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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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July 14 – Humility That Sustains
There's a reason pilots call it "attitude" and not "altitude" — it's not how high you're flying, it's whether you can still see the horizon. Today Pastor Mike…
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July 13 – When Humility Finds Me
Real humility doesn't show up as a decision — it shows up as a byproduct of finally letting go of the wheel. Today Pastor Mike and Corey dig into what it looks…
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July 12 – Off Center Stage
Life gets a lot lighter the moment you stop trying to run the whole show. Today Pastor Mike and Corey dig into what it actually looks like to step off center…
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July 11 - Wanting Humility
Humility isn't something to survive. It's something to want — and there's no better proof of that than getting called out for your own homework mistake right…
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July 10 - Peace Through Humility
Peace doesn't wait for everyone else to change. It shows up the moment we take responsibility for our own part and let the rest go. Peace grows when I take…
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July 9 - An Instrument in His Hands
You don't have to be the source. You just have to be willing to be used. Paris and Corey sit with what it means to be an instrument rather than the point of…
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July 8 - Freedom That Opens Outward
Freedom isn't found by looking inward. It's found by moving outward — toward God, and toward everybody still stuck in the version of the story you used to…
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July 7 - From Demands to Trust
Peace shows up the moment you stop demanding and start trusting. Paris and Corey dig into the surrender underneath acceptance — and why willingness is the only…
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July 6 - Naming What's Underneath
The problem is rarely what's on the surface. Pastor Mike and Cristi close out their run together with an honest look at the fear that hides underneath our…
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July 5 - Redirected Strength
The problem isn't always a lack of strength. Sometimes it's strength aimed in the wrong direction. Pastor Mike and Cristi bring humor and hard-won honesty to…
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July 4 - Faith Awakens
Faith isn't always built from scratch. Sometimes it was there all along — buried, ignored, waiting to come back to life. On Independence Day, Pastor Mike and…
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July 3 - Learning by Living
Truth doesn't become real until you live it. Pastor Mike and Cristi bring warmth, laughter, and hard-won honesty to a conversation about how experience teaches…
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July 2 - The Essentials
Growth doesn't require complexity. It requires honesty, willingness, and openness. In her first solo episode, Cristi brings warmth, humor, and some butt-ugly…
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July 1 - Faithful Today
Progress over perfection — but not as an excuse. Corey closes out his solo run drawing a hard line between spiritual progress and using "I'm an alcoholic" as a…
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June 30 - Strength Through Sacrifice
What you give up for the sake of others is never lost — it's an investment in something greater. Corey closes out the month on sacrifice, service, and what it…
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June 29 - The Quiet Ripple
You don't have to force impact. A life lived well sends out its own ripples — the ones you'll never fully see. In this solo episode, Corey sits with the quiet…
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June 28 - Faithful Persistence
Small things, done consistently, become the whole thing. In this solo episode, Corey walks through what daily faithfulness actually looks like — and why he's a…
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June 27 - Wanting What Is Right
Doing the right thing used to feel like resistance. Then, slowly, it became something Corey actually wanted. In this solo episode, he walks the Big Book to…
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June 26 - A Life That Deepens
The harder you chase it, the further it slips away. What you build slowly grows stronger over time. Pastor Mike and Jason close out their week together on…
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June 25 - Walking It Out
Grace is free, but it isn't passive. Pastor Mike and Jason dig into the difference between receiving forgiveness and actually walking it out — and why…
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June 24 - Starting Where I Am
You don't have to have it all figured out to begin. You just have to be willing to learn — and to stop pretending you already know. In this episode, Pastor…
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June 23 - Wise and Honest Trust
Trust isn't blind, and it isn't naive. Pastor Mike welcomes first-time guest Jason to dig into what it means to trust wisely — and why your expectations of…
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June 22 - Free Through Surrender
Surrender sounds like giving up. It's actually where freedom begins. Pastor Mike, Corey, and guest Memphis close out their week together on the truth that ties…
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June 21 - Choosing Faith Over Fear
June 21 - Choosing Faith Over Fear Faith isn't the absence of fear — it's the decision to trust God in the middle of it. Pastor Mike, Corey, and guest Memphis…
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June 20 - Courage Over Fear
Courage was never the absence of fear. It's what you do in spite of it. Pastor Mike, Corey, and guest Memphis dig into where real courage actually comes from —…
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June 19 - Strength Through Surrender
The word "surrender" sounds like losing. In recovery, it's the doorway to everything. Pastor Mike, Corey, and guest Memphis unpack the paradox at the heart of…
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June 18 - Freedom that Connects
Free from what — or free to what? Pastor Mike, Corey, and guest Memphis dig into the difference, and why real freedom was never meant to leave you on your own…
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June 17 - Found Within
What you're searching for isn't as far away as you think. After a lifetime of chasing the next thing, Pastor Mike turns the search around — because the deepest…
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June 16 - A Wide Open Heart
Some of us walked in with our minds slammed shut, locked, bolted from the inside. Pastor Mike opens up about the angry atheist he used to be — and the one…
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June 15 - Growing in Faith
Faith isn't static. The faith you have today shouldn't be the faith you had when you walked in the door — and if it is, something's gone untended. In this…
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June 14 - Steady in the Storm
June 14 - Steady in the Storm Anybody can stay calm when life is easy. The real test is what you do when everything goes sideways at once — and whether the…
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June 13 - Living It Out
Saying sorry isn't the same as making amends. Real recovery is proven over time, not in a single conversation — and for many of us, "living amends" was just a…
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June 12 – Learning True Partnership
You don't call your sponsor looking for wisdom. You call looking for the secret manipulation code. At least that's what Corey was doing — and his sponsor sent…
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June 11 – Faith at Home
It's easy to be spiritual in public. The hard part is being that person at home, where nobody's watching and the yard needs cutting. Today Corey goes solo…
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June 10 – A Higher Perspective
Impatience narrows everything. The road you can see, the options you can imagine, the grace you can extend — all of it shrinks the moment frustration takes…
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June 9 – Living This Day
Happy birthday, Mom. Today Pastor Mike opens by dedicating the episode to his mother — and it turns out the ripple couldn't be more fitting for the occasion…
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June 8 – Open to Transformation
One hundred episodes. One day at a time, one ripple at a time — Pastor Mike and Corey made it to 100, and they're not taking a day off. Today's devotional is…
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June 7 – Hope That Endures
99 problems and a day off ain't one. Today Pastor Mike and Corey mark episode 99 with a ripple that connects three things that rarely get put in the same…
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June 6 – Willing, Not Perfect
Progress doesn't require perfection. It requires showing up. Today Mike and Corey are back together — and Corey opens with something quietly honest: he hasn't…
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June 5 – Open to God's Will
Resistance is a funny thing. It doesn't always look like defiance — sometimes it just looks like showing up with the wrong printout. Today Pastor Mike, Corey…
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June 4 – Ready for Change
Awareness isn't enough. Kevin found that out the hard way — five years in the program, still holding back, still thinking he could manage it on his own. Then…
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June 3 – Learning to Let Go
Larry's opening advice? Watch Frozen and learn to sing that song. He's not wrong. Today Pastor Mike is joined by Larry and a surprise guest — the…
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June 2 – Walking the Path
You don't need to see the whole journey. You just need to see the next point of light. Today Pastor Mike and Larry are back together, and they land on one of…
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June 1 – A New Way of Seeing
You can't think your way into a new way of acting. You have to act your way into a new way of thinking. Today Pastor Mike welcomes back his pastor friend Larry…
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May 31 – Ready to Serve
You don't get to sit in the back and wait for people to come to you. Today Corey, Pastor Mike, and Kevin close out May with one of Corey's most fired-up…
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May 30 – Clarity of Purpose
Activity and action — they sound the same, but they're not. One keeps you busy. The other keeps you useful. Today Pastor Mike, Corey, and Kevin are back…
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May 29 – Love Without Conditions
We love you until you can love yourself. It's one of those phrases you hear in the rooms so often it can start to sound like wallpaper — until someone unpacks…
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May 28 - Choosing Inclusion
You would not have picked most of the people God put in your life. This episode is about what happens when you stop trying to. Judgment creates distance…
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May 27 - Moving Forward Without Shame
Guilt can guide you or trap you. This episode is about the difference — and what the ego has to do with both. Guilt can either guide me or trap me. When it…
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May 26 - Growth Through Setbacks
There is no waste in God's economy. This episode holds that phrase up to the light and asks what it actually demands of you. Failure is not the end of growth…
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May 25 - Gratitude in Action
Gratitude that stays inside isn't gratitude yet. This episode is about what happens when it gets hands and feet. Gratitude is more than remembering. It is…
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May 24 - Joy Is God's Desire
Misery is often self-made. This episode is Mike, Corey, and Cristi asking the old Methodist question — how is it with your soul? — and actually answering it…
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May 23 - True Health Begins Within
Outward calm is its own kind of hiding. This episode is Mike and Cristi working through what it actually means to guard your heart when life shakes everything…
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May 22 - Not Alone
You can be surrounded by people and still be completely isolated inside. Cristi and Pastor Mike explore what it actually takes to let people in — and why the…
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May 21 - Counting What Matters
Gratitude is not a feeling. It's a discipline. And like most disciplines, it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone in the room. This episode is about the…
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May 20 - Today Is Enough
The mind doesn't wait for permission to start running. This episode is about what you do in those first few minutes before it gets away from you. The weight of…
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May 19 - Giving Freely
You can give someone anything — as long as they don't ask for it. This episode is about why that is, and what it means to give freely when you know it's going…
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May 18 - Free to Become
Freedom isn't just the absence of what once held you. It's the ability to become who you were meant to be all along. This episode is about what that actually…
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May 17 - Letting Forgiveness Flow
Forgiving someone else and forgiving yourself turn out to be the same river. This episode is about what happens when you stop damming it. Forgiving others and…
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May 16 - The Freedom of Forgiveness
Forgiveness isn't a feeling you wait for. It's a decision you make before the feeling arrives. Corey and Bill work through what that actually looks like — from…