Pastor Chase Riebel’s sermon was from Ephesians 6:10-24. Paul’s final word to the Ephesians was to put on the armor of God and fight their battles with His strength and not their own. God’s armor — truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation and the word of God — is meant to be taken with us at all times every day.
Larry Wittmer told the story of Maximilian Kolbe during the communion meditation. Kolbe was a Polish priest who starved to death in the place of another man in the death camp Auschwitz. Ten men had been chosen to starve because a prisoner had escaped and they were being punished to deter further escape attempts. Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a man who had a wife and two children. Christ also chose to die for us to pay the debt for our sins.
Brinley McGhee led worship singing.
