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
"Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it." (v. 15)
Then Job answered: “Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning." (vs 1-2)
“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?" (v. 12)
And he said to humankind, "Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." (v. 28)
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind. (v. 1)
"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you hunt the prey for the lion or satisfy the appetite of the young lions?" (vs 31, 39)
"Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?... Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand... I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes." (vs 3, 5, 6)
Jesus, looking at him, loved him. (v. 21)
As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the sea—for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me and I will make you fish for people.” (vs 16-17)
Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them. (vs 30-31)
After sternly warning him, he [Jesus] sent him away at once, saying to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” But he [the leper] went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word. (vs 43-45)
And when they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and after having dug through it, they let down the mat on which the paralytic lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” (vs 4-5)