Herbert W Armstrong

Our greatest tests as Christians are just ahead now! Here's how to protect and promote the love we should have for one another. Daddy," asked my daughter, "what do you do when two of your best friends don't like each other?" My daughter was faced with a dilemma. Here were two peop ...

Millenniums ago Bible prophecy foretold a powerful United Europe for our day! The world little realizes the awesome outcome of the present drive to unite Europe into one economic, political and religious bloc! Yet, you can know the long-prophesied outcome, and recognize ahead of time the effect it w ...

"And God made two great lights ... the lesser light to rule the night" (Gen. 1:16). The moon is a cold hunk of rock. And yet it appears as a shining jewel in the night sky. For many years man has known that the moon's light is just reflected sunlight. But not until the flights of Apollo 11 and 12 ...

In the beginning of Jesus' ministry, the narrative in the sixth chapter of Mark shows that He "went out from thence," that is, from the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and came into His "own country" meaning Nazareth. The local officials in the synagogue were astounded when Jesus suddenly appeared i ...

You probably have assumed it is your responsibility to decide what is right for you. And you couldn't be more wrong! Here's why! The tobacco industry recently placed a thought-provoking advertisement m major U.S. magazines. The ad concerned the subject of cigarette smoking. In the ad was an offe ...

WAR WITH THE AMORITES, IT WAS at Punon in the Arabah, south of the Dead Sea, that the invasion of snakes into the camps of the Israelites occurred. At first they caused more terror than pain. It wasn't long, however, before those who were bitten became very feverish and ill. Their bodies became in ...

Christ presented many important truths to His followers in the form of paradoxes. "He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matt. 10:39); "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all" (Mark 9:35) are two exam ...

MICAIAH the prophet stepped before Ahab the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah. He told them that God would help Israel take the city of Ramoth-gilead from the Syrians. (I Kings 22:1-15; II Chronicles 18:1-14.) Ahab couldn't believe his ears. He was certain that the prophet would pre ...

The crisis over Jerusalem in A.D. 70 has passed. The civil turmoil within the Roman Empire temporarily ceases. But the hopes of many Christians are shattered. Instead of being delivered, Christians continue to suffer persecution as a result of Emperor Nero's example. Each day brings fresh news of ...

Work toward the 1979 Feast of Tabernacles is rapidly going ahead. The Feast Office plans to get the first run of housing confirmations in the mail by early next week, with 80-90 percent of applications prepared for the first confirmation run. ...

IT WAS late in 1933 - the very depth of the great depression. Ed Smith was a well driller by profession, but nobody seemed able to afford to have wells drilled. Ed and his wife, Emma, attended services I was then holding in a one-room country schoolhouse twelve miles west of Eugene, Oregon. Ed made ...

GREETINGS! newly baptized brethren in Christ Jesus. This year again there is joy and rejoicing among the angels in heaven over your repentance and having been begotten to a lively hope as children of God through Jesus Christ our Lord! And there is new joy in the hearts of ALL our true brethren and c ...

Did you ever think that you have more troubles, more bad breaks, or more things to worry about than anyone else? Now I'm probably talking right to you because I think most of you have felt just like that. You know what you need to free your mind and get out from under it? You need faith; you need ...

What do you believe is the national goal of the United States? Today you'd probably be hard put to come up with an answer. And the reason why is simple: the United States no longer has a clear-cut goal! But in another sense, the United States does have a goal - but it is the very worst goal that a ...

The army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, Lachish and Azeqah. For only these remained unconquered of the fortified cities of Judah." This record in Jeremiah 34:7 is likely to be passed over by the casual reader. Yet that ve ...