Methodist Study Bible

Just in time for Lenten Season, Believe Like Jesus takes readers and groups on a 40-day journey to spiritual transformation. This is a fresh approach to spiritual growth unlike anything you may have experienced before. These 40 days of transformation invite you to shift from believing in Jesus to believing like Jesus, from rising from faith in Jesus to the faith of Jesus, from being a disciple to being an apostle, all to become more Christ-like. As Christians, we’ve always been asked to live our faith out loud. While we may feel silenced by the sheer number of challenges we face, the ...

What does it mean for faith to endure—across generations, across hardship, across time? Her Faith Still Speaks brings together the voices of 14 United Methodist women who explore the lives of biblical women whose stories continue to shape our faith today. Rooted in Scripture and written with pastoral insight and personal reflection, this study invites readers to encounter familiar and often-overlooked women of the Bible in fresh, meaningful ways. From Hagar, the God-seen woman in the wilderness, to Miriam, who helped lead a people to freedom, to the daughters of Zelophehad, who ...

“I’ve come to understand the cumulative dialogue of my work as a kind of cartography of wisdom about our emerging world. This book is a map in words to important territory we all are on now together.” Over the thirteen years that Krista Tippett has hosted her award-winning and nationally...

Everyone has doubts. Where is God when bad things happen? Does God hear our prayers? Is there a heaven? How can we know? Often we treat such questions as the enemy of faith. But uncertainty doesn't mean our belief is lacking. Doubt can be a path to a deeper, richer encounter with God. In Wrestling with Doubt, Finding Faith, join bestselling author and pastor Adam Hamilton as he discusses some of our most significant sources of doubt and shows how a steady trust in God can emerge from them.

Jesus provided his disciples teachings for how to follow Torah, God's word; he told them parables to help them discern questions of ethics and of human nature; he offered them beatitudes for comfort and encouragement. But sometimes Jesus spoke words that followers then and now have found difficult. In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine shows how these difficult teachings would have sounded to the people who first heard them, how have they been understood over time, and how we might interpret them in the context of the Gospel of love and reconciliation.

Jesus came to lift up the lowly. Throughout his ministry to his final days on the road to the cross, we find stories of his relationships with ordinary, flawed, and unexpected people. He met, dined, and traveled with people who were not perfect. Many of them were struggling, some were outsiders or even outlaws. Whoever they were, from those he healed to the outlaws with him at his crucifixion, Jesus brought the good news of God's kingdom to those who most needed to hear it. Adam Hamilton explores the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus as told in the Gospel of Luke.

This book was written with the local church in mind. Based on the 2025 Lectionary, congregants can read a daily devotion and join in a weekly study group, all based on the material in this book. It's the perfect church-wide Lenten activity. Advent in Four Words: An Advent Study by Four United Methodist Bishops is a meaningful new devotional designed to guide individuals and groups through the sacred season of Advent, using four central themes of the Christian journey: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. Written by Bishops Kenneth L. Carder, Robert D. Farr, Sharma D. Lewis Logan, and Debra Wallace-...

David Livingston is one of the most thoughtful pastors I know. Getting to Good is a helpful and inspiring book that blessed me as I read it. It will bless you, too.Adam Hamilton Pastor and author of Wrestling with Doubt, Finding Faith, Abingdon, 2023 Jesus told his first followers two thousand years ago that they could experience "abundant life." Yet today, we still struggle with some of the same problems as his first followers and some problems they didn't have to face. Getting to Good explores seven common struggles of contemporary life. Through scripture, contemporary examples, and ...