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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
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Singing (Psalm 33)
Pastor John concluded our summer sermon series of For Every Season as we walked through different Psalms. In this week's episode, we hear how Psalm 33 is…
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Hurting (Pslam 34)
In this week's episode, Pastor John walks through more from Psalm 34 that was cut from the sermon due to time.
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Worship (Psalm 95) - Dr. Matt Kim
In this week's episode, Pastor John interview's Dr. Matt Kim after preaching Sunday at Highland.
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Trust (Psalm 18)
When it's difficult to trust in God, how do we do it? In this week's episode, Pastor John reflects on the sermon this week from Psalm 18 and how we see our…
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Repentance (Psalm 51)
In this week's episode, Pastor John adds in from his sermon on July 20, 2025 about Psalm 51 on repentance and forgiveness. Here, Pastor John compares…
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Waiting (Psalm 40)
In this week's episode, Pastor John recounts the sermon from this past Sunday in Psalm 40 as we reflect on what we do in a season of waiting. We also look at a…
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Anxiousness (Psalm 46)
In this week's episode, Pastor John expands on his sermon from Psalm 46 and the battle against sin that has so adversely affected our lives. The help that we…
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Joy (Psalm 30)
In this week's episode, Pastor John furthers his message on Psalm 30 and how this idea of joy impacts the New Testament Believer. Now we walk with and through…
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The Man of God (Psalm 90)
In Psalm 90, Moses reflects on his life and the many seasons God led him through. In this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor, Pastor John Durham takes time to…
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Learning Lament (Psalm 88) – Jeremy Daniel
In this week’s episode of The Cutting Floor, Jeremy Daniel takes a deeper look into what is often considered the darkest Psalm in Scripture—Psalm 88. He…
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Praising God (Psalm 9)
On this week's Cutting Floor episode, John revisits his Sunday sermon on Psalm 9 and the theme of gratitude. David calls us to give thanks to the Lord with all…
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Shofar (Psalm 89) – Drew Humphrey
On this week's episode of The Cutting Floor podcast, College Pastor Drew Humphrey revisits his recent sermon on Psalm 89. Joined by Reuven Ross, he takes a…
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Armageddon
In this week’s episode, Pastor John Durham follows up on his sermon from Haggai 4, focusing on the battle described at the end of the book. In this battle, God…
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Misunderstanding Prayer – Ryan Oakes
In this week’s Cutting Floor podcast, Student Pastor Ryan Oakes dives deeper into his sermon on Paul’s instructions for prayer in Philippians 4. He reminds us…
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True Righteousness
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps the book of Haggai and more so our passage from this past Sunday. Here we find where true righteousness is found…
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In His Presence
In this week's episode, Pastor Jeremy recaps his sermon on Haggai 2 and the joy that is found in the presence of God.
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Consumed With Your Own Kingdom
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps our first sermon in our new sermon series Whole Heart looking at Haggai 1. Here we'll find a little bit of history…
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Fear and Great Joy
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps our Easter Sunday sermon and why those who saw Jesus after His resurrection had fear and great joy.
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The King Enters Jerusalem
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps our Palm Sunday sermon as we enter Holy Week. How does Jesus flip everything on it's head?
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The Lamb Was Silent
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps his first message in our series As He Promised and looks more into the prophecy of Isaiah 52 & 53 of Jesus'…
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Union with Christ
As we concluded our Way, Truth, Life sermon series Pastor John shares even further on our union with Christ and what life is like today. Salvation in Christ…
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Transubstantiation - Jay Mathis
In this week's episode, our guest preacher Jay Mathis shares more about communion and some takeaways that weren't included in this week's sermon.
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The Way of the Disciple
This week, Pastor John dives deeper from our sermon in Matthew 16 on the cost of discipleship and specifically why Jesus calls the disciple, Peter, Satan.
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The Way to God's Presence
In this week's episode, we look at our second week in our sermon series, Way Truth Life. Pastor John looks at the statements of Jesus that leads us to the…
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One Way
In this week's episode, Pastor John gives an intro into our new sermon series, "Way Truth Life". There's only one way to God and that is through Jesus!
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After Jonah
In this week's episode, Pastor John speaks of what happened after Jonah and what happens in the next chapter of our lives. There's still more to come!
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Grasping the Grace of God
In this week's episode, we review the sermon from Jonah 4 and look more so at the context of the Ninevites. We also look at the grace and compassion of God…
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Unreserved Yes
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps his sermon on Jonah chapter 3 in when the Ninevites repented.
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The Merciful Discipline of God - Drew Humphrey
In our second week of Relentless Pursuit, we Jonah in chapter 2 experiencing the discipline of God. In this episode, Drew dives even more so into that…
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Runners and Pursuer
In this week's episode, Pastor John goes more in depth and shows how the Gospel is shown through the story of Jonah.
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Your Role in the Church
In this week's episode, Pastor John reflects on the message from Vision Sunday and speaks to the necessity to belong to Jesus and to be engaged with the Church…
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Tohu & Bohu – Jordan Greer
In this week's episode, Jordan Greer shares two points left out of his sermon on January 12, 2025. Dig in a little further in Genesis and see how good our God…
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Conversion of Paul
We started a new two week sermon series to begin the new year called The God of New Beginnings. In this week's episode, Pastor John dives further into Paul's…
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Access to Jesus
This past Sunday, we had One, where we spent time in prayer and worship with one another. We looked at the access to Jesus but in this week's episode, Pastor…
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Listening Prayer – Drew Humphrey
In this week's episode, College Pastor Drew Humphrey discusses some actionable steps to prayer. More so, we look at what listening prayer looks like and how we…
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Jesus is Mighty God
In this week's episode, Pastor John covers a few things left out of his sermon from Isaiah 9 in our sermon series "Unto Us". It is important for us to know and…
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For Our Sake - Jeremy Daniel
In this week's episode, Pastor Jeremy recaps his sermon from Sunday, Dec. 8 on Isaiah 9. In this episode, you'll hear more of the context of what was happening…
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The Authority Over Peace
In this week, Pastor John reflects more from his sermon on Isaiah 7 & 8 and King Ahaz. How much do you know about the prophet Isaiah? Maybe this week's episode…
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Immanuel
In this week's episode, Pastor John breaks down our new Christmas sermon series, "Unto Us". This week's passage, we looked at Isaiah 7 and when God told King…
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Community
In this week's episode, we take a deeper look at our time in communion from this past Sunday and what that looks like for us as believers to reflect on the…
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Generosity
In this week's episode, Pastor John recaps Malachi 3 a little more as we look at the generosity that is required of us but also the great generosity of God.
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God's Blessings
In this week's episode, Pastor John share's our calling from Malachi 2:10-17 to be in covenant and not in a contract. There's a big difference in our…
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The Cycle of Honoring God
In this week's episode, Pastor John breaks down Malachi 2 even further and speaks even more of how this passage can be directed towards us as a royal…
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Impure Offerings - Jeremy Daniel
In this week's episode, we hear from Jeremy Daniel after preaching from Malachi 1:6-14. Jeremy dives deeper into our relationship with God through the blood of…
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Intro to the New Sermon Series
In this episode, Pastor John breaks down a little further Malachi 1:1-5 and dives deeper into Romans 7-9 when it comes to our salvation.
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Jesus Raises Lazarus
This week Pastor John goes a little deeper from his message and provides some more context around when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead John 11.
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The Man Born Blind - Drew Humphrey
This week's episode is from College Pastor Drew Humphrey's preaching on John 9 and when Jesus healed the blind man.
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Jesus Walking on the Water
In this week's episode, Pastor John adds in the things he cut from the sermon from Sept. 8 of when Jesus walked on water.
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Do You Want to be Saved?
In this weeks episode of The Cutting Floor, Pastor John goes even further in his discussion of the validity of Scripture and how history proves Scripture to be…
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The Healing of the Official's Son
This episode of The Cutting Floor is from a sermon preached on August 25, 2024 in John 4 in our imPossible sermon series. You can go back and listen to this…