Herbert W Armstrong

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY there are churches? Just what IS the CHURCH as an institution? Is there a REASON for it? People take the existence of churches for granted. Most think of the CHURCH as a building with a sharply sloping roof, a steeple pointing heavenward atop and a cross on its face. Indeed Webs ...

THOSE INFAMOUS PHILISTINES, WHEN Jephthah returned to Mizpeh after his victory over the Ammonites, he approached his home to see his only child come out of his house to meet him! (Judges 11:34.) Doing What Seems Right. He remembered then the vow he had made to God before the battle. Jephthah was so ...

"Without energy, drive, constant propulsion, a person need never expect to become truly successful." So says Editor-in-Chief Herbert W. Armstrong in his booklet, The Seven Laws of Success. Just what is drive? Why is it essential for success? And how can we apply it in our lives? In this se ...

Nothing is more characteristic of Rome than the worship of relics. Wherever a chapel is opened, or a temple consecrated, it cannot be thoroughly complete without some relic or other of he-saint or she-saint to give sanctity to it. The relics of the saints and rotten bones of the martyrs form a great ...

When the Abrahamic covenant promises were given to Jacob, he was making a journey from Beersheba to Padan-aram. He had but recently received from his father Isaac the "Blessing," which carried with it those much desired covenants and the special blessings and promises which pertai ...

God created human beings for an awe-inspiring purpose. But few have ever understood that purpose! The Bible reveals man's incredible potential. It shows how God is working out His glorious purpose on earth! ...

FOR three decades the illustrious Charlemagne has lain in his grave at Aachen. The great Emperor had revived the tradition of the Roman Caesars, and shown Europeans the ideal of a unified Christian Empire in the West. But Charlemagne's New Europe is not destined to endure. His descendants have lit ...

Few theological questions loom as important to Christianity in the West as that of the primacy of Rome as established by claims to the labors, episcopacy, death, and burial of the Apostle Peter at that city. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia: The significance of Rome lies primarily in the fact ...

Can a Christian stand up for his rights? Can he defend himself verbally? Can he be assertive? Or should he always "turn the other cheek"? Here is what the Bible really says about assertive behavior. Phyllis is twenty pounds overweight and painfully aware of it. All night long her husband has been ma ...

Now, we want to get at this today and we want to really answer this question; we've been going through the New Testament and shocked to find out that it doesn't say what we have supposed it said. What we'd been taught it said, that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been hidden from the world; tha ...

Are there any left in the world today to whom the world attributes greatness? Perhaps the last of the so-called great of the world was Winston Churchill. And he said during World War II, in a visit to the United States before the United States Congress in Washington, "There is a purpose being worked ...

PROPHECIES CLOSED UNTIL NOW! ONE MIGHT ASK, WERE NOT BIBLICAL prophecies closed and sealed? Indeed they were - until now! And even now they can be understood only by those who possess the master key to unlock them. But we have reached the approximate end of 6,000 years of biblical history. We have r ...

In the world today there are 961,122,000 professing Christians. "Christianity" is by far the LARGEST single religion on earth. Islam, the second largest, is not half as big. But how many in the Western world, which calls itself "Christian," understand what REAL CHRISTIANITY is? How many really KNOW ...

Part Seven: PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT CHILD REARING - Rearing a child is never easy, but for one person to function as both mother and father is the toughest job of all. Yet it is increasingly common today for a parent to find himself or herself in this double role. Those who have enjoyed the companionship ...

We live in an amazing and yet frightening age. These times are unlike any since man was put on the earth. In an age when mankind is in special need of God we find man has cut himself off from God. He is cut off from the only source that can tell him of things to come. Without the correct knowledge ...