Herbert W Armstrong

Strange as it may seem, there is no Biblical authority for the celebration of Christmas. The reasons may surprise you. The facts about the origin of Christmas will startle you. Abundant historical evidence proves beyond doubt that Christmas is not of Biblical origin at all. The festival, believe it ...

In the last twenty years, the world has experienced a KNOWLEDGE EXPLOSION! Its fund of knowledge especially in technological and scientific fields - has more than DOUBLED. But the world's TROUBLES also have doubled over the same period of time. But what about God-revealed knowledge? That knowledge ...

And so, once again, I say, let's have the intellectual honesty and the honesty of heart, to be willing to do exactly what the Bible commands to prove all things and to prove whether what we have assumed and been brought up from childhood to believe in a world that is engulfed in pagan superstition ...

Look at the world today! War, famine, pestilence! Poverty, inequality, hunger, want! Sickness, disease, suffering, death! Crime, graft, dishonesty, corruption! Insanity, degeneration, decay! Unhappiness, fear, wretchedness and woe! How, so many are asking, can a supreme, all-powerful God of love per ...

The example of Olympian Eric Liddell is instructive for those running the ultimate spiritual race. What drives humans to climb Mt. Everest? To summon hidden reserves on the running track? What makes individuals handicapped by deafness or blindness determined to achieve amazing feats? Why do people o ...

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 ...

Fasting is an often-neglected key to drawing closer to God. Here's how you can effectively use fasting as a powerful spiritual tool. Since ancient times, fasting has been an integral part of worshiping God! Humanity, however, has been misled and confused about the true meaning and purpose of fasti ...

Day of Pentecost - THE CHURCH IN GOD'S MASTER PLAN. Did you know that unless Christ's disciples had been KEEPING the Day of Pentecost THEY WOULDN'T HAVE RECEIVED GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT? Without God's Spirit NO ONE could ever inherit eternal life! Without God's Spirit you can't even WORSHIP ...

Dividing the nations (Shem, Ham, Japheth) - Abraham - God's Covenant - Blessing of Tribes of Israel - Ten Commandments - My Sabbaths... a sign - Clean and Unclean Meats - Feast Days - Blessing and Cursing on Israel; four, seven - times punishment - Man's ways seem right, but lead to death. ...

GREETINGS my sons in Christ's Ministry, and wives! Surely this was the greatest, most joyous, inspiring and helpful and blessed Festival in 1900 years! And four days before the end of the Feast of Tabernacles, the inspiration came to see if the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. could put thro ...

A colleague of mine said. "Faulkner, all you ever write about are principles from the book of Proverbs. I guess he's right. Over the years I've found so many helpful principles in this book that I come back to it time after time. I guess once I master and apply what is in this one little bo ...

Why has God permitted 6000 years of human woe and suffering? LOOK AT THE WORLD TODAY! War, famine, pestilence! Poverty, inequality, hunger, want! Sickness, disease, suffering, death! Crime, graft, dishonesty, corruption! Insanity, degeneration, decay! Unhappiness, fear, wretchedness and woe! How, so ...

(Editor's Note: The following is from a transcript of the videotaped message Mr. Armstrong prepared for the members of the Churches in Southern California. He expressed his deep appreciation of their support during the Church/state crisis and explains a bit further the why and wherefore of what th ...

Why has God permitted 6,000 years of human woe and suffering? LOOK AT THE WORLD TODAY! War, famine, pestilence! Poverty, inequality, hunger, want! Sickness, disease, suffering, death! Crime, graft, dishonesty, corruption! Insanity, degeneration, decay! Unhappiness, fear, wretched­ ness and woe! How, ...

Continuing now, with vital, dynamic prophecy. What's prophesied to happen to the United States? It is the biggest subject of prophecy and 1/3rd of your Bible is prophecy. This is the one most vital factor in the topsy-turvy world conditions of today. Yes, we're concerned about a lot to things bu ...