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
25 Apr 2008
"I solemnly urge you: proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favourable or unfavourable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching... As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith". (v.1-2, 6-7)
2 Timothy 4:1-11
- Bible Book: 2 Timothy
26 Apr 2008
"Yes, thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath, breaking the covenant; yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant." (v.59-60)
Ezekiel 16:59-63
- Bible Book: Ezekiel
13 Apr 2008
"The sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out...He goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice... I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture". (v.3b, 4, 9)
John 10:1-10
- Bible Book: John
14 Apr 2008
"I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord GOD. I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice". (v.15-16)
Ezekiel 34:1-16
- Bible Book: Ezekiel
15 Apr 2008
"I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I the LORD have spoken...You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture and I am your God, says the Lord GOD". (v. 23-24,31)
Ezekiel 34:23-31
- Bible Book: Ezekiel
17 Apr 2008
"Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD... I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the Lord... I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as King..." (v. 1,4,5)
Jeremiah 23:1-8
- Bible Book: Jeremiah
18 Apr 2008
"You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people..." (v. 9-10)
1 Peter 2:9-17
- Bible Book: 1 Peter
19 Apr 2008
"They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat; for the Lamb at the centre of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes." (v.16-17)
Revelation 7:13-17
- Bible Book: Revelation