October 18 – Willing to Learn

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 16m · transcript

Pastor Mike flies solo on Sunday and opens with a confession: for much of his life he was certain he already knew enough, and humility came to him through humiliation. He traces it back to his first drink as a college freshman, a fifth of Jack Daniels finished in one night in a dorm room, which felt like relief after growing up believing in a God waiting to punish the smallest offense. He decided what he'd been taught was an elaborate hoax and ran on his own answers until they ran out. Page 58's easier, softer way, and the old ideas that got him nowhere until he let go absolutely, set up the…