HeyJaredThe 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.
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September 24 – Staying Watchful (opens the original)
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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 thinking can start drifting toward alcohol before he even notices it happening. He tells a story from nine months into his own sobriety, walking a newcomer through the concept of near beer and watching him look for a loophole in the very first weeks. Pastor Mike matches it with something he only learned as an adult, that his own father quietly s
September 23 – I Belong Here (opens the original)
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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 altogether, to a childhood spent standing out for reasons he never chose. Pastor Mike matches it with his own version, growing up with a heart condition that kept him out of sports while everyone told him how smart he was instead, and the quiet way that story hardened into a belief that the rules of faith didn't apply to him either. Both trace
September 22 – Giving Away the Treasure (opens the original)
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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 comes back pressed down and running over. He points to his own week as proof, a fifth step taken with a sponsee where every worry about mortgages and unread emails just disappeared for the length of the conversation. Corey brings the definition he's built his whole approach around: a meeting is frequent contact with newcomers, full stop, and
WAVE: Big Book Study with Corey Session Eight - More About Alcoholism Part 2 (opens the original)
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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 book's blunt verdict that follows: whatever the precise definition of the word may be, we call this plain insanity. He spends real time on the jaywalker parable, a man who keeps stepping in front of traffic no matter how many times he's hurt, and finds his own story in it more than once. Then comes Fred, the accountant with the good life an
September 21 – What Only God Can Do (opens the original)
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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. Pastor Mike brings the Third Step language back to something practical: it was never really about the word "will," it was about turning his thoughts and actions over, because that's a sentence he can actually act on. He tells the story of the Bible speaking to him directly at a year and a half sober, calling him into ministry, and how it scare
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