Our Beliefs

As disciples loved by Jesus and holding to his word, St. John's Lutheran Church strives to...

  • Show HIS love

    • "A new command I give you: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another." - John 13:34-35

    • "This is how we have come to know love: Jesus laid down his life or us. And we also should lay down our lives for our brothers." -I John 3:16

  • Offer HIS grace

    • "For out of his fullness we have all received grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." John 1:16-17

  • Share HIS joy

    • "...your sorrow will turn to joy. ... I will see you again. Your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you." -John 16:20,22

...In service to souls in our congregation and our community.

God Bless Our Church             

by John Hartwig

for St John’s Lutheran Church, Baraboo

with thanks to God for 150 years of grace

Dear Father, hear our prayer

Keep us all in your care;

God bless this church.

You’ve blessed us all these years,

Through trials, pains, and tears.

Trust in you perseveres.

God bless our church

Dear Jesus, you became

Sin for us, took the blame.

God bless this church.

You died and rose that we

Might live eternally.

This good news sets us free.

 God bless our church.

Dear Spirit, you we trust

For faith to keep us just;

God bless this church.

Comforter evermore,

Preserving grace you’ve poured.

We thank you and implore,

God bless our church.

Dear Holy Trinity,

In our vicinity,

Live in this church.

May your Word always be

Preached in its purity.

On this anniversary,

God bless our church.

Text copyright © 2023 by John Hartwig

  

Colossians 2:6-15

6 Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, 7by being rooted and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith just as you were taught, while you overflow in faith with thanksgiving.

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, which are in accord with human tradition, namely, the basic principles of the world, but not in accord with Christ. 9For all the fullness of God’s being dwells bodily in Christ. 10And you have been brought to fullness in him. Christ is the head over every ruler and authority. 11You were also circumcised in him, with a circumcision not done by human hands, in the putting off of the body of flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, 12when you were buried with Christ in baptism. And in baptism you were also raised with him through the faith worked by the God who raised Christ from the dead.

13 Even when you were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ by forgiving us all our trespasses. 14God erased the record of our debt brought against us by his legal demands. This record stood against us, but he took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15After disarming the rulers and authorities, he made a public display of them by triumphing over them in Christ.  

Blessed to be His People by Faith—the Holy Christian Church

Pastor:     In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 

All:         Amen. 

Pastor:     I will place my Dwelling in your midst, and I will not at all detest you.

Women:     I will walk about in your midst, and I will be your God, and you will be my people.             Leviticus 26:11-12

Men:          Lord, I love the house where you reside, the place where your glory dwells.        Psalm 26:8

All:           As for me, God’s nearness is good for me.

Men:        I have made the Lord God my refuge, so that I can tell about all your works.   Psalm 73:28

Pastor:     Day after day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.      

Acts 2:47b

Children:   You also, like living stones, are being built as a spiritual house.                      

1 Peter 2:5 

Men:          Come, let us bow down. Let us revere him. Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker,

Women:    Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another . . . with gratitude in your hearts to God.                                                                                                                Colossians 3:16

Children:   For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the flock in his hand.   Psalm 95:6,7

Pastor:     Your words came to me, and I devoured them. Your words became . . . the delight of my heart,

Women:     because I bear your name, O Lord God of Armies.                                           

Jeremiah 15:16  

Men:          For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.                                                                                                                                                 Romans 1:16

Pastor:     “You will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation.” These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.                                                                                                                             Exodus 19:6 

All:           For God is the one whom we serve as coworkers, and you are God’s field, God’s building.           

1 Corinthians 3:9 

Pastor:     Shout to the Lord with joy, all the earth.

Men:          Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him with joyful songs.

All:                Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are his.                                

Psalm 100:1-3