May the 4th be with you. And also with you. With that out of the way — today Pastor Mike closes out a great four-day run with Steffani and Memphis by digging into something trickier than it sounds: the difference between honesty and oversharing. Because you can be completely truthful and still do damage. Mike shares the three questions he runs every hard truth through before speaking it — does it need to be said? Does it need to be said by me? Does it need to be said by me right now? Steffani brings in We Agnostics, page 55. And they land the episode's most honest moment: the futility of still trying to hide things from God, knowing full well that God already knows. The mental gymnastics are real — and so is the way out.

The stone for today: Partial honesty keeps parts of my life hidden and unchanged. Freedom grows when honesty becomes complete and not selective.

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Writing it down is a start. Saying it out loud to another person is where the real work happens. Today Pastor Mike, Steffani, and Memphis dig into what it takes to move from private truth to spoken honesty — and why that gap matters more than most people realize. Steffani shares how she does a new Step Five right alongside her sponsees, putting her own inventory on the table first to level the playing field. Memphis reflects on how his shares used to be a performance and have quietly become a parable. And Mike lands on something worth sitting with: talking about the past less as entertainment and more as a lesson in what not to do. As Proverbs 28:13 puts it — whoever conceals their sins does not prosper. The exact nature of our wrongs. Not hints. The whole thing.

The stone for today: Honesty in private is a start, but healing often requires honesty in the presence of another. What stays unspoken tends to stay unchanged.

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It's no longer just your story. It's God's tool. Today Pastor Mike, Steffani, and Memphis dig into what it means to let your past become someone else's hope — and Memphis lands on something worth sitting with: his shares used to sound like a badge of honor. Now they sound like testimony. That's growth, and Mike has had a front-row seat — he reveals today that he's been Memphis's sponsor for the past six months. The conversation moves through Romans 8:28, the AA tradition of experience, strength, and hope, and Mike's honest admission that he needed the hard knocks, the bad chapters, every bit of it — to become who he is today.

The stone for today: The past can feel like a weight, but in God's hands it becomes a tool. What once brought pain can become a source of wisdom and hope for others.

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We're only as sick as our secrets. Today Pastor Mike welcomes two new voices — Steffani and Memphis — who'll be joining him through May 4th while Corey is out. And they jump straight into the deep end: Step Five. What does it actually feel like to sit down with another human being and say the thing you swore you'd never say out loud? Steffani calls it a spiritual experience. Memphis talks about the freedom to make mistakes without shame. And Mike lands on something the recovery community does better than most churches: holding each other's confidence and accepting each other as fellow broken travelers just trying to walk in the light.

The stone for today: What I hide begins to control me. Secrets grow stronger in the dark, but they lose their power when brought into the light.

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The only way to keep it is to give it away. That's not a bumper sticker, it's the engine that makes the whole thing run. Today Mike and Corey close out April with one of the most beautiful paradoxes in recovery: the gift deepens the more you share it. Corey connects it to Tradition 5, to sponsor Doug, to his buddy Kevin who saved his life when he came back in the rooms, and in classic Corey fashion... to herpes. Mike ties it to Luke 6 and the Sermon on the Plain: generosity begets generosity. You're not the one responsible for the harvest. You just have to keep sowing.

The stone for today: Some gifts grow stronger the more they are shared. What we give away in service often deepens within us.

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Freedom without limits isn't freedom — it's just chaos with better branding. Today Mike and Corey dig into what real freedom actually looks like, and it turns out it runs straight through discipline, not around it. Corey lands on Galatians 5:13 (called to be free, but not free to indulge) and connects it directly to the sick man's prayer from page 67 of the Big Book: how can I be helpful to him? Mike ties it together with a flat tire analogy that sticks: self-help is just patching the nail hole. Spiritual transformation is replacing the whole tire. And the freedom on the other side? That's the real thing.

The stone for today: True freedom is not the absence of limits. It is the ability to live responsibly within them.

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Two quiet virtues. No drama, no fanfare — just the steady work of staying teachable and showing up. Today Corey and Mike dig into why that prayer at the end of the ripple is actually kind of terrifying: Father, teach me the humility of Christ. Pastor Mike puts it plainly — you know how far God took it with Jesus. So what does saying that out loud actually mean? And yet the reward on the other side of faithful living, as Mike lands it, is greater than anything that ever came out of a bottle or a capsule. Worth the risk.

The stone for today: A healthy life rests on two quiet virtues — humility and responsibility. Humility keeps the heart teachable. Responsibility turns good intentions into faithful actions.

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Growth isn't a destination — it's a lifelong unfolding. In this episode, Pastor Mike and Corey dig into what it really means to stay teachable, and why "just not drinking today" is a starting point, not a finish line.

Growth is a lifelong discovery. The more we walk faithfully each day, the more wisdom, clarity, and purpose unfold.

Mike opens up about coming into recovery as someone who was convinced he was too smart to need God — book smarts, no common sense, and a quiet disdain for anyone who might have something to teach him. What the school of hard knocks gave him, his education never could: genuine humility. Corey follows with a sharp observation about the difference between human experience and spiritual experience — how chasing the human stuff never moves the needle spiritually, but the spiritual, somehow, takes care of the human.

Along the way: the "laurels" question (what even is a laurel?), Matthew 7:8 and the Big Book's own echo of it on page 46, and Mike's reflection on how Jesus taught us how to pray before he promised our prayers would be answered — and what that changes about how we come before God. As Corey puts it: everybody can hear where your mouth goes. But where do your feet go afterward?

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