#3 is #1 to me

Mark, you are right. If we understand the truth of this statement, everything changes, "I am God, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt." The "land of Egypt" is different for all of us.

However, I noticed something today. Here are 8 of the 10 commandments:
#1. No other gods, only me.
#2. No using the name of God, your God, irreverently.
#5. No murder.
#6. No adultery.
#7. No stealing.
#8. No lies about your neighbor.
#9. No lusting after your neighbor's house.
#10. No lusting after your neighbor's wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey (but my neighbor has a REALLY nice donkey).

Even if we go with the non-Lutheran counting scheme and combine the last two, we add No idols (what's the name of that American TV show that's so popular?!?)

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!!! It's like living with a toddler.

Here are the others:
#3. Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don't do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town. For in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and sea, and everything in them; he rested on the seventh day. Therefore God blessed the Sabbath day; he set it apart as a holy day.

Other than the conversation about idols, this is the longest commandment. What would happen at Faith if we really took the Sabbath seriously (i.e. if all of the active members took a Sabbath day to learn, worship, fellowship, and rest EVERY week)?

#4. Honor your father and mother so that you'll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you.

This is the first commandment with a promise. Do this and you will be blessed beyond reason. For most of us, our parent(s) passed the faith on to us. The least we can do is honor them.