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

"Then Mary said, 'Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.'" (v. 38a)
Luke 1:26-38
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the leopard shall lie down with the kid" (v. 6)
Isaiah 11:1-9
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"For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God in order that he might confirm the promises given to the patriarchs." (v. 8)
Romans 15:7-13
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"a star shall come out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel" (v. 17)
Numbers 24:15b-19
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"This Jesus is 'the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone'." (v. 11)
Acts 4:1-12
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"On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will break the yoke from off his neck, and I will burst his bonds, and strangers shall no more make a servant of him." (v. 8)
Jeremiah 30:7-11a
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"She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." (v. 21)
Matthew 1:18-23
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"He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him." (v. 7)
John 1:6-8, 19-28 (Looking for light in the dark)
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"In the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations." (v. 1)
Isaiah 8:16 - 9:1 (Looking for the living among the dead)
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Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." (v. 6)
Isaiah 9:1-7 (Looking for hope in despair)
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"For all this, his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still." (v. 12)
Isaiah 9:8-17 (Looking for God in hard lessons)
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"Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes,to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans our prey!" (vv. 1-2)
Isaiah 9:18 - 10:4 (Looking for justice for the poor)
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