Herbert W Armstrong

What prevents you from enjoying a deep, full, close relationship with your Father in heaven? You need to know how to draw closer to God. At 8:13 Friday morning, members of Philadelphia's 'Friday the 13th Club' will walk under a ladder, eat a breakfast of 13 items, break mirrors, spill salt, op ...

Recently, a major national news magazine headlined an article about America's religious contributions : "Americans' 'Open Pocketbook': Giving to Charity Sets Record." The article told of $7.9 billion, or almost $40 per capita, given to all churches during the year of 1969. Sound pretty good? ...

Read here why some have never understood what Genesis 1:1 really means! Some believe the Bible says the heavens and the earth were created only about 6000 years ago. Even many scientists assume this is what the Bible reaches. And they scoff. But is this really what Genesis 1:1 teaches? The truth is ...

Man is on the threshold of an unheralded new era. Space is about to become exploited! But for what purpose? The U.S. space shuttle Columbia has suddenly plunged man from the age of space exploration to the age of space exploitation. The direct exploration of space began in 1957. Sputnik I was flung ...

Did you know that Christmas was observed 2000 years before the birth of Jesus Christ? - that neither the apostles nor the inspired New Testament Church observed it? Here are the astounding FACTS! Was Christ really born on December 25th? Did Paul and the other apostles - and the early New Testament C ...

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 ...

Does the most wicked king who ever ruled the land of Judah still have a chance to enter the Kingdom of God? Or was his so-called "change of heart" merely a "death-bed" repentance - too little, too late? MANASSEH'S father was righteous and prosperous King Hezekiah. In his boyhood he revel ...

Here we are coming into the time of Lent. Pretty soon Good Friday and Easter will be rolling around, now where did we get those things? Why do we observe them, why does anyone observe Lent where did it come from, do you know? My friends the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was not on Good Friday. Good Fr ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - THIS IS the personal talk with our readers I had never even remotely expected I should be called on to write. It is a memorial in honor of the one dearest woman I have loved, respected, honored above all people - the wife of my youth. Fifty years ago, lacking only ...

Do you feel deeply about things or circumstances that are moving or important? Did you ever check your emotional response to know whether you have attained emotional maturity and stability? Most people give little or no thought to this matter of emotions. We humans start life as little babies. We ha ...

God had a most important purpose in calling you now, instead of later. Are you really mindful of His purpose are you really fulfilling it? REALIZE THIS! There are more than 3,600,050,000 human beings (three billion, six hundred million, fifty thousand) on earth today. But of that vast sea of h ...

Must we keep one specific day, or may we "let our conscience be our guide"? This article dares to show what the Scriptures really say. Last month in an article entitled "What Was the Apostolic Sabbath?" we examined all the scriptures where the Sabbath was mentioned after Christ w ...

Here in Rome the big news is the Italian political crisis. Combined with other events, this could lead to an explosive WORLD CRISIS such as never shook this world before. It's not my intention to report the news, but to EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS—WHERE IT MAY LEAD—how it may shake up YOUR LIFE! News re ...

The big news seems to go unnoticed while our attention is swept this way and back by the liberal news, the local news, the latest sports scores, the political squabbles, the dock strike, the joblessness, the latest flood or tornado, maybe the national news. But what does it all mean? The big news is ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - MOMENTOUS DECISION has just been made. For months we have faced the problem of getting TOMORROW'S WORLD to the many thousands of PLAIN TRUTH subscribers in Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, and Spanish-speaking countries. ...