Herbert W Armstrong

The world's number one best seller is, paradoxically, the world's least understood book. Why? Should it be understood? If so, how can one come to understand it? As a youth, I rarely went to church. Occasionally, a school chum would ask me to visit his church, and when I did so, the teacher would ...

Not more industrial development, but a renewed and immediate effort to improve agriculture! Something is seriously wrong in world agriculture! Why are so many nations plagued with millions of malnourished or starving citizens? Even certain nations with major industrial and military development also ...

North Africa was once a prosperous part of the Roman Empire - called the "granary of the world." Much of it now is desert. The destruction of North Africa has some lessons for us today. Casablanca, Morocco In spite of what one might think of the virtues or ills of ancient Rome, a central fact must b ...

Bob - a fine, upstanding Christian man - was driving home from work. Rain had been falling most of the day and the roadway was wet and treacherous. As he rounded a curve in the road, his tires began slipping and his car went skidding in circles out of control. The auto crunched to a jolting halt aga ...

OK, SPORTS fans. Today's chalk talk is about a special kind of game. You'll never read about it on the sports page or hear Howard Cosell talk about it on TV. Yet it is the most popular game in the world. It isn't a spectator sport; it's the kind of game everybody can - and does - pla ...

Well, ladies and gentlemen, greetings. You live in a world, in a twentieth-century world, that is plunging to absolute extinction. The weapons now exist of mass destruction that can erase all human life from this planet. Now we've been having on television, and even in some newspapers, daily remin ...

GREETINGS! Here is the latest news in the fast-moving progress of God's great Work—and the latest in plans for the future at this moment. I am writing from my study at Ambassador College in England. This letter will be re-copied and mailed to you from Headquarters at Pasadena, California, and from ...

There are numerous keys to making prayer more effective, but one of the most important is simply praying from the heart. Why doesn't God do something?" That question must have been asked by many in ancient Israel. They saw things go from bad to worse in their personal lives and on the nationa ...

FEW REALIZE the first duty of every Christian, as a member of the true Body of Christ, is to preach the Gospel! "But what can I do?" you ask, bewildered. "I can't preach. I wasn't called to the ministry." Oh yes you were! Every converted Christian can, and does preach - but n ...

Few realize the first duty of every Christian, as a member of the true Body of Christ, is to preach the Gospel! "But what can I do?" you ask, bewildered. "I can't preach. I wasn't called to the ministry." Oh yes you were! Every converted Christian can, and does preach - but n ...

Colleges are plunging deeper into the quagmire of confusion, revolt and anti-intellectualism. But the turmoil on campuses is only the visible tip of the iceberg. Unseen is the massive subsurface impact on society today's students will have as they enter a variety of influential careers. Thousands ...

Where did Halloween come from? Should it be observed? Few realize just how enlightened, twentieth-century man came to observe such a superstitious custom. Halloween is the strangest holiday of the entire year. On the eve of November 1 children dress as goblins or witches and knock on doors, yelling ...

THE FIRE THAT FAILED! AFTER GIDEON was dead and Israel had again started slipping into idolatry, one of Gideon's many sons schemed to become king of Israel. He was Abimelech, an overly ambitious young man who went to violent extremes to push himself into power. One of his first moves was to pay a ...

Does God look like a man or a woman? Is God a male chauvinist? Did He make women second-class human beings? Whose idea was sex anyway? This article addresses these questions directly. According to the theology of many, sex in the Garden is equated with the "fall of man"! Sin in Eden is the ...

Jesus Christ died on a stake for YOU! What kind of day was it that Christ spent - His last day before His crucifixion? What did it take to die for YOUR sins? With Passover now upon us you need to read this article and find out! TUESDAY, April 24, was the day of preparation for the Passover in 31 A.D ...