CrossPoint Presbyterian Sermon Podcast

By CrossPoint Presbyterian Church

Weekly sermons from CrossPoint Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Park City, Utah - preaching verse by verse through books of the Bible.

Each Sunday we work through a passage in its own context, a

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September 06, 2026 Robby Plemmons: Cracked but Not Crushed
Corinth was a status-conscious city, and the church there had taken on its
values: eloquence, credentials, visible power. Then the “super-apostles”
arrived with all of it in spades — and beside them stood Paul, unimpressive
in speech, beaten, imprisoned, shipwrecked. If God were really behind this
man, wouldn’t his ministry look like more?
Paul does not defend his strength. He argues that the weakness they would
use to disqualify him is the very proof that the power is God’s and not his
own. “We have this treasure in jars of clay” — not fine pottery, but
ordinary earthenware, and the fragility is deliberate.
Afflicted, but not crushed. Perplexed, but not driven to despair.
Persecuted, but not forsaken. Struck down, but not destroyed. So the place
where you feel weakest may not be a liability at all. It may be exactly
where God has chosen to put His glory on display.
2 Corinthians 4:1-18 — Rev. Robby Plemmons — September 6, 2026 — CrossPoint
Presbyterian Church, Park City, Utah.
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August 30, 2026 Robby Plemmons: Look to Christ and Be Changed
Paul says the law came with real glory — but a fading one. Like a sunset
that points to the sun, it was never meant to be the destination. It is a
referee who calls every play correctly and can never once enter the game on
your behalf.
So where does actual change come from? Not from trying harder. Paul takes
the veil off Moses’ face and lays it over the human heart, then tells us
how it comes off: not by cleaning ourselves up first, but by turning to
Christ — carrying our sin with us rather than waiting until we have dealt
with it ourselves. We become what we behold. And when we behold Him, we are
transformed, from one degree of glory to another.
You do not have to be the hero of your own story. Turn and look.
2 Corinthians 3:7-18 — Rev. Robby Plemmons — August 30, 2026 — CrossPoint
Presbyterian Church, Park City, Utah.
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August 23, 2026 Brad Carpenter: Philemon
Brad Carpenter opens by explaining why he is standing there: an
old-fashioned preaching exchange. Robby is in Sacramento, where his son
Hudson has just taken a job, preaching at the church Brad normally serves.
Brad's eldest daughter has just moved into the dorms at the University of
Utah. So they swapped pulpits.
Philemon is the shortest of Paul's letters and among the most
uncomfortable. Onesimus is a runaway slave. Paul is sending him back - to a
man with every legal right to punish him - carrying a letter asking that he
be received not as property but as a beloved brother.
Paul does not command it, though he says plainly that he could. He asks.
And then, in his own handwriting: if he owes you anything, charge it to my
account.
Formerly useless to you, Paul writes. Now useful to both of us.
He could have ordered it. He wrote a letter instead, and put his own name
against the debt.
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August 17, 2026 Robby Plemmons: It's The Spirit That Makes Us Sufficient
In 2008, Robby applied to be head football coach at Mississippi State.
Not as a joke. He wrote a full proposal: a fraction of the $32 million
Alabama had just committed to Nick Saban, with the remaining thirty million
placed in an endowment so that players who graduated could apply for grants
to start businesses and nonprofits in their hometowns, each paired with an
alumni mentor. Use the absurd economics of college football to rebuild
small-town Mississippi.
His qualifications: he had once coached his six-year-old son's flag
football team, because the actual coach failed to turn up to the first
practice.
The athletic director wrote back, graciously, to say they were going in a
different direction. Then his father-in-law suggested asking for it on
official letterhead. It arrived. He framed it and hung it on the wall.
Why frame a rejection? Because underneath the joke sits the thing everyone
wants - for somebody to sign off on us. To put our name on letterhead and
certify that we are the real thing.
Which is precisely what 2 Corinthians 3 is about. Paul's rivals arrive
carrying letters of recommendation. Paul has none.
He has a church instead. You are our letter, he tells them. Written not
with ink.
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August 09, 2026 Jim McAndrew: The True Marks of Christian Ministry
In 1986 his mother asked whether he wanted to be a preacher when he grew
up. He said yes. She asked whether he knew what a preacher was. He said yes
- a Top Gun pilot.
Forty years on he is preaching, and his mother is in the pews.
The passage is 2 Corinthians 2:12-17 and the claim is blunt: true Christian
ministry is marked by weakness and suffering. Not by results, not by
platform. Paul reaches Troas to find a door standing open for the gospel,
and leaves anyway, because Titus is not there and he cannot rest.
There is a second story here, and it is a Utah one. A former LDS bishop
across the street, working to convert him, gets a version of Pascal's wager
in return. If I become a Mormon and Christianity is true, I lose
everything. If I stay a Christian and Mormonism is true, I am told I still
get in. So what exactly do I gain? The neighbor's answer: you are missing
out on all the blessings in this life.
That is the crux of it, and it is not only a Mormon answer. Plenty of
Christians preach the same thing in different words.
We are the aroma of Christ. To some the smell of life, to others of death.
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August 03, 2026 Tim Fox: 2 Cor 1:12-2:11
Chapter and verse numbers were added centuries after these letters were
written, and sometimes they were added badly. This is one of those places.
The passage runs straight across the break between chapters 1 and 2,
because the argument does.
And the argument is awkward. Paul planted this church, promised to return,
then did not. Instead he sent a letter severe enough that the Corinthians
are still smarting from it. Now he writes again, defending a change of
plan, defending the tone of what he wrote, and defending himself against
people using both against him.
It is among the most situation-specific passages in the New Testament: a
first-century conflict between a founder and a congregation, with details
we only half know. Which is what makes the turn in it remarkable.
Mid-defense, Paul stops and says that all the promises of God find their
Yes in him. The man accused of saying yes and no in the same breath answers
by pointing at the one who never has.
Tim Fox wrote his doctoral thesis on repentance and restoration in this
letter, and it shows in how carefully he handles it.
Paul's plans changed. That was never the thing under threat.
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July 27, 2026 Robby Plemmons: Comfort Received, Experienced, and Shared
Every song has a melody that makes it that song and not another. Simeon
Trust teaches that every book of the Bible has one too - a single sustained
sentence the whole book hangs on, which every passage connects back to. For
2 Corinthians it is this: God's power is perfected in weakness.
That line, brought back from a preaching workshop in the valley earlier
this year, is what opens this series. Hold onto it. It is the thread
through everything that follows.
But first, Corinth. In 146 BC a Roman general leveled the city and killed
or enslaved everyone in it. Cicero had called it the light of all Greece.
It lay in ruins for roughly a century before Rome rebuilt it - and what got
rebuilt was a boom town of freedmen and traders, a place obsessed with
status precisely because almost nobody there had inherited any.
Paul plants a church in that city. Then he writes to it about comfort - the
word lands again and again in the opening paragraphs - and about
affliction, and about why the two are not opposites at all.
A church built on rubble, in a city that worshipped strength.
God's power is perfected in weakness. In Corinth, of all places.
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July 03, 2026 Robby Plemmons: The Model Prayer
It is usually called the Lord's Prayer, and this sermon argues that is the
wrong name. Jesus never prayed it - he taught it. Better to call it the
disciples' prayer, or the model prayer. When you pray, pray like this.
It begins where the real questions are. In Park City you can talk about
meditation all day and nobody blinks. Christian prayer is stranger. Does it
change anything? Do people who pray look any different from anyone else?
And then the harder version of the question, which had surfaced publicly
that week after an attack on a house of worship: what good are your
thoughts and prayers when they don't even keep the pews safe?
The sermon takes that seriously and locates the mistake inside it. The
assumption is that prayer obligates God to deliver physical safety - that
if his people are gathered and praying, he owes them protection. But God's
people have never been promised safety in this world. Persecution is
normal, not an anomaly.
So what is prayer for, if not that? Matthew 6 answers, and the answer opens
with a word about who is listening.
Our Father. Everything else follows from that.
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32min
July 02, 2026 Robby Plemmons: No Fear
He was a teenager, far too old for it, and terrified of the dark. When the
lights went out he would hear footsteps in a hallway barely a few feet
long. So he worked out a plan. There was a narrow gap between his bed and
the wall, and he slept in it - reasoning that anyone who came to harm him
would look in, see an empty bed, and leave.
Then there is the boy whose mother sends him out to the porch for the
broom. He tells her he is afraid of the dark. She reassures him: don't
worry, Jesus is out there. He thinks about it, opens the screen door a
crack, and calls out - Jesus, if you're out there, will you hand me the
broom?
Both are funny. Neither is only funny, because plenty of us know Jesus is
the answer and still cannot make ourselves trust him while we are
frightened. All you can see is the thing in front of you.
Luke 12 is Jesus on exactly this. Do not be anxious about your life, what
you will eat, nor about your body, what you will wear. Consider the ravens.
Consider the lilies.
He does not tell them the dark is empty. He tells them who is in it.
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July 01, 2026 Robby Plemmons: Repent And Follow Jesus
Here is the practical question this sermon opens with. A coworker hears you
mention your faith, becomes genuinely curious, and asks where to start.
What do you hand them?
The answer is Mark.
If they already know a little, John works. But for someone starting cold,
Mark is the place. Sixteen chapters. Readable in under ninety minutes, less
time than a film. Jesus in close-up and constantly moving - the word
immediately appears forty-two times, and the pace of the book is part of
its argument.
It is also the most straightforward of the four. Not simple, but not
obscure. Someone can pick it up without a guide and follow what is
happening.
And its subject is discipleship, which is to say a call rather than a
description. Mark 1 has Jesus arriving in Galilee announcing that the time
is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, and then two words that are
not suggestions: repent, and believe.
Then he walks past some fishermen, says follow me, and they leave their
nets in the boat.
Where should someone new to the Bible begin? Where Jesus begins. With a
call.
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