Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church & School (Sherman Center) is in Random Lake, Wisconsin, and is served by Rev. Christopher R. Gillespie. St. John Lutheran is God's place for Christians to gather around our Lord's Word and be enlightened by His gifts. We are a congregation of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). We unconditionally subscribe to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession. St. John Lutheran School has been approved for accreditation through the accreditation process of the National Lutheran School Accreditation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
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- "Christ is risen. He has called you by name!" Easter Dawn 2026
April 5, 2026
- "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!" Good Friday Chief Service 2026
You are here this afternoon because the Holy Spirit has not finished building. He still calls by the Gospel. He still places stones. The cornerstone holds. The building rises. The Church endures — not by your effort, not by any human strategy, not by the wisdom of her architects — but by the blood of the Lamb laid into the earth's foundation, and raised again on the third day.
- "Faith is born from the breath of God" Quasimodo Geneti 2026
April 12, 2026
- "Given for you. Given to you. Full of His forgiveness!" Palm Sunday 2026
March 29, 2026
- "God comes all the way down, down to the floor, down to the cross" Holy Thursday 2026
April 2, 2026
- "I looked, but there was no one to help" Holy Wednesday 2026
April 1, 2026
- "No, Satan. Christ has died for me, and I am forgiven!" Oculi 2026
Sunday, March 8, 2026
- "The One who is going to Jerusalem to die is the one who feeds you" Laetare 2026
March 15, 2026
- "The Son of David is the answer to every one of David's cries" Good Friday Tenebrae 2026
You have been singing David's words all evening. The psalms of this service are the prayers of a man hunted by enemies — "Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their heart" (Psalm 140:1–2). David wrote those words. He knew what it was to have his own counselor betray him, his own son conspire against him, his own people turn their backs. But when Jesus crossed the Kidron, David's prayers found their final answer. The Son of David walked into eve
- "The righteous Man is inconvenient to us" Holy Tuesday 2026
March 31, 2026
- "The risen Christ opens what we cannot" Easter Tuesday 2026
April 8, 2026
- "The women came to the tomb expecting death. They found life!" Easter Day 2026
April 5, 2026
- "There is One whose heart was not like yours" Wednesday of Oculi 2026
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
- "There is mourning, and there is rejoicing, all the way through Lent" Wednesday of Laetare 2026
March 18, 2026
- "You do not believe, because you are not of My sheep" Wednesday of Judica 2026
March 25, 2026
- "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad" Judica 2026
March 22, 2026
- "Zechariah saw it all. Isaiah saw it all!" Holy Monday 2026
March 30, 2026
- A New Commandment Is Given—John 13:21-38
March 23, 2026
- Heidelberg Disputations:
Theses 16-18Heidelberg Disputations
March 18, 2026
- Heidelberg Disputations:
Theses 21Heidelberg Disputations
March 22, 2026
- Heidelberg Disputations:
Thesis 22Heidelberg Disputations
April 12, 2026
- Holy Saturday
Saturday, April 4, 2026
- Jesus Celebrates the Passover—Matthew 26:17-35
Thursday, March 12, 2026
- Jesus Eats Broiled Fish in the Upper Room—Luke 24:33-49
April 9, 2026
- Jesus Faces Pontius Pilate—John 18:28-40
March 25, 2026
- Jesus Faces Pontius Pilate—Matt. 27:1-26
Tuesday, March 18, 2026
- Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin—Matt. 26:57-75
Monday, March 16, 2026
- Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany—John 12:1-11
March 20, 2026
- Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany—Matthew 26:2-16
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
- Jesus Is Crucified—John 19:1-24
March 26, 2025
- Jesus Is Revealed in the Breaking of the Bread—Luke 24:28-35
April 8, 2026
- Jesus Is the Light of the World—John 8:12-30
April 15, 2026
- Jesus Ordains the Apostles—John 20:19-31
April 10, 2026
- Jesus Prays in the Garden of Gethsemane—Matthew 26:36-56
Friday, March 13, 2026
- Jesus Side Is Pierced—John 19:25-42
March 27, 2026
- Jesus’ Betrayal and Arrest—John 18:1-27
March 24, 2026
- Jesus’ Death and Burial—Matt. 27:45-66
Thursday, March 19, 2026
- Palm Sunday—Matthew 21:1-17
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
- Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Ezekiel 37:1-14; 1 John 5:4-10
April 11, 2026
- Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Genesis 22:1-14; Hebrews 9:11-15
March 21, 2026
- Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Isaiah 49:8-13; Galatians 4:21-31
Saturday, March 14, 2026
- Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Zechariah 9:9-12; Philippians 2:5-11
March 28, 2026
- The Disciples on the Road to Emmaus—Luke 24:13-27
April 7, 2026
- The King of the Jews Is Mocked—Matt. 27:27-44
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
- The LORD Makes His Covenant With Israel—Ex 23:20–24:18
Monday, March 9, 2026
- The Nobleman’s Son Is Healed—John 4:43-54
April 13, 2026
- The Resurrection—Matthew 28:1-15
April 6, 2025
- The Truth Shall Make You Free—John 8:31-41
April 16, 2026
- The Woman Caught in Adultery—John 7:52–8:12
April 14, 2026
- “Fear and joy together. That is the life of faith.” Friday of Quasimodo Geneti (observed) 2026
You want joy without the terror of standing before the God who raises the dead. Or you settle for dread with no hope of mercy. The women leave the tomb with both, and Matthew does not apologize. He tells you: this is what the resurrection does. It gives you fear and joy together, because the One you meet at the empty tomb is both Judge and Savior, both Holy God and your Brother.