Rev. Cari Copeman-Haynes

This was not the sermon Rev. Cari planned to preach, but it’s the one that was given! Exploring John 14:15-21, part of the “sermon” Jesus offers to his disciples before his passion, she shares some of the reflections (and a story) from a recent Policy Board meeting during the sermon. She also defines the Greek…

Rev. Cari preached on John 10:1-10 on this fourth Sunday after Easter, also referring (just at the end) to Acts 2:42. Drawing a bit on Jean Vanier’s exposition of this text which introduces Jesus as the “Noble Shepherd,” she plays a bit on the duality between the care of Jesus for his sheep, and the…

Two Sundays after Easter Rev. Cari opens the sermon with the question, “When’s the last time your heart was burning inside you?” And after walking down the road to Emmaus with the two disciples and the “stranger” in Luke 24:13-35, the congregation did take some time in pairs to consider that question. You’re invited to…

Easter morning’s sermon wasn’t just any old sermon… it was a full-fledged dialogue between the preacher and the Crossroads massed choirs! The Children’s, Youth, and Adult Choirs all shared in the preaching task with Rev. Cari, punctuating the spoken word with choral responses. Our recording capacity, unfortunately, is lacking these musical offerings, so we’ll display…

  Continuing the theme of the last few sermons, during Lent, Rev. Cari offered this sermon on John 9 (the story of the healing of a person blind from birth). She compared the experience of this one (in the story) to that of Megan Phelps-Roper’s in her TED talk: I grew up in the Westboro…

  Following where Rev. Edith began last week, Rev. Cari continues with the theme of conversations ~ this week between Jesus and a Samaritan woman by the well of Jacob.   How do we have conversations among people of different traditions, and differing world-views? In this sermon Rev. Cari shares how Jesus begins “from below”…

  Yet another snowy Sunday at Crossroads, and Rev. Cari preached on Matthew 4:1-11, the story of Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness. This sermon on work avoidance draws the distinction between those adaptive challenges which require our full attention and engagement, and the technical problems which are usually more attractive to us, since we actually…

  On this seventh Sunday after Epiphany, Rev. Cari pulled an “old” sermon out of her back pocket, and re-preached it. It’s about those familiar words regarding “turning the other cheek and going the extra mile” from Jesus in Matthew 5:38-48.   She got Brenda up as an assistant when it came time to act…

  Two “made-up” words to share the process Jesus engages in for today’s text, Matthew 5:21-37, and the process the church is invited into by that text. Rev. Cari shares that she “chickened out” of preaching on this text, when it has come up in the lectionary in years past, but this was the year!…

  In this sermon from January 29, 2017, Rev. Cari compares the “alternative vision” of the Beatitudes to the “alternative facts” circulating in the commons in these days. Lifting up Jesus’ shocking words in Matthew’s gospel (ch. 5:1-12) using the paraphrase written by Eugene Peterson, The Message, Rev. Cari offers a passionate call to Jesus’ vision…