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
25 Aug 2021
Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. (vs 16-17)
Colossians 2:16-23
- Bible Book: Colossians
21 Aug 2018
“Do not let anyone disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, dwelling on visions, puffed up without cause by a human way of thinking and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.” (v. 18-19)
Colossians 2:16-23
- Bible Book: Colossians
21 Oct 2014
“These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.” (v. 17)
Colossians 2:16-23
- Bible Book: Colossians
17 Oct 2014
“For I want you to know how much I am struggling for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for all who have not seen me face to face. 2I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ himself.” (vv. 1-2)
Colossians 2:1-7
- Bible Book: Colossians
21 Aug 2021
I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ himself. (v. 2)
Colossians 2:1-7
- Bible Book: Colossians
18 Aug 2018
“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him…” (v. 6)
Colossians 2:1-7
- Bible Book: Colossians
28 May 2019
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth ... (3:2)
Colossians 2:20-3:4
- Bible Book: Colossians
25 May 2022
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. (v. 2)
Colossians 2:20–3:4
- Bible Book: Colossians
20 Aug 2018
“In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision, by putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ.” (v. 11)
Colossians 2:8-15
- Bible Book: Colossians
20 Oct 2014
“For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (v. 9)
Colossians 2:8-15
- Bible Book: Colossians
23 Aug 2021
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ. For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority. (vs 8-10)
Colossians 2:8-15
- Bible Book: Colossians
22 Oct 2014
“In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!” (v. 11)
Colossians 3:1-11
- Bible Book: Colossians