{"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":"\"The Teacher Who Is Mercy Itself\" Trinity 4 2026","slug":"the-teacher-who-is-mercy-itself-trinity-4-2026","published_at":"2026-06-29T23:25:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/preaching-and-teaching-from-st-john-ev-lutheran-church-sherman-center-random-lake-wisconsin-428832/the-teacher-who-is-mercy-itself-trinity-4-2026","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/The-Teacher-Who-Is-Mercy-Itself-Trinity-4-2026-e3lerb0","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/25c9700/podcast/play/122170144/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-29%2Fb9876cf3-0065-6ff0-bf20-4a822d494f4d.mp3","summary":"You have been somebody's disciple since the day you were born, and Jesus warns that you never rise above your teacher — given enough time, you simply become him. The world is a blind guide that trains us to judge first and forgive slowly, and we have become blind guides ourselves, reaching for the speck in a brother's eye with a plank in our own. But there is another Teacher: Jesus is the Father's mercy in the flesh, who takes our score-keeping heart to the cross and trains us in Baptism, Word, Absolution, and the Supper until we begin to look like Him.","meta_description":"You have been somebody's disciple since the day you were born, and Jesus warns that you never rise above your teacher — given enough time, you simply beco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":539,"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/the-teacher-who-is-mercy-itself-trinity-4-2026/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/the-teacher-who-is-mercy-itself-trinity-4-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}