July 30 – Investing What Was Given

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Jul 30, 2026 · 11m · transcript

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…