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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June 20, 2026 Robby Plemmons: Deuteronomy 2 & 3
Twelve spies go into the land. Ten come back and say it cannot be done -
the people are giants, the cities fortified with walls to the sky. Two come
back and do not contradict a word of it.
That detail is the hinge of this sermon. The two never argue the facts.
They never say the report was exaggerated, the giants smaller than claimed,
the walls lower than they looked. They saw exactly what the other ten saw.
They simply also looked at God, and at what he had already done.
The people rally around the bad report and refuse to move.
Moses retells this a generation later, and the way he tells it is pointed.
The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as
he did in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you saw how
he carried you as a man carries his son. Yet in spite of this word, you did
not believe.
Not: you weighed the evidence badly. You did not believe.
The giants were real. That was never the problem.
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June 19, 2026 Robby Plemmons: Deuteronomy 1
In college it was called the DTR - the conversation where you define the
relationship. It is possible to rehearse that conversation so many times in
your head that you become convinced it already happened, which is how this
sermon opens, with the woman in question having to ask: so what is going on
between the two of us?
Deuteronomy is one long DTR. Speaking through Moses, God tells a people
standing on a border exactly where they stand with him - what he has done,
what he asks, and what he intends to do.
That matters more than it may sound. A tornado once shifted a house a
couple of inches off its foundation. From the street it looked fine. It had
to be demolished anyway, because a compromised foundation cannot be
patched. Our most foundational relationship is not with a husband or a wife
but with the God who made us, and when that one shifts, everything built on
it eventually follows.
Deuteronomy may be the most consequential book in the Old Testament. Jesus
quotes it more than any other book of the Pentateuch, and it echoes through
the New Testament nearly a hundred times. This sermon opens the series by
asking what being in covenant with the living God actually means.
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June 18, 2026 Robby Plemmons: I AM The True Vine
The Bible opens in a garden, with God as the gardener. He makes a world fit
for people to flourish in, puts them in a garden, and tells them to be
fruitful - which is what every garden is for. A flower garden produces
blooms. A farm produces a crop that feeds a family or gets sold to feed
somebody else's. Fruit is the point of the exercise.
John 15 returns to that image at the very end of Jesus' life. I am the true
vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
Two things follow, and neither is comfortable. Branches that bear no fruit
are taken away. And branches that do bear fruit are pruned - cut back
deliberately, so that they bear more. Fruitfulness turns out not to be a
reason to be left alone.
Then comes the word the whole passage rests on. Abide. It lands again and
again in a handful of verses. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself
unless it abides in the vine, neither can you.
The vine never asks the branch to produce. It asks the branch to stay
attached.
Apart from me, you can do nothing.
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June 17, 2026 Robby Plemmons: I AM The Way, The Truth And The Life
This is said in an upstairs room, at a Passover meal, on the last night
before the crucifixion. Jesus has just told the disciples he is leaving,
and that where he is going they cannot follow. They do not understand it,
but they understand the part that matters. He will not be with them.
What he does not say is worth noticing. He does not tell them things are
about to get hard so they had better pull themselves together. There is no
bracing, no instruction to be men about it.
He says: let not your heart be troubled. In my Father's house are many
rooms. I go to prepare a place for you, and I will come again and take you
to myself.
Then Thomas asks the practical question in two parts. We do not know where
you are going, so how can we know the way?
Jesus answers both at once, and the answer is not a set of directions. I am
the way, and the truth, and the life.
Thomas asked for a map. He was given a person.
You do not find the way to the Father. You follow him there.
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June 16, 2026 Robby Plemmons: I AM The Resurrection
John records only seven miracles in the whole of his Gospel - water into
wine, an official's son, a paralytic, five thousand fed, walking on water,
a blind man given sight. Lazarus is the seventh, and the last.
What unsettles this passage is the timing. Word comes that Lazarus is ill.
Jesus, who loves this family, stays where he is for two more days. By the
time he arrives, Lazarus has been in the tomb four days.
Martha meets him on the road with the sentence anyone would have said.
Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. Jesus tells her
that her brother will rise. She agrees - on the last day, in the
resurrection - which is exactly what a well-taught person would say. She
has the doctrine right and it is doing nothing for her.
So he moves it. I am the resurrection and the life. Not something scheduled
for later. Someone standing in front of her.
Then he asks a question this sermon lets sit there unanswered for a while:
do you believe this?
Martha believed in the resurrection. She had not yet met him.
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June 15, 2026 Robby Plemmons: I AM The Good Shepherd
In the ancient Near East, shepherding was not a quaint occupation. It was
the economic bedrock. Sheep meant meat, milk, wool and skins - the raw
material of staying alive. Everyone in that world either lived in a
household that owned sheep or watched shepherds grazing flocks at the edge
of town. Sheep were as ordinary to them as cars are to us.
So when Jesus says I am the good shepherd, nobody needs the metaphor
explained. What they need is the adjective.
Because the passage turns on a comparison. There is the shepherd, and there
is the hired hand. The hired hand sees the wolf coming and runs, and the
reason is given without any cruelty in it: he cares nothing for the sheep.
They were never his. Nothing about the arrangement was ever going to hold
once it cost him something.
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. And then, twice over,
Jesus insists that nobody takes it from him. He lays it down of his own
accord.
The hired hand leaves when it gets expensive. That is the whole difference,
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it is the only difference that matters.
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June 14, 2026 Robby Plemmons: I AM The Door
John 10 makes little sense without John 9. A man born blind has just been
healed - on a Sabbath - and the religious authorities are furious. Jesus
has broken their rules, and worse, he has no standing with them at all. "We
know that God has spoken to Moses," they say, "but as for this man, we do
not know where he comes from." He never sought their approval and never
received their stamp.
So when Jesus says "I am the door," he is answering them directly. Everyone
before him who claimed to control access, everyone who climbed in another
way, was a thief and a robber. The gatekeepers had made themselves the
gate.
This is the lesser known of the two I AM statements in John 10,
overshadowed by the Good Shepherd a few verses later. But it settles a
question the Good Shepherd assumes: who gets in, and on whose terms? Jesus
does not say he points the way to the door. He says he is the door. "If
anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find
pasture."
Not managed access. Pasture.
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June 13, 2026 Robby Plemmons: I AM The Light Of The World
William Tiptaft, born in 1803, wrote this: if you had a thousand crowns,
you should put them all on the head of Christ, and if you had a thousand
tongues, they should all sing his praise, for he is worthy.
Those are not the words of a man who knows several nice things about Jesus.
They belong to someone whose whole life has been reorganised by seeing him.
That distinction runs underneath this whole sermon. In John 8, Jesus says I
am the light of the world; whoever follows me will not walk in darkness,
but will have the light of life. The Pharisees answer with a procedural
objection - you are testifying about yourself, so it does not count. Jesus
does not soften the claim to meet them halfway. He knows where he came from
and where he is going.
They know neither.
Paul writes that when we behold the glory of the Lord with unveiled face,
we are transformed. Not informed. Transformed.
Knowing about Jesus and seeing him are two different things, and only one
of them has ever changed anybody.
Light is not something you learn. It is something you walk in.
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June 12, 2026 Robby Plemmons: I AM The Bread Of Life
One second of hand-drawn animation - a jaguar's tail flicking, her cub
blinking - takes around twenty-five separate cels, each drawn and laid over
the one beneath it. No single cel is the picture. Stack them and something
moves.
That is what this series does with the seven I AM statements. Each reveals
a different aspect of what Jesus does for people who need it: light because
we walk in darkness, a shepherd because we need leading. Laid over one
another, they make a portrait.
The first comes in John 6, and it arrives as an argument. The crowd has
just been fed and now wants a sign, so they raise the bar. Our fathers ate
manna in the wilderness, bread from heaven. Moses gave us that. What have
you got?
Jesus corrects the premise before he answers it. It was not Moses who gave
you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread. Then: I am
the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger.
They wanted a better delivery of what they already had. He offered himself
instead.
Manna kept people alive one more day. This does not.
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June 11, 2026 Robby Plemmons: The Millennium
At a ball game, a close call gets replayed from three or four camera angles
before anyone rules on it. A runner tagging up, a throw to the plate, a
tag, an out call - then the replay from this side, and that side, and the
other, until the full picture assembles itself.
That is how Revelation works. John shows the same stretch of time again and
again from different vantage points, and chapter 20 is another angle rather
than the next event.
Chapter 19 carried us to the very end: final judgment, every enemy of God
destroyed. Then chapter 20 goes back to the beginning of the church age -
the period between Christ's first coming and his second, which is to say
the period you are sitting in right now.
Satan bound. The souls of those beheaded for the testimony of Jesus,
reigning with Christ. Then the release, Gog and Magog, the surrounded camp,
and fire from heaven that ends it in a sentence.
The thousand years is among the most fought-over passages in Scripture.
This sermon reads it the way John's own method demands: as another view of
now.
Same play. Different camera.
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