Altars and Ashes Podcast

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...

Not every bad idea comes from bad people. And not every theological error starts with rebellion. In Episode 21 of the Altars & Ashes Podcast, we open the vault: honestly, humbly, and with a good dose of laughter and talk about the bad theology we once held, why it made sense at the time, and how God patiently, graciously outgrew us out of it. This is not a hit piece. It’s a testimony of formation....

This episode is a pause from the heavy subjects we’ve covered over the last few weeks. In Episode 20 of Altars & Ashes , we slow down and talk honestly about formation , specifically, the books that didn’t just inform us, but worked on us . The books that corrected us, unsettled us, cost us something, and quietly reshaped how we live. These are not necessarily our favorite books. They’re the ones...

Not every doctrine carries the same weight, but every doctrine does shape a household. In this episode of Altars & Ashes , the guys apply the framework of theological triage , popularized by Al Mohler, to the everyday work of Christian life. Drawing from Scripture, the historic creeds, and the pastoral wisdom of the church catholic Lower case ‘C’ catholic meaning truth in latin), we ask a crucial...

Education is never neutral. It never has been. It never will be. In Episode 018 of the Altars & Ashes Podcast, we take up one of the most contested—and most misunderstood—questions of our moment: What is education actually for? Not test scores. Not credentials. Not career pipelines. But formation. Faithfulness. Dominion. This episode was originally planned as a multi-part series. But the deeper we...

Marriage is not collapsing by accident, it is under deliberate, sustained assault. In this episode, we name the threats plainly: pornography, feminism, careerism, and secular norms (among others) that have reshaped desire, reordered priorities, and hollowed out covenant faithfulness. Drawing from Scripture, we argue that these forces are not neutral cultural trends, but spiritually charged powers...

In this week’s episode of Altars & Ashes Podcast, we addressed one of the most contested, misunderstood, and resisted doctrines in the modern Church: God’s design for marriage. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24) In the episode, we talk about the fact that marriage is not a social experiment, but a coven...

Modern marriage is collapsing because we’ve forgotten what God created it to be. In this episode of Altars & Ashes , we turn from the spheres of authority to the covenant that stands at the center of them all: marriage. We begin by recovering God’s original design in Genesis, a covenantal union He Himself establishes, older than culture, older than nations, the very foundation upon which human civ...

Here is a complimentary unabridged reading of Day Four from Heaven’s Battle Cry From Heaven’s Battle Cry , serialized for Gracepointe Church. Scripture Reading “Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and...

Before the Lord called him home days ago, Pastor Eric Gervais walked through the valley of the shadow of death with a faith that burned bright in the darkness. In this intimate and wide-ranging conversation, originally recorded last summer, Eric speaks with raw honesty about his cancer diagnosis, the illusion of control, the weight of mortality, and the deep, marrow-level hope found only in Jesus...

Welcome back to Part 3 of the Sphere Sovereignty Series. This is the Final Part, and we discussed the role of government under the Lordship of Christ. This one could have gone on twice as long and we could have taken it multiple directions. I think it landed in a good spot though. Summary: The role of the government, rightly understood, is to uphold and reward good and to punish evil. The governme...

Welcome back to part 2 of the Sphere Sovereignty 3-episode arc. In this episode, Bethlehem Doxology Fleming, Austin, and Robbie turn from the hearth to the sanctuary to examine the second, God-ordained sphere: the Church, the pillar and ground of the truth . What We Cover 1. The Church as Christ’s Covenant Assembly The guys lay the biblical groundwork for what the Church is and what Christ gave he...

Altars & Ashes Podcast — Season 2: Formation & Legacy Series Graciously Sponsored by The Old Forge Press In Episode 012, Bryan, Austin, and Robbie open the Sphere Sovereignty Series with a foundational truth: before pulpits or parliaments, there was the household, the first government under God. We unpack sphere sovereignty as God’s design for ordered authority: the Family forms and educates, the...

In the finale of Season One, we confront the missing center of modern Christianity: the holiness of God. Our culture has rebranded sin as identity and holiness as fanaticism, but the God of Scripture has not changed. He is still holy, holy, holy! In this episode, we trace the holiness of God through Isaiah’s vision, Sinai’s fire, and Calvary’s cross, showing that judgment, atonement, and sanctific...