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

"And now, as a captive to the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me." (v.22-23)
Acts 20:17-27
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"You know for yourselves that I worked with my own hands to support myself and my companions. In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" (v.34-35)
Acts 20:28-38
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"When Paul noticed that some were Sadducees and others were Pharisees, he called out in the council, 'Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead.'" (v.6)
Acts 22:30; 23:6-11
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"When the accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the crimes that I was expecting. Instead they had certain points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, but whom Paul asserted to be alive." (v.18-19)
Acts 25:13-21
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"He lived there two whole years at his own expense and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance."
Acts 28:16-20, 30-31
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"This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you." (v.12)
John 15:9-17
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"A certain woman named Lydia, a worshipper of God, was listening to us... The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, 'If you judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home'." (v.14-15)
Acts 16:11-15
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"Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them." (v.25)
Acts 16:22-34
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"Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, 'Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way'." (v.22)
Acts 17:15, 22 - 18:1
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"When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight." (v.9)
Acts 1:1-11
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"One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision, 'Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent; for I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to harm you for there are many in this city who are my people.' He stayed there for a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them." (v.9-11)
Acts 18:9-18
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"Now there came to Ephesus a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria. He was an eloquent man, well-versed in scriptures. He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord ... though he knew only the baptism of John." (v.24-25)
Acts 18:22-28
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