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: Lord of Life

For there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. (vs 23-24)

Romans 3:21-30
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"For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also?" (v.28-19)
Romans 3:21-30
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“For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by law” (v. 28)

Romans 3:21-30 (Your faith is the key)
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Romans 3:21-31
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“Now to one who works, wages are not reckoned as a gift but as something due. But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.” (vv. 4-5)
Romans 4:1-8
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...blessed is the one against whom the Lord will not reckon sin. (v. 8)
Romans 4:1-8
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"But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness." (v.5)
Romans 4:1-8
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Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. (v. 3)

Romans 4:1-8
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“But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness” (v. 5)
Romans 4:1-8 (You can’t do right, for doing good)
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"For what does the scripture say? 'Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.'" (v. 3)
Romans 4:1-12
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Romans 4:1-12
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"We say, 'Faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.' How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised... For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith". (v.9-11,13)
Romans 4:6-13
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