“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.” “By a man’s reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is laid bare. If he regards Christ with love, even with wistful yearning, for him there is hope; but […]

William Barclay (theologian) William Barclay (5 December 1907, Wick — 24 January 1978, Glasgow) was an author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister, and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow. Life Barclay’s father was a bank manager. He attended Dalziel High School in Motherwell and then studied classics […]

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
— William Barclay

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by William Barclay Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at Glasgow University and the author of many Biblical commentaries and books, including a translation of the New Testament, “Barclay New Testament,” and “The Daily Study Bible Series.” I am a convinced universalist. I believe that in the end all men will be gathered into the […]

2 Peter 1:3-7 2Pe 1:3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 2Pe 1:4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may […]

The Letters of Peter, page 329 William Barclay …J. B. Mayor compares the two letters (of Peter). He quotes some of the great passages of First Peter, and then he says: “I think that none who read these words can help feeling that, not even in Paul, not even in John, is there to be […]

C.E.B. Cranfield The New Testament never treats this agreeing in Christ as an unnecessary though highly desirable spiritual luxury, but as something essential to the true being of the Church. Divisions, whether disagreements between individual members of the existence of factions and parties and -how much more!- our present-day denominations, constitute a calling in question […]

The Letters of Peter, pages 264-265 William Barclay Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. — 1 Peter 3:7 …so that there may be […]

The Letters to Peter, page 241 William Barclay 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and […]

The Letters of Peter, page 239 William Barclay 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and […]

The Letters of Peter, page 236 William Barclay It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that […]

The Letter’s of Peter, page 234 William Barclay The Christian is called out of insignificance into significance It continually happens in this world that a man’s greatness lies not in himself but in that which has been given him to do. His greatness is his task. The Christian’s greatness lies in the fact that God […]

The Letters of Peter, William Barclay, pages 214, 215 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 […]

The Letters of Peter, William Barclay – pages 213, 214 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. […]

When we pray for ourselves, and when we pray for others, we should not ask for them or for ourselves release from any task, but rather strength to complete the task which has been given us to do. Prayer should always be for power, and seldom for release; for not release but conquest must be […]

…anyone who serves the Church by widening her borders, establishing her faith, saving her from errors, is doing the work of Christ. And if such service involves suffering and pain and sacrifice, that affliction is filling up and sharing the very suffering of Christ Himself. To suffer in the service of Christ is not a […]