Rev. Christopher Gillespie

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

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.

Author

Rev. Christopher Gillespie

Category

Religion

Podcast website

sjrl.org

Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

“The Father Himself loves you… pray!” Rogate 2026 10.05.2026

May 10, 2026

"Water. Word. That is the sign. It was always his" — Funeral of Donald Thiel 10.05.2026

May 8, 2026

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Numbers 21:4-9; James 1:22-27 09.05.2026

May 9, 2026

The Work of the Holy Spirit—John 16:5-15 08.05.2026

Friday, May 8, 2026

"Christ went where you could not go" Friday of Cantate (observed) 2026 07.05.2026

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.

The Comforter in Persecution—John 15:26—16:4 07.05.2026

May 7, 2026

The World’s Hatred—John 15:18-25 06.05.2026

May 6, 2026

As the Father Loved Me, I also Have Loved You—John 15:9-17 05.05.2026

May 5, 2026

I am the Vine—John 15:1-8 04.05.2026

May 4, 2026

"Draw from the well of His salvation, Jesus." Cantate 2026 04.05.2026

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.

Heidelberg Disputations: Thesis 27-28 — May 3, 2026 04.05.2026

Handout: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pZdcXSqajaj87tLsZPrMEaBw-n8gDQUT&usp=drive_fs Thesis 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...

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Isaiah 12:1-6; James 1:16-21 02.05.2026

May 2, 2026

The Peace of Christ—John 14:27-31 01.05.2026

May 1, 2026

"His commandment is eternal life" Friday of Jubilate 2026 01.05.2026

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'...

Fellowship with the Holy Trinity—John 14:19-26 30.04.2026

Thursday, Apr 30, 2026

If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments—Jn 14:12-18 29.04.2026

April 29, 2026

I Am in the Father and the Father in Me—John 14:7-11 28.04.2026

April 28, 2026

Heidelberg Disputations: Thesis 25-26 27.04.2026

April 26, 2026

The Way the Truth and the Life—John 14:1-6 27.04.2026

April 27, 2026

"Come receive what Chronos cannot touch!" Jubilate 2026 27.04.2026

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.

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Lamentations 3:22-33; 1 Peter 2:11-20 25.04.2026

April 25, 2026

The Shepherd Knows the Sheep—John 10:22-42 24.04.2026

April 24, 2026

“The friends of the Bridegroom cannot mourn as long as He is with them” Friday of Misericordias Domini 2026 23.04.2026

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.

Jesus Is the Good Shepherd—John 10:7-21 23.04.2026

April 23, 2026

Jesus Is the True Shepherd—John 9:35—10:6 22.04.2026

April 22, 2026

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