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The Cutting Floor
The Cutting Floor is a resource from Highland Baptist Church in Waco, Texas. Each week, Pastor John Durham or any other preacher will share a few thoughts that didn't make the cut for the sake of time in their sermon on Sunday.
Episodes
The Cutting FloorAcceptable Worship
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Lead Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from Hebrews 12, exploring how God shakes the things…
The Cutting FloorDirt That Stops Sending – Drew Humphrey
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Grow Pastor Drew Humphrey expands on his Sunday sermon by exploring Isaac’s work to reopen the wells his…
The Cutting FloorA Church that Changes the World
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Lead Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from Acts 13, exploring how the church in Antioch…
The Cutting FloorThe Cost of Generosity
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Lead Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from John 12, exploring Mary’s extravagant act of…
The Cutting FloorGod is at Work
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Lead Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from John 5, exploring Jesus’ authority and His…
The Cutting FloorPray for BOB
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Grow Pastor Drew Humphrey encourages us to open our eyes to the people God places around us and recognize…
The Cutting FloorHis Providence in the Darkness
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon about the providence and sovereignty of God, especially in…
The Cutting FloorThe God of Purpose Will Do It
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from Isaiah 46, highlighting the futility and burden of…
The Cutting FloorNo Coincidences
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from the book of Ruth, highlighting how Ruth’s story…
The Cutting FloorHis Hidden Hand
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham revisits the story of Joseph and explores how God can use the circumstances and…
The Cutting FloorWhat Kind of King Rules My Life
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham reflects on his Sunday sermon from Psalm 103 as we begin our new series, His Hand…
The Cutting FloorA Grace-Formed People
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham discusses Ephesians 4 and the response that follows the rich doctrine of grace…
The Cutting FloorGrace for the Fight – Jeremy Daniel
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Grow Pastor Jeremy Daniel dives deeper into Romans 7, exploring Paul’s use of marriage as a picture of…
The Cutting FloorEnjoying God's Grace
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham revisits Acts 2, showing that although the early church wrestled with sin just as we…
The Cutting FloorGod Sustains Us to the End
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from Jude 24-25, exploring God's promise to keep His…
The Cutting FloorGrace That Trains Us – Josh Duinker
This week on The Cutting Floor Podcast, Group Minister Josh Duinker expands on his sermon from Sunday, showing how God's grace continues to train and transform…
The Cutting FloorThe Lived Experience of God’s Grace
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from Romans 8, focusing on the assurance believers have in…
The Cutting FloorGrace as Transformation
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon, exploring Peter’s moral failure to separate Gentile and…
The Cutting FloorThe Grace of the Spirit – Jordan Greer
On this week's episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor Jordan Greer expands on his Sunday sermon from John 3 and Ezekiel 36, diving into the other two…
The Cutting FloorThe Just and Justifier
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from Romans 3, diving into some of the passages he wasn't…
The Cutting FloorReligion Doesn't Work
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon from Romans 2. John explores the danger of…
The Cutting FloorGrace is the Heart of God
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his sermon from Sunday, exploring how, in our flesh, we often claim to want…
The Cutting FloorContend for the Faith – Jeremy Daniel // Jude 1:17-25
This week on The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor Jeremy Daniel expands on his sermon from Jude 17-25 and unpacks Jude’s call to the disciplines that help…
The Cutting FloorA Holy, Good, and Just God // Jude 1:5-15
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his sermon from Jude 5-15. Listen in as John explores the eternal nature of…
The Cutting FloorDependence – Nathan Slonaker // Acts 5
In this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Student Minister Nathan Slonaker builds on his sermon about dependence. Reflecting on Acts 5 and the story…
The Cutting FloorKept by God // Jude 1:1-4
In this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, Pastor John Durham expands on his sermon from Jude 1–4, encouraging listeners not to overlook the rich…
The Cutting FloorThe Sharing of the Faith – Abe Yeager // Philemon
In this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor Podcast, College Minister Abe Yeager follows up on his Sunday sermon on Paul’s letter to Philemon. Abe explains…
The Cutting FloorOne Body Many Members // Romans 12
In this week’s episode of the Cutting Floor Podcast, John Durham expands on his Sunday sermon about spiritual gifts in Romans 12. He explains that these gifts…
The Cutting FloorHousehold of God // Ephesians 2
In this week’s edition of The Cutting Floor, Pastor John Durham explores what it means to have access to the Father through one Spirit. He also unpacks Paul’s…
The Cutting FloorAll One In Christ – Drew Humphrey // Galatians 3
In this week's episode, Drew Humphrey goes even deeper in his sermon from Sunday over Galatians 3.
The Cutting FloorEaster Sunday // 1 Peter 3:19
On this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor, Pastor John follows up his Easter sermon by diving into the challenging passage of 1 Peter 3:19, where Jesus is…
The Cutting FloorPalm Sunday // Matthew 21
In this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor, John explores the narrative of Matthew 21 and Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, showing how Jesus, in His…
The Cutting FloorRescuer // Psalm 107
This week, Pastor John kicked off our Easter sermon series, Rescued, with a message from Psalm 107. In this episode of The Cutting Floor, he goes deeper into…
The Cutting FloorGod's Providence // 1 Samuel 27 & 30
As we wrap up our Established sermon series we see through David's life that God is providential and that we can still see that. In this week's episode, we…
The Cutting FloorDavid & Goliath // 1 Samuel 13-28
In this week's episode, we look back from our sermon this week and seeing David & Goliath. Here, we see the true picture of Jesus and how we can't compare our…
The Cutting FloorTrusting the Timing of God // 1 Samuel 8-13
This week's episode follows up on our sermon from March 1 in our series Established. May we become more steady and firm in our walk with the Lord.
The Cutting FloorWho Can Stand? // 1 Samuel 6-8
Pastor John recaps our sermon in our Established series as we look at 1 Samuel 6, 7, and a little bit of 8. We see idols and their destruction.
The Cutting FloorIdols // 1 Samuel 4-6
In this week's episode, Pastor John speaks more from 1 Samuel and our sermon series, Established, where we can see Jesus in the Old Testament. Be encouraged…
The Cutting FloorGod Speak // 1 Samuel 3
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps our sermon in our Established sermon series as we look at 1 Samuel 3 and the story of Eli and his sons. Good…
The Cutting FloorDisappointment // 1 Samuel 1
In this week's episode, Pastor John shares more from the prayer of Hannah and how she was established in God.
The Cutting FloorDiscipline of Generosity // 2 Corinthians 9
This week's episode in the new year is looking back at our second sermon from our two week series, Practicing. We look a little more on the discipline of…
The Cutting FloorDiscipline of Praise // Psalm 34
This week's episode in the new year is looking back at our first sermon from our two week series, Practicing. We look a little more on the discipline of praise.
The Cutting FloorGrace Took On Flesh – Jeremy Daniel // Matthew 2
In this week's episode, Jeremy Daniel shares from his sermon on Dec. 21st as we conclude our sermon series, Christmas Grace. We are reminded of need for Jesus…
The Cutting FloorAppearing & Reappearing Grace // Titus 2
In this week's episode, Pastor John shares more from his sermon on December 14 during our sermon series Christmas Grace as we looked at Titus 2.
The Cutting FloorGrace Cultivates – Drew Humphrey // Colossians 1
NextGen Grow Pastor, Drew Humphrey shares a fourth point that he didn't get to this past Sunday from our sermon series, Christmas Grace. Jesus is the one who…
The Cutting FloorThe Coming of Grace // John 1
This week, we started our new sermon series during Advent season called Christmas Grace. In this week's episode, Pastor John shares more about the coming of…
The Cutting FloorCommunion is Defiance
This week, Pastor John shares more about communion from our Cross of Christ as we reflected on communion being defiance to the world.
The Cutting FloorUltimate Loneliness // Mark 15
What did the loneliness of Christ do for us? We can be confident in what Christ did for us so that we would never be alone.
The Cutting FloorThe Cost of Obedience - Jeremy Daniel // Jeremiah 15
In this week's episode, Pastor Jeremy shares from what he cut out of his sermon from November 9. Obedience to Christ comes at a cost. What is that cost?
The Cutting FloorA Longing // Ecclesiastes 4
In this week's episode, Pastor John shares more from his sermon on Ecclesiastes 4 in our series, Desert Rose. We all have a longing and this episode is a…
The Cutting FloorIn the Waiting – Josh Duinker // Psalm 23
Josh Duinker shares more after his sermon from this past Sunday. We are not alone as much as it may feel like it!
The Cutting FloorTrue Community // Acts 2
We started a new sermon series this week, Desert Rose where we begin to look at loneliness and Scripture's response. This week, we look even further from the…
The Cutting FloorConstant Temptation // Judges 16
We concluded our sermon series, Unafraid, on the story of Samson. We face constant temptation but what decisions do we make? What options do we have?
The Cutting FloorMore to the Story // Judges 14
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps the sermon from this week in Judges over the first half of the story of Samson.
The Cutting FloorFinishing the Race // Judges 7 & 8
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps Judges 7 & 8 and the end of Gideon's story. Oh how easy it is to drift away from the Lord even when once there was…
The Cutting FloorWhen Facing Death – Drew Humphrey // Judges 7
In this week's episode, Drew Humphrey shares more from his sermon on Judges 7 and the story of Gideon. We see the saving hand of God and that He is the only…
The Cutting FloorDeborah and Barak // Judges 4
In this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor, Pastor John reflects on Sunday’s sermon about Deborah by shifting focus to Barak, highlighting how men often miss…
The Cutting FloorThe Trumpet Blast // Judges 3
In this week's sermon, Pastor John shares more from the sermon from Sunday in Judges 3 on the story of Ehud.
The Cutting FloorExcuses // Judges 3
In this week's episode, Pastor John shares more of the story of Othniel in Judges and how we can see ourselves in the story of God's people in the book of…
The Cutting FloorWhole-Heart // Judges 1
This week, we started a new sermon series, Unafraid, as we look at stories of living a life without fear. We look at the story of Caleb specifically in Judges…