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

'See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God.' (v. 1)
1 John 2:29-3:6
Read more
Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. (v. 2)
1 John 2:29–3:6
Read more
"Whoever says, 'I have come to know him', but does not obey his commandments, is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist; but however obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we may be sure that we are in him." (vv. 4-5)
1 John 2:3-11
Read more
"By this we may be sure that we are in him: whoever says, 'I abide in him', ought to walk just as he walked." (vv. 5b-6)
1 John 2:3-11
Read more
“Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard. Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.” (vv. 7-8)
1 John 2:3-11
Read more
“Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning.” (v. 7)
1 John 2:3-11
Read more
“Whoever says, ‘I am in the light’, while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.” (v. 9)
1 John 2:3-11
Read more
1 John 2:7-29
Read more
1 John 3:11-21
Read more
"Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action." (v.18)
1 John 3:11-21
Read more
"All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them." (v.15)
1 John 3:11-21
Read more
"See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him." (v. 1)
1 John 3:1-13
Read more
Subscribe to updates