The Daily Ripples Podcast

Pastor Mike & Corey
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The Daily Ripples Podcast is a short, daily reflection bridging faith and recovery. Each episode pairs the day’s recovery reading with biblical insight and honest conversation, exploring how small, faithful steps create lasting change. Rooted in the Twelve Steps and grounded in Scripture, this podcast offers practical encouragement, spiritual clarity, and hope—one day at a time.

  1. 19h ago

    September 15 – A Life That Matters

    Paris takes the open and starts with the Doctor's Opinion, where doctors admitted they had no fix and something else was going to be required. What he's after is what comes after the freedom. He's been going to a different group lately, praying in the mornings to be shown where he can be useful, and finding the answer keeps involving people he might not otherwise have met. Pastor Mike picks up the word daily from the practical ripple and says it's the part that keeps him out of trouble. Looking too far ahead brings worry back to roost. Asking what today's act of love or service looks like tends to make the day work. Corey separates three things people run together: the real purpose on page 77 belongs to a person, the primary purpose in Tradition Five belongs to a group, and the high mission belongs to the society. Pastor Mike draws the parallel to having a personal relationship with Jesus and a communal one with everybody else. The last stretch turns personal, with Corey tracing Mike's path from problem to solution to being useful with it, and Mike naming the hypocrisy that drove him out of church for sixteen years and why every sermon he preaches now ends with something you can go do. The reason comes straight out of the rooms. His thinking changed once his hands and feet started moving. The stone for today: God offers more than freedom from addiction. He offers a life filled with purpose. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com. A life that matters | purpose beyond sobriety | maximum service to God and others | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | shoemaker stick to thy last | common problem common solution | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

  2. 1d ago ·  Bonus

    WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Seven - More About Alcoholism Part 1

    Corey moves into chapter three and starts where the text starts, with the admission most of us were unwilling to make. He works the first paragraph slowly, circling obsession, then illusion, then delusion, and points out that all three describe a person being lied to by his own mind. Which raises the problem he keeps returning to: if he's powerless over it, he doesn't know he's being lied to while it's happening. He spends real time on the word careers. Drinking was never an hour a night for him. It was days at a stretch, more hours than he gave his job, and he uses that as a measure for what he gives to helping other people now. By his own accounting he comes up short, and he says so. The rest of the study walks the failed remedies, the line about men who have lost their legs never growing new ones, and the man of thirty who stayed bone dry for twenty-five years and was dead within four of picking it back up. Corey finds his own version of that story close to home, and also in the thinking that came back to him after his first stretch of sobriety at twenty-one, when the good job and the routine started making a case that maybe he had just been young and dumb. The practical thread through all of it is what to do when you're sitting across from somebody. The book says it does not like to pronounce any individual an alcoholic, and Corey pairs that with page 92's instruction to be satisfied the man is a real one before you go further. His conclusion is that his job is to show a person what an alcoholic looks like and let them decide. A study offered in the spirit of one alcoholic sharing experience, strength, and hope with another. Next week: the examples, starting on page 35. Read along at home. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com. Big Book study | More About Alcoholism | obsession illusion delusion | once an alcoholic always an alcoholic | the man of thirty | no reservation of any kind | beyond human aid | recovery literature | experience strength and hope | addiction recovery Disclaimer: This Wave Book Study is an independent recovery study offered free of charge as a teaching aid. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (A.A.W.S.). Passages read and discussed are drawn from the book Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Big Book"), © A.A.W.S., Inc., and are used here for educational and discussion purposes with attribution. This study is not a substitute for the Big Book itself. We'd encourage you to get your own copy and read it. A.A.W.S. has not reviewed or approved this content, and the views expressed are those of the host alone.

  3. 1d ago

    September 14 – The Peace That Follows Obedience

    Corey opens by giving Pastor Mike his flowers, which he says he's in the mood to do today. The devotional lines up with page 80 closely enough that he walks the two side by side: seek wise counsel against obtaining permission and consulting with others, pray for clarity against asking God to help, and act when the right path is clear against the instruction that if the drastic step is indicated, we must not shrink. From there he talks about the note cards he keeps in his work pants pocket, rewritten whenever one wears out or goes through the wash. This morning's is page 84, and he's honest about which parts of that list he's good at and which he isn't. He's become quick to turn his thoughts to someone he can help. Love and tolerance, and ceasing to fight anything or anyone, are the two he moved to the top so he might practice them more. The conversation takes a turn into whether the Bible should be called the big Big Book, and Corey makes a careful distinction. He believes in Jesus and says so plainly. He also thinks the rooms exist to help a person until they can find a higher power of their own understanding, and he tells a story about a sponsor who made belief a condition of sponsorship and the advice he gave about that. The back half is about why writing it down matters. Once the harm is on paper, with the exact person and the exact wrong, there's nowhere left for the mind games to live. Pastor Mike brings Isaiah 26 and a mind kept in perfect peace because it is fixed on God, and his own experience that obedience has never once cost him peace, even when the obedient thing was hard. The stone for today: Peace of mind grows when I seek God's guidance and faithfully do the next right thing. Stick around past the prayer. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com. The peace that follows obedience | wise counsel and prudence | daily inventory on note cards | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | a higher power of your own understanding | seek ye first the kingdom | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

  4. 2d ago

    September 13 – Mending What Is Broken

    Pastor Mike opens with a mailbox. Corey has told the story on this show about knocking over a row of them and later ending up working for one of the owners, but the version here asks you to picture your own neighbor's mailbox lying in the grass because of something you did. You can walk over and apologize a hundred times or a thousand, and the post is still on the ground. The gap between saying you're sorry and actually standing the thing back up is where this episode lives. He lays out the two kinds of amends people talk about in the rooms, and then makes a case he's been building toward for a couple of weeks now. The Big Book gives eight pages to the amends process, more than most of the steps get, and indirect or living amends do not appear anywhere in them. The concept comes from the Twelve and Twelve, and even there it is presented alongside direct amends rather than as a substitute for them. You mend the mailbox and you never knock over another one. The honest part comes next. He relied on living amends for close to thirteen years because a sponsor told him it was acceptable, and he found every excuse the book would let him find. What he came to a year ago, before this project existed, was that it had become a hiding place, one that let him avoid sitting across from one person in particular. Changing his life was good and it was needed. Using that change to dodge a conversation turned it into avoidance wearing the clothes of growth. It closes on Zacchaeus naming a specific and costly repayment rather than promising to do better, and on Matthew's instruction to leave the gift at the altar and go settle it first. The stone for today: Real amends are more than words. They are a changed life that no longer repeats the same harm. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com. Mending what is broken | direct and indirect amends | changed life as evidence | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | Zacchaeus | leave your gift at the altar | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

  5. 3d ago

    September 12 – Owning My Part

    Corey opens with a story from third grade that he says he remembers like it was yesterday. He slid one of those little four-wheeled carts across the floor at a girl he grew up with, it caught her in the chin, and she was bleeding by the time the teachers got there. What he did next was drop to the ground and grab his own leg, because if she was the only one hurt then all of the attention was going one direction. He is honest that the reflex never fully left him. He is quick with words and quick with comebacks, and when something goes wrong he can have it pointed at somebody else before he has thought about it. From there he works page 61 and the actor, with his own name inserted the way his sponsor had him do it, so the varied traits on both sides of that passage belong to him rather than to a character in a book. Then page 67 and the instruction to put out of our minds the wrongs others had done and resolutely look for our own mistakes, which he keeps on a separate sheet of paper for a practical reason worth hearing. The turn comes when he takes on a common objection, that page 62 asks too much when somebody else really did the damage. His answer is to go back further. He chose who he dated. He made promises he had no intention of keeping. He got the ball rolling well before the part he wants to complain about. And the arithmetic that follows is the reason the whole thing appeals to him: if the problem is him, that is a much smaller repair job than the world being the problem. The stone for today: Freedom begins when I stop making excuses and accept responsibility for my own life. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com. Owning my part | blame and responsibility | self-will run riot | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | his faults are not to be discussed | practicing the principles | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

  6. 4d ago

    September 11 – Courage to Make Things Right

    Pastor Mike opens by admitting he has never thought of himself as a courageous man. What comes to mind when he hears the word is firefighters, and the idea of running into a burning building on purpose is well outside anything he can picture doing. What he has come to believe is that whatever courage he carries now was given to him rather than grown on his own. Paris joins for the day, ahead of a full week with the show, and starts where the practical ripple starts. Difficult conversations get postponed, and the burden lasts as long as the delay does. He talks about approaching people he had not wronged, and what it takes to show tolerance to somebody who is sick. Corey brings page 83 and the instruction to be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. The line he keeps returning to is the one right after it: as God's people we stand on our feet, we don't crawl before anyone. He is honest that none of this comes out of his own nature. His nature says the past is the past, everything is fine now, and there is no reason to go knock on a door. His first sponsor gave him the answer he still uses, which was to open the passenger door and invite God to ride along. The back half turns on demonstration. Corey argues that knocking on the door does something beyond settling his own account, because there may be somebody else in that house watching what this program can do in a man. Pastor Mike ties it to Proverbs and the righteous being as bold as a lion, and adds that Step Nine ending has not ended the work, since he still owes amends for things he does now. The difference is that they are smaller, and he gets to them faster. The stone for today: Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to do what is right despite it. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com. Courage to make things right | fear and delay | making the approach | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | we stand on our feet | leaving the results to God | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

  7. 5d ago

    September 10 – Doing the Work

    Corey opens on the Stone with a three-word review — now that sucks — because spiritual growth being non-transferable is bad news for anybody hoping to get there by listening. The episode works out what that actually costs. He takes it to the Twelve and Twelve and the blunt claim that drunkenness and delusion aren't penalties handed down by anyone in authority; they result from personal disobedience to spiritual principles. That leads somewhere honest: the excuse I don't like being told what to do isn't a character defect so much as a description of every human being alive, church people included. Pastor Mike presses the point with a question that lands hard — could you be at peace with someone who tells you every day that she values honesty, while you keep lying to her? Hearing about honesty has never once been the same as being honest. James says it plainer: be doers of the word and not hearers only. The back half turns on a story about a talk Corey was asked to give at a church, and the thing he realized he had to settle first — a debt he'd been carrying for a year, since the day she told him she already knew and had already forgiven him. What he found out when he finally made the call was that he'd been low on the number. It closes on Matthew 5, leaving the gift at the altar, and one line worth taking with you: let your feet and your mouth be in alignment. The stone for today: Spiritual growth cannot be borrowed from someone else. It grows through my own faithful obedience. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com — and we'd love to hear from you. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com. Doing the work | doers of the word not hearers only | obedience to spiritual principles | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | the spiritual life is not a theory | leave your gift at the altar | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

  8. 6d ago

    September 9 – Opening New Doors

    Pastor Mike opens with a thought about the doors that close behind you, which he finds as significant as the ones that open ahead — and the reminder that walking through a new one has never once meant arriving. He's still a work in progress, and glad of it. Corey takes it to the question of what a spiritual experience is actually for, drawing a hard line under Step Twelve's wording: having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, not a result. From there he lays his old life beside his new one and finds the same shape in both. He knows exactly what it looks like to abandon himself to something completely, because he did it for years with a bottle and with worse, and the only thing that's changed is where the abandon points. Most people can do the giving in moderation, and there's nothing wrong with that — his own life just doesn't seem to work that way. The back half turns on a close reading of page 100, where Corey argues a familiar excerpt gets quoted without the words that anchor it: both you and the new man. Pastor Mike recognizes the move immediately, since restoring context to verses people have carried off on their own is most of his job description. It closes on obedience, which turns out to be a hard word in the rooms and in the pews for exactly the same reason. The stone for today: God's promises unfold as I faithfully take the next step, even when progress seems slow. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com — and we'd love to hear from you. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com. Opening new doors | gradual growth | the result of these steps | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | reading in context | both you and the new man | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

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The Daily Ripples Podcast is a short, daily reflection bridging faith and recovery. Each episode pairs the day’s recovery reading with biblical insight and honest conversation, exploring how small, faithful steps create lasting change. Rooted in the Twelve Steps and grounded in Scripture, this podcast offers practical encouragement, spiritual clarity, and hope—one day at a time.

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    Pastor Mike & Corey
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