Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
Who Needs Church? Even though the Bible is clear about the importance of experiencing God through a shared faith journey, only 17% of adults believe the local church is central to one’s faith development. Only 33% of evangelicals, 20% of non-evangelical born again adults, and 25% of adults with a
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Pentecostal Power From its origins in an AME Church on Azusa Street in Los Angeles, Pentecostalism has emerged as the world’s fastest-growing Christian movement. The World Christian Encyclopedia reports more than 500 million followers, comprising 25% of the world’s Christians, up from 6% in 1906.
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Churchshoppers.com claims it is the largest on-line U.S. church directory with 103,473 churches and adding more daily. It allows searchers to enter criterion based on a variety of preferences. Search results provide profiles of the churches, web
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More Born Again New Barna research finds 45% of all U.S. adults meet the Barna Group “born again” criteria. That’s up from 31% in ‘83. It hovered in the 36% to 43% range from ‘92 through ‘05. The current figure represents the largest single-year increase since ‘91. A 16-point rise among Baby
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100 Years Old The April 1906 Azusa Street revivals in Los Angeles are considered the birth the modern Pentecostal movement. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia, adherents to Charismatic faiths now number more
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MySpace.com, the controversial social networking site, is the second most popular site on the Internet, trumping even Google. It has over 57 million users, and is
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Shopping Has. Today shoppers follow two different tracks: necessities shopping where convenience and price are key and recreational shopping where a fun experience is sought. From ‘97 to ‘02, the share of retail sales credited to the 50 largest U.S. retailers grew from 25.7% to 31.7%. The new model
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Global Entertainment and media will grow to $41.8 trillion by ’09 says PriceWaterhouseCooper. Movie box office performance declined 6.2% in ’05, but video sales should reach $26.9 billion by ’09 and rentals
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Resurrection Only 36% of American adults believe that, after you die, your physical body will someday be resurrected. 54% do not believe so and 10%
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Management Myths Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, Stanford professors new book, Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management, recently discussed their 5 favorite myths of management with U.S. News. (1) Financial Incentives Drive Good Performance.
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A Good Marriage and an ability to play far outweigh financial security and good health as keys to a satisfying retirement.
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Financially Illiterate 17% of the 5,775 high school seniors that took a 30-question financial test had taken a money management or personal finance class, yet they fared worse than their peers who had not taken such a class. Students only correctly answered 52.4% of the questions. Financially
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Home Ownership Nearly 70% of Americans own their homes, a record high, but the rate of homeownership for working families with children is lower than in ’78. The surprising trend is being driven by: soaring housing costs that have overshot wage increases, higher health care bills, and a
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Roughly half of Americans report economizing to compensate for the increase in gas prices over the
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Indecency Challenged TV networks claim in a filing, the F.C.C. overstepped its authority, in an attempt to regulate content protected by the First Amendment, acted arbitrary and failed to provide a clear and consistent
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Consumers Are Losing Faith in many companies they deal with, and companies aren’t doing much to stop it, says a new Datamonitor report. 86% percent of U.S. and European consumers have become more distrustful of corporations within the past 5 years. What do people trust? Word of mouth
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Just 60% of employees say their most recent workplace training was worth the time spent. 40% said it
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Worship Participation Certain Protestant denominations are much more effective than others in generating their adherents worship participation. Mainline attendance trails conservative and evangelical denominations. High interest and participation can be signs of engaged parishioners who are less
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INFOLUST Consumers are lusting after detailed information on where to get the best of the best, the cheapest of the cheapest, the first of the first, the healthiest of the healthiest, the coolest of the coolest, or on how to become the smartest of the smartest. The driving force behind INFOLUST is
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