Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
More Channels The average U.S. household received 96.4 TV channels in ‘05, up nearly 4 from ‘04. Yet, on average we only tune to 15.4,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Online News The daily audience online for news has grown dramatically since ‘02 - a surge fueled by the rise in home broadband connections. Some 50 million Americans now seek out news on the internet on a typical day. 71% of these news consumers go online for news on the average day, while 59% get
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Rousing Music Research shows that people who use high-
energy music to start their day before they face challenging situations can increase their
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Among Boomers of all ages, 50% have positive feelings of anticipation about their retirement and 50% have neutral or negative feelings. “Retirement” generates
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Media Danger For Kids Just-released medical studies find constant exposure to media may be harmful to children. The studies link TV and video games to a host of modern youth ills, including obesity, sexual activity, consumerism, and antisocial behavior. The more TV 3rd-and-4th-graders watch, the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Abortion An analysis of Gallup Polls conducted over 2004-05 shows that 55% of Americans believe abortion should be legal “only under certain circumstances,” while 24% think it should be legal “under any
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Follow The Money The National Geographic Society (NGS) garnered front-page coverage when they recently unveiled a restored version of The Gospel of Judas--which asserts that Judas was Jesus’ closest friend rather than a traitor, and that he only did what Jesus asked of him: NGS has invested over $1
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
43% of evangelical Protestant Americans say they are very happy, vs. 34% of all
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
U.S. adult church attendance has risen from a low of 37% in ‘96 to 47% in
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Involvement in small Bible study or prayer group has reached a new high in ‘06, today 23% vs. 17% a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Today U.S. Adult Protestant Sunday school attendance has risen to 24% from 17% in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
More than 80% of Senior Pastors of Protestant churches consider their church to be
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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42% of evangelicals believe people suffering great pain without hope of improvement have a moral right to end
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68% of Muslims in predominantly Islamic countries view the American people as
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Disaster relief is the most common type of cause (outside the local church) financially supported by
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
During the past decade the Mormon church grew the fastest in the U.S.—by 19% to 4.2 million
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
35.5% or $88.3 billion of all ’04 U.S. charitable giving went to Religion and was the #1 donor recipient
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