Firm Foundation Focus

Peter wanted to build shelters on the mountain. The Father’s voice redirected him: “Listen to My Son.” Cultivation moves us from clinging to moments into abiding 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 years serving in Poland. His heart is the mat...

Paul raised Eutychus from the dead but kept teaching until dawn. This episode shows why imparting Christ outweighs even the most dramatic miracles. 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 serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers...

This episode takes you into my own journey, where I once thought ministry was all about power and crowds, only to discover the Father was actually cultivating me as a son. 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 serving in Poland. His heart is the matu...

Isaiah said God’s ways were out of reach. Paul declares we now have the mind of Christ. Explore how in Him we share His life and walk in His ways. 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 serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believers g...

Surrounded by miracles, Israel hardened their hearts. This episode warns against chasing signs and shows how only knowing His ways leads to maturity. 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 serving in Poland. His heart is the maturing of sons, believer...

The wilderness is God’s classroom. Learn how the Father’s plough turns the soil of our hearts through hiddenness, waiting, and testing, preparing us for fruit that will last. 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 serving in Poland. His heart is the m...

Israel saw His acts, but Moses longed to know His ways. This episode opens the series by contrasting fascination with works and the deeper call to be cultivated in His ways. 🎧 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 serving in Poland. His heart is the...

Sin pulled man into a false universe where everything revolved around self. But through the Cross, God ends that old centre and shifts us into a whole new one — His centre. In this episode, Alex unpacks Chapter 5 of DeVern Fromke’s The Ultimate Intention , showing how the radical working of the Cross brings full release from self‑life and ushers us into life in the new man. Fromke’s story of Billy...

When we live for the part, we miss the whole. Redemption, grace, blessing, even church life — these are precious, but they were never the destination. In this episode Alex unpacks Chapter 4 of DeVern Fromke’s The Ultimate Intention , showing how every part is meant to lead us into the Father’s ultimate fellowship with Himself. Only in the whole do the parts make sense. Tent Talk chapter 4 https://...

In Chapter 3 of The Ultimate Intention , DeVern Fromke shows that all the big themes of Scripture—creation, providence, government, redemption, sanctification, begetting, revelation—are not separate goals, but strands of one rope. And that rope is the Father’s eternal purpose in Christ. Alex unpacks how each strand finds its meaning in Christ, beginning with the Father’s vital Fatherhood—the Fathe...

Where you begin the story of God shapes where you end. If you start with man, you end with man. If you start with the Father, you end with His family. In this episode Alex unpacks Chapter 2 of DeVern Fromke’s The Ultimate Intention , showing how the wrong starting point—whether the Fall, man’s commission, or even God as Creator—always distorts the story. Only when we begin with the Father’s eterna...

In this first episode of The Eternal Purpose , Alex unpacks Chapter 1 of DeVern Fromke’s Ultimate Intention . Drawing from both the blue cover edition and the version Nancy McCready is reading on Tent Talk, Alex explores the Father’s eternal purpose with simple and down-to-earth teaching. This episode takes us through the opening cry of the book: Help me to understand . We look at the story of Bil...

🌍 Alex sits down with Agata from Warsaw, Poland, in this In the Field episode fresh from the Polish School of the 70. Agata shares how her perception of God and community has been reshaped, what it means to be seen in her process, and how Holy Spirit met her in moments of struggle with the flesh. Her story reveals the kindness of the Father and the freedom that comes when we trust Him with the pr...

In this In the Field episode, Alex sits down with Natan Jaszek from Kamienna Góra, Poland, one of the youngest voices at the Polish School of the 70. Natan shares some of his story and powerful testimony of what God revealed to him during this year’s school — from discovering the reality of Christ living in him to the importance of community and multi-generational family.

**NEW WEBSITE** - check out the new Firm Foundation website, where you'll find out a lot more information! ⁠⁠www.ffdisicipleship.co.uk The Cross created a whole new man. Righteousness is about being birthed into an entirely new life in Christ. To be skilled in righteousness is to live from the acceptance already given rather than striving to earn it. In this second episode, Alex unfolds how De...

**NEW WEBSITE** - check out the new Firm Foundation website, where you'll find out a lot more information! ⁠www.ffdisicipleship.co.uk Milk or meat? That’s the question Hebrews 5 throws at us. “Everyone who continues to feed on milk is inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness.” (Hebrews 5:13 AMPC). In this opening episode, Alex lays the foundation of the whole series. Righte...

**NEW AUDIO - 28 August 2025** [It was brought to my attention that the original audio was in fact, the audio for episode 1 - so with huge apologies, HERE is the final episode of this series!] This closing episode draws the series to its sharpest point. Alex reads the final section of Knowing the Self from Watchman Nee’s The Messenger of the Cross and uncovers three final realities: that even pray...

Alex is joined by first time students Grace and Connor who share there experience of the Polish School. Listen in as they discuss the revelations that are transforming them from the inside out, and how they are maturing as the new man!

Recorded from the historic castle in Lwówek, Poland, this special In the Field episode of Firm Foundation Focus brings you into the heart of what God is doing in the nations. Alex is joined by friends Joe and Regan, as we share fresh stories, moments, and lessons from The Polish School of the 70. SOAP Bible Study https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFHGnmXl-xUwsVNC54TRomuUZmDQaEF0N&si=r-r20a_Rs...

This episode goes to the root: the refined self-life that still governs spiritual hunger, revelation, and even surrender. Alex reads from Watchman Nee’s Knowing the Self and uncovers how Holy Spirit applies the Cross—not as a distant truth, but as an inwrought work within. It is about the death of self. The pursuit of breakthrough, the wilderness of delay, and the daily denial of independence all...

Some of the most spiritual-sounding forms of ministry today are keeping self alive. Inner healing, prophetic processing, even prayer ministry — when fueled by the wrong source — can preserve the very thing God has already judged. In this fifth episode of Knowing the Self , Alex exposes the hidden motive behind much of our ‘healing’ language: self still trying to stay in control. This episode calls...

This episode focuses on the deeper danger: doing good in the strength of self. Alex reads from Watchman Nee’s Knowing the Self and explores how success—when sourced in self—reinforces resistance to the Life of Christ. Barna’s national research shows that 92% of professing Christians operate from a syncretistic worldview—a blend of spiritual effort, cultural values, and religious performance. In th...

It looked spiritual. It sounded right. But it came from the wrong source. In this third episode of Knowing the Self , Alex continues through Watchman Nee’s The Messenger of the Cross and opens up three unflinching truths about the self-life—especially when it hides beneath ministry, gifting, and Christian activity. This is the most dangerous version of self: the one that prays, leads, and teaches—...

You didn’t just fall. He let you. This isn’t the start of healing. It’s the beginning of the end. Because what’s being exposed here isn’t weakness — it’s self. And self must die. In this second episode of Knowing the Self , we step deeper into the judgment already passed on the self-life. God does not wait for self to improve — He has already condemned it. 📘 Drawing from the second section of Wat...

You didn’t just stumble into difficulty — you were led into exposure. The wilderness is where God proves what’s still living in the self. In this opening episode of Knowing the Self , Alex begins the journey through Watchman Nee’s challenging chapter from The Messenger of the Cross — a chapter that unmasks the self-life, the spiritual-sounding version of ‘you’ that still tries to follow Jesus with...