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
17 Aug 2008
"He answered, 'It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs'. She said, 'Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table'. Then Jesus answered her, 'Woman great is your faith! ...' And her daughter was healed instantly." (v.26-28)
Matthew 15:21-28
- Bible Book: Matthew
18 Aug 2008
"Elisha ... sent a message to the king, 'Let him come to me, that he may learn there is a prophet in Israel'. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance to Elisha's house. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, 'Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean'. But Naaman became angry." (v.8-11)
2 Kings 5:1-14
- Bible Book: 2 Kings
20 Aug 2008
"When Jesus heard him, he was amazed and said to those who followed him, 'Truly I tell you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and will eat with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven'." (v.10-11)
Matthew 8:1-13
- Bible Book: Matthew
22 Aug 2008
"Everyone was awestruck; and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised. Also many of those who became believers confessed and disclosed their practices. A number of those who practiced magic collected their books and burned them publicly... So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed." (v.17-20)
Acts 19:11-20
- Bible Book: Acts
10 Aug 2008
] made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but by this time the boat, battered by the waves, was far from the land, for the wind was against them. And early in the morning he came walking towards them on the lake. But when the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified, saying, 'It is a ghost!' And they cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately spoke to them and said, 'Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid'." (v.22-27)
Matthew 14:22-33
- Bible Book: Matthew
11 Aug 2008
"In the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights. On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons, entered the ark." (v.11-13)
Genesis 7:11 - 8:5
- Bible Book: Genesis
12 Aug 2008
] was asleep. And they went and woke him up, saying, 'Lord, save us! We are perishing!' And he said to them, 'Why are you so afraid, you of little faith?' Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a dead calm. They were amazed, saying, 'What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?'" (v.23-27)
Matthew 8:23-27
- Bible Book: Matthew