July 27 – Giving Without Return

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Jul 27, 2026 · 15m · transcript

Corey opens with a barbershop debate in Ohio about who holds the door for whom — and admits his own door-holding wasn't exactly selfless back then either. That's the honest thread of today's episode: what happens when you finally notice the motive underneath the good deed. He and Pastor Mike work through the Big Book's insistence that faith without self-sacrifice and unselfish action isn't much of a faith at all, plus Bill Wilson's own uncomfortable example — five dollars for a drunk in public, a quarter in the basket when nobody's watching. Along the way: why sitting down with a newcomer…