Herbert W Armstrong

YOU MEAN TO SAY YOU LIVED AN EXEMPLARY LIFE, REPLETE WITH ACTS OF GOODNESS AND MERCY, JUST SO YOU COULD COME HERE AND DROP THINGS ON PEOPLE?! This is a different sort of article. Have you ever heard a sermon or read a whole article - before right now, of course that actually goes right down the line ...

After coming from Moab to Bethlehem, Naomi and Ruth ran very low on money. (Ruth 1:19-22.) Just when Naomi was becoming very concerned about matters of food and fuel, Ruth came to her with a most timely suggestion. "It's spring harvest time," she reminded Naomi. "Just this morning I ...

President Kennedy acted fast to force steel industry to back down on its announced price increase. What prompted such drastic action? Behind this question lies the startling challenge to the job of every American! Just four days after signing a "noninflationary" contract with the Steelwork ...

Again today I heard a fellow on the radio bemoaning the fact that we have too much religion in our school systems. "Under the Constitution we are supposed to separate church and state," he said , "but there are still some backward areas where they allow Bible reading in schools." ...

I WAS RETURNING to my hotel in New Delhi some years ago from a private conference with the late Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India. Ever since arriving in India I had noticed cows and oxen wandering through the streets. I had never seen such animals straying loosely through city streets in ...

Will the dynamo of Asia be content to remain only an economic giant? What can we expect from its new prime minister? Can militarily vulnerable Japan continue to rely for its defense upon the United States? These are vital questions as Japan moves into the mid 1980s. The economic picture throughout A ...

If you have a serious accident or health crisis, it matters greatly what drugs you have used! I know what it is like to feel the mind and life ebbing away. I once screamed futilely within my brain: "Oh, my God! I'm going to die!" I experienced this totally helpless feeling just before pa ...

In the first three articles of this series we learned that the teachings of Christ's apostles were cleverly changed by the secret introduction of similar pagan customs. We traced these pagan customs back to their origin. We found they commenced at the tower of Babel, over 4,000 years ago. At Babel ...

DAVID had come to the Philistine city of Gath to escape being killed by Saul's soldiers. He hoped the Philistine king would befriend him. Because he carried Goliath's sword, he was able to gain an audience with Achish, the ruler. Achish intended to treat him civilly, but his manner was a bit gru ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - LAST MONTH, I began answering the question, "Just what is back of The PLAIN TRUTH, The WORLD TOMORROW broadcast, and Ambassador College, with its three campuses in California, Texas, and England?" All these operations, worldwide, we customarily speak of, ...

At this week's NATO conference in Washington the assessment of the alliance's strength in Europe has taken a back seat to the growing concern of Soviet penetration in other pans of the world, outside of Europe, vital to Western interests. Africa, especially the Cuban-backed invasion of Z ...

Well I have one hour which is plenty I think for my sermon. Might mention before getting right in to it though that, several of us, 4 of us actually are doing a lot of traveling now, Mr. Armstrong has asked, Mr. Burk McNair, Mr. Dean Blackwell, Mr. Leroy Neff and myself to be out visiting the church ...

We in the Church probably have more money at our disposal at the Feast of Tabernacles to spend on ourselves and our families than any other time of the year. So some are beginning to look at the Feast of Tabernacles as a vacation primarily, rather than realizing its basic purpose. The Feast of ...

To show his appreciation to Abner for helping unite Israel and for bringing Michal to Hebron, David prepared a feast for him and his men. Thus David's first wife was at long last given back to him, and at the same time Abner had the vengeful satisfaction of ruining lsh-bosheth's chances of becom ...

GOD CHOOSES DAVID, WHILE Saul and his soldiers were on their way back north, following their triumph over the Amalekites, Samuel received a message from God. (I Samuel 15:1-9.) "Samuel, I am not pleased with the man I set on the throne of Israel," the Creator informed the elderly prophet. ...