Herbert W Armstrong

WHY DO religious people often seem to feel that their religious life must be one of giving up all the fun and the enjoyment of living? — that in order to please God, they must endure a life of morbid gloom? ...

Bill was really upset. His carefully planned campaign for overcoming had just fallen apart. He had been baptized only a few weeks earlier, and he was full of enthusiasm to grow spiritually. He realized that sin was a powerful enemy, but he was sure that with diligent planning he could make steady pr ...

A personal explanation by the founder and editor-in-chief. THE GOOD NEWS has been made available to many other than members of the Worldwide Church of God - in fact, a year's subscription is available free (no subscription price) to any interested enough to subscribe and read - although it is the ...

Frank Brown, Director of the Work in England and Gordon Graham, Manager of our printing plant, were here in Pasadena this past week for talks with Brian Knowles, Jack Bicket and the various department managers. We discussed the publishing needs of the English-speaking Work in Europe! and went over p ...

Amazingly enough, there are still people who continue to maintain that the energy crisis is merely a contrivance of the big oil companies to drive up the price. of gasoline. Such persons refuse to believe that this nation, and in fact the whole world, is confronted with an emergency situation with r ...

Many religious scholars do not really know what God's temples were like. They are divided in their conclusions. Each man has his own opinion. Even in major points they sometimes disagree completely. By comparing the usual drawings and models of Solomon's temple, it is immediately noted that n ...

This morning at 5:12 a.m. (Pacific Daylight Time), I sat in our Ambassador Auditorium here in Pasadena, looking in on Mission Control headquarters, located only walking distance away, as scientists manipulated at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) the safe landing of VIKING I on Mars. The JPL scientist ...

What if you LOST, overnight, your present standard of living? What if you became, suddenly, Mr. and Mrs. "Average World"? What would you have? How would you live? Read these shocking FACTS about the ENORMOUS wealth of our peoples, and be THANKFUL, as you never have before! Our national inh ...

No living being naturally wants to die. But the stark fact of death is with us whether we like it or not. No human being has yet avoided death. And all living things begin to die as soon as they are born. There is no apparent escape. Throughout history man has been painfully aware of his own mortali ...

A 1984 British television series called Jesus: The Evidence left viewers to question how much of the New Testament is fact, how much fantasy. Can we trust the written records of the early church? Did its members distinguish between legend and fact? Did they leave us an authoritative record of what J ...

Perhaps you are needlessly experiencing the feeling of hopelessness and despair. Isn't it time you understood the reasons for this all-too-common human affliction? It is a tragic but real fact of life. Mental depression has run like a heavy dark thread throughout the fabric of human history. Men a ...

IS THERE proof outside the Bible that the events described in Scripture really happened — that its great characters actually lived? Where is the proof that Joseph was in Egypt? — that Abraham and his ancestors really existed? — that David was actually king of Israel? — and, above all, that Christ an ...

A miracle is a miracle is a miracle. There is no such thing as "little miracles" or "big miracles." Jesus performed many miracles during the course of His ministry, and, may have performed, at least on rare occasions, private miracles for family members or perhaps a neighborhood friend. However, to ...

Great statesmen and leading scientists have openly stated that man's only hope for world peace lies in world government - one universal government wielding supreme power and authority over all nations. But these same leaders also admit that the nations could never bring about a world-ruling govern ...

COULD ANYTHING BE more unbelievable? To say that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was not proclaimed to the world for 1,900 years—100 time cycles—from the middle of the first century until the middle of the 20th—assuredly sounds preposterous. And yet that happened! One may well ask: "But hasn't the Gosp ...