A Word from Our Outpost, with Joseph and Crystal Gruber

Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Hard to say?Are there lessons I took from it when I watched it during this Christmas season? Absolutely. And herein are three of those lessons!  As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

We have the delight of hosting Andrew Farnsworth, a husband and father who began his marriage as he began his time with FOCUS over ten years ago! Andrew works as the Director of Catholic Partnerships at Alliance Catholic Credit Union, and spent time both as a NET missionary and as a FOCUS missionary, serving at Wright State University, Central Michigan University, and Franciscan University in Steubenville. You can find out more about Alliance Catholic Credit Union here: https://allianceccu.com/ As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

If there's one thing modern man has forgotten, it's how to celebrate. We've probably forgotten more than that one thing, but it's a good place to start again ! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

it's a weird fact that, for laypeople, odds are good the only confessions they'll ever hear are their own. Priests get to hear quite a few more. So Joseph has his brother, Fr. Peter, on to talk through some practical tips for making a good confession, from a priest's perspective.Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

Fr. Peter Gruber, CO, joins Joseph for an exploration of some core concepts that Fr. Peter has found time and again to be helpful for people seeking spiritual direction.Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

We have some amount of choice over what streams in front of us. Are we happy with the streams we decide to plant ourselves by?Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

In light the national call to give thanks this week, it's good to remember that thanksgiving is a command, and for good reason!Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

If someone offered a longer life or a deeper life, which would you choose? Unfortunately, we often choose a less-deep life without even the benefit of getting a longer life out of it...Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

We live in an upside-down kind of world, with technology in our pockets that would amaze and astound any other generation, and we use it to feed the vice of curiositas...Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

Most of us, when we think of the natural law, we're not thinking of how we're made to participate in transcendental realities...and yet, that's exactly what the natural law is about! Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

Delighted to interview Catholic artist and former FOCUS missionary, Leanne Bowen!Check out her work at leannebowen.com! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

Maybe just maybe, a lot of the Christian life makes more sense if we know that we're called to be saints...and if we know what saints are, too.  As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

Maybe you've heard the line before: Pray, pay, and obey. Maybe the person saying it actually meant: Sit down and shut up. But what if it meant exactly what it said? What if those were three excellent admonitions for our life as Catholic Christians?Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

The proliferation of 'hate-speech' and the slinging of phobic-motivations seems to just continue to rise, and I think there are interesting reasons for that.Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

Joseph Ratzinger, in a 2000 instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote on some of the reasons we suffer. Joseph goes over them, and adds a couple for good measure!https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20001123_istruzione_en.htmlAs noted in the episode, knowing that there are reasons for suffering may not lessen the suffering, but it may help with understanding the meaning of the suffering.Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

If we don't know the difference between meaning and purpose, we're liable to follow the world down a weird rabbit-hole of endless purposes with no meaning to ground them.Listen in to find out more! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

What if we took divinization seriously? What if our work, our thoughts, our feelings, were all meant to be divinized through and through? Andy Hickman, of Hēl, believes exactly that. Check out his electrifying essay here!Check out opportunities to sample some of the work of hēl during the week of September 29th, 2025, here:https://hel.co/workshops/hel-week-experience-organization/ And check out the upcoming workshop series that Joseph will be hosting for Catholic husbands here! As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

A lot of people still talk about wanting things to be like the 1950s. Biggest problem with that? The 1950s not only weren't perfect, they were the set-up for the 1960s and everything that followed.So why not focus on the 2050s, and doing what we can to build something great on whatever is good right now? As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

Through a bit of serendipity, Joseph recorded an episode about this coming Sunday's gospel, without realizing it until afterward!The reading can be found here: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090725.cfmCatholic husbands, check out a five-part series designed for you! https://youroutpost.stellarwebsystems.com/join?euuid=a0e6e22a-7d33-11f0-b441-16ffeab70ea9 As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!

There's a very cliched understanding of wanting to study the Bible the way that Jacob wrestled with God...which I wrestle with a little bit in this episode... As always, support our work by going here!join our email newsletter list here!catch our other podcast, Love Your Marriage, by clicking here: https://ouroutpost.org/podcasts/see what we have upcoming in terms of events here: https://ouroutpost.org/events/send us an email at hello@ouroutpost.orgIf you're a Catholic husband, you can get a free course on "Happy Wife, Happy Life"-- discover the truths and the lies behind the sentiment, and learn a little more about leadership in the home! https://ouroutpost.kit.com/happywifehappylifeand please rate, review, and share!