{"podcast":{"title":"Preaching and Teaching from St. John Ev. Lutheran Church (Sherman Center), Random Lake, Wisconsin","slug":"preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832","podcast_index_feed_id":428832,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/25c9700/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://sjrl.org","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/296224/296224-1599358611312-08bb4eb6b9f18.jpg","author":"Rev. Christopher Gillespie","episode_count":3128,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T14:18:44.983946+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832"},"episode":{"title":"\"Clouds Without Water\" — Friday of Trinity 4 (observed) 2026","slug":"clouds-without-water-friday-of-trinity-4-observed-2026","published_at":"2026-07-02T13:52:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/clouds-without-water-friday-of-trinity-4-observed-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/Clouds-Without-Water--Friday-of-Trinity-4-observed-2026-e3limhc","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/25c9700/podcast/play/122296300/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-2%2Fe384301d-8e26-fb1f-f9a5-1ef1a26a291a.mp3","summary":"So hear this, you who are afraid your faith is too small, you who lie awake wondering whether you’ve become a cloud without water. That very fear is the Holy Spirit still at work in you. The wilderness generation did not lie awake worrying that they had fallen away; they were sure of themselves. The man who cries “help my unbelief” is not the apostate. He is the one Jesus heals. Your salvation does not hang on the strength of your faith but on the faithfulness of your Savior, and Jude tells you so himself: He is “able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory.” (Jude 1:24) He keeps you. Not you, Him.","meta_description":"So hear this, you who are afraid your faith is too small, you who lie awake wondering whether you’ve become a cloud without water. That very fear is the H…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":526,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/episodes/clouds-without-water-friday-of-trinity-4-observed-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/clouds-without-water-friday-of-trinity-4-observed-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}