Biblical · Confessional · Liturgical · Sacramental
Delivering Christ Jesus
and His Gifts for You
A confessional Lutheran parish and school in Random Lake, Wisconsin — gathered around Word and Sacrament since 1855.
Sundays at 9:30 a.m. · Divine Service
Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. · Divine Service
Our Church
St. John Ev. Lutheran Church in Random Lake, WI gathers at Sherman Center to receive Christ’s gifts of Word and Sacrament. We are a confessional, liturgical congregation of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, faithful to the Scriptures and the Book of Concord. Visitors are always welcome.
Our School
St. John Ev. Lutheran School in Random Lake has served families with Christ-centered education since 1855. Children grow in the faith through daily catechesis, the liturgical life of the parish, and a rich academic curriculum rooted in the Lutheran tradition.
Sermons, Catechesis & News
Recent sermons, Bible studies, and articles from St. John.
- Jeremiah Chapters 1–25 Review
We review Jeremiah 1–25 by returning to the prophet’s call: God put His words in Jeremiah’s mouth and sent him to speak them. From Jeremiah we follow the promise of the Prophet like Moses to Jesus, who drank the cup of wrath His prophet could only carry. We also consider what it means to hear Christ today through the men He sends to preach His Word. - “Who Are the Violent?” The Festival of the Reformation 2026Who are the violent who take the kingdom of heaven by force? Sinners with empty hands take hold of Christ and His mercy. The King suffered every blow our sins deserved, and He gives His kingdom freely.
- “Friend, How Did You Come In?” Trinity 20 (observed) 2026The man the King walks up to is not a scoffer who stayed home. He is the pious man in the pew, dressed in his own clothes, and the Law shuts his mouth. But there is another speechless man in Matthew’s Gospel: the Son, who was bound, stripped, and cast into the dark in his place, so that the baptized wear Christ and have their mouths opened to sing.
- Jeremiah Chapter 25Jeremiah 25 reads like a list of verdicts on nations nobody can find on a map. The easy reading is that God is settling accounts with Judah’s enemies. That is half right. The cup begins in Jerusalem, and God puts it in Jeremiah’s own hand: “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand” (v. 15). Every nation drinks, God’s own city first, and the chapter points ahead to the One who drank it in their place.
- “Peace to This House” Feast of St. Luke 2026The Lord’s words to the seventy end in a house, not on the road. The peace they speak is not theirs; it is His, sent before His face. It can be sent back by the house that smiles and never lets it in, and by the one who hears “son of peace” and counts himself out. But a son of peace is simply the one it was sent to, and the Lord who set His face toward the cross now comes to this house as host and speaks it first.
