July 29 – Giving Without Being Seen

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Jul 29, 2026 · 13m · transcript

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…