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

The Methodist Church welcomes your comments but requests they are on topic and respectful. You can see the Church's guidelines for commenting here.

This week's theme: Expectancy and Hope

“God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” (v. 5)
Romans 5:1-11 (Justification and sanctification)
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“Just as sin exercised dominion in death, so grace might also exercise dominion through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (v. 21)
Romans 5:12-21 (Sin and grace. dead or alive!)
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“Walk in newness of life” (v. 4)
Romans 6:1-14 (A new way of living)
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“The free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (v. 23)
Romans 6:15-23 (Slavery or freedom?)
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“And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.” (v. 11)
Romans 8:1-11 (Life in the Spirit)
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“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.” (v. 25)
John 20:19-31 (Seeing is believing)
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“He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” (vv. 32-33)
Luke 1:26-38 (Acting out your faith)
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“Called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God” (v. 1)
Romans 1:1-7
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“For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” (v. 16)
Romans 1:16-25 (Shout it from the roof tops)
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“To those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honour and immortality, he will give eternal life.” (v. 7)
Romans 2:1-11 (Give God the glory, always)
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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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“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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