Herbert W Armstrong

This is SERIOUS. This is URGENT! We face an EMERGENCY, and I have to ask you to read carefully every word, take this matter seriously, take it on your knees to GOD, and then to ACT on it! During the early years of this great Work of God, to which we have been called, I was forced to write often to o ...

A new dimension of the Worldwide Church of God began in 1968 when Herbert W. Armstrong began meeting with high-level world leaders in various capitals around the world. Herbert Armstrong has met with the heads of state of such Asian and Near Eastern nations as Japan, the Philippines, South Vietnam, ...

AN ANGEL had told Eli, the high priest of Israel, that he and his two sons would soon lose their lives. All three of them had knowingly failed to conduct themselves as proper servants in God's service. (I Samuel 2:27-36; I Samuel 3:11-14.) The prediction came true when Eli's two sons were killed ...

With the rapidly increasing growth of God's work, we again need to read this vital article which appeared six years ago in the Good News. IN HIS little-known prophetic message for the Church today, Jesus promised that He would set before us an open DOOR for the spreading of the gospel. Notice Jesu ...

HEZEKIAH'S messengers were sent throughout Israel and Judah to spread the news of the reopening of the temple at Jerusalem. But they were scoffed at and threatened by idol-worshippers, especially in the territories of Manasseh, Ephraim and Zebulun. (II Chronicles 30:1-10.) Greatest Passover Since ...

I have just returned from a most eventful and successful six weeks' trip (which I had expected to last only three weeks) to find that rumors have reached the press concerning the absence of my son, Garner Ted Armstrong, with many false rumors and baseless conjectures. Also many letters from you Co ...

HEZEKIAH'S messengers were sent throughout Israel and Judah to spread news of the reopening of the temple at Jerusalem. But they were scoffed at and threatened by idol-worshippers, especially in the territories of Manasseh, Ephraim and Zebulun. (II Chronicles 30:1-10.) "Don't try to convince us ...

Capernaum was a prosperous city on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. Since the city was on a busy trade route, it was a convenient place to collect taxes and a tax office was located there. The sweet, sparkling waters of the lake helped fishing flourish, and Capernaum's shores were busy w ...

MOST of us are outraged when we hear of the wrong being inflicted upon Russian childhood by Russian propagandists. The Soviet Government has compelled the teaching of Communism to Russian children. Thus the Bolshevists expect to make Russia safe for their particular beliefs. Yet we give our silent a ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - ARE YOU SURE that we are, definitely, the true Church of God! Have you read, in the Autobiography being published in The PLAIN TRUTH, that I, myself, more than thirty years ago, was puzzled about the question "WHERE is the one true Church which CHRIST founded ...

A very large segment of American and British life attends church on Sunday mornings. WHY do they go? WHAT do these churchgoers BELIEVE, and WHY? The plain truth is a little shocking - and illuminating! NOTHING is so astonishing as the truth! It is often stranger than fiction. Most people who attend ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - IS IT WRONG to be a cultured individual? Is it wrong - is it extravagance - to purchase quality things? Some people pride themselves on their lack of culture and good breeding. Some people actually brag: "We're just poor folks." They spurn good-quality ...

We learned from the article last month on the background of the parables of Jesus, what parables are and why Jesus used them. We also saw that there are three distinct sets or groupings of parables, each having a different theme. In this article we begin to examine the first six parables of the f ...

How to Have a Happy Marriage No matter where you live, there are certain basic principles that make — for marital happiness in any culture or society. A HAPPY MARRIAGE IN AN UNHAPPY WORLD A HAPPY FAMILY. Does it exist? Or are happy families a relic from the past? Something you have only read about i ...

Our First Trip Abroad. IT WAS the morning of February 14, 1947. At that very moment, the Shasta Limited was approaching the station at Eugene, Oregon. Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Annie Mann (a later hostess of girls' student residences at the college in Pasadena), and I were in my office. I had my hat an ...