Herbert W Armstrong

I think you ought to know how Ambassador College came to be founded and what is back of it. Now we are getting things back on the track. Everything had gotten off the track. This college was started for a definite purpose, and it was started to be God's college. To understand you have to go back t ...

THE SIMPLE, unpretentious rite of baptism is meant to mark a miraculous change in you. It is to testify that you have embarked on a new, clean, right way of life that will end in complete satisfaction, unrestricted reward, total success and happiness unending. God wants you to realize this ...

The world this minute stands on the very brink of the FINAL NUCLEAR WORLD WAR! There has never yet been a nuclear war! It could ERASE ALL HUMAN LIFE FROM THIS PLANET! It won't happen. But we do need to know and UNDERSTAND the real GRAVITY of the world situation AT THIS MINUTE! For the past ten yea ...

What next in world troubles and violence? I just returned from another visit over into the Middle East and into Europe and I've come into contact with a lot of this worlds violence's as it is now. I tell you the average person doesn't realize the violence that is going on in this world. On thi ...

What is the purpose for this ceremony? What does it MEAN in baptism? - in healing? - in ordination? Do YOU KNOW? WHEN you were baptized, hands were laid on you by God's servants for a real purpose. When you are anointed for sickness or injury, why are hands laid on your head during the prayer for ...

I've made a few notes here to start out with. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians was corrective. He corrected them for not all speaking the same thing - they wanted to choose different men to follow. We are in danger of going to the opposite extreme. I find that there is a tendency in the Ch ...

Here is startling proof - from the Bible and geology - demonstrating not only two widely separated creations, but two world-wide destructions! Few have understood this astonishing truth! Now, it stands revealed for all to see! Now for the first time, one of history's most fascinating stories can b ...

When Boaz took Ruth the Moabitess for a wife, the people who were assembled prayed for her, saying: "The Lord make thee like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel." (Ruth 4:11) The fact that these two women, as the wives of Jacob, were the builders of the house of I ...

The apostle Peter commanded the crowd gathered in Jerusalem: "Repent and be baptized every one of you...." But is Acts 2:38 relevant in the space age? Does God require baptism for one to become a Christian today? The ancient ritual of water baptism seems passe to some in the Western world. ...

Divisions and scandals plagued the Protestant camp during Luther's later years. The armies of princes and political power might guarantee that the reformed religion would be outwardly maintained in certain territories. But they had no power to cleanse the faith and morals of subjects, nor were the ...

God's Word is full of instruction for peacemaking. Here are three areas in which you can develop and maintain peace in your family. Could you sit down in your living room with a group of today's world leaders - Ronald Reagan, Yuri Andropov, Menachem Begin and Yassar Arafat, for example - and dem ...

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Is Christ divided? There are hundreds of denominations in America - and many other little groups and sects. WHY? When did this confusion originate? IT'S HARD to believe, but it's TRUE! The actual facts of history - both Biblical and secular - are astonishing! It's time we looked behind this cu ...

Satan the devil is your adversary. He is the one who seeks to destroy God's Church, and you along with it. Be prepared to fight and win in the battle for spiritual survival. "This charge I commit unto you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you by them migh ...

THE PROMISED LAND, THE TWO Israelite scouts sent to the city of Jericho were eating at Rahab's inn when officers banged loudly on the door. "Two officers have come from the king of Jericho to arrest you!" Rahab whispered to them. "They're impatient and I must go to the door at onc ...