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Altars and Ashes Podcast
by B.D. Fleming, Robbie Stringer, and Austin Tucker
A media arm of Gracepointe Church in Summerfield, Florida dustandglorymedia.substack.com
Episodes
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How Faith, Feminism, and Politics Are Driving Young Men and Women Apart
Same generation. Different convictions. What’s pulling young men and women in opposite political directions? In part one, Austin Tucker, B.D. Fleming, and Robbie Stringer examine the Gen Z political gender gap discussed in The Guardian’s 2024 reporting. We consider how Christians should evaluate...
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When Division Becomes a Sin
Some people divide a church from the pulpit. Others do it in the parking lot. Pride calls itself discernment. Gossip calls itself a prayer request. Personal ambition calls itself a burden for the church. In this episode of Altars & Ashes, Austin Tucker, B.D. Fleming, and Robbie Stringer examine...
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Just & Necessary? Iran, Israel, and Who Goes to War
When should Christians support a war? The 1689 Baptist Confession permits rulers to wage war on “just and necessary occasions.” In this episode, B.D. Fleming, Austin Tucker, and Robbie Stringer examine what those words require as we discuss Iran, America’s relationship with Israel, and who should...
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Crowned With Glory, Bent Toward Idols
The modern world cannot decide whether man is a god or an animal. One minute, you’re an accident of biology. The next, you’re sovereign enough to define reality itself. Scripture gives a different answer: man is neither god nor beast. He is made in God’s image, crowned with glory, and…
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By What Standard?
Everybody submits to an authority. Some trust the experts. Others trust their feelings, their traditions, or whatever the crowd decided this morning. Even the man who says, “I think for myself,” has placed somebody on the throne. The question is which authority gets your knee. Join B.D. Fleming,...
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What Is a Worldview?
Everybody has a worldview. The question is whether yours bows before Christ or an idol. In the opening episode of our new short series, Foundations of Christian Worldview, Austin Tucker, B.D. Fleming, and Robbie Stringer examine the basic framework through which every person understands God, man,...
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Stop Admiring the Ruins and Start Building
It is possible to agree with every argument we have made this season and still never build anything. You can talk about Christian education, strong households, economic cooperation, and living near faithful believers. You can read the book, listen to the podcast, and nod along. Five years later,...
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The borough is the seed. Christendom is the harvest.
Central Thesis A Christian borough is not successfully built when Christians merely live near each other. It becomes durable when households can worship together, work together, trade together, sacrifice together, reproduce their culture, and hand something tangible to the next generation. And...
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Monoculture Is the Future
Every civilization has a culture. The question is whether that culture will be formed intentionally or inherited accidentally. A Christian community cannot be built simply by putting Christians in the same neighborhood. Strong communities require more than proximity—and even more than shared...
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The Alfred Strategy
King Alfred didn’t save England by winning one decisive battle. He saved it by building something that could survive the next battle and the next generation. Faced with Viking invasion and civilizational collapse, Alfred stopped thinking merely like a soldier and started thinking like a builder....
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The Church as Borough Core
A household may be the headquarters, but the church is the fortress. Christian households cannot remain isolated forever. They need a center strong enough to unite them, protect them, form them, and carry their work beyond a single generation. A borough without a healthy church at its core is...
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Walls and Gates
You cannot build something faithful if you refuse to protect it. Christian homes, churches, and communities need more than good intentions. They need clear standards that hold and wise discernment that protects. Walls establish what we believe, what we value, and who we are. Gates determine what,...
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Worship, Work, & Dominion Around the Table
Christians will not rebuild the world while neglecting the place where worship, work, discipleship, and future faithfulness are first formed: the home. Modern culture treats the household as little more than a place to sleep, consume, stream, and recover before returning to “real life.” Scripture...
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The Architecture of the Kingdom
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...
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The Myth of Neutrality and the Suburban Church
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...
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Join A Church, and Serve
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…
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The West Was Not Lost by Accident
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...
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The Age of Ambient Christianity is Over
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....
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Why A Positive Eschatology Matters
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…
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AI & The World We Live In.... Or Whatever
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...
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The Assurance We Hold, The Judgment to Come
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...
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The Communion We Share, The Ordinances We Keep
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…
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The Covenant of Marriage, The Life of the Church
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...
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The Words That Bind, The Authority God Ordains
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...
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The Freedom That Serves, The Worship God Requires
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?...
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The Law That Reveals, The Gospel That Saves
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...
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The Works That Follow, The Grace That Keeps
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...
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The Faith That Receives, The Repentance That Turns
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…
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The Gavel, The Embrace, & The Refining Fire
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…
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The Mediator Who Saves, The Will That Cannot, The Call That Raises
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…
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The God Who Governs, The World That Fell, & The Covenant That Saves
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...
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The God Who Is, The God Who Decrees, The God Who Creates
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...
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God Has Spoken, and We Must Listen
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…
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Why We Confess
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...
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The Dominion Debate: Inside the Church or Outside the Walls?
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...
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The Borough Economy
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...
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Altars & Ashes on the Road
Behind the scenes while we were on the road... Get full access to Dust & Glory Media at dustandglorymedia.substack.com/subscribe
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Our Worst Church Experiences
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,...
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Bad Theology We Used to Believe
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…
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What Books Changed Us
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…
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What Matters Most: Theological Triage for the Household
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...
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The Purpose of Education
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…
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The Threats to Marriage
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...
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The Roles in Marriage
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.”...
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The Purpose of Marriage
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...
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JACOB'S SCEPTER
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.…
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On Dying Well
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,...
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The State as the Servant of God for Justice
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…
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The Church as The Pillar and Buttress of Truth
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...
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The Family as the First Government
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.…
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A media arm of Gracepointe Church in Summerfield, Florida
dustandglorymedia.substack.com
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