August 3 – Shaped for Service

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Aug 3, 2026 · 11m · transcript

Pastor Mike and Corey open the week on service, with Corey announcing up front that he's just here to be present today, not to co-host. The conversation circles a paradox they keep bumping into: the instinct to make service sound appealing — to convince someone into this way of life — quietly turns the whole thing into a pitch, when the real posture is simply "this is what I do, and if you want what I have, do what we do." Corey works through a distinction that reframes it for him: he's not calling someone or changing a stranger's tire on the roadside to get a result or to be seen doing it…