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

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This week's theme: Salvation History

“His brothers said to him, ‘Are you indeed to reign over us? Are you indeed to have dominion over us? So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.” (v. 8)
Genesis 37:3-28
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Then Judah said to his brothers, ‘What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.’ And his brothers agreed. (vs 26-27)
Genesis 37:3-28
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When some Midianite traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt. (v. 28)
Genesis 37:3-28
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"When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying 'This is the way your servant treated me', he became enraged. And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined". (v.19-20)
Genesis 39:1-23
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Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. (v. 6)
Genesis 41:53-42:6
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When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.' Genesis 41:55
Genesis 41:53 - 42:6
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“Now Joseph was governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.” (v. 6)
Genesis 41:53 – 42:6
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“Now Joseph was governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.” (Genesis 42:6)
Genesis 41:53 – 42:6
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"Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, 'Why are you staring at one another?' He said, 'Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy some for us from that place, so that we may live and not die'." (42:1-2)
Genesis 41:55 – 42:38
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“God has found out the guilt of your servants; here we are then, my lord’s slaves, both we and also the one in whose possession the cup has been found.” (v. 16)
Genesis 44:1-17
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'... please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in place of the boy.' (v. 33)
Genesis 44:1-34
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“And Judah said, ‘What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants...’” (v. 16a)
Genesis 44:1-34
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