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: Children of God
14 Dec 2025
Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them." (vs 4-5)
15 Dec 2025
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. (v. 1)
17 Dec 2025
Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices, together they sing for joy; for in plain sight they see the return of the Lord to Zion. (v. 8)
18 Dec 2025
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. (vs 11-13)
19 Dec 2025
A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." (v. 3)
20 Dec 2025
On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. But his mother said, "No; he is to be called John." (vs 59-60)
21 Dec 2025
Now the birth of Jesus the Messiaha took place in this way. (v. 18)
22 Dec 2025
The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago. (v. 22)
23 Dec 2025
Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. (vs 1-2)
24 Dec 2025
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness – on them light has shined. (v. 2)
25 Dec 2025
While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. (vs 6-7)
26 Dec 2025
When they heard these things, they became enraged and ground their teeth at Stephen. (v. 54)