REACH Construction Updates

CLICK HERE

Inwardly Strong
Outwardly Focused.

Worship Sundays
8:45: Acoustic, Barron Hall or Front Lawn
11:00: Traditional, Sanctuary
Sunday School  9:45

 

LivestreamBulletin

Give OnlineGuests

2025 PLEDGEYouTube

By the grace and love of Christ, we are a gathering of broken people seeking to know, glorify, and serve God together. Whether you’re new to or skeptical about faith, new to town or a lifelong Knoxvillian, we welcome you. We hope you’ll learn more about us on this website, but we hope more that you’ll learn about Jesus here. Join us!

Sermon Series

Summer Fruit: Spiritual Signs of a Fruitful Life
June 1 through August 3

“You will know them by their fruits.” Christ offered those words in the Sermon on the Mount. They were meant within the sermon as a word of warning against “false prophets,” but that notion of “fruit” pops up often enough through Scripture, namely that if one were to want a gauge of the state of one’s heart, just look at one’s actions and words. “For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of” (Matthew 12:34).

The Apostle Paul spoke of types of fruit as well. In a well-known passage in his letter to the Galatians, he lists the “fruit of the Spirit,” that is, characteristics of a life guided and shaped in the Spirit of God: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Gal 5:22-23), set in contrast to what he lists earlier as the “works of the flesh” (5:19-21).

Just in taking a quick inventory of that list, I don’t know about you, but I could stand to see a lot more of that fruit within my own life! But more importantly, if I don’t sense an abundance of love, patience, generosity, gentleness, etc. in my actions and words, what does that say about how I’m walking and living in the Spirit? “You will know them by their fruits.”

The Fruit of the Spirit will be a focus for us over the summer, and I hope each of you will take it as an opportunity to consider how we “who belong to Christ” (5:24) might become more open to the Spirit’s work bearing fruit through how we live. Join us and invite a friend! -Pastor Jay

Children's Ministries
Youth Ministries
Visitors
Newsletter

LATEST INFORMATION

2024 Pictorial Directory Click HERE

OFFICER NOMINATIONS for SHPC CLASS OF 2029! >Click HERE

TAKE THE 2026 PREACHING POLL! >Click HERE

FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL PILGRIMAGE with Pastor Jay and Frances to Greece and Turkey has filled up, but for info to register for the waiting list >Click HERE

2010 CHURCH COOKBOOK is available online! >Click HERE

LET US PRAY FOR YOU! Click HERE and go to the Prayer section.

Follow Us