Herbert W Armstrong

There are three great enemies you must fight until you conquer - in order to become a BORN SON in God's Kingdom. These three are: your own SELF - this present evil WORLD - and EVIL SPIRITS, demon influence. This article begins a series to show you HOW to fight these enemies! You are at War! ...

Question: I am planning to drill a well on my property. My wife suggested that I have her brother, who is a water diviner, locate the most likely place to drill. I have heard that this method is sometimes successful, but have felt that it might come under "divination" as condemned in the B ...

I am writing this letter on a plane while returning to Pasadena from New York City. Yesterday we had a combined service in Manhattan with approximately 2000 people observing the day of Pentecost - the birthdate of the Church of God. The overwhelming impression that left its mark on me as we observed ...

Without faith it is utterly impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). Yet Jesus asked: "...When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8.) The terrifying implications of that question should give pause to any true Christian! What is this faith that God seeks in H ...

Pentecost, the Feast of Firstfruits, one of God's seven annual Holy Days, pictures an important step in God's master plan of salvation! This Holy Day helps explain the different times when salvation will be offered to different segments of mankind. God's two harvests, God's annual Holy Days ...

"Ye are gods," said your Savior. An anthropomorphic idea? Spiritual salt and pepper? A theological euphemism? Or did He really mean it - literally? "Thou art God!" What a mind-boggling possibility! Is God literally our Father? Are we literally His sons? What is the mystery of God ...

Question 1: Recently I received a surprise visit on the Sabbath from an old school friend who is not in the Church. After she had left I felt guilty of breaking the Sabbath by talking about material things. What should I have done? Question 2: My husband complains that I spend too much time praying ...

IT IS revealed that Jesus was "Emmanuel" - that is, "God with us" - GOD in the human flesh. He was both God and man; divine, as well as human. Can God die? Was Jesus really dead, or did only His body die? Was Jesus the Divine One alive during the three days and three nights a body was in the tomb? W ...

If by some supernatural power everyone on earth were forced to tell the truth, we would undoubtedly have worldwide chaos, the end of civilization as we know it-within an hour! What are poor Christian sheep to do in the midst of all these wolves? Sadly, too many, with wholesome sincerity, try to &quo ...

This is the first time I have had opportunity to write you in quite some time. As you probably know, I have been very ill with what the doctor has termed "heart failure." At the beginning of this illness, in my home in Tucson, Arizona, my heart had completely stopped and I had stopped brea ...

Jesus had no doubt spent many months in Capernaum during each year over a span of at least 18 years. He knew many of the people; and He actually knew the families from which He would eventually choose His disciples. Millions assume that Jesus recognized His disciples through some mysterious, mystica ...

Question: I have tried and tried to repent, but somehow couldn't bring myself to do it. Why? What's the matter with me? Why can't I seem to bring myself to the state of real repentance? Answer: What about you? Have you, also, had this individual's problem? Have you seemingly come up to a sto ...

The perspective drawings in this book have been done by James E. Snook. He prepared these drawings from simple "line drawings" I had made. Since I did not have the expertise to make the more complicated type of drawing, he consented to do them for me. They give a much better picture of the buildings ...

How does one cope with a fractured family? Here is which Truth out! a subject on The Plain must speak Latest evidence reveals that in growing numbers of inner city public schools in the United States upwards of 90 percent of students have experienced a fractured home through divorce, separation, des ...

"Nine in 10, at least once or twice in a lifetime, come to the place where they appear to be totally defeated! All is lost! - apparently, that is. They give up and quit, when just a little more determined hanging on, just a little more faith and perseverance - just a little more stick-to-itiven ...