Herbert W Armstrong

The DEADLY LEAVEN of Higher Education: I WAS NEVER CALLED to engage in the college business. But by 1947 the need had become imperative to establish an educational arm of the Church on the college level. It definitely was NOT because this world needed another college. There were too many of this wor ...

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 ...

We had finished the Books of Romans and Galatians and they have been recorded so that they could go out to various Churches and I thought it would be good if we would start now at this time, in the Book of Corinthians; starting I Corinthians. First, I would like to preface it with a few notes, that ...

What kind of character do you have? What makes a person unpredictable? Is God unpredictable? Here's what God's Word says about this point of character. "CALL ME irresponsible. Call me unreliable, Throw in undependable too... Call me unpredictable. Tell me I'm impractical. Rainbows I'm i ...

Every night the whole world goes to sleep aboard a huge multimegaton bomb - fully capable of exterminating every man, woman and child from the face of this earth. Yet most people-focusing only on their own day-to-day concerns and how to eke out a "good life" in the midst of economic uncertainty - ...

A brilliant minded and highly educated doctor of philosophy might ask today, how much education did Jesus Christ have? After all, there's no record of His having gone to any University if they had such Universities in that day as we have today. Today one goes to school and finally to the Universit ...

I didn't think it would come to this," were the words of a diminutive Liverpool lady who stopped to chat with me in the shadow of a series of fire-gutted buildings - the former premises of local businesses. Two nights before Mrs. Margaret Thatcher had almost echoed her thoughts on a TV interv ...

Writes an older teenager in a letter to a syndicated columnist: "Our Father who art In Heaven, where have you been? Our leaders are all lunatics and the world is full of sin." This senior went on to thank God for tooth decay, cancer, nuclear waste and a plethora of other ills. Like many, h ...

Discouragement is one of the most powerful and devastating emotions known to man. Like the withering effect of a scorching wind, it can leave us weak, helpless, fruitless and lifeless. Discouragement is a negative force that stifles growth, drains enthusiasm, inhibits drive, disorients one's mind ...

"It's going against everything I believe in, but there's still this thought in my mind that it's going to happen, sooner or later..." The letter was from an attractive teenage girl, a recent subscriber of Youth 82. In spite of the pressures of her friends at school, the permissive society we l ...

Discouragement is one of the most powerful and devastating emotions known to man. Like the withering effect of a scorching wind, it can leave us weak, helpless, fruitless and lifeless. Discouragement is a negative force that stifles growth, drains enthusiasm, inhibits drive, disorients one's mind ...

Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ: First visited New Zealand. There I attended the Summer Educational camp for teenagers, held on an island just offshore from Auckland. There were about 150 teen campers there besides a number of Ambassador College students serving as counselors and camp assis ...

We can learn some big spiritual lessons from these tiny creatures! Most of us have at some time been startled to notice, in the kitchen or pantry, a mass of vigorous little black insects teeming all over some sugar, honey or jam that we have forgotten to seal. Speedily, the busy creatures transport ...

Why does God classify some actions as wrong and others as right? Why is it wrong to commit sin? Did God just arbitrarily decide that some actions would be classed as sin? Did He say to Himself: "We've got to have some things that are wrong, so I'll just choose some nice, tantalizing, excit ...

"It's going against everything I believe in, but there's still this thought in my mind that it's going to happen, sooner or later..." The letter was from an attractive teenage girl, a subscriber of Youth 85. In spite of the pressures of her friends at school, the permissive society w ...