📖 New sermon A Handful of Flour A widow at the gate of Zarephath has a handful of flour, a little oil, two sticks, one son, and a plan to eat it and die. But before she ever picked up a stick, the LORD had already said, "I have commanded a widow there to provide for you." The cake goes to the prophet first because the promise is in the prophet's mouth, and the promise is the one thing in the story that never runs out. Christ came hungry to your gate and went out with wood on His back to make the meal where He died and you get to eat. Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/D4JurD0WXjs 🎧 Listen and boost: https://fountain.fm/show/nJo9UCXmgHzaFEVnRjdd 🔗 https://sjrl.org/a-handful-of-flour-trinity-15-2026/

Banned Books 453: Athanasius — Against the Wiles of Satan Athanasius wrote the Life of St. Antony around 356; the section we read is Antony's own address to the monks, on daily discipline, what possessions are actually worth, and how the demons operate. Antony went into the desert and found the same enemies waiting — solitude doesn't remove the battlefield. And Athanasius's real counsel turns out not to be the desert at all, but the church. ▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/FftLJi6ZNqA 🎧 Listen & boost: https://fountain.fm/show/l4LPiVNnJDAcH9ZrAv0u 📖 Show notes: https://bannedbooks1517.org/episodes/ep-453 #BannedBooks #Lutheran #Athanasius #Theology #Podcast

📖 New sermon He Came to Be Your Estate A man interrupts the sermon to ask about money, and Christ refuses the case: “Who made Me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” He gives a farmer instead — the barns, the succession plan, and then the religious upgrades, the pledge card and the estate gift. Luther’s verdict on all of it is not greed but idolatry, the most common idol on earth. But the appointed reading does not stop at “Fool.” It runs on to the ravens: the one creature in the chapter with no storehouse and no barn is the one God feeds. He will not divide your estate. He came to be your estate. Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/xN47i4hPTvY 🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/He-Came-to-Be-Your-Estate-Friday-of-Trinity-14-observed-2026-e3ol6gl 🔗 https://sjrl.org/he-came-to-be-your-estate-friday-of-trinity-14-observed-2026/

📖 New sermon Two Sermons Were Preached That Day All ten lepers believed Jesus, and all ten were cleansed by nothing but His word on the road. Then the priests preached them a second sermon — only God cleanses leprosy, your obedience did this, don't you dare give the glory to a man from Nazareth — and nine believed that preacher instead, praising God with their tongues while blaspheming Him in Christ. They had a Bible verse, and they thought they did well. "Your faith has saved you" is Christ's ruling handed down against theirs: not the going, not the offering, but faith alone, because Jesus alone was already cleansing before they had walked ten steps. Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/cfqsYuR7eSk 🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/The-Sunday-of-the-Ten-Lepers--September-6--2026-e3oe82p 🔗 https://sjrl.org/two-sermons-were-preached-that-day-trinity-14-2026/

📖 New Bible study Jeremiah Chapter 20 Last week Jeremiah smashed a jar in the garbage valley. This week we find out what it cost him: Pashhur, the chief officer of the temple police, beats him and locks him in the stocks overnight, and Jeremiah opens his mouth and says the worst thing anybody says to God in the Old Testament — O LORD, You induced me, and I was persuaded (Jer. 20:7). Then watch one word walk through the next five verses: God prevailed over him, his friends expect to prevail against him, and they will not — because nineteen chapters back the promise was already standing, they shall not prevail against you (Jer. 1:19). His enemies cannot win against him precisely because God already did. Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/pTTgQRKbqRw 🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/Jeremiah-Chapter-20--September-6--2026-e3oe81k 🔗 https://sjrl.org/jeremiah-chapter-20/

📖 New sermon Strive to Enter but Only through Christ Jesus commands you to agonize your way through the narrow door, and in the same breath says the many who try will not be strong enough. So the striving He commands cannot be strength. Luke uses that agony word exactly twice — once here, where Christ commands it, and once in a garden, where Christ does it. He did the agonizing, and He heard “Depart from Me” at the shut door, so that the sentence over you is that He knows where you are from: the font. Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/mM3LegqMLgQ 🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/Friday-of-Trinity-13-observed--September-2--2026-e3oa038 🔗 https://sjrl.org/strive-to-enter-but-only-through-christ-friday-of-trinity-13-observed-2026/

📖 New sermon He Had Compassion On You The lawyer answers rightly — love the Lord with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, and your neighbor as yourself — and then negotiates the second table: Who is my neighbor? Jesus tells of a man stripped, beaten, and left half dead, seen and passed by priest and Levite, and found by a Samaritan whose guts turn with compassion, who pours oil and wine, carries, and leaves a blank check with the innkeeper: whatever more you spend, I will repay when I come again. You are the man in the ditch, and He had compassion — He came where you are, bound you in oil and wine, brought you to the inn, and paid it all. Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/WDgnQFl9BlQ 🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/He-Had-Compassion-On-You-Trinity-13-2026-e3o3o2o 🔗 https://sjrl.org/he-had-compassion-on-you-trinity-13-2026/

📖 New Bible study Jeremiah Chapter 19 Last week the Lord sent Jeremiah to the potter's house to watch wet clay wadded up and made again. This week He sends him to buy a finished flask — fired, narrow-necked, the kind that cannot be mended — and to carry it through the Potsherd Gate to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, where Judah burned its sons to Baal, a thing God says never came into His mind. Before the elders and the priests he smashes it on the ground, and the word with the shards is that it "cannot be made whole again" — the Hebrew is healed (Jer. 19:11). Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtube.com/live/Pk8IQ7RkKlA 🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/Jeremiah-Chapter-19--August-30--2026-e3o3mbd 🔗 https://sjrl.org/jeremiah-chapter-19/

📖 New sermon Capernaum Needed to Hear ‘For You’ Jesus pronounces woe on Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum — and says it will be more tolerable for Sodom on the day of judgment. Capernaum was His own town, the place He moved to and lived in; nearness to Christ is exactly what condemned it. What makes that same nearness a mercy at the altar rail is not proximity but the words attached to the bread and the cup: given and shed for you, for the forgiveness of sins. Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/V6uaZN6da9Q 🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/Capernaum-Needed-to-Hear-For-You--Friday-of-Trinity-12-observed-e3nvfut 🔗 https://sjrl.org/capernaum-needed-to-hear-for-you-friday-of-trinity-12-observed-2026/

📖 New sermon The Sigh of God Of everything Jesus does for the deaf man — the fingers, the spit, the word of power — St. Mark writes down the sigh. A sigh is the sound the curse makes coming out of a human being, and ours do nothing: we can't sigh a tumor out of a body, or our dead back to life. Jesus takes the whole weight of it into His own chest and breathes out one word. It cost Him heaven's silence on the cross to say it. Read it: ▶️ Watch: https://youtu.be/wHHGVLiFrlg 🎧 Listen: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/Trinity-12-2026-e3nr51j 🔗 https://sjrl.org/the-sigh-of-god-trinity-12-2026/