Covenant Presbyterian Church Augusta

7/24/2024 "Be Thou My Vision"

Last week, we began our July sermon series that we are calling Then Sings My Soul. We will continue our series this Sunday as we contemplate another of your favorite hymns: Be Thou My Vision. Our Scriptural focus will be the story of God coming to Abram in a vision in Genesis 15, and we’ll think together about what it means for God to "be our vision," as the writer of this hymn would have it.

7/7/2024 "Great is Thy Faithfulness"

This Sunday, we will begin a new sermon series entitled Then Sings My Soul. This title is familiar to some of you as a line from the hymn How Great Thou Art. This hymn has its origins in a poem by the Swedish minister Carl Boberg, who in 1885 wrote the line, "Then doth my soul burst forth in song of praise / Oh, great God, Oh great God!" An English missionary named Stuart Hine discovered this poem and reworked that line into what we know today: "Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee, How great Thou art! How great Thou art!"

6/30/2024 "Desperate Measures"

Mark’s gospel contains several “sandwiches”—where he starts to tell one story, then interrupts himself with another story, then goes back to finish the first story. This week’s sandwich concerns the raising of Jairus’ dead daughter and the healing of a woman in the crowd who touched Jesus’ clothes. This is a familiar story, but perhaps it still has something to teach us. 

6/23/24 "Five Smooth Stones"

This Sunday, we are hearing the story of David and Goliath, which might be one of the top five most famous Bible stories that we have. I think that it is appealing even to people who would never darken the door of a church or a synagogue. Everyone loves the story of an underdog. There is also a depth to this story that popular culture might not appreciate, and I'm looking forward to exploring that with you.

6/16/2024 "When God Says No"

It's a word most of us don't like to hear. (I can tell you from recent parenting experience that three-year-olds are particularly adverse to the word "no.") Whether or not "no" is a word we like to hear, sometimes it's a word we need to hear.This seems to be the case in the on-going story of God and the Israelites that we read in First Samuel.

6/9/2024 "The Voice of the People"

This Sunday, we're looking at a story in First Samuel when God's people demanded a king. It was a time of great political, economic, and military uncertainty, and sounds in many ways similar to our world today. I hope that you'll join us on Sunday as we explore God's Word (and God's lesser-known Word) together.