Thomas A. Swann

Reflections on scripture and life in the church.

  • John 14:27 I need peace. I desire peace. I long for peace in my lifetime. If not for my own sake, for the sake of those I love, especially my wife and children. A longing for peace is made more desperate by the ways the world manifests its utter brokenness and incapacity for resolution. Even…

  • Free For a Fee

    Justification is salvation’s first great gift. Eternity is certainly the grand prize that occupies a great deal of our attention, but eternity itself is elusive if we have not yet been justified. Humanity’s greatest necessity is to be reconciled to its Creator. Even if our hearts have been dulled to this reality by the expressions…

  • The Way

    We have always been people of “The Way.” “Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,” (John 14: 5-6, ESV). From the moment Jesus uttered those words,…