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.
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This week's theme: The Coming Light
22 Jun 2009
"Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed'." (v.1-3)
Genesis 12:1-9
- Bible Book: Genesis
23 Jun 2009
"Then Abram said to Lot, 'Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herders and my herders; for we are kindred. Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left'." (v.8-9)
Genesis 13:2, 5-18
- Bible Book: Genesis
24 Jun 2009
"John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, 'You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, "We have Abraham as our ancestor"; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. Even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire'." (v.8-9)
Luke 3:1-17
- Bible Book: Luke
25 Jun 2009
] brought him outside and said, 'Look towards heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.' Then he said to him, 'So shall your descendants be.' And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness." (v.5-6)
Genesis 15:1-18
- Bible Book: Genesis
26 Jun 2009
"God said, 'No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard you; I will bless him and make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year.'" (v.19-21)
Genesis 17:9-10, 15-22
- Bible Book: Genesis
27 Jun 2009
"The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, and bowed down to the ground. He said, 'My lord, if I find favour with you, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.'" (v.1-4)
Genesis 18:1-15
- Bible Book: Genesis
14 Jun 2009
"He also said, 'The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how' ... He also said, 'With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade'." (v.26-27, 30-32)
Mark 4:26-34
- Bible Book: Mark
15 Jun 2009
"We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see – we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything." (v.8-10)
2 Corinthians 6:1-10
- Bible Book: 2 Corinthians
8 Jun 2009
"He helps us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received from God." (v.4)
2 Corinthians 1:1-7
- Bible Book: 2 Corinthians
9 Jun 2009
"For in him every one of God's promises is a 'yes'." (v. 20)
2 Corinthians 1:18-22
- Bible Book: 2 Corinthians
10 Jun 2009
"How much more glorious is the activity which brings salvation!" (v.9)
2 Corinthians 3:4-11
- Bible Book: 2 Corinthians