Herbert W Armstrong

The overall purpose of preaching is to give people the knowledge and understanding of how to change their lives and the motivation to do so. The Bible calls this 'feeding the flock'. Acts 20:28 "...feed the Church of God..." 1 Peter 5:2 "Feed the flock of God..." John 21:15-1 ...

Evangelistic Campaigns in Full Swing: MY FIRST full-length evangelistic campaign with Elder Robert L. Taylor in Eugene, Oregon, came to its almost fruitless end. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Fisher, who lived seven miles west of Eugene, were the only ones added to the church by this campaign. And they had ...

Neither the United Nations nor the Big Powers seem able to defuse today's explosive Middle East. Why? Here are the facts behind the Mideast muddle - the paradoxical events which have led up to the present Arab-Israeli impasse. Jerusalem, "Old City" Eventually the entire world will become ...

Well, the first festival of Unleavened Bread for 1982 is now over. For the past three and a half years Jesus Christ has been putting this church, His church, back on the track. And for approximately the past year, I have been explaining the very foundation of the world. How this world came to be sta ...

IT WAS late afternoon in the desert city. I had been up since dawn despite a late arrival the night before. Beyond the desert, the jagged mountains shimmered in the heat. The mercury had soared into the high nineties for another in a series of scorching days. Shortly after 5:00 P.M., I drove along t ...

WHY are there so many languages in the world today? WHY not just one common tongue? WHEN and where did mankind become multilingual? WHAT brought about this diversity of languages? WILL the world ever have a universal language? Today's world is a divided world - in its politics, religion, ideologie ...

Well, greetings everybody; here we are once again! Hello there, everybody! And before I start the message today I want to say I've just been watching you. I've been enjoying the service with you, enjoying Mr. LaRavia's sermonette. I hope you had a really big offering and I hope he really moved ...

WE HAVE NOW covered the beginning, in August of 1933, of the present succession of THE CHURCH OF GOD, founded A.D. 31 by Jesus Christ. It was begun amid persecution, in the midst of the worst economic depression of our time, and with only 19 members, mostly new converts. In October, 1933, ...

Spiders build trapdoors, use block and tackle, skate on water, float in the air, build canoes, weave webs. They perform such an endless variety of equally amazing feats that evolutionists have been forced to make some of their most embarrassing admissions about them! Read, in this informative and ch ...

NEWS FLASH: The Pope at Rome and the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Catholic Church vowed last Thursday to reunite their two Churches, which have been divided for 900 years. This is significant news. Far more significant than the world realizes. It means events leading to the unprecedented Great Tr ...

The western world – especially the United States – is on an astounding energy binge. Authorities are concerned, wondering where we will get the fuel to supply our burgeoning cry for MORE ENERGY. Few, however, ask the most basic questions of all: Should we as a society be so utterly dependent on nonr ...

Very few grasp the spectacular difference between today's Christianity and the original teachings of Christ. Since coming here," an African student told a white friend, "I've discovered the white man has two gods - one that he taught us about, and another to whom he prays. A mission school taugh ...

GREETINGS! Surely this was the greatest, most joyous, inspiring and helpful and blessed Festival in 1,900 years! And four days before the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, the inspiration came to see if the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. could put through for us a national hookup wi ...

As the threat to economic survival grows, do we dare ask the all-important question that would bring about the cure? Look at your daily newspaper. Notice the space devoted to economic news. We're most concerned, it seems, about how to make our lives more comfortable. We're so concerned with our ...

Where and when did the custom of observing Lent originate? Here are amazing FACTS about this 40-day period of penitence that will surprise you! Believe it or not, Lent was observed 2,000 years before Jesus was born! It was still being observed during the lifetime of Jesus and in the days of the apos ...