Firm Foundation Focus

This final episode of the New Things series brings us to the place where everything either shifts or stays the same. Many of us have tried to change our lives through resolve, promises, and renewed determination, only to discover that nothing at the root ever moves. What the Father brings His sons into is not a stronger will, but a different way of seeing.

As the series closes, we return to the work Holy Spirit does in changing perception. When perception changes, life begins to move differently without self-management or effort. What once required constant resolve gives way to alignment, because life is no longer originating in self. This episode gathers the thread of new humanity, freedom, and sonship, and leaves us with the understanding that change does not begin with what we decide, but with what we see.

Monday 5 January - the new series 'Firm Foundation Lite' begins, dropping each Monday for 6 weeks, so be sure to join us for this, especially if you are new to the Focus podcast.

About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after severla years living and serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk

FOCUS REVISITED

For the first time, I am re-releasing a previous episode from 3 May 2025, because I sense there is something strategic in the timing.

I strongly encourage you to take some time to listen to this episode before we start the 'Firm Foundation Lite' series on Monday 5 January!

*EXTENDED FEATURE EPISODE*

Grab a drink, a notebook and a pen and get ready for a deep dive!

The weak gospel found in much of outreach and evangelism stops at forgiveness but never brings believers into union with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.

It leaves the old man untouched and the new man unborn. In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul preached a very different gospel — one of union, death to the old creation, and the birth of a new man — nothing like the diluted message so common today.

In this episode, we expose the fatal gap in the "ABC gospel" and proclaim the true gospel: not just forgiven, but crucified with Christ, raised in Him, and made entirely new.

Listener's Guide available ⁠https://drive.google.com/file/d/15xRYEjuW0VL1_J2AJ4befaUHqmDIoLVx/view?usp=drive_link

In today’s episode we stay with Isaiah 9:6 and move beyond “a child is born” and “a Son is given” to the next phrase in the same verse: “and the government shall be upon his shoulder.” Having followed the life of Jesus from birth through His hidden years and into His baptism, we now turn our attention to what this reveals about responsibility and maturity within the new humanity the Father is bringing forth.

Using the life of Jesus as our reference point, we see that government rests on a person, not a system, and that responsibility follows growth. What was always true of Him by calling was only lived out publicly when it had been worked into Him through alignment with the Father. This episode brings that pattern into our own lives as sons, helping us see what it means to live under a new government where life no longer begins with self, but with the Father.

About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after years serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk

In today’s episode we return to Isaiah’s announcement that a child is born and a Son is given, and we follow how the Father begins His new humanity through the life of Jesus. From His birth, to His hidden years, to His baptism, we see that everything the Father wanted for His family was first placed in Him, the Firstborn Son who now shares His life with us.

We look at the seed the Father planted into the world, the maturity Jesus grew into, and the adoption that publicly revealed Him as the Father’s Son. All of this becomes a roadmap for us as sons who now carry His life in the new man. The new humanity begins in Him, continues through Him, and grows within all who belong to Him.

Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after years serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk

In today’s episode we look at the life that now flows from the new heart and the new spirit the Father has placed within us. Isaiah announced the new thing. Ezekiel showed how the Father would establish it. Now we begin to see how the new man actually lives — and why words like surrender, sacrifice, and obedience take on a completely different meaning when they emerge from the life of the Son rather than the self-life.

We explore the distinction between intention and life, Peter’s vows and his collapse, and the clarity Watchman Nee brings to these three words. This series is called New Things because we are the new thing Isaiah saw, learning a new way of living with a new vocabulary. And the real question before us is simple: which life is expressing these words in us?

Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after years serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk

In today’s episode we turn from Isaiah’s announcement of the new thing to Ezekiel’s revelation of how the Father brings it to pass. Ezekiel 36 shows that the Father Himself gives us a new heart and a new spirit and places His Spirit within us so that everything He desires now flows from within. Nothing rests on Adam or anything inherited from him, because the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit act together to establish Their life in our spirit.

We walk through these scriptures alongside Jesus’ words in John 14 to 16, and we begin to see that indwelling has always been the direction of God’s purpose. If Holy Spirit is now within us forming the life of the Son, then the real question becomes how we live from what He has already finished. This is where today’s episode leads as we continue this unfolding series.

Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after years serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk

In today’s episode we open up Isaiah’s announcement of a new thing and discover that he was not talking about seasons or opportunities but an entirely new humanity. This is the people the Father always wanted, sons who share His life because they have been taken out of Adam and brought into Christ. We walk through the scriptures that have been shaping so many recent conversations here in Portsmouth and begin to see that this new thing is not something we chase but something we have already become.

We also sit with a powerful reading from Watchman Nee that exposes the divide between the old world and the new, and it leaves us with the real questions we must face. If the Cross has ended Adam and the resurrection has opened the new, what does that mean for who we are now, and what does life look like when we live from what He has already finished? These are the questions we carry into the next episode.

Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after years serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk

In this episode of Focus, Alex continues in Chapter 5 of Miles J. Stanford’s The Green Letters and looks at the hidden years of preparation through the life of Peter. From his confidence and collapse to his commission, we see how the Father’s process brings every son from self dependence to Christ dependence. 

The breaking always comes before the building, and the collapse before the commission. This is where the Father forms true shepherds, those who have wept bitterly, seen self for what it is, and discovered the sufficiency of His Son living within.

Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after years serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk

Alex shares from his personal reading of Miles J. Stanford’s The Green Letters, exploring how the Father Himself gives us our needs so that we might discover that only He can truly meet them. 

Drawing from the chapter Preparation, Alex reflects on how every hunger, longing, and unmet place in our lives is an invitation from the Father to depend on Him and receive from His life. This episode is a reminder that every need we experience is designed by Him to draw us deeper into His love, to bring us into rest, and to teach us that He alone is our source and satisfaction, and only He can meet the needs He has placed inside of us.

Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

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About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after years serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk

In this first of two conversations with Dan Dunn, we open up what it really means to live from our oneness with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We revisit what the Father has been unfolding over these last two years, the difference between living from the outside in and the inside out, and how the life of the Godhead now moves through His people. 

Together we explore the shift from personal transformation to corporate oneness, how His love becomes the fuel of everything, and how true community is born from the life we share in Him.

Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

About Alex

Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after years serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers growing into the fullness of Christ and revealing His life on earth. He serves within Firm Foundation, a work the Father is unfolding, joining partners who carry the same call. Through the Firm Foundation Focus podcast, Alex helps sons mature in Christ, discover the Father’s eternal purpose, and live Their way of life.

Check out the Firm Foundation website for more information ffdiscipleship.co.uk