Herbert W Armstrong

The Netherlands: The month of July is the vacation month in Holland. Many people have 3 to 4 weeks vacation and consequently incoming mail is slow and very low: 457 letters were received and 224 donor/co-worker letters. However, our income shows a 11.57% increase over the previous month, a healthy s ...

Halloween - the strangest holiday of the entire year! Every autumn, on the eve of November 1, children dressed as goblins, or as witches with broomsticks, knock on doors, announce "trick or treat," soap windows of schools and stores, tear down mailboxes, and give the police a great many he ...

Most everyone has heard the words of Jesus "Swear not at all." But we do not seem to believe they were for us. Why? Where can we prove that Jesus told the people a falsehood? Do we think the Bible is contradictory when it says, "Thou shalt swear by his name"? This seems to be the ...

Ghana - More On the Situation There: Melvin Rhodes, our minister in Ghana, his wife Diane and their two children, returned to London on August 21st. The ultimate reason for their departure from Ghana was the fact that their visa expired and the government would not in any way renew it. ...

n the wake of recent announcements establishing the Ambassador College School of Biblical and Ministerial Studies, we have received a number of questions about our Diploma Program. These queries were not seeking clarification of facts, but rather focused on the purpose behind the Diploma Program. ...

GREETINGS! What a year this has been! With me it has been largely a year of regaining health and physical strength after a complete heart failure in August of last year. It has been a traumatic year in some respects, yet a very successful year. I have just returned from my first trip abroad since my ...

Falling away is a grave and dire possibility! You may be setting the stage for your own downfall by things you do today. Don't take a chance! Read this article and find out HOW you can stand firm! "LET no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING A ...

How much longer can this world get along without God? The world news lately has been boiling over, the Poland crisis, the world's economy is in terrible trouble all over the world. The unemployment is rising. More tensions around the world. Iraq and Iran war in early June, the Israelis were drivin ...

What do you think of when someone mentions Easter- brightly colored eggs, bunny rabbits, hot cross buns, Easter parades and sunrise services? Have you ever wondered whether these traditional customs of Easter have any logical connection with the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Very few have ever thoug ...

I have very frightening, very sobering — yet very reassuring — news! You need the real FACTS on nuclear TERRORISM now threatening the lives of every one of us. You need to know the imminency and REALITY of this impending threat — but we need also to know the PROPHECIES about it and that the assuranc ...

Now we are enthusiastically looking toward the first Feast of Tabernacles in the NEW DECADE OF THE EIGHTIES! It's a sobering thing to bear in mind that this could well be the very last decade in which we may attend this wonderful Festival prior to Christ's coming in supreme POWER and GLORY to es ...

Do you find yourself having to struggle to achieve regular Bible study? Here are some helpful tips. How does a housewife, with a couple of preschoolers always clinging to her skirt, do it? How does a busy worker, with only so many hours in a day, manage it? How important is it, really, to study God+ ...

The world is in a crisis of government. Despotic communism, dictatorships, parliamentary democracies, autocracies, limited monarchies, republicanisms, tyrannies, majority rule - in whatever form of human government, crises threaten; and governments topple, collapse, decay, disintegrate, or are ...

HERE is another eye - opening article on a much misunderstood subject. Some ask, "Wasn't tithing just for the Jews of a long - dead past?" Others, "Wasn't tithing done away?" Or, "Was it a form of national taxation in ancient Israel?" Or, "Was it to supply mate ...

Here is an eye-opening article from one of our ministers in Great Britain. You will find it vitally interesting. RECENTLY a very popular book has been published in which a leading Protestant minister advocates concentrating upon a small picture of Christ while you are praying in order to give you th ...