Herbert W Armstrong

We now shall see how Satan, knowing of the Messiah's coming — the One who would come to make peace between mankind and God — produced counterfeits hundreds of years before He came. It did not take Semiramis, inspired by Satan, long to incorporate this into her Mysteries and identify this title wit ...

We continue to have very beautiful weather here in Pasadena - with plenty of sunshine and moderate smog. We hope those of you ministers living in the northern part of the U.S. have weathered the long, bitter winter. I am sure you look forward to God's beautiful springtime even more than we do here ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - SOME of the teachings in the Bible are a little hard for the average thinking mind to understand. James tells us to count it all joy when trials, ordeals, reverses, beset us. Troubles a JOY? That's pretty hard to accept, isn't it? And, for the average person, ...

We are all encouraged and enthusiastic as the new college year ends a summer keynoted by productive, qualitative growth. The response from the field ministry has been overwhelmingly positive, expressing wholehearted support and loyalty to God's only living Apostle. ...

How could the world have become so mixed up? Out of this spiritual wilderness, a voice cries out in clarity and power, with the reassuring truth of the world's only and sure hope! Chapter 3 Part Two: WHO AND WHAT IS GOD? The character of both God the Father and Christ the Son is that of spiritual ...

You may be surprised about what the Book of Revelation reveals concerning your responsibility during the millennium! Two MONTHS ago, while Mr. Armstrong was away from Pasadena, he called me by phone. During part of the conversation he asked me: "Have you ever considered what the responsibility ...

A big disease gnawing at our vitals is sheer laziness! Apathy, lethargy, inefficiency; these are the common denominators of our times! Read God's challenge to indolence in this article. "We've entered the age of the goof-off," shouted the Chicago American recently. And it's true! This is ...

The Common Idea of Hell. FIRST, let's notice the generally accepted common belief in our Western world about hell. Here's the terse and brief summation of this popular belief, from the "Encyclopedia Americana": "... As generally understood, hell is the abode of evil spirits; the i ...

It's important to get them in the right order. The three most important ingredients to successful marriage have been terribly abused. Some fall in love and never marry. Others marry but are not in love. Millions of people experiment with sex without even being in love. Still others are in love and ...

HOW TO PRAY EFFECTIVELY! WHY don't more prayers get RESULTS? Has God "GONE way off somewhere"? The fundamental reason why the prayers of most people are NOT being answered today is that they do not KNOW the TRUE God! Most people think of God as a vague, far-off, indefinable something. Th ...

Well, greetings, brethren. Not only do you here in Pasadena, but to all you brethren, you just telephoned in from New Zealand that you're getting the program down there. And right now, it's very close to nine o'clock tomorrow morning in New Zealand. And yet, at the same time that it is here, n ...

Jesus Christ said: "I will build my Church." What IS that Church - human organization, or spiritual organism? Of whom composed? How does one become a member? Does it have a divine Commission? - and if so, WHAT? - and HOW carried out? By organization, or by individuals acting independently? MANY ARE ...

Fellow Ministers: Since last May I have been moving swiftly to set the Church of God back on the track as GOD'S CHURCH. I have set the radio and television programs back on GOD'S track. Secularism and the leaven of modern "intellectualism" and "PhDism" had turned Ambassador College into just ano ...

"Uncertainty" has become a byword for describing our modern age. No other term so accurately sums up the present human condition. Why? Today we live in a confused, uncertain and dangerous world." Such were the deeply felt words former British Prime Minister Edward Heath used to depict ...

Make no mistake! - World War III is on the way. This cold war is the lull before the storm. It will DECIDE WHO WILL RULE the world. WHY A HOT WORLD WAR III IS COMING! World War I was supposed to have been fought to end all wars. But it did not produce a DECISIVE outcome. The nations did not have the ...