Pastors James Benson and Dena Roy
237 episodes listed below
Scripture, repentance, and grace for ordinary life.
The CCUPC Cutting Room Floor is a sermon feed built around close biblical reading and practical Christian reflection. Its messages move patiently from passages in Romans, James, Psalms, Hosea, Genesis, and the Gospels toward questions of shame, self-deception, grace, and dependence on Jesus.
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The CCUPC Cutting Room Floor is a sermon-centered Christian podcast shaped by close reading, pastoral repetition, and practical application. Its recent episodes carry a clear Lenten and Easter arc, moving through blame, shame, repentance, humility, grief, faith, and resurrection. The sermons begin with approachable images before settling into scripture. A movie becomes a way to think about surprise and recognition. A game becomes a frame for blame. A book becomes a picture of inner contradiction. A hymn becomes an invitation to face spiritual need without hiding from it. A breathing treatment becomes an image of healing that must come from outside the self. These openings are not detours for their own sake; they give the theological argument something concrete to hold. The speaker then turns to biblical passages with patience, naming the book, locating the text, and returning to key phrases until their force becomes plain. Romans is used to distinguish condemnation from grace. James becomes a call to humility and dependence. Psalms press the difference between religious form and a heart that truly turns to God. Genesis exposes hiding, deflection, and accusation. The Easter sermon finds comfort in the fact that the first witnesses were not manufacturing belief, but confused, grieving, and looking for a body. That detail matters here. The show is especially interested in people as they actually are: proud, afraid, ashamed, self-protective, confused, and still addressed by grace. Its strongest moments come when doctrine becomes a question of direction. Does grief fold inward, or turn toward Jesus? Does humility ask for occasional help, or surrender control? Does repentance punish the self, or seek rescue? The tone is earnest and communal without becoming polished or promotional. Listeners who want quick inspiration may find it slow. Listeners who want a sermon to stay with the text, repeat the central claim, and carry it into ordinary life will understand its rhythm.
Made for: Best for Christian listeners who want traditional sermon audio with careful biblical explanation and direct spiritual application. It especially suits those reflecting on Lent, Easter, repentance, humility, shame, and dependence on Jesus.
What sets it apart: The show pairs scripture teaching with plain images from movies, games, family life, illness, and hymns. Its distinctive strength is the repeated turn from doctrine into the heart's everyday reflexes: hiding, blaming, grieving, confessing, and receiving grace.
Helping connect Sunday to the weekday, we're talking about how to apply the teachings of the Bible to our everyday life.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical reading meets practical reflection, with familiar images reconsidered through repentance, humility, grace, and life in Christian community.
The host repeatedly takes a familiar phrase or biblical image and asks what it demands when read more carefully. Sermons work through Romans, Ephesians, James, and Gospel narratives before turning questions of repentance, humility, communal strength, grief, and dependence toward…
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A Lent sermon that keeps shame and repentance clearly apart.
The sermon treats Lent as a matter of conscience more than a date on the church calendar. Romans 8 gives it its backbone, but the larger question is where sorrow goes: inward into shame, or outward toward Jesus.
An Easter sermon that treats resurrection as a confrontation with ordinary blindness and grief.
This Easter sermon is at its best when it treats resurrection as something that confronts people who still want to explain the empty tomb away.
A steady sermon on humility as surrender, dependence, and shared grace.
This sermon treats humility as a surrendered posture, anchored in James 4:6-10 and carried through Lent, repentance, and submission. It keeps outward cleansing and inward cleansing in view through Psalm 51, then moves steadily toward daily dependence on God and on one another.
A steady sermon on faithfulness when God redirects life into harder, less expected places.
The sermon starts by pressing on a familiar Christian phrase, then widens into Joseph, Mary, and Nazareth with a steady, plainspoken hand. It keeps returning to the same center: God is present in struggle, but strength does not come from human capacity alone.
A familiar passage becomes a clear call to stand together, not alone.
Ephesians 6:10-20 is framed as a shared charge, not a private pep talk. The sermon keeps returning to the line between standing alone and standing together, and it makes the armor language easy to follow by grounding it in plain speech, humor, and household references.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
The CCUPC sermon on Mark 2:13-17 opens with the claim that Jesus 'doesn't protect himself from sinners' but moves toward them to heal them.
The sermon opens by asking why good stories seem to keep turning until the last moment.
The sermon opens by narrowing a wide set of readings to Romans 8:1-8.
This sermon is about humility.
This sermon discusses healing from external sources, using the pastor's personal experience with medicine for lung issues as a metaphor for spiritual healing from sin through biblical passages like Psalm 51 and Hosea 14.
This sermon explores the themes of human wretchedness and repentance through Psalms 50 and 51, emphasizing that God desires heartfelt faith over religious forms.
The episode uses the story of Dr.
This episode explores the theme of blame through Genesis 3, comparing it to the game Clue and discussing how humans deflect responsibility.
A pastor teaches from the Gospel of Mark, encouraging listeners to see Jesus anew through verse-by-verse study.
This episode uses the concept of interruption to discuss how Jesus disrupts lives and history, drawing parallels to communication styles in relationships.
The host shares a personal story about the 1993 blizzard and provides an update on a postponed mission partner visit due to snow in Nashville.
Two pastors discuss the Gospel of Mark and how to apply its teachings to everyday life, while reflecting on past experiences of preaching during COVID.
A sermon discussing the baptism of Jesus and the importance of community in the church.
The host uses a relatable story about forgetting names to illustrate how getting to know God requires time and effort, connecting Sunday teachings to daily life.
The sermon opens by pushing back on the phrase that God will never give someone more than they can handle.
A discussion about the lifelong journey of discovering one's purpose and applying biblical teachings to career and identity decisions.
A pastor reads and expounds on the Armor of God passage from Ephesians, encouraging listeners to stand firm in faith.
The sermon settles into Ephesians 6:10-20 as the letter draws to a close.
This episode discusses applying biblical teachings to everyday life, focusing on a passage about household relationships and mutual submission.
A pastor discusses the challenging passage on submission in marriage from Ephesians, encouraging listeners to apply it to their lives regardless of their marital status.
A pastor explains how Paul's letter to the Ephesians guides Christians to live out their faith in everyday actions and values.
A discussion on applying Paul's teachings in Ephesians 4 about changing one's behavior and identity in Christ.
This sermon explores how anger towards God and others can affect prayer life, using personal family experiences with grief and illness as examples.
A minister discusses how some conversations are difficult to have in a church building and the need to meet people where they are.
A sermon about the natural desire to share joyful experiences, using a personal story about meeting Yo-Yo Ma to illustrate biblical application.
A sermon on Philippians 4 about rejoicing, prayer, and contentment in Christ.
This sermon uses the metaphor of a junk drawer to explore prayer as a form of confession and self-examination, encouraging listeners to reflect on spiritual clutter.
This sermon explores feelings of inadequacy and envy related to gifted programs in school, connecting them to spiritual insecurities about one's gifts in the church context.
Pastors James and Dina discuss applying the Ephesians series to the busy summer church season.
A sermon reflecting on Mother's Day, acknowledging its bittersweet nature for those with passed parents, and honoring mothers for their immeasurable value and endurance.
A discussion on applying biblical instructions from Ephesians to parenting and daily life.
A Bible study discussion on Ephesians chapter 3, exploring defining characteristics of families and applying scripture to everyday life.