Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin

Divine Service Setting Three (Service of the Word only)

Text: Matthew 27:57-66

John 19:11

Office of Vespers

John 19:11

Text: John 15-17

The Chief Service

 Office of Vespers

Text: John 13-14

The Passion according to St. Luke

 The Passion according to St. Mark

Text: John 12:1-43

Text: John 12:13

Test: Matthew 21:1-9

Text: John 19:25-42

Text: John 19:1-24

Text: Matthew 27:32-56

Text: John 18:28-40

Text: John 18:1-27 https://stjohnrandomlake.org/prepare-for-judica-the-sunday-of-the-passion-03-29/

Complete order of service: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/prepare-for-judica-the-sunday-of-the-passion-03-29/

Please support the work of St. John Sherman Center: * Visit our giving portal on our website: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/support/ * Use the Give+ Mobile App: https://giveplushelp.vancopayments.com * Text GIVE to (920) 843-9323 (standard data and messaging rates apply). * If you would like to contribute by mail to support the work of God in and through St. John, please direct it to: St. John Ev. Lutheran Church, W5406 Hwy SS, Random Lake, WI 53075

Join the congregation of St. John in prayer each day and each Sunday at 9:30 am and Wednesday @ 7 pm for Divine Service, where God serves us with His gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation.  We are located at W5406 Highway SS, Random Lake, Wisconsin (https://goo.gl/maps/YCoyfG5WZMz). For more information and seasonal service times, check our website at https://stjohnrandomlake.org.  Please support the work of St. John Sherman Center:  * Visit our giving portal on our website: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/support/ * Use the Give+ Mobile App: https://giveplushelp.vancopayments.com * Text GIVE to (920) 843-9323 (standard data and messaging rates apply).  * If you would like to contribute by mail to support the work of God in and through St. John, please direct it to: St. John Ev. Lutheran Church, W5406 Hwy SS, Random Lake, WI 53075

Join the congregation of St. John in prayer each day and each Sunday at 9:30 am and Wednesday @ 7 pm for Divine Service, where God serves us with His gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation. We are located at W5406 Highway SS, Random Lake, Wisconsin (https://goo.gl/maps/YCoyfG5WZMz). For more information and seasonal service times, check our website at https://stjohnrandomlake.org. Please support the work of St. John Sherman Center: * Visit our giving portal on our website: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/support/ * Use the Give+ Mobile App: https://giveplushelp.vancopayments.com * Text GIVE to (920) 843-9323 (standard data and messaging rates apply). * If you would like to contribute by mail to support the work of God in and through St. John, please direct it to: St. John Ev. Lutheran Church, W5406 Hwy SS, Random Lake, WI 53075

The Congregation at Prayer for March 25, 2020 Our Text: Matthew 27:11-31 Join the congregation of St. John in prayer each day and each Sunday at 9:30 am and Wednesday @ 7 pm for Divine Service, where God serves us with His gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation. We are located at W5406 Highway SS, Random Lake, Wisconsin (https://goo.gl/maps/YCoyfG5WZMz). For more information and seasonal service times, check our website at https://stjohnrandomlake.org. Please support the work of St. John Sherman Center: * Visit our giving portal on our website: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/support/ * Use the Give+ Mobile App: https://giveplushelp.vancopayments.com * Text GIVE to (920) 843-9323 (standard data and messaging rates apply). * If you would like to contribute by mail to support the work of God in and through St. John, please direct it to: St. John Ev. Lutheran Church, W5406 Hwy SS, Random Lake, WI 53075

The text for today: Palm Sunday - John 12:12-26 Join us each Sunday @ 9:30 am and Wednesday @ 7 pm for Divine Service, where God serves us with His gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation. We are located at W5406 Highway SS, Random Lake, Wisconsin (https://goo.gl/maps/YCoyfG5WZMz). For more information and seasonal service times, check our website at https://stjohnrandomlake.org. Support the work of St. John Sherman Center: * Visit our giving portal on our website. It's secure and easy. No Credit Card or Debit card is required: https://stjohnrandomlake.org/support/ * Or text GIVE to (920) 843-9323 (standard data and messaging rates apply). * If you would like to make a contribution by mail to the work of God in and through St. John, please direct it to: St. John Ev. Lutheran Church, W5406 Hwy SS, Random Lake, WI 53075

March 26, 2020 Laetare (Lent 4) John 6:1-15  We do not know what is in store for our body, our life, or our congregation. We trust that He will preserve His Word and our faith until our end or He comes again. The fact that we here at all is testimony to the miracle of God’s grace and mercy. We give thanks for the multitude of blessings the Father has given our body and life. But we all the more store up the treasures of Jesus Christ, His Word and the holy Sacraments, confident that upon this bread from heaven, the church will remain forever.

15. March 2020 Oculi Luke 11:14-28 Where God’s finger is, there is His kingdom. The finger of God is the Word of Christ. This finger is mighty, active, powerful, and victorious. He is the stronger man, who has attacked and overthrown the strong man. The strong man snapped at His heel but the same heel crushed his head. The Stronger One has come and conquered him and taken from him all his weapons. You cannot be deceived. You are not lost. You are Christ’s today and forever.

Taught on March 15, 2020. The class handout is available here.

Taught on March 12, 2020, at Emmanuel Adell.

08. March 2020 Reminiscere (Lent 2) Matthew 15:21-28 The Lord has promised to have mercy and you catch him in His Word. You hold onto these promises and never let go. He has adopted you In Baptism. He has and continues cast out the demonic afflictions that burden you. He promises to redeem you on the last day and welcome you into his new Israel. You can doggedly hold on to Him and His promises.

Taught on February 8, 2020.

Taught on March 5, 2020, at Emmanuel Adell. 

01. March 2020 Lent 1 - Invocavit Matthew 4:1-11 In your Baptism, you are joined to your Lord, the Conquerer. You are given to share in all He is and has, in all He has done and will do for your salvation. Even His invincible power against temptation is yours. You share in His victory and His power over His and your enemies, including the devil. And joined to Him in Baptism, He is fighting for you. As you are in Him, so you, Arabella, and all the baptized will conquer.

Taught on February 27, 2020 at Emmanuel Adell.

Taught on March 1, 2020.

23. February 2020 Quinquagesima 1 Cor. 13:1-13; Luke 18:31-43 Love is to be delivered over to the Gentiles. Love patiently suffers the scorn and shame of enemies and friends alike. Love is kind to those who persecute you. Love is mocked and shamefully treated. Love is spit upon. Love is flogged and killed. Love is crucified. Love gives His life for His friends. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love obeys the Father even unto death. Love dies for the sins of the whole world. Jesus is love. Whenever you hear love in the Holy Scriptures, you hear Jesus.

Taught on February 23, 2020.

Taught at Emmanuel Adell on Thursday, February 20, 2020.

Preached on February 19, 2020.

15. February 2020 Sexagesima Luke 8:4-15 Take heart, dear Christian! Christ Jesus has again today in your hearing given you ears to hear and tongues to confess His Holy Name. He has tilled your hard heart, crushed your rocky soil, and weeded out every care in you, so that your entire faith, hope, and love is in Christ and His salvation alone. The sower went out to sow, and He has accomplished what He set forth to do for you.

Jesus can do nothing apart from the Father (5:19, 30; 8:28). He does the works the Father sent Him to accomplish (5:36; 4:34). This is a real relationship with real, personal interaction, not just a revealing of the relationship of the divine persons. The presence of “the Jews” is helpful, because they have come to the grave, confident that Lazarus’ death is fact and death is invincible. And then Jesus overcomes what is impossible and gives thanks to the Father in full dependence. He is commanding faith in Him and the Father who sent Him! This has been the purpose and goal since the Prologue (1:14, 51).

Taught on February 12th, 2020 at Emmanuel Adell.

Preached on February 12, 2020.

5. February 2020 Transfiguration Matthew 17:1-9 For Christ turned His face to Jerusalem, suffering all in glory, that you would be glorified in Him. He has forgiven all that would keep you from being in the presence of God. You are given not only to approach Him without terror but are given to be joined to Him. He gives you His glorious flesh and blood, food and drink rich in grace and mercy. Now you pay approach God and live. Now you may approach Him and be with Him. Now you see His face and you have peace.

2. February 2020 Presentation and Purification Luke 2:22-32 Who God is, His relationship to you, and what He has done and continues to do for you, must be revealed to you.“No one has ever seen God; [but] the only God, who is at the Father’s side, He has made him known” (John 1:18). Jesus is the only begotten of the Father, who knows the heart of the Father, and can alone reveal the Father’s thoughts. He alone has seen the Father. And therefore, only He can tell us who God is. “Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him” (Mt 11:27).

Taught on February 2, 2019.

Taught on January 30th, 2020 at Emmanuel Adell.

Preached on January 29, 2020.

26. January 2020 Epiphany 3 Matthew 8:1-13 Power struggle divides us into disputes. You put brother against brother or set yourself against your pastor in an attempt to wrestle control of the situation. In the end, no one wins…except for Satan. Only the evil one benefits when you Christians war with themselves. The faith once delivered to the saints is undermined and destroyed. You will be left either despondent, scandalized, or an apostate. The devil and his demons rejoice over even one sinner who rejects the faith.

Taught on January 26, 2019.