September 24 – Staying Watchful

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 24, 2026 · 16m · transcript

Corey opens on the words the Big Book uses for this disease, cunning, baffling, powerful, and how the cunning part is the one that gets him, the way his thinking can start drifting toward alcohol before he even notices it happening. He tells a story from nine months into his own sobriety, walking a newcomer through the concept of near beer and watching him look for a loophole in the very first weeks. Pastor Mike matches it with something he only learned as an adult, that his own father quietly stopped drinking in college once he couldn't reconcile it with his faith, decades before it could…