, was 77.2 years, up 4 months from ‘00, when it was 76.9. In ’01 women had a life expectancy of more than 5 years longer than men—79.8 ...read more

Tags: Death

The Bridger Generation, Those Born Between ‘77 ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

The Bridger Generation, those born between ‘77 and ‘94 and the second largest generation in history, is growing up in homes with no moral certainty, no absolutes, no sense of why right is right and wrong is wrong, and no certain hope for eternal life and God’s abiding presence today. Christians can ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

Grandparents: The Census Bureau Reports That More ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Grandparents: The Census Bureau reports that more than 1/3 of the 2.4 million grandparents who are primary care-givers to a grandchild living in a home without the child’s parents. These grandparents were responsible for “most of the child’s basic needs.” This means 42% of all 5.8 ...read more

Tags: Family

Religious Giving: According To A Recent Study By ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Religious Giving: According to a recent study by Epsilon, 4 out of 5 American donors give to a religious center and religious centers receive half of all donated funds. The study also found that 28 million Americans used the Internet in ’01 ...read more

Tags: Giving General

Who Are Today's Kids? A Recent White House Forum ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Who Are Today’s Kids? A recent White House forum entitled Exploring the Digital Generation revealed these insights: · To a kid of the twenty-first century, learning is different than schooling. Learning, even education-based learning, takes place in many locations, with authorities ranging from ...read more

Tags: Children

Say Thanks: According To Martz Poll, Only 10% Of ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Say Thanks: According to Martz Poll, only 10% of supervisors thank their staff for their contributions compared to 34% of fellow workers. 34% of managers say they praise their direct reports every day, while 6% ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Falloween Is The Merging Of Fall And Halloween In ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006

Falloween is the merging of fall and Halloween in the retail industry reports the Consumer Trends Institute, where shoppers are decorating more with colorful fall foliage, kindly scarecrows and ...read more