Welcome back to Altars & Ashes Podcast, a show for saints called to faithfulness in a hostile age. In this episode, we open the book of Daniel to learn what it means to live as exiles in a world that demands our compromise.

What We Cover

1. Exiles in Babylon — Faithfulness in the small things: Daniel refusing the king’s food, friends standing in the furnace, prayer that couldn’t be silenced.2. Building Altars in Babylon — Worship as resistance. Every prayer, every act of obedience is an altar raised against the empire’s idols.3. The Cost of Compromise — What happens when God’s people bow to cultural idols of comfort, safety, and approval.4. Field Orders for Life in Babylon — Practical ways to live faithful today: guard your diet of truth, practice public loyalty, keep prayer central, accept risk, live as witnesses.5. Stories of Faith Under Fire — From the furnace and the lions’ den to the early church and the modern home, the same call remains: do not bow.

Closing Exhortation

Babylon still stands, and still demands your bow. But the God of Daniel is on His throne. Build your altar. Refuse the king’s food. Pray with the windows open. Walk into the fire knowing Christ walks with you.

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