Just A Guy In The Pew Podcast
Welcome to the pew. The place where everyday catholic guys, talk about everyday catholic things, in front of the one person that can do something about it. Jesus Christ
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August 25, 2026 • 56 mins
There are things you’ve done that you wish you could take back.
Choices you regret. Sins you’re ashamed of. Parts of your story you wish no one knew.
And even after you’ve repented, there can still be a voice inside that says:
“God may forgive you…but He can’t really love you the same.” Guys, that is a lie.
This week in our Power Made Perfect series, we move from repentance to reconcilia...
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August 18, 2026 • 59 mins
There’s a big difference between remorse and repentance.
Remorse says, “I hate what I did.”
Repentance says, “I don’t want to live this way anymore.”
In this week’s episode of our Power Made Perfect series, Victor and I move from surrender into repentance—the point where surrender starts becoming visible in the way we actually live.
We can tell God we surrender our lives to Him, bu...
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August 11, 2026 • 57 mins
There are some things in our lives we simply cannot fix. But that doesn’t stop us from trying. We grip tighter. We work harder. We run every scenario through our heads. We tell ourselves, “If I can just figure this out, I can make it okay.”
But eventually, we have to face the truth: we were never in control to begin with.
This week, Victor and I continue our Power Made Perfect series with the next step in the pr...
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August 4, 2026 • 47 mins
Most men don't have a problem admitting that life is hard.
The problem is admitting they can't fix it on their own.
That's exactly where so many of us get stuck.
This week on the Just a Guy in the Pew Podcast, Victor and I continue our Power Made Perfect series by talking about the second step in the process of healing and restoration: Humility.
Humility isn't thinking less of yourself. It's finally seeing yourself truthfully.
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July 28, 2026 • 52 mins
Most of us have spent our lives believing the same lie:
Real men don't struggle. Real men don't ask for help. Real men keep it all together.
But what if that's exactly what has been keeping us stuck?
This week, Victor is back in the studio as we begin a brand-new seven-part series based on the process of healing and restoration in my new book, Power Made Perfect: Finding True Strength in Christ. In this first episode, we dive in...
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July 21, 2026 • 54 mins
Most Christians love to talk about God's mercy.
Far fewer want to talk about His judgment.
But Jesus spoke about it constantly. Not to scare us, but to prepare us.
In this powerful conversation, John sits down with renowned Catholic author and evangelist Ralph Martin to discuss his new book, The Coming Judgment: Are We Ready? Together they explore why the Church has grown quiet on one of the most important teachings of the Gospe...
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July 14, 2026 • 47 mins
The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone.
In this heartfelt episode, John steps away from the plans and simply shares what's been on his heart after a powerful night of prayer and adoration. Reflecting on the countless emails, messages, and stories from listeners around the world, he reminds us that the mission of Just a Guy in the Pew has never been about one voice—it has always been about one family walking tow...
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July 7, 2026 • 47 mins
Most everyone has felt stuck, that your life would be so much better if everyone else just got on your level one way or another. We know that’s a distraction by the enemy to get you focusing on the speck in your brother’s eye while you walk around with a two-by-four hanging out of your own. But what do we do to finally overcome that? How do we fight against this and win?
Long story short: we can’t on our own powe...
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June 30, 2026 • 39 mins
Most of us were taught how to work hard, provide, and solve problems. But very few of us were ever taught how to truly love, communicate, or lead our families the way Christ calls us to.
That leaves a lot of men frustrated. We work harder, say less, withdraw emotionally, and wonder why our marriages keep drifting further apart.
This week, I sit down with Dr. Greg Popcak, the founder of CatholicCounselors.com and host of EWTN&rsqu...
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June 23, 2026 • 48 mins
Tell me if you’ve ever said something like this before:
“If my boss wasn’t such a jerk, I’d like my job.”
“If my wife would just listen to me, we’d be able to be happy.”
"If only my friends would stop doing x, y, or z, I’d be able to be myself.”
This blame game is a favorite tool of the enemy going all the way back to Eden. As long as we’re focused on what other pe...
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June 16, 2026 • 58 mins
How do you stay true to Christ?
I hear this question so often. People are creatures of habit; when things get difficult, it’s easy for us to go back to our bad habits, our addictions, our sins. As the book of Proverbs says, we so often go back to our sins the way a dog goes back to its vomit. What I’ve discovered in my life is that the key to staying faithful to Christ is to understand the gift that He’s given yo...
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June 9, 2026 • 69 mins
As Catholics, we treat Mary with a particular sense of reverence and honor. But sometimes it’s hard to know how to relate to her, and how to open ourselves up to a relationship with her without feeling like we’re somehow taking time away from her Son.
The truth is that she always brings us closer to Jesus, so the time we spend with her is time spent with Him. That’s what my friend John Heinen, executive director ...
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June 9, 2026 • 56 mins
God did not create us to have a mediocre marriage.
My good friend Paul George, the author of Rethink Happiness and Holy Grit, joins us today to discuss common ways our marriages get put on the back burner and how to make sure that our union is treated like the sacrament that it is.
In this episode we’re talking about:
🔹Different seasons of marriage
🔹How the fall of Adam and Eve contributed to our current relationship we...
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May 26, 2026 • 67 mins
"What happens when young Catholics stop sitting on the sidelines?
Today Fr. Jacob Dumont, a local superior for the Legionaries of Christ in Cincinnati and my spiritual director, joins us in the pew to talk about the explosion of faith happening in the Church right now. This is happening in particular among younger people, and so many of them are searching for truth, purpose, and something real, and are finding it exactly where we&...
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May 19, 2026 • 39 mins
Folks, today is a huge day for the ministry.
My new book, Power Made Perfect: Finding True Strength in Christ launches today, and I am so excited for you to read it. This whole episode is dedicated to telling you what this book is about, how it came together, and how grateful I am that the Lord brought each one of you here - whether to the podcast, to a pilgrimage, to a mission, or anything else - so that He could make this happen...
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May 12, 2026 • 38 mins
Many of us live in the past or in the future, and we’re not present to anything. The devil loves to use this tactic to rob us, to get us listening to the wrong voice and pulling us away from the one thing we can do something about: the present moment.
We talked last week about some of those voices and who they’re coming from. Today Victor and I follow this theme some more and talk about what happens when we listen to t...
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May 5, 2026 • 51 mins
“Who told you that?”
That question from God changed everything for me.
Over the last few months, I found myself exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, and spiritually dry while trying to “do more” for ministry, family, and everyone around me.
And in prayer, I heard the Lord ask:
“Who told you that?”
Who told you to carry everything?
Who told you your worth comes from productivity?
Who...
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April 28, 2026 • 53 mins
Boldness.
Not the kind that stays inside, but the kind that shows up in your life. Because once God does something in you, He wants to do something through you.
That’s where many of us stop.
We face our wounds. We start to change. We get back on track, and then we settle. But Christianity doesn’t end with transformation. That’s where it begins.
In this episode, John and Victor explore what it means to live you...
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April 21, 2026 • 47 mins
There’s a word that keeps showing up in the Book of Acts:
Boldness.
But before the Apostles lived it on the exterior
they had to find it in the interior.
The Holy Spirit doesn’t just send us out—He first cuts us to the heart (Acts 2:37).
He leads us through: Conviction → Conversion → Commission
And that starts with something most of us avoid…
Facing what’s really going on inside.
In this episode...
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April 14, 2026 • 40 mins
This week on Just a Guy in the Pew, Victor and I walk through Acts 3—the crippled man at the Beautiful Gate. For over 40 years, he sat in the same place… asking for coins.
But when Peter and John show up, they don’t give him what he’s asking for—they give him what he actually needs:
Healing.
And it raises a hard question for all of us:
What are you asking people and things for… that only Je...
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