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.
- Education for Real Life: The Doctrine of Vocation
A Lutheran education prepares your child for every calling, not just church work. Meet the doctrine of vocation. - Jeremiah Chapter 8Jeremiah 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.
- “Christ’s clean heart is reckoned to you” Trinity 6 2026Jesus 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.
- A Treasure Worth Crossing an Ocean ForWhy immigrant Lutherans built a schoolhouse before almost anything else, and why that heritage still shapes St. John today.
- Jeremiah Chapter 7 Bible Study — July 5, 2026This 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.
