Ask a man where he lives, and he gives you a street. Ask him who he is, and he gives you a verdict.
Press hard enough, in an honest hour, and most of us live at one of two addresses.
Address one
The house of open failure
Where the sins are obvious and the shame is loud. The man who lives here knows he is far off. He replays the thing he said, the way he failed, the man he has not become, and the verdict always comes back the same.
Address two
The house of trying harder
A more respectable address. The lawn is mowed, the religion is tidy, and the exhaustion is hidden in the back rooms. The man who lives here is just as far off, and has decorated it.
Scripture says both men have the wrong address
Paul says it more than one hundred and sixty times. Not what you must do. Where you now are. In Christ. It is not a feeling, a goal, or a mood. It is a location. It is your real address.
The whole map, in three small words
In. With. From.
Everything this ministry teaches follows the grammar of the New Testament itself. Three little prepositions carry the weight of the Christian life.
ἐνIn en · location
You were born in Adam. God moved you. The Spirit placed you into the second man, Jesus, and you now live inside Him, where every spiritual blessing is kept. You don’t work your way in. You wake up to where you already are.
Ephesians 1:3 · 1 Corinthians 15:22σύνWith syn · union
Crucified with Him. Buried with Him. Raised with Him. Seated with Him. These are not things Jesus did while you watched from the stands. Because you are in Him, they happened to you. His history became yours.
Galatians 2:20 · Ephesians 2:4-6ἐκFrom ek · overflow
Life flows from the vine into the branch, from the Head into the body, from His fullness into your empty hands. The man who has stopped trying to get in is the only man free to live from inside.
John 15:5 · John 1:16
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The first book
In Christ
Union with Christ, freedom from shame, and the end of condemnation
Two small words hold the whole of the Christian life: in Christ. Not near Him, not climbing toward Him, but placed inside Him by God Himself. From that one location everything follows. No condemnation. A new creation. Adopted, complete, hidden, and secure.
In Christ traces that union from beginning to end, from how you were placed into Him, through what He accomplished with you, to the life that now flows from Him. It's written for the believer who knows the gospel and still lives like an outsider, hungry for an acceptance that's already his.
You're not working your way toward Christ. In Him, you're already home. This is an invitation to live like it.
Not with your effort, but with your address. Not with what you owe, but with where you stand.
Part one
Placed in Him
Two Men, Two Worlds
The Sphere You Were Placed Into
How You Got In
1 Corinthians 15:22Part two
United to Him
Crucified With Him
Buried and Raised With Him
Seated With Him
The Great Exchange
Galatians 2:20Part three
Complete in Him
No Condemnation
A New Creation
Adopted as Sons
Complete in Him
Hidden and Secure
Romans 8:1Part four
Living from Him
Abide in Me
Members of One Body
Bearing Fruit from Him
Sent from Him
Suffering with Him, Glorified with Him
John 15:5
Deeds in the drawer
Five things that are simply yours because of where you live.
Most believers own all five and live as though they own none. Not one of them is earned. Each is true of you for one reason only: you are in Jesus, and what is His has become yours.
Your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3
κατάκριμαkatakrima
Not condemned
Not a mood. A legal verdict, pronounced from the highest bench, and for those in Christ Jesus it is gone. Not reduced. Not suspended pending good behavior. Gone, and gone now.
Romans 8:1, 33-34
καινὴ κτίσιςkainē ktisis
A new creation
God did not renovate you. New in kind, not new in time. The same verb as the first morning of the world. You did not stop being a new creation because you had a bad week.
2 Corinthians 5:17
υἱοθεσίαhuiothesia
Adopted as a son
The placing of someone as a son. Full standing, full rights, an heir. And the heart to go with it: the Spirit in you cries the same word Jesus prayed in Gethsemane. Abba.
Galatians 4:4-7
πεπληρωμένοιpeplērōmenoi
Complete
The whole fullness of God dwells in Him, and you have been filled in Him. Drop a cup into the ocean and ask how full it is. You don’t seek Christ to become complete. You seek Him because, in Him, you already are.
Colossians 2:9-10
κέκρυπταιkekryptai
Hidden and secure
Tucked inside Jesus, and Jesus inside the Father. For your own failure to undo it, the assault would have to get through God, and then through Christ, to find you. The keeping was never your job.
Colossians 3:3-4
The books
In, then like, then from.
Before you’re called to live like Christ, you’re told that you are in Christ. And only because you are in Him does anything flow from Him through you. That order is the map for everything Tom is writing.
A fourth title is planned. Use the form at the bottom of this page to hear when each one releases.
Two ministers, one message
Speaking
Invite Tom and Jessica to your church, conference, or retreat.
Both are ministers, and both speak, separately and together. What they carry into a room is the same thing the book carries onto a page: the exhausted religious man told to sit down, the ashamed man handed the deed to a house he thought was condemned, and a church learning to live from a victory already won.
Where Do You Actually Live?Romans 8:1 · Col 3:3
The Great Exchange2 Corinthians 5:21
Sit Down: Working from RestEphesians 2:4-6 · Heb 10
Forgiven Corpses: Raised, Not Just PardonedRomans 6:4-6
Abide: The Gentle Death of the Activist LifeJohn 15:1-11
Tom is a worship leader and songwriter. The songs come from the same ground as the teaching: a seated man does not sing to climb somewhere. He sings from a seat already his. Tom leads worship for services, retreats, and conferences, and can pair a set with a message so a whole weekend carries one address.
New music is on the way. Listen and follow on the platforms below, and ask about worship leading when you request dates.
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About Romans 8:1 Ministries
Two ministers, a keyboard, a growing shelf of books, and one sentence.
Tom and Jessica Guadagno are the founders of Romans 8:1 Ministries, a teaching ministry built on the freedom of the verse it is named for. Both are ministers. They preach and teach together and apart, Tom leads worship and writes music, and in 2026 he released his first book, In Christ, with three more already underway. Tom writes to help believers stop striving for what is already theirs and live from their union with Jesus.
The ministry exists for two men. The one at the house of open failure, who knows he is far off. And the one at the respectable address of trying harder, who is just as far off and has decorated it. To both, this ministry says the same thing Paul said: your problem was never mainly your behavior. It was your location. And God has moved you.
Everything here, the books, the teaching, the songs, is an attempt to help believers become what they already are, in Him.
Start here first
Are you in Christ?
Not, do you attend a church. Not, are you a decent person. Have you come to Jesus and been saved, so that you know you belong to Him? Everything this ministry describes is true of a person who is in Christ. No condemnation. A new creation. Adopted, complete, hidden, and safe. All of it is found inside Him, and you have to come inside before any of it is yours.
If your answer is no, or I’m not sure, these are the most important words on this site.
If you are ready
Father, I have sinned, and I cannot save myself. I believe that Jesus is Your Son, that He died for my sins, and that You raised Him from the dead. Right now I turn from my old life and I put my trust in Him. Jesus, be my Savior and my Lord. Thank You for forgiving me, for making me new, and for bringing me into Yourself. I am Yours. Amen.
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