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sunday sermon #289 // God's justice isn't human justice (opens the original)
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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 Join us Sundays: 8.30 + 9.45 + 11.15 at 312 E Wood Street, Palatine, Illinois — Good News in the Neighborhood is a multi-ethnic, Bible-teaching, life-giving church in the NW suburbs of Chicago. www.gnn.church
sunday sermon #288 // make the grass green in your own backyard (opens the original)
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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 Join us Sundays: 8.30 + 9.45 + 11.15 at 312 E Wood St., Palatine, IL — Good News in the Neighborhood is a multi-ethnic, Bible-teaching, life-giving church in the NW suburbs of Chicago. www.gnn.church
sunday sermon #287 // joy-maxxing (opens the original)
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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 loophole
sunday sermon #286 // God's rules aren't to keep you from something (opens the original)
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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 obedi
sunday sermon #285 // the God who demands (opens the original)
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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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