📖 New sermon Without Leaving the Others Undone Jesus comes to dinner and will not wash His hands. The mint was never commanded — grain, wine, flock, that is what God said to tithe — but a tenth of the mint costs nothing, and being seen to give it is worth a great deal, so justice gets stepped over on the way to the herb garden. Christ does not cancel the mint; He keeps the weightier matters and the little ones both, and leaves not one undone. He keeps none of it for Himself: the hands He would not wash at that table are the hands they nailed down. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"Without Leaving the Others Undone" Friday of Trinity 9 2026 (observed) by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

Jesus comes to dinner and will not wash His hands. The mint was never commanded — grain, wine, flock, that is what God said to tithe — but a te...

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“Without Leaving the Others Undone” Friday of Trinity 9 (observed) 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

Jesus comes to dinner and will not wash His hands. The mint was never commanded — grain, wine, flock, that is what God said to tithe — but a te...

📖 New Bible study Jeremiah Chapters 11–12 This week the preacher becomes the sufferer. Jeremiah announces the covenant curse (Jer. 11:3) and then learns that the men of his own hometown have marked him for death (Jer. 11:21). Three handings-over run through these chapters: Judah handed over to the curse she chose, Jeremiah handed over like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter (Jer. 11:19), and God's own dearly beloved of My soul handed over into enemy hands (Jer. 12:7). When Jeremiah asks the oldest question, why do the wicked prosper, the answer isn't information. It's a warning that the running gets harder, from the God who has run it Himself. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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Jeremiah: Chapters 11-12 — August 2, 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

This week the preacher becomes the sufferer. Jeremiah announces the covenant curse (Jer. 11:3) and then learns that the men of his own hometown hav...

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Jeremiah Chapters 11–12 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

This week the preacher becomes the sufferer. Jeremiah announces the covenant curse (Jer. 11:3) and then learns that the men of his own hometown hav...

📖 New sermon He Was Faithful the Whole Time You Were Not Jesus tells the parable of the unjust steward immediately after the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. Johann Gerhard saw why: Christ knows how easily we misuse that teaching for carnal security, taking the sweetest thing God ever said and turning it into a permission slip. Paul answers that man with a desert full of graves. Israel was baptized into Moses, ate the same spiritual food, drank from the Rock that was Christ, and two of them reached the Promised Land. The warning lands on the man who thinks he stands. So does the promise: God is faithful, the way of escape has an address, and the door behind you was never bolted. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"He Was Faithful the Whole Time You Were Not" Trinity 9 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

Jesus tells the parable of the unjust steward immediately after the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. Johann Gerhard saw why: Christ kno...

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“He Was Faithful the Whole Time You Were Not” Trinity 9 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

Jesus tells the parable of the unjust steward immediately after the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. Johann Gerhard saw why: Christ kno...

📖 New sermon Holiness Runs Down from God and Never Back Up The men haggling in the temple courtyard knew which oaths could be collected on. Swear by the gold and you're bound; swear by the temple and you can walk away. Jesus calls that blindness: holiness runs down from God to the thing and never back up, and the temple is holy only for Him who dwells in it. We do the same arithmetic with our years and our giving, wanting a righteousness we can audit. But the altar was holy before you got here, and the gift on it is Christ's own body and blood. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"Holiness Runs Down from God and Never Back Up" Friday of Trinity 8 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

The men haggling in the temple courtyard knew which oaths could be collected on. Swear by the gold and you're bound; swear by...

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“Holiness Runs Down from God and Never Back Up” Friday of Trinity 8 (observed) 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

The men haggling in the temple courtyard knew which oaths could be collected on. Swear by the gold and you're bound; swear by the temple and y...

📖 New sermon You Were Carried Through the Door Before You Could Walk Two cries stand side by side in this Sunday's readings: "Lord, Lord" and "Abba, Father." The first belongs to an applicant outside the office door with his accomplishments in a folder; the second to a child who never wondered whether he was allowed in the house. Jesus doesn't dispute the applicants' resume. He disputes that it ever mattered. What every false prophet wants is to turn sons back into applicants. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"You Were Carried Through the Door Before You Could Walk" Trinity 8 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

Two cries stand side by side in this Sunday's readings: "Lord, Lord" and "Abba, Father." The first belongs to an applicant outside ...

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“You Were Carried Through the Door Before You Could Walk” Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

Two cries stand side by side in this Sunday's readings: "Lord, Lord" and "Abba, Father." The first belongs to an applicant outside the office ...

📖 New biblestudy Jeremiah Chapter 10 This week's class takes up Jeremiah 10, the prophet's longest satire on idols: a god cut from a tree, dressed in silver, nailed down so it will not topple (Jer. 10:4), a scarecrow in a cucumber field, carried because it cannot walk. Over against it stands the true God, the living God and the everlasting King (Jer. 10:10), who needs no carrying but carries His people (Isa. 46:3–7). Which direction the carrying runs is the whole difference between idolatry and the Gospel. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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Jeremiah: Chapter 10 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

July 26, 2026

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This week's class takes up Jeremiah 10, the prophet's longest satire on idols: a god cut from a tree, dressed in silver, nailed down so i...

📖 New sermon They Kept the Husk and Threw the Kernel Away On the Sabbath, the Pharisees found a rule to keep and lost the mercy it was meant to carry — husk without kernel. James diagnoses the same disease in the church: zeal that hides self-seeking envy. Christ, the One greater than the temple, was Himself crushed like the grain, so that guilty husk-keepers might be fed with mercy instead of judged by the letter. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"They kept the husk and threw the kernel away." Friday of Trinity 7 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

Understand who these men were. They weren’t villains twirling their mustaches. They were the serious ones, the ones who had given their lives to ...

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“They Kept the Husk and Threw the Kernel Away” Friday of the Seventh Week after Trinity 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

On the Sabbath, the Pharisees found a rule to keep and lost the mercy it was meant to carry — husk without kernel. James diagnoses the same disea...

📖 New sermon They Kept the Husk and Threw the Kernel Away On the Sabbath, the Pharisees found a rule to keep and lost the mercy it was meant to carry — husk without kernel. James diagnoses the same disease in the church: zeal that hides self-seeking envy. Christ, the One greater than the temple, was Himself crushed like the grain, so that guilty husk-keepers might be fed with mercy instead of judged by the letter. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"They kept the husk and threw the kernel away." Friday of Trinity 7 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

Understand who these men were. They weren’t villains twirling their mustaches. They were the serious ones, the ones who had given their lives to ...

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“They Kept the Husk and Threw the Kernel Away” Friday of the Seventh Week after Trinity 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

On the Sabbath, the Pharisees found a rule to keep and lost the mercy it was meant to carry — husk without kernel. James diagnoses the same disea...

📖 New sermon You Have Come from Afar The four thousand Jesus feeds in Mark 8 are Gentiles — outsiders with no claim on the God of Israel. Paul says the same of us: once strangers, far off, until brought near by the blood of Christ. What Christ did on that Gentile shore, He does again in the Sacrament, filling those who have no right to the table with more than enough. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"I Have Compassion on the Crowds" Trinity 7 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

July 20, 2026

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“You Have Come from Afar” The Seventh Sunday after Trinity 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

The four thousand Jesus feeds in Mark 8 are Gentiles — outsiders with no claim on the God of Israel. Paul says the same of us: once strangers, fa...

📖 New biblestudy Jeremiah Chapter 9 This week's class takes up Jeremiah 9, where the prophet names the root sickness twice — **"they do not know Me"** (Jer. 9:3, 9:6) — and hands us the one boast that survives it: **"that he understands and knows Me"** (Jer. 9:24). Paul later routes the whole Gospel through that verse: no flesh may boast, unless it boasts in the Lord (1 Cor. 1:31). Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/5vGiC089c_A 🎧 Listen:

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Jeremiah: Chapter 9 — July 19, 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

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This week's class takes up Jeremiah 9, where the prophet names the root sickness twice — **"they do not know Me"** (Jer. 9:3, 9:6) — and h...

📖 New sermon He Crossed the Water for This The Gerasene demoniac was a man no one could bind. James names the wisdom that builds a life like that: earthly, unspiritual, demonic, breeding envy and self-seeking until it makes "every evil thing." Then Jesus crosses the sea to unclean pagan ground for this one man, and with a single word, "Come out," He drowns Legion under the water. The man is left sitting, clothed, in his right mind. That is his Baptism, and ours, where the same word of Christ still drowns what binds us and seats us at His table. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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“He Crossed the Water for This” Friday of Trinity 6 (observed) 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

The Gerasene demoniac was a man no one could bind. James names the wisdom that builds a life like that: earthly, unspiritual, demonic, breeding env...

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“He Crossed the Water for This” Friday of Trinity 6 (observed) 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

The Gerasene demoniac was a man no one could bind. James names the wisdom that builds a life like that: earthly, unspiritual, demonic, breeding env...

📖 New biblestudy Jeremiah Chapter 8 Jeremiah 8 is a chapter of missed chances. Judah will not turn back — the stork in the sky knows her seasons, but God's people do not know the time of the LORD's judgment — and the prophets cry 'Peace, peace' where there is no peace. 'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.' And then the ache that gives the chapter its name: 'Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?' — a question the whole Gospel rises up to answer. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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Jeremiah: Chapter 8 — July 12, 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who g...

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Jeremiah Chapter 8 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

Jeremiah 8 is a chapter of missed chances. Judah will not turn back — the stork in the sky knows her seasons, but God's people do not know t...

📖 New sermon Christ's clean heart is reckoned to you Jesus stops the worshiper at the altar: first be reconciled to your brother. The Fifth Commandment reaches the heart — anger, 'Raca,' the grudge nursed since Easter — so no one comes with clean hands, and God will not accept half a sacrifice. But this altar faces the other way: God left His throne and reconciled us by Christ's blood while we were still His enemies. So the righteousness that exceeds the scribes and Pharisees is not one we scrub up in ourselves; Christ's clean heart is reckoned to us and given again at the rail. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"Christ’s clean heart is reckoned to you" Trinity 6 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

If God came down from His throne to make peace with you, you can walk across the parking lot to make peace with your neighbor. Forgive him as you h...

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“Christ's clean heart is reckoned to you” Trinity 6 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

Jesus stops the worshiper at the altar: first be reconciled to your brother. The Fifth Commandment reaches the heart — anger, 'Raca,' t...

📖 New biblestudy Jeremiah Chapter 7 Bible Study — July 5, 2026 This Sunday Jeremiah stands in the gate of the temple and preaches against the one thing Judah trusted most — the building itself. "The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD," they chanted, certain God would never let His own house fall, even while they stole, murdered, and burned incense to Baal. But the house is no shelter for the people who profane it. The Lord names what it has become — a den of robbers — the very words Jesus would carry into that same temple, overturning the tables and driving out those who had made His Father's house a market. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/5fVbsgL_Otk 🎧 Listen:

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Jeremiah: Chapter 7 — July 5, 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

Lord God, You will not be housed in walls or bought with ceremonies, and You see through every lie we tell ourselves at Your gate. Tear down our fa...

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Jeremiah Chapter 7 Bible Study — July 5, 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

This Sunday Jeremiah stands in the gate of the temple and preaches against the one thing Judah trusted most — the building itself. "The temple of...

📖 New sermon The freedom no country can give you Beneath all our Fourth-of-July talk of freedom lies a deeper freedom no fireworks can give and no tyrant can take away. Out on the open sea Simon Peter thought himself free — his own boat, his own water, his own catch, answerable to no one — and pulled up empty nets all night long. Then Christ climbs uninvited into the boat, the nets tear with the catch, and Peter falls down terrified: "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man." The Lord does the one thing the open sea never can: He does not depart, but catches the sinner alive — "Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men." Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"The freedom no country can give you" Trinity 5 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

This is the freedom no country can hand you, and no fireworks can celebrate. It is not the open sea where you answer to no one and drown alone, but...

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“The freedom no country can give you” Trinity 5 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

Beneath all our Fourth-of-July talk of freedom lies a deeper freedom no fireworks can give and no tyrant can take away. Out on the open sea Simon P...

📖 New sermon Clouds Without Water St. Jude will not let us grow comfortable: the Lord saved a people out of Egypt and then destroyed those who would not believe. Faith can die, and a baptized man can become a cloud without water — all the look of a Christian with no rain in him. But the same Lord who judged the unbelieving in the wilderness comes down the mountain to a demon-tormented boy and a father who can barely pray, and He is faithful where our faith is little. Our safety is not the strength of our grip on Christ but His grip on us. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"Clouds Without Water" — Friday of Trinity 4 (observed) 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

So hear this, you who are afraid your faith is too small, you who lie awake wondering whether you’ve become a cloud without water. That very fear...

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“Clouds Without Water” Friday of Trinity 4 (observed) 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

St. Jude will not let us grow comfortable: the Lord saved a people out of Egypt and then destroyed those who would not believe. Faith can die, and ...

📖 New sermon The Teacher Who Is Mercy Itself You have been somebody's disciple since the day you were born, and Jesus warns that you never rise above your teacher — given enough time, you simply become him. The world is a blind guide that trains us to judge first and forgive slowly, and we have become blind guides ourselves, reaching for the speck in a brother's eye with a plank in our own. But there is another Teacher: Jesus is the Father's mercy in the flesh, who takes our score-keeping heart to the cross and trains us in Baptism, Word, Absolution, and the Supper until we begin to look like Him. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"The Teacher Who Is Mercy Itself" Trinity 4 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

You have been somebody's disciple since the day you were born, and Jesus warns that you never rise above your teacher — given enough time, you si...

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“The Teacher Who Is Mercy Itself” Trinity 4 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

You have been somebody's disciple since the day you were born, and Jesus warns that you never rise above your teacher — given enough time, y...

📖 New sermon “Cursed on the tree so the barren tree could live.” Friday of Trinity 3 (observed) 2026 A fig tree in full leaf promises fruit and has none. Jesus walks from the cursed tree into a temple just as green—a house of prayer turned into a market—and James names it a third time: a church that seats the poor man at the footstool. All leaves, no figs. But the Lord of glory is hanged on a tree and made a curse in the barren tree’s place. He becomes the poor man so the poor man can be seated in glory, and He is Himself the new house of prayer where you are welcomed and fed. Living faith receives Him, and the figs follow—not to be saved, but because the tree is alive. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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"Cursed on the tree so the barren tree could live." Friday of Trinity 3 (observed) 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

A fig tree in full leaf promises fruit and has none. Jesus curses it, then walks into a temple just as green — crowded, busy, alive to the eye �...

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“Cursed on the tree so the barren tree could live.” Friday of Trinity 3 (observed) 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

A fig tree in full leaf promises fruit and has none; Jesus walks from the cursed tree into a temple just as green—crowded and busy but turned fro...

📖 New sermon “He isn’t using a club. It is a broom. He’s sweeping you home.” Trinity 3 2026 The affliction that sweeps through your life is not a club driving you out but a broom sweeping you home: His pursuit, not your punishment. He answers the charge that He receives sinners with the lost sheep and the lost coin—lighting the lamp of His Word, laying the sheep on His own shoulders rejoicing, carrying you to the rail. You came in a lost coin and go out treasure in the King’s own hand. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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“He isn’t using a club. It is a broom. He’s sweeping you home.” Trinity 3 2026 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

The religious men accused Jesus—“This Man receives sinners and eats with them”—and He took it up as His glory, answering with the lost shee...

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“He isn’t using a club. It is a broom. He’s sweeping you home.” Trinity 3 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

The religious men accused Jesus—“This Man receives sinners and eats with them”—and He took it up as His glory, answering with the lost shee...

📖 New biblestudy Jeremiah Chapter 4–5 — The Foe from the North The Lord sends Jeremiah running through Jerusalem to find one righteous man so the city may be pardoned—and finds none. The foe gathers from the north and Jeremiah’s vision unmakes creation itself over a people wise to do evil. The one Just Man is found at last outside the walls, and for His sake the city is spared. Read it: View article → ▶️ Watch: 🎧 Listen:

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Jeremiah: Chapter 4-5 by Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

June 21, 2026

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Jeremiah Chapter 4–5 Bible Study — June 21, 2026 - St. John Ev. Lutheran Church and School

The Lord sends Jeremiah running through Jerusalem to find one righteous man so the city may be pardoned—and finds none. The foe gathers from the ...