Bible Studies

We hope you find our 'Word in Time' Bible studies support you in recognising God in Scripture, and the world around you.

Each week’s studies are written by volunteers across the Connexion (you can read the author’s biography after each study). They follow the lectionary of the Methodist Prayer Handbook. You may additionally be interested in our Prayer of the Day, also from the Methodist Prayer Handbook.

If you would like to write for A Word in Time, please email wit@methodistchurch.org.uk

This week's theme: Slavery and Freedom

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Monday 16 November 2020

16 Nov 2020

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.' Genesis 41:55
Genesis 41:53 - 42:6
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Monday 20 November 2017

20 Nov 2017

“Now Joseph was governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.” (Genesis 42:6)
Genesis 41:53 – 42:6
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Saturday 03 October 2015

3 Oct 2015

“Now Joseph was governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.” (v. 6)
Genesis 41:53 – 42:6
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Monday 20 November 2023

20 Nov 2023

Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. (v. 6)
Genesis 41:53-42:6
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Wednesday 08 July 2009

8 Jul 2009

"Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, 'Why are you staring at one another?' He said, 'Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy some for us from that place, so that we may live and not die'." (42:1-2)
Genesis 41:55 – 42:38
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Monday 05 October 2015

5 Oct 2015

“God has found out the guilt of your servants; here we are then, my lord’s slaves, both we and also the one in whose possession the cup has been found.” (v. 16)
Genesis 44:1-17
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Tuesday 21 November 2023

21 Nov 2023

'... please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy.' (v. 33)
Genesis 44:1-34
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Tuesday 17 November 2020

17 Nov 2020

'Look, the money that we found at the top of our sacks, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan; why then would we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?' (v. 8)
Genesis 44:1-34
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Tuesday 21 November 2017

21 Nov 2017

“And Judah said, ‘What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants...’” (v. 16a)
Genesis 44:1-34
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Tuesday 06 October 2015

6 Oct 2015

“For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.’ Now therefore please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in the place of the boy; and let the boy go back with his brothers.” (vv. 32-33)
Genesis 44:18-34
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Thursday 09 July 2009

9 Jul 2009

"Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, 'Send everyone away from me.' So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?'" (45:1-3)
Genesis 44:18 – 45:5
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Wednesday 18 November 2020

18 Nov 2020

Joseph said to his brothers, ‘I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?’ But his brothers could not answer him, so dismayed were they at his presence. (v. 3)
Genesis 45:1-5
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