Christ Church in Short Hills

December 10, 2023 - The Rev. Paul Keene - The Second Sunday of Advent

A voice cries out in the wilderness! We must ask who are these prophets and whether we should listen?
 
N.B. From Rev. Paul Keene: I misspeak about who King Jehoshaphat and Zedekiah are concerned about. It was the Arameans and not the Amorites.

December 3, 2023 - The Rev. Bowie Snodgrass - The First Sunday of Advent

This Advent, you are invited to spend quality quiet time with God. To stop our bustling and buying, our fretting and festivities, to pause, pray and listen in expectation! Rev. Bowie reflects on the announcement of John the Baptist’s birth to Zechariah and Elizabeth and offers ideas of how to observe Advent as a season of listening in anticipation.

November 26, 2023 - The Rev. Paul Keene - Christ the King Sunday

What do you imagine a king to be? What if we use God’s limitless imagination to imagine? It’s not what we’d think, it’s far more awesome.

November 19, 2023 - The Rev. Bowie Snodgrass - The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

At the end of the Parable of the Talents, there are 15 talents if we add them all together. Through Christ and at Church, we become a generous community who pool and share our resources. On the 10th Annual ThankServing Sunday and Ingathering Sunday, we celebrate the many who give of their time, treasures and talents, overflowing like the colorful harvest of a cornucopia!

November 12, 2023 - The Rev. Cn. Robert Griner - The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

There's no time like the future to wipe out the joy of the present. Jesus startles us awake and aware to behold his appearing in the here and now.

November 5, 2023 - The Rev. Bowie Snodgrass - All Saints’ Sunday

On All Saints Sunday, we celebrate being beloved children of God, part of an extended family that stretches back through biblical history, Jesus’ life and resurrection, all the saints, people we’ve loved and lost, and those we welcome into the household of God through baptism.  

October 29, 2023 - The Rev. George E. Dredden III - The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost

Our world could use courageous people who are willing to take up and follow the path that Jesus asks of us as Christians.
Loving Jesus is more than just saying the words on Sunday morning. It means a daily commitment of loving our neighbors as He loves us. It means loving Jesus through our sincere and authentic actions and words. 
Loving Jesus and being His follower means “walking the walk and talking the talk.” Without embarrassment or hesitation. Paul and his missionaries shared the Good News and themselves. We can do the same!

October 22, 2023 - The Rev. Paul Keene - The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost

With the veneer of sitcom, we hear Jesus teach us about thanksgiving and we explore the God-given trope of “thanks” in our lives.