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: The Coming Light

“I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” (v. 8)
Mark 1:4-11
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and the flame shall not consume you.” (v. 2)
Isaiah 43:1-7
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“Then Peter began to speak to them: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.’” (vv. 34-35)
Acts 10:34-43
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“He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.” (v. 3)
Hebrews 1:1-12
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“While all Israel were crossing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, until the entire nation finished crossing over the Jordan.” (v. 17)
Joshua 3:1-17
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“I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when through you I display my holiness before their eyes.” (v. 23)
Ezekiel 36:22-27
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“We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.” (v. 6)
Romans 6:1-11
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“When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favour of God was upon him.” (vv. 39-40)
Luke 2:22-40
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“All who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.” (vv. 18-19)
Luke 2:15-21
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God my God. Where you die, I will die – there will I be buried. May the LORD do thus and so to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!” (vv. 16b-17)
Ruth 1:1-18
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“Then she fell prostrate, with her face to the ground, and said to him, ‘Why have I found favour in your sight, that you should take notice of me, when I am a foreigner?’” (v. 10)
Ruth 2:1-13
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“The women of the neighbourhood gave him a name, saying, ‘A son has been born to Naomi.’ They named him Obed; he became the father of Jesse, the father of David.” (v. 17)
Ruth 4:13-22
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