In Sermon Illustrations: "Sermons Of Jesus"

Kids Online: About 90% Of U.s. Children And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Kids Online: About 90% of U.S. children and adolescents ages 5-17 use computers, and about 60% use the Internet. About 25% of 5-year-olds use the Internet, and this number rises to over 50% by age 9, and to at least 75% by ages 15-17. ...read more

Tags: Children

Lower Risk Kids: The Foundation For Child ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Lower Risk Kids: The Foundation for Child Development reports the teen and adolescent birth rate has dropped from 20 births per 1000 girls in ’92 to 10.9 in ‘04. Binge drinking among high school seniors has fallen from 36.9% in ’74 to 29.2% last year. The number of youth offenders has fallen from ...read more

Tags: Church General

Media Bias: Political Science Professors At Ucla ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Media Bias: Political science professors at UCLA and the University of Chicago ranked major media outlets according to observable liberal political bias. Here are rankings on a scale of 0-100, the more liberal, the higher the score. Wall Street Journal 85.1 New York Times 73.7 CBS Evening News ...read more

Tags: Truth

Under Funded Retirement: The Annual Retirement ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Under Funded Retirement: The annual Retirement Confidence Survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds 65% of workers are “very” or “somewhat” confident of funding their retirements. That’s down from 68% last year. Although the overall confidence reading remains high, most workers ...read more

Tags: Money

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

Creationists Impact Films: The Evolution Fight ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Creationists Impact Films: The evolution fight has reached the big, big screen. Several Imax theaters are refusing to show movies that mention the subject—or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth—fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin ...read more

Tags: Evolution

The 2005 Child Well-Being Index Notes That Just ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The 2005 Child Well-Being Index notes that just 41% of 12th-graders attend weekly religious ceremonies in ‘04, down from 51% in ’75. ...read more

Tags: Children

68% Of Americans Oppose Same-Sex Marriage, Up ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

68% of Americans oppose same-sex marriage, up from 55% just a year ago. (Foster Letter ...read more

According To The ‘03 Census, About 2.3 Million ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

According to the ‘03 Census, about 2.3 million grandparents nationwide are now raising their grandchildren. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Family

33.2 % Of Cell Phone Users In America Are Between ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

33.2 % of cell phone users in America are between the ages of 5 and 19. (Foster Letter ...read more

Tags: Children

U.s. Adults Average 6.9 Hours Of Sleep A Night ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

U.S. adults average 6.9 hours of sleep a night according to the National Sleep Foundation. (Foster ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

$400 Million In Porn Was Downloaded To Cell ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

$400 million in porn was downloaded to Cell phones last year and it is expected to grow to $5 billion by 2010. ...read more

Tags: Addiction

Bible Reading Upl Today, 45% Of U.s. Adults Read ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Bible Reading UpL Today, 45% of U.S. adults read the Bible during a typical week, not including when they are at church, up from 31% in ‘95. The rise is largely due to increased reading among Baby Busters and residents of the western states. 67% of born again individuals read the ...read more

Scripture: Hebrews 13:5-8

Tags: Bible Study

The Elderly Population In Every State Will Grow ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The Elderly Population in every state will grow faster than the total population, and seniors will outnumber school-age children in 10 states in the next 25 years, reports the Census Bureau. It predicts 26 states will double their populations of people older than 65 by 2030, when the oldest members ...read more

Tags: What Is Evangelism?

Should Pastors Continue Education? 48% Of All ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Should Pastors Continue Education? 48% of all ministers say they are encouraged to continue their education using church time and/or funds. Another 8% are encouraged to further their education, as long as they use personal time and/or money. 40% are neither encouraged nor discouraged, while 2% ...read more

Tags: Church General

Searching Ucla's Higher Education Research ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Searching UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute found 75% of college freshmen are searching for meaning and purpose in life and would like their schools to help them explore such ...read more

Tags: Evangelism The Lost

Profits Up—wages Down: Even Though The Economy ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Profits Up—Wages Down: Even though the economy added 2.2 million jobs in ‘04 and produced strong growth in corporate profits, wages for the average worker fell for the year, after adjusting for inflation—the first such drop in nearly a decade. The problem is not with the jobs themselves, but that ...read more

Tags: Workplace

Dating Goes Golden: Internet Research Firm ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Dating Goes Golden: Internet research firm Nielsen// NetRatings says seniors are the fastest-growing group of online users. And many of them are looking for love or friendship on the Web. Some 26 million people visited online dating sites in January, and 18% of them, or 4.8 million, were over age ...read more

Tags: Marriage General

Sanitized Movies: The Family Entertainment And ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

Sanitized Movies: The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act would allow parents to choose sanitized versions of movies for them and their children to view and assure manufacturers of DVD players and other devices using such technology they would not be violating copyright law. The bill also would ...read more

Tags: Television And Movies

The Popes Death Triggered A Boost In Religious ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006

The Popes Death triggered a boost in religious website traffic. Catholic sites recorded a 118% rise in online visits the week following, Mormon traffic rose 40%, Judaism sites 22% and ...read more

Tags: Death