Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
3rd through 12th -graders devote nearly 6½ hours per day to TV and videos, music, video games and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Blog Ministry Many pastors say blogging has become an increasingly integral part of their ministries as they attempt to reverse the decline in church attendance among people in their 20s and 30s reports the Washington Post. Mark Batterson, National Community Church in the District of Columbia,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
House-Church Movement 1 in 5 American adults attends a house church at least once a month, (if a small group counts as a church). The Barna Group estimates 70 million Americans regularly attend or have “experimented with” a house church. More than 20 million adults attend home churches each week,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
There are 35.2 million foreign-born people in the U.S., about 12% of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Front Page The percentage of adults reading the front section of a daily newspaper from ‘00 to ‘05 increased from 51.4% to 53% in the 87 metro markets surveyed by The Media Audit. At the same time those reading the other 11 sections of a daily paper declined with the weekend TV guide declining the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
DVD Sales represent more than 50% of the studio revenue generated from their movies. But those sales are expected to grow just 2% this year, a far cry from the double-digit growth the industry enjoyed just 2 years ago.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
E-Paper As early as this year French and Belgium news-paper publishers are finally getting ready to roll out an electronic product that will allow users to load full editions from the Internet onto digital screens. Flexible versions could be on the market by ‘07. “This could be a real substitution
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
NPO Mergers About 120 new nonprofits are started every day and many find funding scarce. As a result there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Non Profit Oorganizations mergers, reports Bob Harrington, Sr. Manager at La Piana Assoc., non-profit merger consulting firm. Merger minded
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Just 6% people who visit porn sites while at work admit it was intentional.
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40% of Americans who earn less than $30,000 per year do not have any credit
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73% of Americans report owning their primary residence, while 22% say they rent their
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Today, 7%-9% of Americans have only a cell phone and no land line, that’s up from 0.4% in
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45% of American children under age 5 are from a racial or ethnic minority.
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Boomers see themselves in Middle Age, with “Old Age” being something that starts in one’s
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57% of workers have to go in late, leave early or take time off to care for a loved one. 6% give up work
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The U.S. luxury market is estimated to have reached $1 trillion in ‘05, up 11.6% from $898 billion
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Small businesses create more than 60% of net new U.S. jobs and account for half of the private
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