Covenant Presbyterian Church Augusta

1/26/2025 Unrolling the Scroll

Our Scripture readings for this Sunday show us two different worshiping communities that are facing big moments in their lives together. In Nehemiah, the people are reestablishing temple worship following the Babylonian exile. In Luke, the people in Nazareth are coming to terms with the fact that Joseph's son is not going to be an average kid from Nazareth. Both stories show readings and interpretations of Scripture that elicit big emotional responses.As Pastor Andy Cooke tells us there is power in what we do every week in worship. Sometimes, it can overwhelm us. Join us this Sunday as we contemplate the ways that God moves through our sanctuary and the ways that we might be called to respond.

1/19/2025 First Things First

First things are important. First impressions are important. We've learned this lesson through our own personal experiences, and in this Sunday's gospel reading, as Pastor Katelyn Gordon Cooke tells us, we'll get to see Jesus' first miracle (or "sign" as the Gospel of John calls it) that marks the beginning of his ministry.

1/12/2024 Heaven Opened

On this second Sunday in January, we have finished our annual journey of remembering and celebrating the birth of Jesus. This Sunday, we will mark his baptism and the beginning of his adult ministry. Baptism is one of the oldest and most meaningful traditions in the Christian Church, and as Pastor Andy Cooke says,  it is important for us to consider what it meant for Jesus and what it means for us.

1/5/2024 Grace Upon Grace

There is comfort in what is familiar especially when we are on the threshold of something new - like a new year with all of its possibilities and unknowns stretching before us. Certainly, God was doing something new in the person of Jesus Christ, and the magi and the gospel writer looked to familiar things to help them recognize God's presence and discern God's guidance for them.  This week's sermon is from Rev. Katelyn Gordon Cooke

12/29/2024 The Jesus Year

During Advent we anticipate, meditate, and prepare for the arrival of God’s Incarnation but then after Christmas we can quickly move on.  Have you slowed down enough to consider God’s willingness to be so vulnerable? What is more exposing than the process of a human birth?  The uncertainty of food, shelter, and safety of an immigrant family?  This Sunday Rev. Karla Conditt Daniels explores the story of Jesus as a twelve year old. Talk about a sensitive human time - no longer a child but not yet an adult. 
What does it mean, in these days after Christmas, that God comes to us in human form? 
The incredible and remarkable nature of God’s Incarnational love is not just something to consider during Advent, but throughout the year. 

12/24/2024 Christmas Eve Candlight Worship

Tonight we celebrate the light of God coming into the world through Jesus Christ.  God incarnate.  A bright light to show the world the face of God in human form.  We celebrate that light with a candlelight service of worship and adoration.

12/22/2024 Generation to Generation

Not long after Charlie was born, I noticed a change in myself. I started singing a lot more than I did pre-Charlie. I'd make up songs about all kinds of things for Charlie.  I wonder if the same was true for Mary when she sang the Magnificat that we'll read in worship on Sunday morning. Perhaps Mary's beautiful and prophetic words about the God who had chosen and blessed her to be Jesus' mother just spilled out of her in that moment. However it happened, we will be blessed to hear (and sing!) her words again in worship on this Sunday morning.

12/15/2024 Lessons and dCarols

This Sunday will be our annual Lessons & Carols service.  we will tell the story of Advent and Christmas with readings from Old Testament prophets and New Testament gospels. You will also have the opportunity to join the choir in several places, so come ready to sing out!  We hope you enjoy this service of worship in its entirety.

12/8/2024 The Prophet's Father

As you may know, we've been focusing this year on The Stories We Tell and why they are important. During Advent, we're calling it The Story We Tell. Like all good stories, this one has a lot of secondary characters that might be less familiar. Who is Jesse? Or Elizabeth? Or Simeon? No one is putting an inflatable Simeon in their yard and Elizabeth will not make the front of any Christmas cards.The nice thing about Advent covering four weeks is that we can learn more about these characters. This Sunday, we will focus on Zechariah, who was the father of John the Baptist.

12/1/2024 The Story We Tell

This Sunday marks the beginning of Advent, which is a season of preparation and waiting for the coming of the Christ child. Waiting can be hard, and it helps to have something to do while we're waiting. This Sunday, we'll dedicate ourselves to the task of readying our worship space for Christmas with our annual Hanging of the Greens service. We include the entire service this week full of music and narration in observance of this first Sunday of Advent.