The Daily Ripples Podcast

A short, daily podcast bridging faith and recovery. Pastor Mike and Corey L. pair the day’s recovery reflection with biblical insight and real conversation—helping you take small, faithful steps that lead to lasting change.

The Daily Ripples Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 168 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #172

  August 19 – Looking at My Part

  Aug 19, 202616 minS1

  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, from the Twelve and Twelve's claim that only through utter defeat do we take our first steps toward liberation, and that the admission of personal powerlessness turns out to be the firm ground everything else gets built on. Then the foundation, from page 12 and complete willingness. Then the cornerstone from page 47, the simple question of whether a person now believes or is even willing to believe in a power greater than himself. Then the keystone from page 62, the piece at the top of the arch that holds the whole thing together — and the arch itself, the one we walk through to freedom. He checks the work against page 75, where the book asks plainly whether our stones are properly in place and whether we've skimped on the cement. Along the way, the plate-spinning problem: how much easier the road gets when it's just him and God, rather than needing a dozen other people to behave so the whole arrangement stays upright. Pastor Mike takes it toward what happens after — the point where showing up for yourself has to become carrying it to someone else — and the two of them land in a friendly argument about whether you have to love yourself before you can love anybody else. The stone for today: Freedom grows when I stop focusing on what others did and honestly examine my own part. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com — and we'd love to hear from you. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . Looking at my part | bedrock foundation cornerstone keystone | utter defeat and willingness | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | Seventh Step prayer | cleaning house and helping others | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

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  Episode #171

  August 18 – Healing the Hidden Wounds

  Aug 18, 202613 minS1

  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. There's still guidance, still a direction being set. From there he draws a line worth keeping: guilt says I did something wrong and need to make it right, while shame says I am wrong and nothing I do will ever make me worthy. Shame is tied to worthiness, and that one has to be carried to the Father and left there. What he's found is that the cleansing comes through being the hands and feet of Jesus — working with another alcoholic, refusing to shy away from someone having a hard time, sometimes just being in the room with a person. Corey brings page 124 and the promise that in God's hands the dark past becomes the greatest possession, the key to life and happiness for others. Then a story from a step study on page 53, where a man told him God couldn't be everything because some of what he'd lived through was the work of something else entirely — and the question Corey asked back that turned it around: if none of that had happened, would either of us be sitting here now with this book open? It closes on Romans 8 and the careful distinction that all things working together for good is a claim about what God can use, rather than a claim that all things are good. The stone for today: True healing begins when I address not only the harm I caused others but also the damage I have carried within myself. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com — and we'd love to hear from you. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . Healing hidden wounds | guilt and shame | the dark past as an asset | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | God is everything or He is nothing | Romans 8:28 | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

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  WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Three - Bill's Story Part 1

  Aug 17, 202653 minS1

  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 the book intends to leave him — in the hopeless condition, physical and mental, with the way out still a week away. He opens with the facts: William Griffith Wilson, born in East Dorset, Vermont, married to Lois for fifty-three years, dead in 1971 at seventy-five. Then he walks the text line by line, marking what he's underlined and circled in his own copy and explaining why. The capitalized "Over There" and "High Finance," and what it means that a man's higher power keeps changing addresses. The moment on page one where Bill was part of life at last, and how many times most of us have had that same moment. The slow migration of liquor from luxury to necessity. The belladonna treatment and what a rapid detox actually looked like in 1933. Threaded through it are Corey's own parallels, offered without much cushioning — a serenity prayer carved above a bunk, a three-hour drive that ended at a bar an hour and a half in, a welcome-home balloon bought on the way back from the liquor store. It stops where his sponsor taught him to stop, on a telephone call from an old school friend, and four words: he was sober. A study offered in the spirit of one alcoholic sharing experience, strength, and hope with another. Next week: pages nine through sixteen. Read along at home — and if this series speaks to you, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . Big Book study | Bill's Story | Bill Wilson history | the physical and mental | powerlessness | belladonna treatment | Wall Street and the crash | recovery literature | experience strength and hope | addiction recovery Disclaimer: This Wave Book Study is an independent recovery study offered free of charge as a teaching aid. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (A.A.W.S.). Passages read and discussed are drawn from the book Alcoholics Anonymous ("The Big Book"), © A.A.W.S., Inc., and are used here for educational and discussion purposes with attribution. This study is not a substitute for the Big Book itself — we'd encourage you to get your own copy and read it. A.A.W.S. has not reviewed or approved this content, and the views expressed are those of the host alone.

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  Episode #170

  August 17 – Clearing a Troubled Conscience

  Aug 17, 202615 minS1

  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 toward another inventory isn't always gentle. That opens into an honest exchange about the resistance itself: the same instinct that pushes back against looking inward is the one that keeps a person from ever doing the work. Pastor Mike traces it back to his own years coming out of atheism, hearing old phrases fresh and finding some of them still grated on him, and gets candid about his pattern of shoving resentments down until a blowup arrives wildly out of proportion to whatever set it off. The conversation turns to the annual housecleaning the Twelve and Twelve describes, the Big Book's insistence on being entirely honest with somebody, and what makes a fifth step sacred rather than just uncomfortable — the privilege of being trusted with what you had no business knowing, and the quiet discipline of never repeating it. It lands on the difference between the short version of the Ninth Step everyone hears read aloud and the fine print between pages 76 and 83, where the wiggle room is a good deal narrower than most of us would prefer. The stone for today: What I continue to carry in guilt often reveals what I still need to address. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com — and we'd love to hear from you. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . Clearing a troubled conscience | annual housecleaning | the fifth step and confidence | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | willingness to go to any length | honest amends | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

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  Episode #169

  August 16 – The Harm of Absence

  Aug 16, 202623 minS1

  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 broke, the money we took, the night everybody else remembers even when we can't. Every one of those has a beginning, an end, and usually a witness. This one asks about the empty chair beside the hospital bed, the call never made to someone struggling, the friend in a waiting room watching a door that never opened. An action leaves evidence; an absence leaves a space, and a space makes no sound at all. People adjust, learn you're someone who doesn't show up, and it settles into the way things are. He works through the program's old phrase for it, sins of omission, and the definition of harm broad enough that a person can be wounded without a voice ever being raised. Then to the road to Jericho, where a priest and a Levite both had good reasons and somewhere to be, and Jesus lays the weight of the whole story on two men who did nothing at all. It widens from there — Leviticus on the foreigner, Matthew 25 on the stranger, and an honest account of driving past a man he recognized on an interstate on-ramp — before turning to the Word made flesh, a hand extended to a man with leprosy, and the amends that has to become a habit rather than a conversation. The stone for today: Sometimes the greatest harm is not what I did, but what I failed to do. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com — and we'd love to hear from you. Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . The harm of absence | sins of omission | showing up for people | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | the Good Samaritan | welcoming the stranger | living amends | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

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