Herbert W Armstrong

The folklore of many cultures tells of it; historians refer to it; and Jesus spoke of it. But is there hard evidence that a man named Noah actually built a great Ark to escape a worldwide flood? And could that Ark still be preserved to be found in the 20th century? Not far from the Aegean sea, where ...

What's really wrong with marriage today IS COURTSHIP. Too many are discovering they should not have married AFTER marriage — instead of before. Marrying the wrong person can be sheer hell on earth, to hear the victims describe it. Lack of preparation for marriage, lack of understanding the soberin ...

This is the age of "The Great Escape." Millions jam giant stadiums every weekend and they like their sports rough. Violence and escapism fill the television screen. Nudity and perversion get top billing in the theater. Millions are spent on all forms of recreation. What's behind the mad ...

IT IS NOT an exaggeration to say that meat is the most universally liked food. While consumption of wheat flour in the United States has steadily diminished since 1939, the per capita consumption of meat has risen. In 1939 the average person ate 145 pounds of red meats and poultry combined. By 1952 ...

Here the founder and chancellor of Ambassador College provides a frank, straightforward explanation of its basic policy. Ambassador college is rooted to an educational policy and a philosophic approach which permeates the institution. Today we live in a different world. Frightening changes have occu ...

If you foolishly took a vow before conversion, is that vow still binding? Whom has God appointed to decide when a vow is binding? You may be bound by a vow and not know it! Or you may be trying to keep a vow which God has never bound! It is time we looked into the question of taking vows. Many an in ...

Halloween is the strangest holiday of the entire year. On the eve of November 1, children in many lands dress as goblins, or as witches, knock on doors, announce "trick or treat," soap windows of schools and stores. Some tear down mailboxes, and give the police a great many headaches with their juve ...

Learning Important Lessons: AT AGE 18 I found a book in the public library, titled, "Choosing a Vocation." It took the reader through a searching self-analysis, and a survey of vocations, occupations and professions, to place the candidate where he best fit. A thorough study of this self-analysis an ...

A few years back, a man who was eighty-two years of age came to me and said, "I've never heard the real plain whys and wherefores of this thing we call salvation explained. I've never heard it explained so that it made sense." You know, I think there are a lot of people like that and there are a ...

SCOUTS REPORT SEEING GIANTS! THE ISRAELITE scouts sent out by Moses had traveled by foot over much of Canaan. They had looped around to arrive at Hebron, a city not too far from Kadesh. The rose-red city of Kadesh was the scouts' starting point, where the twelve tribes were encamped and awaiting r ...

Major cities and hundreds of millions of people will be taken by surprise. But you can be prepared! Earth scientists, armed with more accurate seismic tools, are discovering startling new facts. They warn of the potential for earthquakes in surprising places. Millions, they say, are certain to be ca ...

The search for world peace continues while arsenals of lethal weapons grow larger. Experts predict the earth will soon become an Incinerated relic - UNLESS world conditions are dramatically REVERSED. Exactly what does the future hold for mankind? This lesson reveals the ANSWERS in the prophecies of ...

I am writing you from Copenhagen, Denmark. My son, Garner Ted Armstrong, is with me. We have arrived here by direct polar- flight from Los Angeles, enroute to visit Germany, London, Radio Monte Carlo from which we broadcast direct into Russia, and Rome. For some little time I have been wanting to ju ...

What is mankind's true hope? Is it an immortal existence in heaven - looking on God's face throughout eternity? Or is the hope of the Christian a resurrection to eternal life - and rulership in the Kingdom of God through endless ages? TODAY, Christianity is divided into literally hundreds of sec ...

Though the flight ended in tragedy, the Soviets recently accomplished another space first. Will it affect present U.S. space policy with military considerations, forcing another crash space program? Or will public pressure prevent it? Soviet space technology recently scored another impressive first. ...