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 religion podcast hosted by Pastor Mike & Corey, with 227 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Pastor Mike & Corey hosts The Daily Ripples Podcast, a religion show with 227 episodes published.

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  Episode #218

  October 4 – Addition by Subtraction

  Oct 4, 202613 minS1

  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 healthy-looking growth was the only way to get there. John 15's true vine passage sits right alongside it, every branch that bears fruit still gets cut back so it can bear more. She ties it to her own early days in the rooms, uncomfortable with a God of her understanding, uncomfortable making a list of everyone she'd harmed, uncomfortable sitting down to actually say it out loud to another person. MacKenzie brings a recent example of her own, a new job at a medical clinic where she was easily the youngest person on staff and had to learn an entire field of clinical knowledge from scratch, leaning on faith in her own ability to grow into something she wasn't yet ready for. She pairs it with Matthew 5's hard instruction to cut off whatever causes you to sin, and makes the case that pruning relationships works the same way as pruning a tree. It closes on the Big Book's own version of the same principle, changing people, places, and things, and the discomfort of explaining to anyone, including yourself, why certain things finally have to go. The stone for today: God lovingly removes what hinders my growth so that I can become the person he created me to be. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com . Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . Addition by subtraction | pruning for growth | changing people places and things | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | John 15:1-2 | cutting away what hinders | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery

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  Episode #217

  October 3 – Peace Beyond the Pain

  Oct 3, 20268 minS1

  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 her own path into AA back to the pain of wanting to stop drinking and having nowhere left to turn, anchoring it in the Twelve and Twelve's line that pain is the touchstone of all spiritual progress and in Romans 5's chain from tribulation to perseverance to hope. MacKenzie brings an angle the show hasn't had before, her years competing in high-level inline speed skating, and reframes what counts as success. Giving your honest best, even in a loss, even in fifth place, is the real win, while James 1 adds that the testing itself is what produces the patience worth having. Both land on the same point from different directions: a setback isn't proof something went wrong, it's often where the actual growth was always going to come from. The stone for today: God often uses the pain I want to escape, to accomplish the growth I truly need. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com . Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . Peace beyond the pain | pain as the touchstone of progress | giving your best effort | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | Romans 5:3-5 | tribulation to hope | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery

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  Episode #216

  October 2 – The Daily Test

  Oct 2, 202614 minS1

  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 thinking was enough on its own, and the power to hold both together had to come from somewhere outside himself, starting with quitting the attempt to play God. His favorite image for the keystone is Christ received as a child would receive Him, an empty bucket rather than a full one, since a bucket already full has no room left for anything new to be poured in. A sponsor once asked him exactly that question, how much water fits in a full bucket, and the answer stuck. From there the arch gets its two pillars, thinking and behavior, held up by that same keystone, maintained daily through the Tenth and Eleventh Step disciplines walked through the day before. He pushes back gently on the word discipline itself, insisting it isn't punishment, it's practice, the same repetition that makes a free throw reliable. The maturation runs from child to man, First Corinthians 13's when I was a child, I talked like a child set beside the Big Book's own description of selfish, self-centered immaturity, both pointing at the same transformation on the far side of honest inventory. It closes on Hebrews 6 and the call to leave elementary teaching behind and go on to maturity, without ever laying the same foundation twice. The stone for today: Spiritual maturity is revealed not by easy days but by how I respond when life becomes difficult. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com . Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . The daily test | the keystone of the arch | coming as a child | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | discipline as practice not punishment | when I became a man | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery

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  Episode #215

  October 1 – Staying Spiritually Awake

  Oct 1, 202622 minS1

  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 them. Morning starts on his knees, direct my thinking, divorce me from self-pity and self-seeking motives, before coffee, before anything else. When agitation shows up during the day, the spot check inventory follows in order: ask God at once to remove it, talk it over with someone, make amends quickly if one is owed, then turn attention to somebody he can help, even something as small as returning a stray grocery cart or complimenting a stranger's glasses. Night closes it out with the same honest review the book prescribes, were we resentful, selfish, dishonest, or afraid. He's careful to separate the promises from the motive. He doesn't take the actions to get the promises, he takes the actions and the promises follow anyway. The episode's center is a quiet, personal moment, a piece of wisdom passed to him from a close friend and mentor named Larry, who got it in turn from his own mentor, Howard A, tracing back to Matthew 6:34, do not worry about tomorrow. It closes on Hebrews 12 and the case that discipline, the part nobody wants, is actually the proof of belonging, the thing that produces a harvest of righteousness and peace on the far side of it. The stone for today: Spiritual growth continues only as long as I continue to pursue it. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com . Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . Staying spiritually awake | the daily inventory rinse and repeat | on awakening and at night | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | do not worry about tomorrow | discipline as belonging | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery

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  Episode #214

  September 30 – A Balanced Life

  Sep 30, 202611 minS1

  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 settled. He builds the episode around the Eleventh Step's daily practice on page 86, the promise that a hunch or intuitive thought gradually becomes a working part of the mind, and pushes back on how easy that promise is to overlook once life gets bumpy again. The center of it is page 60's actor, the one forever trying to arrange the lights, the scenery, and the rest of the players to suit himself, and Bill's own honest inventory of his representatives, the kind and generous ones alongside the mean and egotistical ones, all of them exhausting to manage. Balance, in his read, isn't the absence of feeling something. He can dislike what someone said, dislike how a conversation went, and still not let the feeling steer his actions, because a free man, by the Big Book's own definition on page 26, is someone who can go anywhere without disaster. It closes on a practice borrowed from Ram Dass and reworked through the Tenth Step, inviting the fear in rather than fighting it, offering it coffee, telling it it can stay as long as it needs to, because the whole philosophy of the steps is turning defects into assets rather than pretending they never show up. The stone for today: A healthy life grows through recovery, deepens in unity, and finds purpose in serving others. Read today's full Daily Ripple at www.dailyripples.com . Reach out any time at wave@dailyripples.com . A balanced life | balance versus boredom | the actor arranging the scenery | Christian recovery | 12-step faith | a free man on page 26 | converting defects into assets | Big Book study | sobriety devotional | addiction recovery

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