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Pastor Harding explores the question Why Are You Here? during his first official sermon in the pulpit. His message is followed by Holy Communion and prayer with the congregation.

03152026 Sermon: Why Are You Here?

Mr. Paul Clark reads the New Revised Standard Version of Matthew 28:16-20 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
Matthew 28:16-20 New Revised Standard Version 
 
16Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him, but they doubted. 18And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit 20and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

Mr. Paul Clark reads the New Revised Standard Version of Matthew 28:16-20 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Matthew 28:16-20  New Revised Standard Version

16Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him, but they doubted. 18And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit 20and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

03152026 Scripture Reading: Matthew 28:16-20  New Revised Standard Version

Ms. Alberta reads the New Revised Standard Version of John 4:5-42 during the worship service at Trinty United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
John 4:5-42 New Revised Standard Version 
 
5So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. 
 
7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)[a] 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir,[b] you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15The woman said to him, “Sir,[c] give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” 
 
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19The woman said to him, “Sir,[d] I see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you[e] say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you[f] will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You[g] worship what you[h] do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” 26Jesus said to her, “I am he,[i] the one who is speaking to you.” 
 
27Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,[j] can he?” 30They left the city and were on their way to him. 
 
31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36The reaper is already receiving[k] wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” 
 
39Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”

Ms. Alberta reads the New Revised Standard Version of John 4:5-42 during the worship service at Trinty United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

John 4:5-42  New Revised Standard Version

5So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)[a] 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir,[b] you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Ar

03082026 Scripture Reading: John 4:5-42  New Revised Standard Version

Lay Speaker Mary Baker finishes her sermon series with Mercy at the Well during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

03082026 Sermon: Mercy at the Well

Lay Speaker Mary Baker continues her sermon series with The Promise during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

03012026 Sermon: The Promise

Ms. Paula reads John 3:1-17 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
John 3:1-17 New Revised Standard Version 
 
1Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with that person." 3Jesus answered him, "very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." 4Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" 5Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of Spirit is spirit. 7Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.' 8The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." 9Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" 10Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Isreal, and yet you do not understand these things? 11"Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen, yet you do not receive our testimony. 12If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the son of Man. 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up , 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 17"Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Ms. Paula reads John 3:1-17 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

John 3:1-17  New Revised Standard Version

1Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with that person." 3Jesus answered him, "very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." 4Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" 5Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of Spirit is spirit. 7Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.'  8The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do n

03012026 Scripture Reading: John 3:1-17 New Revised Standard Version

Pastor Nathan's final Sunday worship at Trinity United Methodist Church. Pastor Nathan discusses the physical power that prayer can manifest, the visual changes that can be brought forth.

02152026 Sermon: Prayers That Move Rivers

Ms. Mary Baker invites you to listen to Mercy in the Wilderness during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

02222026 Sermon: Mercy in the Wilderness

Ms. Mary Baker reads the New Revised Standard Version of Matthew 4:1-11 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
Matthew 4:1-11 New Revised Standard Version 
 
1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3The tempter came and said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.' 4But he answered, 'It is written, "One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."' 
 
5Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6saying to him, 'If you are the Son of God , throw yourself down; for it is written, "He will command his angels concerning you", and "On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone."' 
 
7Jesus said to him, 'Again it is written, "Do not put the Lord your God to the test."' 8Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour; 9and he said to him, 'All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.' 10Jesus said to him, 'Away with you, Satan! for it is written, "Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him."' 11Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.

Ms. Mary Baker reads the New Revised Standard Version of Matthew 4:1-11 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Matthew 4:1-11 New Revised Standard Version

1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3The tempter came and said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.' 4But he answered, 'It is written, "One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God."'

5Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6saying to him, 'If you are the Son of God , throw yourself down; for it is written, "He will command his angels concerning you", and "On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone."'

7Jesus said to him, 'Again it is written, "Do not put the Lord your God to the

02222026 Scripture Reading: Matthew 4:1-11  New Revised Standard Version

Lay Leader Kim Parsons reads Ephesians 3:14-21 from the New Living Translation during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
Ephesians 3:14-21 
 
14When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, 15the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth 16I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. 17Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. 18And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. 
 
20Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. 21Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.

Lay Leader Kim Parsons reads Ephesians 3:14-21 from the New Living Translation during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Ephesians 3:14-21

14When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, 15the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth 16I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. 17Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. 18And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

20Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

02152026 Scripture Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 New Living Translation

Pastor Nathan invites you to listen to his sermon, Powerful Prayer, during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

02082026 Sermon: Powerful Prayer

Music Director Rick Galyean reads The Voice Translation of Romans 8:26-27 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
Romans 8:26-27 The Voice Translation 
 
26A similar thing happens when we pray. We are weak and do not know how to pray, so the Spirit steps on and articulates prayers for us with groaning too profound for words. 27Don't you know that He who pursues and explores the human heart intimately knows the Spirit's mind because He pleads to God for His saints to align their lives with the will of God.

Music Director Rick Galyean reads The Voice Translation of Romans 8:26-27 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Romans 8:26-27  The Voice Translation

26A similar thing happens when we pray. We are weak and do not know how to pray, so the Spirit steps on and articulates prayers for us with groaning too profound for words. 27Don't you know that He who pursues and explores the human heart intimately knows the Spirit's mind because He pleads to God for His saints to align their lives with the will of God.

02082026 Scripture Reading: Romans 8:26-27  The Voice Translation

Pastor Nathan asks are you willing to do the hard things throughout his sermon Confession is Good for the Soul during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

02012026 Sermon: Confession is Good for the Soul

Pastor Nathan reads James 5:13-18 from The Message Translation during the virtual worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
James 5:13-15 The Message Translation 
 
13-15Are you hurting? Pray. Do you feel great? Sing. Are you sick? Call the church leaders together to pray and anoint you with oil in the name of the Master. Believing-praying will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet. And if you've sinned, you'll be forgiven-healed inside and out. 
 
16-18Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with Gog is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't-not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.

Pastor Nathan reads James 5:13-18 from The Message Translation during the virtual worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

James 5:13-15  The Message Translation

13-15Are you hurting? Pray. Do you feel great? Sing. Are you sick? Call the church leaders together to pray and anoint you with oil in the name of the Master. Believing-praying will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet. And if you've sinned, you'll be forgiven-healed inside and out.

16-18Make this your common practice:  Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with Gog is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't-not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.

02012026 Scripture Reading: James 5:13-18  The Message Translation

Pastor Nathan continues his sermon series with A Prayer of the Heart part 2. During this morning's service, Nathan explains how prayer becomes a way of life and not a last resort. In this way of living, we become a non-stop prayer.

01182026 Sermon Series: The Shape of Prayer - Part 3: A Prayer of the Heart (2)

Ms. Diane reads the New Living Translation of Philippians 4:6-9 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
Philippians 4:6-9 New Living Translation 
 
6Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. 
 
8And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me - everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

Ms. Diane reads the New Living Translation of Philippians 4:6-9 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

Philippians 4:6-9  New Living Translation

6Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

8And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me - everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

01182026 Scripture Reading: Philippians 4:6-9  New Living Translation

Pastor Nathan continues his sermon series with A Prayer of the Heart. During this morning's service, Nathan explains what prayer does. Prayer doesn't manipulate God - it aligns God's people with God's heart and healing.

01112026 Sermon Series: The Shape of Prayer - Part 2: A Prayer of the Heart

Ms. Caitlyn reads the Common English Bible version of 2 Chronicles 7:11-15 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. 
 
2 Chronicles 7:11-15 Common English Bible 
 
11In this way, Solomon finished the Lord's temple and the royal palace. He successfully accomplished everything he intended for the Lord's temple and his own palace. 
12Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place as my house of sacrifice. 13When I close the sky so that there is no rain or I order the locusts to consume the land or I send a plague against my people, 14if my people who belong to me will humbly pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 15From now on my eyes will be open and my ears will pay attention to the prayers offered in this place.

Ms. Caitlyn reads the Common English Bible version of 2 Chronicles 7:11-15 during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

2 Chronicles 7:11-15  Common English Bible

11In this way, Solomon finished the Lord's temple and the royal palace. He successfully accomplished everything he intended for the Lord's temple and his own palace.
12Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place as my house of sacrifice. 13When I close the sky so that there is no rain or I order the locusts to consume the land or I send a plague against my people, 14if my people who belong to me will humbly pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 15From now on my eyes will be open and my ears will pay attention to the prayers offered in this place.

01112026 Scripture Reading: 2 Chronicles 7:11-15  Common English Bible

Pastor Nathan begins his new sermon series The Shape of Prayer on Epiphany Sunday with A Secret Prayer. Pastor Nathan emphasizes that prayer is not performance or pressure - it is relationship and presence with God. Prayer isn't about being good at it or impressing someone else or having perfect words, it is about showing up, reaching out, and being in relationship with our Heavenly Father in a raw, imperfect, broken way. 
 
The sermon is followed by presenting the Holy Sacraments for Holy Communion and the Apostles Creed.

Pastor Nathan begins his new sermon series The Shape of Prayer on Epiphany Sunday with A Secret Prayer. Pastor Nathan emphasizes that prayer is not performance or pressure - it is relationship and presence with God. Prayer isn't about being good at it or impressing someone else or having perfect words, it is about showing up, reaching out, and being in relationship with our Heavenly Father in a raw, imperfect, broken way.

The sermon is followed by presenting the Holy Sacraments for Holy Communion and the Apostles Creed.

01042026 Sermon Series: The Shape of Prayer - Part 1: A Secret Prayer

Mr. David Tipton reads Matthew 6:5-6 from the English Standard Version at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia 
 
Matthew 6:5-6 English Standard Version 
5"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."

Mr. David Tipton reads Matthew 6:5-6 from the English Standard Version at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Matthew 6:5-6  English Standard Version
5"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."

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03152026 Sermon: Why Are You Here?

03152026 Scripture Reading: Matthew 28:16-20 New Revised Standard Version

03082026 Scripture Reading: John 4:5-42 New Revised Standard Version

03082026 Sermon: Mercy at the Well

03012026 Sermon: The Promise

03012026 Scripture Reading: John 3:1-17 New Revised Standard Version

02152026 Sermon: Prayers That Move Rivers

02222026 Sermon: Mercy in the Wilderness

02222026 Scripture Reading: Matthew 4:1-11 New Revised Standard Version

02152026 Scripture Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 New Living Translation

02082026 Sermon: Powerful Prayer

02082026 Scripture Reading: Romans 8:26-27 The Voice Translation

02012026 Sermon: Confession is Good for the Soul

02012026 Scripture Reading: James 5:13-18 The Message Translation

01182026 Sermon Series: The Shape of Prayer - Part 3: A Prayer of the Heart (2)

01182026 Scripture Reading: Philippians 4:6-9 New Living Translation

01112026 Sermon Series: The Shape of Prayer - Part 2: A Prayer of the Heart

01112026 Scripture Reading: 2 Chronicles 7:11-15 Common English Bible

01042026 Sermon Series: The Shape of Prayer - Part 1: A Secret Prayer

01042026 Scripture Reading: Matthew 6:5-6 English Standard Version

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