September 3 – Building More Than Sobriety

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 3, 2026 · 17m · transcript

Pastor Mike opens on the line from page 82 about the man who is unthinking when he says sobriety is enough — then gets the chapter name wrong, gets caught, and owns it, which turns out to matter later. The conversation works through what the alcoholic actually leaves behind: a tornado roaring through other people's lives, hearts broken, affections uprooted, a home kept in turmoil. Corey pushes on something he's been circling for a while, that what brought him through the door was alcohol rather than character defects, since everybody and their mother has defects and that's just being human…