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: Wrestling with God

“Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors? Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” (vs. .2-3)
Joel 1:1-10
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Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes. (v.15)
Joel 1:11-20
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Hear this, O elders, give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors? (v. 2)
Joel 1:1-13
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"Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord." (v. 14)
Joel 1:1-14
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“Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors? Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” (vv. 2-3)
Joel 1:1-20
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"Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord." (1:14)
Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2
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"Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes." (1:15)
Joel 1:13–15; 2:1–2
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To you, O Lord, I cry. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have burned all the trees of the field. Even the wild animals cry to you because the watercourses are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. (vs 19-20)
Joel 1:14-20
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Joel 1:15-20
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"Blow the trumpet in Zion" (vv. 1, 15)
Joel 2:1-17
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Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing. (vs. 12-13)
Joel 2:1-17
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“Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.” (vv. 12-13)
Joel 2:1-17
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