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About Plymothian

I teach at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. My interests include education, biblical studies, and spiritual formation. I have been married to Kelli since 1998 and we have two children, Daryl and Amelia. For recreation I like to run, play soccer, play board games, read and travel.

Romans 7 Is Divorce Okay?

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while … Continue reading

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Romans 6:19-23 The Path to Life or Death

19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading … Continue reading

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Romans 6:15-18 Slaves to Righteousness

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are … Continue reading

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Romans 6:12-14 The Reign of Porn

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who … Continue reading

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Romans 6:5-11 Old Self New Self

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of … Continue reading

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Romans 6:1-4 Presuming Upon Grace

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized … Continue reading

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Romans 5:1-5 Mini Memorization

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. … Continue reading

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Romans 5:1-11 Faith and Hope

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. … Continue reading

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Romans 5:12-14 Sin: A Definition

12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is … Continue reading

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Romans 5:1 Peace with God

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Peace with God In a number of old movies one of the characters would be dying of a gunshot wound.  As his life … Continue reading

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