August 7 – A Way That Works

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Aug 7, 2026 · 16m · transcript

Pastor Mike opens on the thing that once drove him out of the faith altogether: watching people treat being saved as the finish line, living like it didn't much matter what they did afterward. His counter, learned the long way back through sixteen years of atheism, is that faithfully living the way Jesus teaches simply makes life work — a way of living, not just a rescue from the past. Corey takes it to the Big Book's "design for living that works in rough going" and pushes it further: what if you don't wait for rough going, but pray consistently, in the good times too? They get honest about…