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

"But David said to the Philistine, 'You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head...'" (v.45-46)
1 Samuel 17:32-51
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"As they were coming home, when David returned from killing the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments. And the women sang to one another as they made merry, 'Saul has killed his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.' Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, 'They have ascribed to David tens of thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; what more can he have but the kingdom?'" (v.6-8)
1 Samuel 18:6 - 19:7
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"David said to Saul, 'Why do you listen to the words of those who say, "David seeks to do you harm"? This very day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you into my hand in the cave; and some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, "I will not raise my hand against my lord; for he is the Lord's anointed.'" (v.9-10)
1 Samuel 24:3-22
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Tell it not in Gath..." (v.19-20)
2 Samuel 1:1-27
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"When Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove." (v.21, 22)
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
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"There was a certain man ... this man used to go year by year from his town to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts." (v.1, 3)
1 Samuel 1:1-8
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"Go in peace; the God of Israel grant the petition you have made to him." (v.17)
1 Samuel 1:9-20
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"Speak, for your servant is listening." (v.10)
1 Samuel 3:1-20
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"The elders of Israel said, 'Why has the Lord put us to rout today before the Philistines?'" (v 3)
1 Samuel 4:1-11
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"We are determined to have a king over us, so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles." (v,19, 20)
1 Samuel 8:4-22
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], 'The Lord has anointed you ruler over his people Israel. You shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their enemies all around.'" (10:1)
1 Samuel 9:1 – 10:1a
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"And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road." (v.12)
Matthew 2:1-12
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