September 1 – Choosing to Keep Growing

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 1, 2026 · 14m · transcript

Corey opens on a milestone — six months of doing this — and the honest admission that some days the willingness has to be borrowed from the commitment. Pastor Mike picks that up with Paul in Philippians, pressing on toward the goal, and makes a case for the word press itself: it doesn't promise joy, it promises you're still running. He gets candid about a heavy stretch, a friend in the hospital, some weight at one of the churches he serves, and a week where he kept every commitment and found very little joy in any of them — and why that's exactly when the race language helps. Corey brings the…