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 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. - “You Were Carried Through the Door Before You Could Walk” Eighth Sunday after Trinity 2026Two 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.
- “They Kept the Husk and Threw the Kernel Away” Friday of the Seventh Week after Trinity 2026On 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.
- The Singing Church, and an Invitation
Why the Lutheran church sings, and an invitation to bring your child to St. John Lutheran School. Enrolling now. - Jeremiah Chapter 9This 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).
