Firm Foundation Focus

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...

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 brin...

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 i...

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 rath...

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 t...

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 Portsmout...

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. T...

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...

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 tran...

In this final episode, Watchman Nee’s words ring clear: “God wants us to have no activity outside of Him.” Here the root of all defeat is exposed—self-reliance. The Father is not asking how good our work looks, but who is doing it. Sin is a living power that rules wherever self is active. Even the best deeds, when sourced in self, are dead works before Him. The call is simple: stop living from ind...

Alex continues through Watchman Nee’s The Messenger of the Cross , reading section two from Man's First Sin and uncovering what it means to live dependent on the Father rather than independent from Him. This episode exposes how independence became man’s first sin and why the Father calls His sons to live by His uncreated zoe life. Drawing from scripture, Watchman Nee’s teaching, and Barna’s re...

Romans 3:23 says: “Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives.” For years, many of us have heard this as failing to live up to God’s standard. But Paul is pointing to something far deeper. To fall short of the glory is to miss Christ Himself. In this opening episode, Alex unfolds Watchman Nee’s chapter Man’s First Sin and shows how sin is not...

Recorded while on location in Clewiston, FL. The final part for now is this 10 part, short series on The Spectrum of Sonship. Paul’s life was completely turned inside out. The same man who once thrived in the synagogue, confident in his intellect and ability to teach, was brought to nothing so that only Christ could remain. In this episode, we follow how the Father stripped away everything born of...

In this episode, we look at how the Father’s maturing process unfolded in Paul’s life—from zeal and independence to breaking and oneness. His story reveals the end of self-strength and the emergence of a man governed entirely by Christ within. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing About Alex Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disci...

This episode unfolds what it looks like when a son begins to emerge as a full representation of the Father — an expression of His life in the earth. Here we see the huios taking shape: walking in oneness, governed by His Spirit, and revealing the Father’s heart, wisdom, and way in every place. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing Abou...

The Father’s goal has always been mature sons who live from His life, not their own. In this episode, we explore what maturity really looks like—sons who have been hidden, trained, and now move only with the Father. This is the huios stage: trusted, governed by Holy Spirit, and carrying the weight of the Father’s heart. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijj...

Sometimes the Father has to arrange a sudden breaking that changes everything. Here I share my own story of crisis and exposure, showing how the death of self opened the way for His life to finally flow. THERE IS NO LISTENER GUIDE FOR THIS EPISODE, but you will find the graphic that Alex references in this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing A...

When the Father exposes the self-life, He is not asking us to repair it—He is revealing that it cannot be repaired. All self-effort ends in failure, but the Cross brings the true end of the old life so that the life of the Son can be released. This episode unveils why the soul cannot fix itself and why only the Father’s breaking frees us to live by His life alone. Listener Guides https://drive.goo...

The treasure is inside, but the vessel must be broken. In this first episode on breaking, we see why the Father deals with the outward man so that the life of the Spirit can flow freely and Christ can be revealed. This is an essential part of our maturing process. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing About Alex Alex is from the UK and...

Zeal is exciting, gifts are real, but neither equal maturity. In this episode, we explore the young man stage: strong in the Word, battling the enemy, yet exposed in the hidden self-life that still drives so much activity. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing About Alex Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations a...

New birth is not human life improved, but divine life imparted. This episode unpacks the infant stage of sonship—where the incorruptible seed of God’s life begins to grow—and challenges why so many believers remain stuck here. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing About Alex Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across natio...

Long before creation or the fall, the Father set His heart on sons in His Son. In this foundation episode, we trace sonship back to eternity and uncover the Father’s ultimate purpose that defines who we are in Christ. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing About Alex Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations after...

The end of cultivation is not activity but Christ formed within. This final episode gathers the whole journey to show the Father’s goal: sons who reveal His Son. Here we are called to yield to His dealings until His life is the only life seen in us. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing ‘The Untold Story of the New Testament Church’ (F...

Paul in Arabia, Moses in Midian, Jesus in Nazareth—each of them had long hidden years. Those quiet seasons were the Father’s classroom, shaping depth and dependence in His sons away from the noise and spotlight. Listener Guides 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...

Chasing signs will always leave us empty and restless. In this episode we see again that the cross of Christ is the solid foundation, and the real miracle is His very life planted inside of us, a life that actually lasts. Listener Guides https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing About Alex Alex is from the UK and he teaches and disciples across nations af...