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: Vision and Promise
3 Aug 2025
And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” (v. 15)
4 Aug 2025
Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith. (v. 4)
5 Aug 2025
For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord –the remnant of Israel. (vs 12-13a)
6 Aug 2025
Then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!” (v. 35)
7 Aug 2025
The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. (v. 17)
8 Aug 2025
You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes. (v. 6)
9 Aug 2025
Take courage, all you people of the land, says the Lord; work, for I am with you, says the Lord of hosts… my spirit abides among you; do not fear. (vs 4-5)
10 Aug 2025
"Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." (v. 32)
11 Aug 2025
Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power. (v. 1)
12 Aug 2025
Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height. (v. 12)
13 Aug 2025
He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (v. 3)
14 Aug 2025
He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (v. 8)