Equal treatment under the law sounds like a modern ideal, but this week's sermon traces it back to the case laws in Exodus — and shows how God's justice was never about equal outcomes, but equal protection for the poor, women, and foreigners. Scripture: Exodus 20

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We spend so much energy staring at what our neighbors have that we lose sight of what God's already given us. This week's teaching sits in the tenth commandment, "you shall not covet", and points to gratitude as the real cure for comparison. Scripture: Exodus 20:17

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Looksmaxxing, sleepmaxxing, proteinmaxxing... our culture has a hack for optimizing every part of life, but never a point where it says "enough." Scripture: Exodus 20:8–12

This week's sermon looks at two commands in Exodus 20 that offer real joy instead: keeping the Sabbath and honoring your parents. The Sabbath command turns out to be older than the Ten Commandments themselves — built into creation, not just Israel's history. And "honor your father and mother" comes with its own modern loopholes, the kind we're usually too busy or too "boundaried" to notice we're using. This week's sermon looks at two commands in Exodus 20 that offer real joy instead: keeping the Sabbath and honoring your parents.

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God's rules were never meant to keep you from something. They were meant to protect you for something.

Scripture: Exodus 20:1-7

Pastor Luke continues the study through Exodus, opening up the first three of the Ten Commandments: have no other gods, make no idols, and don't misuse God's name. Along the way he unpacks how easily good things like family, success, fitness, or politics can quietly take God's place, and why steadfast love, not fear, is what's actually waiting on the other side of obedience.

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Most people believe in a God who gives everything and asks for nothing in return — but is that actually the God of the Bible?

Working through Israel's arrival at Mount Sinai, this message unpacks what it actually means that God chose His people for a job, demands to be known, and sets high standards — not to hold us back, but to protect us and push us toward real freedom. It's an honest look at why a God who "asks for nothing" isn't the God revealed in Scripture, and why that distinction changes

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sunday sermons + good news weekly live from good news in the neighborhood, a new church led by luke + kristen macdonald in the nw suburbs of chicago. we are a multi-ethnic, bible teaching, and life giving church.

find out more about us becoming + bringing the good news at

www.goodnewsintheneighborhood.org

sunday sermons + good news weekly live from good news in the neighborhood, a new church led by luke + kristen macdonald in the nw suburbs of chicago. we are a multi-ethnic, bible teaching, and life giving church.

find out more about us becoming + bringing the good news at

www.goodnewsintheneighborhood.org

sunday sermons + good news weekly live from good news in the neighborhood, a new church led by luke + kristen macdonald in the nw suburbs of chicago. we are a multi-ethnic, bible teaching, and life giving church.

find out more about us becoming + bringing the good news at

www.goodnewsintheneighborhood.org