Herbert W Armstrong

Capernaum was a prosperous city on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. Since the city was on a busy trade route, it was a convenient place to collect taxes and a tax office was located there. The sweet, sparkling waters of the lake helped fishing flourish, and Capernaum's shores were busy w ...

MOST of us are outraged when we hear of the wrong being inflicted upon Russian childhood by Russian propagandists. The Soviet Government has compelled the teaching of Communism to Russian children. Thus the Bolshevists expect to make Russia safe for their particular beliefs. Yet we give our silent a ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - ARE YOU SURE that we are, definitely, the true Church of God! Have you read, in the Autobiography being published in The PLAIN TRUTH, that I, myself, more than thirty years ago, was puzzled about the question "WHERE is the one true Church which CHRIST founded ...

A very large segment of American and British life attends church on Sunday mornings. WHY do they go? WHAT do these churchgoers BELIEVE, and WHY? The plain truth is a little shocking - and illuminating! NOTHING is so astonishing as the truth! It is often stranger than fiction. Most people who attend ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - IS IT WRONG to be a cultured individual? Is it wrong - is it extravagance - to purchase quality things? Some people pride themselves on their lack of culture and good breeding. Some people actually brag: "We're just poor folks." They spurn good-quality ...

We learned from the article last month on the background of the parables of Jesus, what parables are and why Jesus used them. We also saw that there are three distinct sets or groupings of parables, each having a different theme. In this article we begin to examine the first six parables of the f ...

How to Have a Happy Marriage No matter where you live, there are certain basic principles that make — for marital happiness in any culture or society. A HAPPY MARRIAGE IN AN UNHAPPY WORLD A HAPPY FAMILY. Does it exist? Or are happy families a relic from the past? Something you have only read about i ...

Our First Trip Abroad. IT WAS the morning of February 14, 1947. At that very moment, the Shasta Limited was approaching the station at Eugene, Oregon. Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Annie Mann (a later hostess of girls' student residences at the college in Pasadena), and I were in my office. I had my hat an ...

FROM then on, all the people who came into the world descended from Noah's three sons and their wives. (Gen. 9:19.) After some years had gone by, there developed many inhabitants in the plains area south of where the ark had landed. Some of them moved farther down into the valleys of the Tigris an ...

Most do not know what real freedom is. Read here the surprising answer which some church members have yet to understand and apply. PAUL said: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" (Gal. 5:1). Just what is this liberty? Does this mean that Christ has made us free to ...

A GREAT number of Israelites from all over Canaan came to attend Samuel's funeral at Ramah, where the old prophet was buried with appropriate honors. (I Samuel 25:1.) David wasn't among those who attended. He knew that he would be risking his life to go where Saul was. Instead, he moved his men ...

A large segment of American life attends church on Sunday mornings. WHY do they go? WHAT do these churchgoers BELIEVE, and WHY? The plain truth is a little shocking- and illuminating! Nothing is so astonishing as the truth! It is often stranger than fiction. Most people who attend church regularly, ...

Drought, famine, disease epidemics, earthquakes and other "natural" disasters unprecedented in history are headed our way! Plus a potential nuclear World War III. The most awful national catastrophe in earth's history is shaping up just ahead for the English speaking world. Why? Has God lost contr ...

Question1: How does a Christian honor unbelieving parents? How can one honor and respect parents who are not following God's ways? Can we look to them for leadership and example when they are doing things which are not really right in God's eyes? Question2: Would it make any difference if a Chri ...

Its difficult, if not impossible, to understand the great religious zeal behind European colonization of America — without first briefly surveying various events in Europe — events which preceded and led up to the American colonization. The Roman Empire had ruled over much of Europe — including Fran ...