Happy Birthday Jeff!

Thanks for all the time and energy you've put into Bible study leading. Hope you had a great birthday and we look forward to sharing this new year with you!

Stats on Divorce Rates

Quick Google Search led me to this site:

http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html

Basically, it's hard to come up with a single number, unless you really refine the question. Roughly 1 in 5 people will be divorced. If they have multiple divorces, it doesn't show. Roughly 40% of marriages, on a long enough time scale (50 years) will end in divorce. However, you need to look at the number of marriages and their length for this to make sense.

Here's an interesting article on the flawed reasoning behind some of the numbers:

http://www.divorcereform.org/nyt05.html

Leviticus 20:10

Bible Study - August 20, 2008

I hope everyone's been having a good week and had a wonderful time during their huddles. It's important to stay in touch with our brothers and sisters and while it's not imperative to make it relevant to the study we had, I do hope everyone had an opportunity to reflect on the nature of sin and that even our thoughts can betray us, just like Luke Skywalker's did in Return of the Jedi. This week, we'll be studying Matthew 5:31-37. We're going to be talking about divorce as well as oaths and vows (partially related to marriage/divorce). If you get a chance, please read the text ahead of time and come prepared. See everyone on Wednesday!

Huddles!

This week is huddles week! Our huddles met for some good fellowship and sharing and the total annihilation of 2 costco roasted chickens. Delicious!

This is creepy

Nothing like wearing a head on your head. This is the Raider foamhead offering at the NFL store.

Flee from Adultery!

Ansel led us through Matthew 5:27-30 where Jesus explains that sin is not just a matter of the act, but the intent or the heart of the person, which raises the bar for everyone. And given the rather small percentage of Christians with eye patches and hooks for hands (my apologies to any Christians with eye patches or hooks for hands), we're not to take verses 29 and 30 literally, but understand both the difficultly in removing sin from our lives and the gravity of having sin in our lives.

Thanks to everyone for rolling with our new schedule, thanks to Ben for a wonderful worship set and to our wonderful cooks, Sam and Justin for yummy curry! A big thank you to the Mo's for the 6000x growth gifts they brought for the fellowship group. I'll post pics of my dinos when I get a chance. We were able to stop at 9:30 to break up into huddles and pray for one another and for our upcoming retreat this month.

Next week is huddles! Please speak to your quarterback if they haven't spoken to you yet about next week.

Leftovers @ LSFG SJ

This is what we do with leftovers at LSFG SJ. MMMmmmmMmmMmmm....

Fruitpicking in Brentwood

Thanks, James for organizing a fun day of fruit picking! We had a good time picking peaches, plums, and crab apples. Next year, we'll go earlier in the season so that we can get some cherries and strawberries, too. We'll also look for that lollipop tree and, of course, the money tree...

Link to pix:

James' LSFG SJ Activity - Fruitpicking in Brentwood

We're back!

The LSFG San Jose blog is back. Ansel and Yukari are very excited at this announcement. We'll post tidbits of information, Bible study follow up and announcements made in fellowship group so you have a place to get your LSFG:SJ fix.

We will continue to use evite to get head count and as a reminder to everyone, but the blog is back. Be a part of the peanut gallery.