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The Daily Ripples Podcast
The Daily Ripples Podcast is a short, daily reflection bridging faith and recovery. Each episode pairs the day’s recovery reading with biblical insight and honest conversation, exploring how small, faithful steps create lasting change. Rooted in the Twelve Steps and grounded in Scripture, this podcast offers practical encouragement, spiritual clarity, and hope—one day at a time.
Episodes
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October 29 – Living with Integrity
Pastor Mike opens with a shout-out to California, which has supplied about half the audience over the past couple of months, and invites those listeners to…
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October 28 – Staying True to the Mission
Corey opens on Tradition Five and the page 151 line about one high mission: to carry the message to those who don’t know there’s a way out. The phrase takes…
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October 27 – Passing Hope Along
Pastor Mike opens on page 89, where life takes on new meaning as you watch people recover, watch loneliness vanish, and see a fellowship grow up around you…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Thirteen - How it Works Part 3
Corey picks up at the bottom of page 64 and finishes the chapter, taking the inventory one column at a time. He explains why he works the first columns in a…
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October 26 – Following God’s Lead
Corey opens with a project manager he watched arrive certain he knew everything and make a mess of his first task, which taught him that walking into a place…
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October 25 – We Need One Another
Pastor Mike opens with the observation that most communities begin when somebody simply shows up: a person in a chair at a meeting, a face in the next pew, a…
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October 24 – Faith That Keeps Building
Corey takes Saturday solo and starts by asking whether he has actually been living a life of spiritual obedience, and answers honestly that for a long stretch…
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October 23 – Staying Focused
Corey opens with a fig tree: tending one takes attention to detail, and so does staying where God has put him. He takes that to page 124, where the book says…
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October 22 – Seeing Others with Grace
Pastor Mike opens with sitting down with a new sponsee, which takes him back to the doorway of his own recovery without any shame, since the man he was then is…
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October 21 – Bringing It into the Light
Corey and Pastor Mike open on the Stone and the parable of the sower. Corey sees himself as a seed that sat on a gravel road for a long time before it found…
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October 20 – Meeting Me Where I Am
Pastor Mike opens with a note on the Stone: the Holy Spirit gently replaces confusion with confidence, and sometimes the correction arrives like a ton of…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Twelve - How it Works Part 2
Corey moves into the heart of How It Works and explains why he reads Step Three and the opening of Step Four together: it's how he walks a sponsee through the…
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October 19 – The Beginning of Strength
Corey and Pastor Mike pick up a conversation from the night before, when Corey was thinking out loud about the days he feels spiritually fit enough to handle…
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October 18 – Willing to Learn
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…
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October 17 – Daily Attention
Corey takes Saturday solo and starts by comparing his mornings across different stretches of his life. During his drinking years that meant waking early to sit…
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October 16 – Faithfulness Throughout the Day
Corey opens with an image from a friend who describes the program as bumpers at a bowling alley, keeping the ball in the lane even when the throw itself is far…
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October 15 – My Heart, My Responsibility
Pastor Mike opens with an honest confession: reading today's devotional felt like it called for confession of its own, since gossip has a way of dressing…
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October 14 – Beginning and Ending with God
Corey opens on how his mornings have grown from a simple thirty-minute routine into an hour and fifteen, prayer, meditation, and reading, all before the day's…
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October 13 – Dealing with Things Promptly
Pastor Mike opens with a joke about procrastinating on an episode literally titled dealing with things promptly, then turns to Matthew 5 and Jesus' instruction…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Eleven - How it Works Part 1
Corey moves into the chapter everybody references and nobody quite reads closely enough, opening with the irony that people say they don't know how it works…
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October 12 – Choosing My Words Wisely
Corey opens by thanking Bill and Stephanie for covering the past couple of weeks, and admits the break was really for him. Pastor Mike had gotten fired up…
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October 11 – Choosing Self-Restraint
Pastor Mike opens by tracing self-restraint back to his old career auditing client books as a CPA, long before recovery or ministry, and how quickly you learn…
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October 10 – Letting God Change Me
Corey opens with a well-worn point about self-centeredness, that if trouble is everyone else's fault, he'll happily take other people down with him rather than…
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October 9 – Looking Within First
Steffani closes out the week solo with the most ordinary example yet, her company's return-to-office mandate after seven years of working from home. She's…
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October 8 – Admitting It Quickly
Steffani continues solo and opens with a confession of her own: saying I'm sorry has never come easily to her, and her usual strategy has been trying to get…
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October 7 – My Best Teacher
Steffani goes solo for the day and opens with real gratitude for the chance to do this whole week alongside her daughter, calling it a kind of living amends…
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October 6 – Looking Honestly Within
MacKenzie opens with Isaiah 41:10 and traces it directly into the stories people tell themselves to avoid a hard conversation, using her own recent engagement…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Ten - We Agnostics Part 2
Corey picks up right where last week stopped, on page 52, and lingers there on purpose, reading back through the bedevilments one more time because, as he puts…
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October 5 – Traveling Light
MacKenzie opens with a Minecraft comparison that lands better than it sounds, a character's inventory only holds so much before something has to be set down to…
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October 4 – Addition by Subtraction
Steffani builds the episode around her own apple tree, three years in the ground, lush and green but bearing no fruit until she learned that pruning away…
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October 3 – Peace Beyond the Pain
This marks the first all-female run of episodes the show has done, with Steffani and her daughter MacKenzie taking the mic for the week ahead. Steffani traces…
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October 2 – The Daily Test
Bill builds this episode around what he calls the allegory of a free man, tracing the arch imagery from page 62 back to its keystone. Neither conduct nor…
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October 1 – Staying Spiritually Awake
Bill calls it an infinity loop, the daily rinse and repeat of Steps Ten and Eleven, and spends real time walking the actual mechanics rather than just naming…
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September 30 – A Balanced Life
Bill opens by naming a mix-up he sees people make often, confusing balance with boredom, when for him boredom is usually the sign he's most spiritually…
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September 29 – More Alike Than Different
Bill takes on humility by way of anonymity, and pushes past the usual meaning of the word. Anonymous doesn't just mean nobody outside the room knows your name…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Nine - We Agnostics Part 1
Corey moves into the chapter he calls one of the best pieces of writing in the whole book, and starts by breaking down the word itself, agnostic as simply not…
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September 28 – Loving Without Conditions
Bill builds on his week's theme of giving that expects nothing back, and takes it into territory most people skip past when they quote 1 Corinthians 13 at a…
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September 27 – Giving with Gratitude
Bill starts in James 2, faith and actions working together, and turns it into a question about his own feet: are they moving, or is he just sitting still with…
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September 26 – Restoring What Was Broken
Bill takes his first solo turn behind the mic and starts with the Second Step, pushing past the pop culture idea of insanity toward the Big Book's own…
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September 25 – God in First Place
Corey opens on a practical question: what does keeping God first actually look like on an ordinary day, not just in theory. He finds his answer in page 19…
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September 24 – Staying Watchful
Corey opens on the words the Big Book uses for this disease, cunning, baffling, powerful, and how the cunning part is the one that gets him, the way his…
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September 23 – I Belong Here
Corey opens on a lifelong habit of thinking the rules were fine, they just didn't apply to him, and traces it back further than he expected, past drinking…
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September 22 – Giving Away the Treasure
Pastor Mike opens on Luke 6:38, the sermon on the plain rather than the mount, and the promise that what God gives doesn't shrink when you give it away, it…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Eight - More About Alcoholism Part 2
Corey picks up in the examples section, walking through Jim's slide back into drinking (milk and whiskey, convinced a full stomach would protect him) and the…
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September 21 – What Only God Can Do
Corey opens on the trap of managing rather than surrendering, that quiet slide into "I'm working on my resentments" while still holding the reins himself…
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September 20 – Following God's Lead
Pastor Mike is traveling this Sunday, so instead of a solo episode he shares the sermon from his home church, part of a series called "Well, Actually," which…
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September 19 – Accepting What Is
Corey opens with an honest confession: he's never much cared for the word acceptance, at least not the way it gets used in the rooms, like a soft trick for…
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September 18 – Loved Into Freedom
Paris joins Pastor Mike and Corey for his final day of the week, and the conversation starts with letting go of the need to prove you can handle everything…
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September 17 – A Greater Freedom
Paris opens on what freedom actually looks like now, and locates it in the daily work rather than in circumstances. His example is page 101 and the question…
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September 16 – Stronger Together
Corey opens on how long it took him to get comfortable calling his first sponsor, and admits he used to fake phone calls to get out of conversations at…
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September 15 – A Life That Matters
Paris takes the open and starts with the Doctor's Opinion, where doctors admitted they had no fix and something else was going to be required. What he's after…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Seven - More About Alcoholism Part 1
Corey moves into chapter three and starts where the text starts, with the admission most of us were unwilling to make. He works the first paragraph slowly…
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September 14 – The Peace That Follows Obedience
Corey opens by giving Pastor Mike his flowers, which he says he's in the mood to do today. The devotional lines up with page 80 closely enough that he walks…
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September 13 – Mending What Is Broken
Pastor Mike opens with a mailbox. Corey has told the story on this show about knocking over a row of them and later ending up working for one of the owners…
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September 12 – Owning My Part
Corey opens with a story from third grade that he says he remembers like it was yesterday. He slid one of those little four-wheeled carts across the floor at a…
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September 11 – Courage to Make Things Right
Pastor Mike opens by admitting he has never thought of himself as a courageous man. What comes to mind when he hears the word is firefighters, and the idea of…
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September 10 – Doing the Work
Corey opens on the Stone with a three-word review — now that sucks — because spiritual growth being non-transferable is bad news for anybody hoping to get…
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September 9 – Opening New Doors
Pastor Mike opens with a thought about the doors that close behind you, which he finds as significant as the ones that open ahead — and the reminder that…
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September 8 – Living Under God's Care
Corey takes the read today and comes at surrender from an angle most people skip: the word has become a buzzword, and when he asks people what it actually…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Six - There Is a Solution (Part 2)
Corey opens with something he caught himself saying in a text right before he hit record. He had written that he had to do this study, and thought about it…