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
28 Oct 2008
"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world – therefore the world hates you." (v.18-19)
John 15:17-27
- Bible Book: John
1 Nov 2008
"After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands." (v.9)
Revelation 7:9-17
- Bible Book: Revelation
19 Oct 2008
"But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, 'Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin used for the tax'. And they brought him a denarius. Then he said to them, 'Whose head is this, and whose title?' They answered, 'The emperor's'. Then he said to them, 'Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and to God the things that are God's'. When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away." (v.18-22)
Matthew 22:15-22
- Bible Book: Matthew
20 Oct 2008
"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life." (v.8-10)
Ephesians 2:1-10
- Bible Book: Ephesians
22 Oct 2008
"Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the Gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ, and to make everyone see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things; so that through the church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places." (v.8-10)
Ephesians 3:1-13
- Bible Book: Ephesians
23 Oct 2008
"I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." (v.18-19)
Ephesians 3:14-21
- Bible Book: Ephesians
25 Oct 2008
"But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knitted together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body's growth in building itself up in love". (v.15-16)
Ephesians 4:7-16
- Bible Book: Ephesians