Lightly Salted

Humiliation is something we endure. Humility is what Jesus demonstrated his whole life through, counting us as more significant than his own life.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

We come full circle from the first Sunday in Lent to the last midweek service with the reading of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. The victory he won there, he won again at the cross where he secured our victory for life.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

From the Valley of the Dry Bones through Lazarus' tomb to us we see how the word of God brings the breath of life.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

After defeating 450 prophets of Baal, Elijah didn't find boldness, he fled to the wilderness wanting to die. Join us as we explore why miracles aren't enough to fuel your faith and how the Word of God provides the "bread" you need for the journey from death to life.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

As Jesus heals the man born blind, we learn that seeing is not believing. Rather believing is seeing the Light of the World.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

It's probably the shortest sermon ever, "Yet forty days and you will be overthrown." And yet that word produced repentance from the King down to the cattle in the stall.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Romans 5 takes us through the beauty of a hope that is grounded in the accomplished fact of Jesus' death and resurrection.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

We’ll explore how God’s grace turns our self-reliance upside down, showing that new birth, forgiveness, and eternal life are not achieved by our effort, but received as God’s free gift in Christ. You’ll be encouraged to fix your eyes on Jesus, not your performance, and to rest in the Good News that the Savior who was lifted up on the cross has already done everything needed for your salvation.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Moses was on the mountain 40 days and nights in the very presence of God. Why? To receive the law of God AND to receive the instructions for God dwelling with His people.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

This morning we use Stephen Starke's hymn "The Tree of Life" to journey through three distinct landscapes to see how the "awful poison" of sin is neutralized by the "living fruit" of the Cross and delivered to us even today.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Our Lent journey begins with the 40 days and 40 nights of the raging rain of the flood. The flood which Peter says, points to our baptism that saves us.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

The glory of transfiguration is fulfilled in the cross.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

In the sermon on the mount, Jesus raises the bar of righteousness so high that it seems as if we are supposed to do a pole vault without the pole!For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, the merciful... Those words of Jesus don't seem like they bring blessings. But starting at the end, "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" shows us just how blessed they are.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

God the Son was not born into a silent night holy and bright. He was born into a world that needed to be saved from its own evil endeavors.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Christmas Day ServiceFor more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Christmas Eve worship we join in a Lessons and Carols based the the theme of Light. Not only does Christmas celebrate the coming of the true Light, Jesus, we are called to reflect that light into the dark world.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

God the Holy Spirit is very active in the Christmas story as the Lord and Giver of Life. We see this with Elizabeth, Mary and with ourselves as well.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

James encourages us that just like the farmers who have to be patient for the crops to ripen, so also, as Christians we are to wait patiently and with certainty for Christ's return.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

When you think there is nothing left, there is still God.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Isaiah proclaims the word of God pointing to the time when peace will prevail and we will finally walk clearly in the light of the Lord.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Complaining is easy and it's been done for eons. But when we are tempted to complain, "It's not fair!" we look to the cross and see God starting to set everything right.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

You've seen the clips of calves newly released from the stall, jumping and excited at their freedom. When Jesus comes again, Malachi prophecies, we will be as exuberant as those calves.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

We have questions about the resurrection and the life of the world to come, but in the Gospel reading today, we hear the most important thing of all: The Lord is God of the living.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

As Jesus speaks the Beatitudes, we remember that these blessings are for us now already by faith, and we celebrate their final fulfilment when Jesus returns in all his glory.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

God's goal for us is that we would manage the blessings he gives us not only for our good but for the benefit of others as well.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

We are a nation of spenders. And while spending money we have earned is good and necessary, Proverbs also would encourage us to intentionally save our money as well. Join us as we explore the wisdom of God in regards to money.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Earning money is a good thing. But there are many dangers in earning money including greed and idolatry. Join us as we explore the wisdom of God in regards to money.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Jesus commissions his church to proclaim his name to all nations. The Lutheran Women's Missionary League does just that.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

This parable is clear and direct: God's Word is enough.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

The parable of the Shrewd Manager is one of the hardest parables to wrap our head around, until we understand that Jesus is the shrewd manager, just shredding up the debts against the Father.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Jesus tells three stories that remind us the joy He has in our salvation and our repentance.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Jesus says that the price to follow Him is to bear our own cross. That's a steep price! Is it worth it?For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Jesus is at a highfalutin dinner party, but he doesn't play by the social rules. Would you pass His tests?For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

“Lord, will those who are saved be few?” is the question put to Jesus. In his normal fashion, Jesus shifts the focus to, "Will you be saved?"For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Like a fire and a rock that breaks rocks in pieces - that's what God compares His word to. And that is good because our stone cold hearts often need to be broken so that we listen with new ears to the word of the Gospel.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Faith is not just a feeling or a belief or a "spiritual" activity, but it has actual, real world action as we see in Hebrews 11.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Solomon tells us that it is a great gift from God to be able to be satisfied here during our life under the sun. That satisfaction come from the setting "our minds on things above." Colossians 3.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

When you hit the nail between the eyes you've mixed a metaphor. This is similar to our reading from Colossians where we are to walk with Christ and be rooted in Him.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

Laughter expresses a whole host of emotions. But as Abraham and Sarah laughed at God's promise of a child in their old age, God was beginning to bringing eternal laughter and joy into the the world.For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.

The second table of the law guides our behavior toward our neighbor. But who is that exactly?For more information about St. Johns you can find us at our website or on Facebook.If you would like to donate to support our ministry, you can give online through Vanco on our website.