Herbert W Armstrong

While you sleep tonight, several thousand people around the world will be dying - dying from want of enough food. Famine is almost as old as the human race, but famines usually come and go. This time worldwide famine is a fact of life we can't seem to escape. Why, in an age of science and technolo ...

Believe it or not, assembling together in local groups or churches may lead to loss of salvation to many - unless these pitfalls are avoided! HERE is what our newly converted brethren need to know. TRUE, we are commanded not to forsake assembling ourselves together - and so much the more in these la ...

The most important work in the world cannot be done without freedom of the press! What is that work? It is the work of announcing that God will restore His Government to the whole earth! But before the Government of God is restored, it must first be announced! The good news of that announcement - th ...

The one BIG QUESTION in all our lives, right now, IS that of human SURVIVAL! The most urgent problem right now is the question of whether, and how, we may survive! But survival alone is NOT ENOUGH! We must have survival in PEACE, in happiness, in joy, in prosperity and plenty, and in abundant well-b ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - As Ambassador College, Pasadena, opened its doors for the 36th consecutive year, I was moved once again to recall the amazing growth of this Work. Few realize the magnitude to which this worldwide Work of God has grown. It is now a major-scale educational program ...

The Halloween season will soon be upon us. Stores will sell orange and black greeting cards; costumes and masks. Children will dress up as witches, ghosts, and vampires. Parents will carve pumpkins into grotesque configurations. Teens will join in the holiday spirit by engaging in pranks ranging fro ...

We RECEIVE many letters about long hair. One man wrote that nobody living in the time of Jesus wore short hair. He also said that short hair was only a product of the last 150 years. But is this true? What is the history of short hair? Short hair has been with us far longer than most realize. It was ...

When the "Systematic Theology Project" was passed out to all ministers at last January's conference, I am sure those unauthorized to have handed it out — or even to have prepared it — intended it to be an ASSIGNMENT for every minister to read and study thoroughly, for it was repres ...

The Old Testament is a chronicle of human failures and successes. The accounts are in case history form. They point out WHERE and WHY some failed and how others succeeded. Read this lively and practical article to learn how to apply this part of God's Word to your life. GOD CAUSED these examples t ...

The other day the editor heard of a clever "con" game which has made considerable money for certain swindlers. It contains a lesson we all need. One of the swindlers noticed a possible victim seated at a writing desk in a hotel lobby on a hot day. He sat down opposite and began to write a ...

Many confuse meekness with weakness. Others put on a "false front" of humility. Few understand TRUE humility! Read this article and find out how you can grow in proper humility. LOOK around you. Everywhere you look in this modern world, you see the signs of vanity! Vanity is at the root of ...

Once again I write you from my office in the sky, aboard our G-II jet aircraft over the Pacific Ocean. Captain Black just announced over the public address system that we are flying at the speed of 690 miles per hour, due to a stiff tail wind. We are returning from visits to Manila, the Philippines, ...

Ladies and Gentlemen greetings, you live in a twentieth-century world that is plunging to its own destruction. Plunging to human extinction, I think we need to be reminded not only about the hostage crisis as we have been in the past year. We need to be reminded that four hundred millions of us are ...

Now, you can't read the Bible straight through from beginning to end. There is a story flow in the Bible in a way. It begins with the creation of man, and it does show how man was offered life and did not choose it, rather chose to have his own way. Because we can only have life God's way, in a ...

Helmut Schmidt, considered by many to be a real leader in the Western world, has won re-election in West Germany. But major problems loom on the horizon during his new term of office. Unwilling to take political chances in an increasingly uncertain world, West German voters, on Sunday, October 5, re ...