William Barclay testifies to the Bible's unique value as an inspired book and gives clear advice on the best way to read it. He tells how the biblical writings came into being and finally gained acceptance as Scripture. And he explains the significance and the status of the Apocrypha. Most important of all, William Barclay presents the Bible as a book to be read and enjoyed today - a light in the darkness of a world that has lost its way.

Barclay's original text has been edited and revised by Professor John W. Rogerson, who has also written a new introduction. Rogerson is the head of the...

This book is a fount of hope for anyone having a difficult time in body, mind or spirit. It is also a wonderful resource for those who counsel those who are hurting. The format presents a prayer, a verse of Scripture and the verse of a hymn, followed by more than 100 prayers for help and healing.

People know the often-told story of Christmas so well that it is hard to hear or feel afresh the joy of the meaning of Christmas. William Barclay goes right back to the original Biblical texts and translates them, providing surprising and fascinating insights along the way. Readers are guaranteed to find new insight and a fresh understanding of a story that they thought they knew. This book is one of a series and each title will have an introduction by one of today's most valued writers. Insights Christmas has a Foreword by Nick Baines, Bishop of Bradford.

Money and wealth were as much an obsession in Biblical times as they are today, be it taxes, overturning tables in the temple, passing through the eyes of needles or forty pieces of silver, we all think we are familiar with what the Bible has to say on the subject. But it's just not that simple. Barclay's translations shed new light on the real meanings behind these oft-told stories and his contextual, cultural and historical observations get right beneath the skin of the people represented. This book is part of a fantastic series and Insights Money has an inspiring Foreword by Sally...

THE DAILY STUDY BIBLE does not need an introduction: having sold in excess of five million copies it is known throughout the world precisely for what it is: a daily study Bible. This INDEX is an aid to its greater use. By means of a six-fold division (of Old Testament references; of New Testament references; of Subjects and Places; of Personal Names; of Foreign Words, Terms and Places; and of Ancient Writings) the reader is enabled to explore further the ideas, opinions and subjects - as well as the sources - used in the individual parts of the series.

A chapter on worship with young people, with practical hints as well as spiritual guidance, introduces a hundred 'epilogues'. Each act of worship includes prayers old and new, with a suggested lesson frank the Bible. Youth leaders, club leaders, those responsible for morning prayers in schools, and all who have to lead worship, will be grateful for Dr Barclay's insight and industry. Adults wanting a book to help their private devotions will find riches here. .. the expression of Professor Barclay's own insight and reverent thought, with lines, too, from saints and.common men bf every age....

The Professor of New Testament in the University of Glasgow is now almost as well known for his books of prayers as for his biblical studies. In this book he has provided fresh material both for public worship and private devotion. For each Sunday, Holy Day and Saint's Day he gives the old Collect and his own prayers arising out of the same theme. As he says, 'the Book of Common Prayer is the possession of all who worship God in the English language' - but we also need to use contemporary language. In this way the Anglican and 'free' traditions can be combined. 'The aim, ' Dr Barclay writes,...

WILLIAM BARCLAY, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at Glasgow University, is a distinguished scholar of international repute, a gifted preacher, broadcaster and journalist. From his pen has come a wide range of best-selling religious books. His Daily Study Bible has already sold over a million copies and the breadth of sympathy he displays in such writing as The Plain Man's Book of Prayers has earned him the respect of thousands of ordinary people. A time of plenty when all have enough.... A time when animals and men live in friendship.... -A time when there is peace over all the...

Conversion' writes William Barclay in his Foreword, is a subject which very much needs our thought ...Very certainly, conversion is a word which can never be eliminated from the vocabulary of the Christiann, but equally certain the means towards it and the results of it must alter from generation to generation.' Here is an important, introductory study of the subject from the biblical viewpoint and of the means and results which attend it. To these has been added an previously unpublished Epilogue in whichthe Christian way is carefully described, high-lighting the demands of discipleship...

Man is continually involved in a twofold combat situation: of having to wrestle with himself, and with the problems which surround him in society. In this book William Barclay expounds the thinking of Paul on these problems as it is set out in Galatians 5, and shows that through Christ the perfect and adequate release is found.