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: Dedicated to the Lord

... a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews. (v. 38)
John 19:38-42
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There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. (vs. 2-3)
John 12:1-8
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And he said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.' (v. 3)
Isaiah 49:1-7
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Can a woman forget her nursing-child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. (vs. 15-16)
Isaiah 49:1-7
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The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens — wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. (v. 4)
Isaiah 50:1-9
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Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, but I blessed him and made him many. (Vs. 1b-2)
Isaiah 51:1-6
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Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to cross over? (v. 10)
Isaiah 51:7-11
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For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.
Isaiah 52:1-10
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'This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed — and a sword will pierce your own soul too' (vs. 34-35)
Luke 2:33-35
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Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem (vs. 1-2)
Isaiah 40:1-11
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To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? (v. 18)
Isaiah 40:18-31
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He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench. (v. 3)
Isaiah 42:1-9
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