July 4 - Faith Awakens

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Jul 4, 2026 · 14m · transcript

Faith isn't always built from scratch. Sometimes it was there all along — buried, ignored, waiting to come back to life. On Independence Day, Pastor Mike and Cristi talk about the faith that awakens from within.

Faith is not always created from nothing. Often it is uncovered. What has been buried or ignored can come alive again.

Cristi opens with faith born of desperation — raising two boys with times where all she had was faith the size not of a mustard seed, but a watermelon, because she needed something to move, and it did. She learned not to dismiss what she couldn't explain, because it…