September 2 – Willing Before Certain

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Sep 2, 2026 · 18m · transcript

Pastor Mike opens on the earliest invitation Jesus offered anyone — come and see — and makes the case that the first disciples were nowhere near certain about who they were following. They kept questioning, kept misunderstanding, and kept coming back, which is roughly the same instruction the rooms give a newcomer. Corey takes it somewhere harder, describing two and a half weeks in a cell that stripped him down to almost nothing, and the courtroom afterward where his ego was already busy rebuilding itself. Even after that, he was still setting conditions — calling his sponsor to ask for a…