Altars and Ashes Podcast

Every man is building something. Every habit is a stone. Every choice is mortar. Every household is being shaped toward one kingdom or another. The question is not whether we will build. The question is what our hands are helping to raise . In this episode of Altars & Ashes , we move from the doctrine of dominion to its practical architecture. What does Christ’s Kingship look like inside the home?...

The modern world insists that neutrality is possible: neutral schools, neutral government, neutral media, neutral law, and neutral public spaces. But neutrality does not exist. Every institution rests upon a vision of truth, authority, justice, and the good life. Every school disciples. Every law teaches. Every society serves a god. The only question is which god will sit at the center. In this ep...

What does it actually mean to belong to a local church? In this special episode of Altars & Ashes , Austin Tucker, Robbie Stringer, and former co-host Bryan Furlong discuss the biblical importance of church membership. They explore why membership is more than placing your name on a church roll, how it creates real accountability and responsibility, and why Christians are not meant to live disconne...

Before Christians can build again, we must understand what happened to the world we inherited. In this episode of Altars & Ashes , we perform an autopsy on the West. Christendom did not vanish by accident. It was surrendered through a long assault on ideas, institutions, households, churches, and law. The collapse was not merely political. It was spiritual. It was cultural. It was institutional. W...

For generations, Christians could rely on cultural momentum, borrowed capital, and institutions that still retained traces of a Christian worldview. Those days are gone. We now find ourselves in a world increasingly hostile to Christian conviction, Christian families, and Christian institutions. The question before us is no longer whether Christians should build. The question is whether we will bu...

In this casual conversation, we talk about why eschatology is not just a chart at the back of a study Bible. What we believe about the future shapes how we live in the present. A negative view of history often produces retreat, fear, and short-term thinking. But a positive eschatology teaches us to labor with confidence, build with generations in mind, and believe that Christ is reigning now—and H...

Welcome back to the Altars & Ashes Podcast . In this episode, we begin a new season and find ourselves between major projects, so we take up one of the biggest questions pressing on our age: artificial intelligence . AI is no longer science fiction. It is in our homes, our phones, our schools, our workplaces, our churches, and our children’s pockets. Like every tool, it carries both promise and pe...

Dust & Glory Media is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In this episode, we come to a close on Season 3 of the podcast, and we also conclude our series walking through the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith. We closed out this journey by discussing some of the most weighty realities a Christian can fac...

In this episode of Altars & Ashes Podcast , we continue through the 1689 London Baptist Confession, focusing on the communion of saints, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper (Chapters 27–30). Today, we answer a foundational question: What does life together in Christ actually look like? Scripture teaches that Christians are not isolated individuals, but a people united to Christ and therefore united to...

The Covenant of Marriage, The Life of the Church Episode 036- On Chapters Chapter 25-26 of the 1689 Confession (Of Marriage and Of the Church) Our culture has spent the last fifty years dismantling the two most foundational institutions God ever built: marriage and the church. Marriage has been redefined, delayed, and discarded. What God established as a covenant has been reduced to a contract, a...

In this episode of Altars & Ashes Podcast , we continue through the 1689 London Baptist Confession , focusing on lawful oaths and vows and the civil magistrate (Chapters 23 & 24). We address two often-overlooked areas of the Christian life: How seriously should we take our words? And how should we relate to governing authority? Scripture is clear, our words are not casual. When we speak, we speak...

In this episode of Altars & Ashes Podcast , we continue through the 1689 London Baptist Confession, focusing on Christian liberty and the worship God requires (Chapters 21 & 22). We answer two critical questions: What does it actually mean to be free? And how does a free people worship God rightly? Christian liberty is not the freedom to live however we want, it is freedom from sin, condemnation,...

In this episode of Altars & Ashes Podcast, we continue through the 1689 London Baptist Confession, focusing on the relationship between the Law of God and the Gospel of grace (Chapters 19 & 20). We answer a foundational question: What does God require, and how does God save? The Law reveals God’s standard, exposes sin, and directs the believer’s life, but it cannot save. The Gospel reveals Christ,...

In this episode of Altars & Ashes Podcast , we continue working through the 1689 London Baptist Confession , focusing on good works and the perseverance of the saints. If salvation is by grace alone, what kind of life does that grace produce, and does it last? We walk through how good works are not the root of salvation, but the fruit of it, and why true faith always results in a life that can be...

In this episode of Altars & Ashes Podcast , we continue walking through the 1689 London Baptist Confession, focusing on saving faith and repentance unto life and salvation. We answer a simple but weighty question: What does it actually look like when a sinner is brought to life? Saving faith is not mere intellectual agreement, it is resting on Christ’s finished work on the cross. And, in the same...

In this episode of Altars & Ashes , we continue our walk through the 1689 London Baptist Confession , focusing on three foundational doctrines of the Christian life: * Justification — God’s legal declaration that sinners are righteous in Christ * Adoption — God bringing those justified into His family as sons * Sanctification — God progressively shaping His people into holiness Together, these cha...

Video Podcast Available, for the first time, on YouTube below. We’re working out some of the kinks, so bear with us. In this episode of Altars & Ashes , we continue our walk through the 1689 London Baptist Confession , focusing on three chapters that explain how God actually saves sinners. We discuss Christ the Mediator, who alone reconciles God and man; the reality of human free will in bondage a...

We continue to walk through the 1689 London Baptist Confession: Chapters 5–7 In this episode of the Altars & Ashes Podcast, we continue our journey through the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith by examining three foundational doctrines of the Christian faith: * Chapter 5 — Divine Providence * Chapter 6 — The Fall of Man, Sin, and Its Punishment * Chapter 7 — God’s Covenant Together th...

In this episode, we continue through the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith by taking Chapters 2–4 (Of God and the Holy Trinity, Of God’s Decree, and Of Creation) as one unified, deliberately ordered conversation. We organized the episode around three bedrock realities, God is, God wills, and God creates because once the doctrine of God is softened, everything downstream becomes unstable: worship tu...

In this episode, we break out Chapter 1 of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith ( The Holy Scriptures) into its own focused conversation. We organized the entire episode around four simple, bedrock truths, because if the Word is blurred, everything else becomes negotiable. 1689 Confession Chapter 1: The Holy Scriptures Four truths that hold a household together 1) God Has Spoken Christianity is re...

Why We Confess: Scripture, Authority, and the Faith Once Delivered “Every church is being catechized. The only question is by what.” Season 3 begins at the foundation. In this episode, B.D. Fleming, Robbie Stringer, and Pastor Dr. A.W. Tucker open a new season by explaining why Gracepointe Church is adopting the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith, and why the conversation must begin, n...

Welcome back to the Altars & Ashes Podcast. In Episode 024, we take up a tension most churches feel, but rarely ever articulate: Is the church meant to be a refuge from the world or a base of operations for transforming it? This episode isn’t meant to be about partisan politics or shallow culture war rhetoric, thought it covers much of that. Instead, it is something much deeper and more uncomforta...

Listener note: We apologize for the audio quality on this episode. We were on the road for a conference, and somehow our audio duplicated, so there are times when we’re speaking and you can hear duplication. We’ll make sure that is worked out in the future if we do episodes on the road. In this episode of Altars & Ashes Podcast, we tackle a question most churches ignore: What happens when Christia...

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If you stay in the Church long enough, you will get hurt. The real question isn’t if the wounds come, but what they form in you afterward . IN FACT, THERE IS A LOT OF LAUGHTER! In this episode of the Altars & Ashes Podcast , we look back on some of the most painful, and now strangely formative, moments of our lives in ministry. And yes, there is laughter. Not because the wounds were light, but bec...