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Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin
by Rev. Christopher Gillespie
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church & School (Sherman Center) is in Random Lake, Wisconsin, and is served by Rev. Christopher R. Gillespie. St. John Lutheran is God's place for Christians to gather around our Lord's Word and be enlightened by His gifts.We are a congregation of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). We unconditionally subscribe to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession. St. John Lutheran School has been approved for accreditation through the accreditation process of the National Lutheran School Accreditation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
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Catechesis: Ascension of Our Lord—Acts 1:1-14
May 14, 2026
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"Your flesh and blood is at the right hand of the Almighty" Ascension (observed) 2026
The angels asked: Why do you stand gazing? He is not up there, away, unreachable. He fills all things. He is here — in His word, in His sacrament — as surely as He was on the mountain before the cloud came. The cloud did not remove Him. It revealed Him. As the One who sits at the right hand of the Father. As the One who, in that human nature, fills all things. As your Brother, enthroned.
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Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer—John 17:1-10
May 13, 2026
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Ask and You Will Receive—John 16:23b-33
May 12, 2026
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Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy—John 16:16-23
Monday, May 11, 2026
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Jeremiah: Introduction
May 10, 2026
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“The Father Himself loves you… pray!” Rogate 2026
May 10, 2026
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The Work of the Holy Spirit—John 16:5-15
Friday, May 8, 2026
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"Christ went where you could not go" Friday of Cantate (observed) 2026
The new commandment is a finished love. Christ made it on a cross. He gives it to you here in water and word and bread and wine. It is yours. The commandment and the gift are one. Faith and love are baked together like one loaf. Christ holds the one, and you hold the other, and there is no separating them. Christ went where you could not go, so that you could love as you have been loved.
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The Comforter in Persecution—John 15:26—16:4
May 7, 2026
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The World’s Hatred—John 15:18-25
May 6, 2026
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I am the Vine—John 15:1-8
May 4, 2026
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"Draw from the well of His salvation, Jesus." Cantate 2026
This is the advantage. Not God near in the way you wanted. Better than that. The Spirit who convicts — your sin named and buried, Christ’s righteousness declared and given, the ruler’s judgment executed and delivered — doing his work here, in this service, for you.
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Heidelberg Disputations: Thesis 27-28 — May 3, 2026
Handout: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pZdcXSqajaj87tLsZPrMEaBw-n8gDQUT&usp=drive_fsThesis 27: "Actually one should call the work of Christ an acting work (operans) and our work an accomplished work (operatum), and thus an accomplished work pleasing to God by the grace of the acting work."Thesis 28: "The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. The love of man comes into being through that which is pleasing to it."
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The Peace of Christ—John 14:27-31
May 1, 2026
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"His commandment is eternal life" Friday of Jubilate 2026
The Father commanded the Son to suffer and enter His glory. The Son obeyed. The Father gave Him over for your trespasses and raised Him for your justification. Christ was raised by the Father, and that resurrection is the Father's seal on every word the Son ever spoke. The empty tomb says: this Word is true. This commandment is life. The grave could not hold the One who carried the Father's commandment, and the grave will not hold those to whom He has spoken it.
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Fellowship with the Holy Trinity—John 14:19-26
Thursday, Apr 30, 2026
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If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments—Jn 14:12-18
April 29, 2026
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I Am in the Father and the Father in Me—John 14:7-11
April 28, 2026
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Heidelberg Disputations: Thesis 25-26
April 26, 2026
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The Way the Truth and the Life—John 14:1-6
April 27, 2026
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"Come receive what Chronos cannot touch!" Jubilate 2026
Two kinds of time run through this Gospel. Chronos, which counts every loss and draws its conclusions. And kairos, which speaks the word of the risen Christ into the middle of those losses and names them for what they are: labor pains, not graves.
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The Shepherd Knows the Sheep—John 10:22-42
April 24, 2026
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“The friends of the Bridegroom cannot mourn as long as He is with them” Friday of Misericordias Domini 2026
The Bridegroom gives you new wineskins. He gave them to you at the font, where He drowned the old garment and clothed you in His own. The robe you wear before God is His obedience, His death, His resurrection. He does not repair what you bring. He replaces it. This is the grace that cannot be patched onto anything — it must be received whole, given whole, or it is lost.
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Jesus Is the Good Shepherd—John 10:7-21
April 23, 2026
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Jesus Is the True Shepherd—John 9:35—10:6
April 22, 2026
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The Pharisees Excommunicate the Healed Man—John 9:13-34
April 21, 2026
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A Man Born Blind Receives His Sight—John 9:1-12
April 20, 2026
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"The Shepherd stayed when it cost Him His life" Misericordias Domini 2026
The hireling runs. That is the only fact Jesus gives you about him. He sees the wolf coming, and he runs. The sheep scatter, the wolf takes what it wants, and the hireling is already down the road. Jesus does not tell you the hireling's reasons. He does not need to. The man ran. That is his whole character, stated in a single act. Set that figure next to the Good Shepherd, and you have the entirety of the Gospel for this Sunday: He stayed.
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Heidelberg Disputations: Thesis 23-24
April 19, 2026
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Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Ezekiel 34:11-16; 1 Pet. 2:21-25
April 18, 2026
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Jesus Is Confronted by the Unbelieving Jews—John 8:42-59
April 17, 2026
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The Truth Shall Make You Free—John 8:31-41
April 16, 2026
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“Fear and joy together. That is the life of faith.” Friday of Quasimodo Geneti (observed) 2026
You want joy without the terror of standing before the God who raises the dead. Or you settle for dread with no hope of mercy. The women leave the tomb with both, and Matthew does not apologize. He tells you: this is what the resurrection does. It gives you fear and joy together, because the One you meet at the empty tomb is both Judge and Savior, both Holy God and your Brother.
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Jesus Is the Light of the World—John 8:12-30
April 15, 2026
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The Woman Caught in Adultery—John 7:52–8:12
April 14, 2026
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The Nobleman’s Son Is Healed—John 4:43-54
April 13, 2026
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"Faith is born from the breath of God" Quasimodo Geneti 2026
April 12, 2026
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Heidelberg Disputations: Thesis 22
April 12, 2026
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Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Ezekiel 37:1-14; 1 John 5:4-10
April 11, 2026
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Jesus Ordains the Apostles—John 20:19-31
April 10, 2026
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Jesus Eats Broiled Fish in the Upper Room—Luke 24:33-49
April 9, 2026
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The Disciples on the Road to Emmaus—Luke 24:13-27
April 7, 2026
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St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church & School (Sherman Center) is in Random Lake, Wisconsin, and is served by Rev. Christopher R. Gillespie. St. John Lutheran is God's place for Christians to gather around our Lord's Word and be enlightened by His gifts.We are a congregation of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). We unconditionally subscribe to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession. St. John Lutheran School has been approved for accreditation through the accreditation process of the National Lutheran School Accreditation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
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