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

“Live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.” (v. 27)
Philippians 1:18b-30
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“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.” (v. 5)
Philippians 2:1-11
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“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” (vv. 12-13)
Philippians 2:12-18
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“Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous? So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” (vv. 15-16)
Matthew 20:1-16
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“Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice’. For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.” (v. 13)
Matthew 9:9-13
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“For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end, and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay. Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith.” (vv. 3-4)
Habakkuk 1:12 - 2:4
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“For I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord.” (v. 12)
Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13
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“I will deal with all your oppressors at that time. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.” (v. 19)
Zephaniah 3:14-20
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“Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honoured says the Lord.” (v. 8)
Haggai 1:1-8
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“Take courage, all you people of the land, says the Lord; work for I am with you, says the Lord of hosts, according to the promise that I made you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit abides among you; do not fear.” (vv. 4b-5)
Haggai 1:15 - 2:9
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"Then his lord summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow-slave, as I had mercy on you?' And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt. So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart." (vv. 32-35)
Matthew 18:21-35
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"Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave." (vv. 5-7)
Philippians 2:6-11
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