Herbert W Armstrong

THE LANGUAGE OF THE BIBLE: To some people, the language in which the Bible was written will make it difficult for some parts to be clearly understood. Lightfoot says: "The greatest difficulties of the Scripture lie in the language; unlock the language and phrases and the difficulty is gone." ...

Should Christians swear by an oath? The teaching of Jesus and of the early inspired true New Testament Church was not to swear under any circumstances. The Scriptures are very plain on this point: "But above all things, my brethren, SWEAR NOT... but let your yea be yea; an your nay, nay; lest y ...

It was the weekly Sabbath, and the disciples accompanied Jesus to Capernaum's synagogue (Mark 1:21). As usual, Jesus was asked to read from the sacred scrolls and to teach. He stepped to the raised platform near the center and, taking a chair, accepted a scroll. When He was finished reading He exp ...

This parable, found in Luke 16, has perplexed even the learned commentators. Here is the plain, clear explanation. OPEN YOUR Bible to Luke, chapter 16, verse 9, [Luke 16:9]. Here is certainly one of the most difficult parables Jesus ever uttered! These are Jesus' apparent words to his disciples: ...

The Doctrine of the Church of God is based entirely on God's word, the scriptures of the bible, as God inspired the various writers to enter into the pages thereof. While the churches of the world have much tradition in their doctrine, the Church of God rejects any and all worldly tradition, adher ...

Biblical interpretation or "hermeneutics" is nothing more than determining what the Bible means. What is the correct meaning of the Scriptures and who has the authority to determine that meaning? This is Biblical interpretation. Some believe that the Roman Catholic Church has the authority to interp ...

Good afternoon everyone, I think you've been for the past few weeks we've been, subjects on Passover preparation and on the importance of putting out the leaven that exists in our homes in the physical sense. But I think today I want to address another leaven a type of leaven that is perhaps mor ...

Well in the Church we talk a lot about the Kingdom of God, we talk a lot about the Government of God, I think you've heard sermons over it, it's mentioned probably in the majority of our sermons and then just to put it kind of in your minds and to just review it just a bit, what do we mean by th ...

I want to get back to a subject I was talking to you about the last time I was here, about three weeks ago. And I'd like to turn to a couple of scriptures, first in the 8th chapter of Romans. Let's get to something a little more spiritual. In Romans the 8th chapter verse 7 speaks of the carnal m ...

As a Church we went through a particularly harrowing time, most of us were around in the 70's, it culminated in the removable of a number of liberals from the Church at the end of that decade. We learned from that, I believe, that liberalism is a subtle trend, that it's a slippery kind of an evi ...

Now many of the prophecies are concerned with conditions in the world - world conditions. But I think we are vitally concerned with where are WE in God's Church right now? Where are we in the chain of prophecy? What's happening now? What has just happened? What is going to happen next? We need t ...

DIFFICULTIES IN PROPHECY: Some people may consider the study of prophecy as being a specialized type of study and too difficult for them. But the subject is both necessary and of absorbing interest when rightly pursued. The apostle Peter (II Pet. 1:19) exhorts the believer to give heed to the "light ...

Have the Ten Commandments been replaced by some new Commandment? Have only part of the Ten Commandments been approved in the New Testament? Have some been altered or changed? Here is the surprising answer from inspired NEW TESTAMENT scriptures. MANY PEOPLE believe that all of the Ten Commandments we ...

Back a few years ago I wasn't aware of how serious Ministers took this, I know that a few years ago back I guess what they call the liberal period, there was certain things that I know that the leader of the Church would voice his disagreement with, I don't think it was Church doctrine, it had t ...

Have the Ten Commandments been replaced by some new commandment? Have only part of the Ten Commandments been approved in the New Testament? Have some been altered or changed? Here is the surprising answer from inspired New Testament scriptures. Many people believe that all of the Ten Commandments we ...