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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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September 7 – My Side of the Street
Pastor Mike opens on the plank and the speck from Matthew 7, and pushes back on the way that passage usually gets deployed. Jesus isn't saying mind your own…
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September 6 – Clearing the Way Forward
Pastor Mike opens by picking up Saturday, where Corey came in swinging on the subject of living amends — and since Sunday follows Saturday, he notes, he gets…
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September 5 – Living My Amends
Corey takes Saturday solo and comes in with a respectful disagreement about the phrase itself. He's heard "living amends" used for years, and while he accepts…
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September 4 – A Life Under Construction
Pastor Mike opens with something worth sitting beside all the cornerstone and keystone language the show keeps returning to: First Peter calls us living…
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September 3 – Building More Than Sobriety
Pastor Mike opens on the line from page 82 about the man who is unthinking when he says sobriety is enough — then gets the chapter name wrong, gets caught, and…
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September 2 – Willing Before Certain
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…
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September 1 – Choosing to Keep Growing
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…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Five - There Is a Solution Part 1
Corey moves into the chapter that was, along with Bill's story, all there was when this book began. He starts with the first four words — there is a solution —…
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August 31 – Freely Received, Freely Given
Pastor Mike opens with a bit — introducing Corey as though nobody's ever heard from him before, long-time listener, first-time caller — and then takes the…
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August 30 – Making Room for Others
Pastor Mike opens on the first twelve-step meeting he ever walked into — a newcomer meeting, which meant that the moment it started, every person in the room…
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August 29 – Letting the Work Speak
Corey takes Saturday solo and traces how a daily habit got started for reasons that had very little to do with humility. His sponsor was sending out a morning…
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August 28 – Sharing What Helped Me
Corey opens on the thing he thinks about most: how he approaches people. He's honest about where his ego shows up in it — how easily the jail stories and the…
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August 27 – Staying Centered
Steffani opens with the practice she has to keep returning to: asking God to get in her head before she gets in her head. She's honest about the alternative —…
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August 26 – The Joy of Giving It Away
Pastor Mike opens with the phrase he heard everywhere his first year in the rooms — if you want to keep it, you have to give it away — and points out it's a…
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August 25 – Freedom Through Connection
Corey opens on page 164 and a promise that's easy to read past: God will show you how to create the fellowship you crave. He's watched what happens when people…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Four - Bill's Story Part 2
Corey picks up exactly where he left off — Bill alone in his kitchen near the end of a bleak November, gin hidden around the house, calculating whether it will…
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August 24 – Trusting What I Cannot Explain
Steffani joins Pastor Mike and Corey for the week and gets thrown straight into the fire, reading the devotional and then opening with her own story. Her…
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August 23 – Practicing Grace at Home
Pastor Mike opens this one with an audible "ouch," and then a question worth sitting with: who gets your best self, and who gets whatever's left of it? The…
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August 22 – Depending on the Right Source
Corey records this one from his car by a lake at twenty past six in the morning, with about twenty minutes before his shift starts, and uses the time to think…
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August 21 – Giving Without Demanding
Corey opens on the transactional habit of a lifetime — give something, expect something back, and move on to the next person when they fail to deliver. What…
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August 20 – Freedom Through Reconciliation
Pastor Mike and Corey pick up where yesterday left off, and this time they get somewhere. The episode opens on a line from the spiritual ripple that Pastor…
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August 19 – Looking at My Part
Corey takes the reading today and immediately goes building. He works through a sequence he's found running underneath the whole program: the bedrock first…
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August 18 – Healing the Hidden Wounds
Pastor Mike opens on Matthew 11 and the invitation to come to Jesus weary and burdened — then lingers on the detail most of us hurry past. It's still a yoke…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Three - Bill's Story Part 1
Corey moves from the Doctor's Opinion into Bill's story, and explains up front why he's splitting it in two. Pages one through nine leave a man exactly where…
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August 17 – Clearing a Troubled Conscience
Corey starts with a question about the word gently — the Ripple says the Holy Spirit gently brings unfinished business to mind, and he's noticed the nudge…
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August 16 – The Harm of Absence
Pastor Mike takes Sunday solo with a turn most amends lists never make. We reach for the scenes when we sit down with that pen — the argument, the thing we…
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August 15 – Seeing the Impact
Corey takes Saturday solo and follows a single thread all the way out: the domino effect. He starts with the actor on page 61 who wants to run the whole show…
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August 14 – Making Things Right
Corey opens on a question that reframes the whole week: am I a demonstration of what God can do, or am I the guy doing ninety-five down the interstate with the…
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August 13 – Clearing the Way
Paris opens on willingness as the thing that comes before any action, and takes it straight to the practical mechanics of a Step Eight list. His sponsor had…
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August 12 – Looking Back to Move Forward
Pastor Mike opens with something he was carrying this time last year — a season of real depression rooted in unresolved family relationships he'd decided he…
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August 11 – Healing What Still Hurts
Corey brings a question a friend put to him about recovery as a spiral (always circling, always moving) and the thing that troubled him about the picture…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Two - The Doctor's Opinion
Corey picks up where the forewords left off and moves into the chapter that sets the whole book in motion. He opens with the man behind it — Dr. William…
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August 10 – Seeing the People I Hurt
Paris is back with Pastor Mike and Corey, and he opens the week on the difference between counting your actions and counting the people on the other end of…
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August 9 – Willing to Forgive
Pastor Mike builds this one around a single word most of us have said a thousand times without hearing it. In the Lord's Prayer — recited standing, together…
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August 8 – Willing to Make Things Right
Corey opens Saturday on the difference between playing something out in your head and putting it down on paper. He's honest that he can rehearse a thing a…
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August 7 – A Way That Works
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…
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August 6 – What Drives Me
Pastor Mike and Corey sit with a question that runs underneath every choice: what's actually driving it? Corey brings an old-timer's line that's stuck with him…
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August 5 – Learning to Listen
Pastor Mike opens with a confession that reframes the whole conversation: people tell him he's a good listener, and he's quick to admit he isn't one by nature…
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August 4 – Faith That Takes Root
Pastor Mike and Corey get into the daily mechanics of a faith that actually grows, and Corey — self-admittedly predictable — takes it straight to how he starts…
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WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session One - The Forewords
Wave Book Study — Session One: The Forewords Corey opens a new side project this week: a page-by-page walk through the Big Book, running alongside the daily…
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August 3 – Shaped for Service
Pastor Mike and Corey open the week on service, with Corey announcing up front that he's just here to be present today, not to co-host. The conversation…
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August 2 – Willing to Be Made Whole
Sundays are Pastor Mike's, and this one pairs the Eighth and Ninth Steps with the feeding of the five thousand from Matthew 14. The hinge is a single line the…
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August 1 – Faith Lived Out
Corey opens the month solo on a Saturday, and sets the frame for August: the show turns toward Step Eight and the making of amends. His anchor is a line from…
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July 31 – Living the Prayer
Corey opens on the Big Book's blunt line about the alcoholic as an extreme example of self-will run riot — "though he usually doesn't think so" — and asks the…
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July 30 – Investing What Was Given
Corey opens with a thought experiment about walking into a room full of strangers who happen to have the cure for exactly what's killing you — and then…
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July 29 – Giving Without Being Seen
Pastor Mike opens with the Sermon on the Mount's instruction not to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing — and notes how often Jesus told the…
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July 28 – Staying in My Lane
Corey opens with Tradition Five in its long form — a group has but one primary purpose — and makes the case that knowing exactly who you're equipped to help is…
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July 27 – Giving Without Return
Corey opens with a barbershop debate in Ohio about who holds the door for whom — and admits his own door-holding wasn't exactly selfless back then either…
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July 26 – Valuing What Matters
Sundays belong to Pastor Mike now, and this one opens on what he calls a God wink: the devotional written months ago and the Matthew 13 parables from this…
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July 25 – Remembering the Ones Still Struggling
Corey kicks off the new Saturday solo format with the Big Book's plainest marching order: your job is to be where you can be of maximum helpfulness, so never…
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July 24 – WAVE One - Working with Others - A Life Turned Outward
This is a Wave — a longer-format deep dive into the Big Book, running about 40 minutes. Settle in, or listen in two sittings. Corey takes the mic solo for the…
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July 23 – Trusting God's Work
Pastor Mike and Corey open with a look ahead — the first of a new longer-format series they're calling "Waves," a deeper dive into the Big Book arriving…
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July 22 – All of Me
Corey flies solo today with a meditation on what it actually costs to hand God everything — not just the parts that feel good to give. Working through the Big…
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July 21 – The Gift of Peace
Cristi steps up for another solo episode today (I know, what were we thinking??), and she doesn't shy away from where peace actually gets tested — inside a…
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July 20 – God Does the Work
Paris steps up to the mic solo for the first time today, and brings a message that turns "self-improvement" on its head: the real work of transformation was…
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July 19 – Letting Go of False Pride
Corey opens with his son's Little League pitching dreams — and the kid's reflexive "I know" every time a coach tries to correct his form — before turning that…
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July 18 – Grateful and Dependent
Flying solo again, Pastor Mike makes the case that gratitude isn't a mood you catch — it's a decision about where you point your attention. Drawing on the Big…
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July 17 – Freedom Through Surrender
Corey takes the mic solo today, and he's not afraid to turn the word "surrender" over like a soldier weighing whether to lay down arms — asking honestly why…
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July 16 – Healed by Humility
Today, flying solo, Pastor Mike makes the case that humility doesn't increase the pain, it's what starts healing it. Walking through Ripple One and Ripple Two…
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July 15 – Letting Go of Pride
Pride and self-pity look like opposites, but they're running the same con — both are just "look at me" in different costumes. Today Pastor Mike and Corey trace…