Herbert W Armstrong

This is a special personal letter to you members of God's Church, written in between monthly Co-Worker letters. I recently visited my brother, Dwight, who composed all of the music in our Church hymnals except for three or four songs we felt worthy of being included. He has devoted the last 35 yea ...

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 ...

No one need ever become a failure in life - yet most do. The reason: Very few know, or apply, a single one of the seven laws of success. Few know what success is! Your most difficult problem, in all likelihood, is trying to make ends meet - and trying to avoid making a failure out of life. Where wil ...

Do you have God's Holy Spirit? Do you understand what God's Spirit really is, and why you need it? This first in a brief series of studies about God's Spirit will begin to answer these crucial questions from your own Bible. The method of study is easy. You simply look up and read in your Bible ...

This may have to be the shortest letter I have ever written you. Here we are approaching another difficult "Christmas" season—world events speedily HURLING this world to its END—the precious WORK OF GOD multiplying in power and scope around the world—AND YET THE INCOME TO KEEP ALIVE THIS G ...

You may be neglecting to train your child to tell the TRUTH. He could be learning the SKILL OF LYING! YOU as a parent should be ACTIVELY TEACHING your child that ALL LYING IS UNPROFITABLE. But first you must become convinced of this yourself. ALL lying is wrong and MUST be eradicated! If YOU are not ...

BATTLE FOR ZAIRE, ROUND TWO For the second time in 14 months, rebel forces have invaded the rich Shaba province of Zaire (formerly the Belgian Congo). In March of last year a similar invasion from Marxist Angola was repulsed. This time, however, the assault could prove to be more difficult to deal w ...

Do your words sometimes get you in trouble? Have you ever said something you wish you hadn't? Perhaps you were angry and made some cutting remarks, only to regret them later. What we say and how we say it can have a big effect on our lives, and the lives of others. Saying the right thing at the ri ...

In a recent article in Tomorrow's World, you were exhorted to "Read the Book." But perhaps you have tried to "read the Book" in the past. Perhaps you stumbled over chapters dealing with difficult prophecies, complicated symbols, genealogies, a great variety of subjects all mixed together. Perhaps ...

Photography is a great way to capture those fun times at the Feast, a YOU activity, a church dance or SEP so you can enjoy looking back on them later. But haven't you ever wondered if the company that develops your film is sending you back the wrong pictures? They certainly don't look like the s ...

I have been observing these festivals now for 58 years, longer than any of you. And so I look on you as my children; and I am going to talk to you tonight as a father. Now I have a Bible in front of me. But, you know, I can't read a word of it. Last year, when I talked to you on this program the n ...

I wonder if you realize that the most difficult and the most important, by far, of anything that God can create or ever has, is holy righteous character. And I wonder if you realize that is something that even God himself cannot create. That's something that God instantaneously, by himself, simply ...

Engagement - and Wedding Night. ONCE A COUPLE IS ENGAGED TO BE married - then what? What should be their standard of conduct? Virtually everybody, today, would assume that "necking" is completely within the bounds of propriety after a definite engagement. But is it? Let's look rationally ...

WHY are only the very few - women a well as men - successful in life? Just what is success? Here is the surprising answer to life's most difficult problem, proving that no human need ever become a failure! DID it ever occur to you that there might be a reason why so many people make a failure of l ...

They're mysterious, they're seductive, they can destroy your life. My first visit to the famous town was disappointing. Hollywood, glamorized for decades, is old and tarnished now, but it's still a big tourist attraction. It was difficult to get through the crowds and read the celebrities' n ...