Herbert W Armstrong

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - I HAD just turned on television. Johnny Carson was chitchatting with a "show-biz" guest. Suddenly the thought flashed through my mind, Who else, pray tell, but a "show-biz" person could Johnny interview? Who else was of any importance or intere ...

The ancient priests of Jerusalem had a ritual. One in which - astonishingly - the entire secret of the death-resurrection-mission of Christ the Messiah, and the birth, life and destiny of the true Christian Church was acted out. It was no accident that multitudes of first-century Jews, knowi ...

THOUSANDS of Israelites had watched up Mount Sinai from the time Moses had gone up with a few men. They had seen the cloud come down to cover the summit, and had stared in awe at the long, multi-colored flames shooting up from the mountain and through the cloud as though from a belching volcano. Som ...

How did the celebration of New Year's Eve begin? Why is the beginning of a year placed in the middle of a dead winter? And where did the many customs surrounding it originate? MOST people carelessly assume that celebrating New Year's Eve is a Christian custom. But did the practice of "waiting th ...

What's wrong with the world today? It seems that everything's wrong with it, but do you know why? Why is it in this world in which we live, this upset chaotic war-fearing world, why is it that the churches are not proving to be the stabilizing influence that could save this world? Why is it the ...

What next in world troubles and violence? I just returned from another visit over into the Middle East and into Europe and I've come into contact with a lot of this worlds violence's as it is now. I tell you the average person doesn't realize the violence that is going on in this world. On thi ...

HANNAH wife of Elkanah the Levite, was at the tabernacle praying when she was startled by the harsh voice of Eli, the high priest. He accused her of being drunk. (I Samuel 1:12-14.) Prayer was so rare in Israel that Eli did not realize Hannah was praying. Having become lost to her surroundings becau ...

Exactly what is "worldliness"? To what extent does God expect Christians to separate themselves from the rest of society? Must God's people become spiritual isolationists? What does the Bible reveal about spiritual isolationism? Is God's Church intended to be a "closed shop" - an isol ...

What makes humans unique? Does man have an "immortal soul"? Is there any way of knowing what we are, why we are, where we are going, and the way to get there? MAN IS the most complex, truly unique physical mechanism ever designed and made. With such a marvelous mind and body, we might expect it wa ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - THIS IS the personal talk with our readers I had never even remotely expected I should be called on to write. It is a memorial in honor of the one dearest woman I have loved, respected, honored above all people - the wife of my youth. Fifty years ago, lacking only ...

Why do some parents beat and abuse their own children and others never do so? Children are daily brought to the attention of the public and health officials having been beaten, burned, stabbed, electrically shocked, stamped on, thrown violently against walls or raped-by parents or other adults in ch ...

The book of Revelation or the Apocalypse has fascinated the Western world more than any other part of the Bible. Many familiar expressions come from this last New Testament book: The Four Horsemen, bottomless pit, mark of the beast, lake of fire, Millennium, Babylon the great. The word Apocaly ...

The accent in this booklet is on Moses because his true purpose and personality are not visible in most "Christian" literature. Our style of presentation is not pedantic, argumentative or coldly factual, but rather, personal, intimate­ an attempt to give human warmth and feeling. In that concept ...

"Marriage," said the Greek poet Menander, "if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary one." Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, said simply, "Marriage is a noose." To many in today's troubled society these statements would merit a hearty "Amen!" But marriage was not meant to be ...

Having returned recently from the Orient with Mr. Armstrong, on Thursday morning, May 3rd, Mr. Stanley Rader updated church and college employees about recent developments in the Work. Dozens of questions were also asked and answered. He did not want to preempt Mr. Armstrong who is writing to the br ...