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. 11h ago

    July 31 – Living the Prayer

    Corey opens on the Big Book's blunt line about the alcoholic as an extreme example of self-will run riot — "though he usually doesn't think so" — and asks the obvious follow-up: so how would I know when I'm in it? Pastor Mike's answer is honest, that the gap between running on self-will and catching it has just gotten shorter over time. From there the conversation turns to what it means to grow up performing faith without feeling it, why the Big Book asks a man to sit alone for a full hour, and how cleaning house is what turns fleeting moments of awe into something steadier. It closes on the Seventh Step Prayer as a call to action — grant me strength as I go out from here to do Your bidding — and the plain observation that the step right after seven is eight. The stone for today: Serenity, courage, and wisdom are not ideas to admire, but a way of living each day. 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. Living the Serenity Prayer | self-will run riot | Seventh Step prayer | faith without works | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | prayer and meditation | cleaning house | 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

    July 30 – Investing What Was Given

    Corey opens with a thought experiment about walking into a room full of strangers who happen to have the cure for exactly what's killing you — and then refusing to pass it on to the next person who walks through the door. That's the tension of today's episode: what you've been given was never meant to stop with you. Pastor Mike takes it to Matthew 25's parable of the talents, read from the Message, where the servant who plays it safe and buries what he was given gets the harshest word in the whole story. The conversation turns toward faith without works being dead, why feelings are subjective but the literature isn't, and the plain difference between knowing what the book says and having actually done it. The stone for today: What has been given to me is not meant to stop with me. It grows, deepens, and multiplies only when I am willing to give it away. 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. Giving back what was given | faith and works | parable of the talents | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | carrying the message | community of faith | 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.

  3. 2d ago

    July 29 – Giving Without Being Seen

    Pastor Mike opens with the Sermon on the Mount's instruction not to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing — and notes how often Jesus told the people he'd just healed to keep quiet about it. Corey brings the Big Book's harder question: it's not whether to give, but when and how, because the wrong kind of help teaches someone to lean on you instead of God. He'd know — he's honest about a stretch when his higher power was whoever held the keys to the cell. The conversation lands somewhere unexpectedly good: whether "abandon" is a better word than "surrender," since surrender implies you put up a fight first, and abandoning something means you've also let go of deciding who benefits from it. Also: why praying for exactly the outcome you want might be the least useful prayer you could offer someone. The stone for today: Real generosity grows when I stop looking for what I can get and start offering what I can give. 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. Giving in secret | when and how to give | surrender and abandon | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | prayer and God's will | Sermon on the Mount | 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. 3d ago

    July 28 – Staying in My Lane

    Corey opens with Tradition Five in its long form — a group has but one primary purpose — and makes the case that knowing exactly who you're equipped to help is its own kind of humility. Pastor Mike takes it to Exodus 18, where Jethro tells Moses plainly that the work is too heavy, he can't handle it alone, and he'll only wear himself out trying. That lands close to home for a self-described overworker who spent years trying to be all things to all people, even in recovery, even for good reasons. The conversation works through Micah's ancient short list — act justly, love mercy, walk humbly — and lands on why holding a free gift without passing it on eventually curdles into something else entirely. The stone for today: I am called to help, but I am not called to be everything for everyone. 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. Knowing your limits | primary purpose | service without overextending | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | Micah 6:8 | humility and gratitude | 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. 4d ago

    July 27 – Giving Without Return

    Corey opens with a barbershop debate in Ohio about who holds the door for whom — and admits his own door-holding wasn't exactly selfless back then either. That's the honest thread of today's episode: what happens when you finally notice the motive underneath the good deed. He and Pastor Mike work through the Big Book's insistence that faith without self-sacrifice and unselfish action isn't much of a faith at all, plus Bill Wilson's own uncomfortable example — five dollars for a drunk in public, a quarter in the basket when nobody's watching. Along the way: why sitting down with a newcomer counts as giving even when they go back out the next day, William James on first-born and second-born souls, and Jesus' plain instruction in Luke to lend without expecting anything back. The stone for today: Real giving expects nothing back. 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. Giving without expectation | motives and ego | service and sponsorship | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | anonymity and humility | Big Book study | Luke 6 | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery

  6. 5d ago

    July 26 – Valuing What Matters

    Sundays belong to Pastor Mike now, and this one opens on what he calls a God wink: the devotional written months ago and the Matthew 13 parables from this morning's lectionary landed on the same day saying the same thing. The practical side starts with the Seventh Tradition — every group fully self-supporting — but pushes past the basket to the harder question. Who made the coffee? Who unlocked the door? Who's been treasurer for six years because nobody else would? From there it turns to the treasure in the field and the pearl of great price, and the detail that changes everything: the man sold all he had in his joy. Not grim math, not clenched teeth — just someone who finally saw what something was worth. The spiritual side follows the Trinity through a mustard seed that behaves more like a weed, yeast worked into fifty pounds of flour, and a net that catches every kind of fish while the sorting waits for shore. The stone for today: I show what I value by what I am willing to give. 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. Valuing what matters | giving without holding back | Seventh Tradition and self-support | parable of the pearl | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | casting the net wide | 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. 6d ago

    July 25 – Remembering the Ones Still Struggling

    Corey kicks off the new Saturday solo format with the Big Book's plainest marching order: your job is to be where you can be of maximum helpfulness, so never hesitate to go anywhere — even the most sordid spot on earth — if you can be useful there. From there he works through what it means to genuinely believe everyone in the room is just as sick as he is, why the real demonstration of these principles happens in homes and occupations rather than in meetings, and the exhausting arithmetic of a double life spent reshaping his personality to fit whatever might get him what he wanted. The harder turn comes with page 96's warning about chasing someone who cannot or will not — and Corey's honest admission that he's spent too much time on guys out of ego, likely denying someone else the chance to live and be happy. It lands on a Christmas Eve meeting where nobody showed up but one man with fifty years sober, who'd once had every reason to rescue his own daughter himself and instead trusted the program to do what he couldn't. The stone for today: I stay strong when I stay connected to those who still need help. 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. Carrying the message | maximum helpfulness | we are all spiritually sick | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | sponsorship and service | letting go of ego | 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. Jul 24

    July 24 – WAVE Episode - Working with Others - A Life Turned Outward

    This is a Wave — a longer-format deep dive into the Big Book, running about 40 minutes. Settle in, or listen in two sittings. Corey takes the mic solo for the first Wave episode, walking line by line through the Big Book's "Working With Others" chapter — the one that argues nothing will insulate you from a drink quite like helping someone else get sober. He works through the practical mechanics the book actually lays out: how to approach someone still suffering, why you lend him the book instead of preaching at him, and why you're never there to be his banker or fix his life. Along the way come the stories that shaped his own understanding — a sponsor's blunt drink test, a serenity prayer carved into a bunk in Hot Springs, and a friend who taught him you can learn from other people's mistakes instead of making every one yourself. It lands on page 102's plain instruction: your job is to be of maximum helpfulness, and the outcome was never yours to manage. The stone for today: My life changes when I shift my focus from myself to others. 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. Working with others | service and sponsorship | carrying the message | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | half measures | Big Book study | self-centeredness | 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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