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

“For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.’ Now therefore please let your servant remain as a slave to my lord in the place of the boy; and let the boy go back with his brothers.” (vv. 32-33)
Genesis 44:18-34
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“And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.” (v. 5)
Genesis 45:1-5
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“I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there. I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again; and Joseph’s own hand shall close your eyes.” (vv. 3-4)
Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30
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Genesis 49:2-10
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“’Do not be afraid! Am I in the place of God? Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.’” (vv. 19-20)
Genesis 50:15-26
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“If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.” (v. 44)
Mark 9:38-50
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“He did not recognise his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.” (v. 23)
Genesis 27:1-5a, 15-29
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“But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.” (v. 11)
Revelation 12:7-12
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“Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” (v. 15)
Genesis 28:10-22
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“Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.” (v. 24)
Genesis 32:22-32
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“His brothers said to him, ‘Are you indeed to reign over us? Are you indeed to have dominion over us? So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.” (v. 8)
Genesis 37:3-28
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“Now Joseph was governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.” (v. 6)
Genesis 41:53 – 42:6
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