Herbert W Armstrong

As the Winfields finished eating their evening meal, Leon announced, "Tonight we're going to start packing for the Feast of Tabernacles!" Leon's father, Grandpa Winfield, who only last week had moved from Tennessee to an apartment a block away, said: "It's hard to believe it's ...

Can we believe the Bible? Is it historically true? Here is one surprising proof that it IS true! DID the children of Israel really cross the Red Sea? We are told in the Bible that Israel fled Egypt during the Days of Unleavened Bread. That they were driven out because the Egyptians had been supernat ...

THE following account is paraphrased from Exodus, chapters 7-13: The spring of 1486 B.C. was unlike any previous spring in Egyptian history. Nature seemed to have gone crazy. The Nile, life-giving river of Egypt, turned into a flood of blood. Fish died by the millions. The stench from the ri ...

Are Christ's servants on the Visiting Program BRETHREN, or SPIES? Are they sent to "check up" on you, to "watch" you - or to serve and help you? It's time many of the "brethren" search their own hearts! YOU ARE living in a HOSTILE, SUSPICIOUS, JEALOUS, CARNAL-MINDED, HATEFUL world! It+ ...

Sour grapes? A bah-humbug Scrooge? Antiestablishment? Irreligious? No! Practical. Logical. Truthful. And, believe it or not, biblical! Here are my reasons for deleting Christmas from my budget. Try it - you might like it! The average yuletide spender squanders nearly ten percent of his annual income ...

An admiring fan had just attended a spectacular recital by a world-class pianist. Overcome with awe at the pianist's skillful playing, the fan raced up to the artist and exclaimed: "Oh, that was wonderful - beautiful! I'd give anything if I could play the piano like that!" "No you ...

As farm kids become a smaller and smaller minority, I'm more than happy to say I grew up on a farm! What's it like to live on a farm and come from a small town in the middle of America's breadbasket? It's worlds apart from the big city. Our family farm is 3 miles south of Carmi, Ill., a town ...

All of us at some time in our lives have either read or had read to us the biblical story of David and Goliath. As a young man growing up on a dairy farm, I used to ponder and try to visualize, while doing my early morning chores, what took place between David and Goliath. Faced with problems of my ...

Many criminologists advocate the death penalty for capital crimes. But others say capital punishment doesn't deter crime. Many feel it is cruel and inhuman. Is there a workable alternative to capital punishment? This article examines both sides of the controversy. Joseph Bernard Morse, at age 20, ...

The peaceful, wooded neighborhood of White Oak, Texas, may seem a long way from the horrors of World War II, but it was there that I talked to a man who had survived three years in a Nazi concentration camp. Today he tells his story in hopes that what happened in Europe 40 years ago will not happen ...

When was the Old Testament completed? Who authorized the building of synagogues in Judea? In this fifth installment you will learn how the Jews continued under the Government of God to the time of Alexander the Great. THE canonization of the Old Testament by the members of the Great Assembly was the ...

Do you realize the real significance of Pope Paul VI visiting Palestine? Events that are very soon going to totally ALTER THE WHOLE FUTURE OF YOUR LIFE are happening so fast right now, that it is hard to keep up with them. Just four days ago a TREMENDOUS EVENT occurred at Bonn, Germany. Chancellor E ...

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 ...

Many a school boy has heard of Odin, the great Norse hero. But how many realize that Odin was a real king of Denmark? That he founded the kingdom of Denmark in the days of David, king of Israel? That he visited Solomon's temple? of that Odin was the first Danish king to cross the Atlantic — as did ...

Sexual love has always been the essential ingredient in the observance of St.Valentine's Day. This was true in ancient Rome, during the Middle Ages, and it is true today. Moreover, the mid - February date of this observance has not changed. Only the name of the game has changed, since February 14 ...