Herbert W Armstrong

I HATE CHRISTMAS, said one department-store manager in California. "I hate the hypocrisy, the one-day Christianity of Christmas. I hate the commercialism - and I'm part of it. People don't even know WHY they're giving." What a paradox. At Christmas time, millions of families are drawn closer t ...

Man alone of all creatures, harbors an insatiable interest in the past. The Luna of pyramids and statues has captured lives and fortunes. We remain as convinced as ever that knowledge of the dead will help provide knowledge and help for the living. Yet, despite man's efforts, antiquities still gua ...

India is NOT a Catholic country. What's behind the Pontiff's history-making India visit? What are Catholic plans for Asia? The world is being swept off its feet by this new Pope. He has shown himself to be a vigorous leader - he has dared to do things NONE of his predecessors dreamed of doing! P ...

Today, we hear a lot of bad news of the world today. But now I want to tell you precisely how and when the world lost the good news that Jesus Christ brought to mankind about the happy, peaceful, prosperous world tomorrow because that's what he proclaimed. He proclaimed the message of the gospel, ...

Some brethren need to WAKE UP from their spiritual laxity and begin to perform what Jesus commanded! OUR BAPTIZING; tours have discovered a dreadful spiritual condition among some brethren. They have found, for example, that some have been carelessly neglecting Jesus' passover command: "DO th ...

Can Protestants and Catholics get together in the coming Vatican Council? What does prophecy say will happen? Here's the startling answer in this sequel to last month's article. One stumbling block is keeping Protestants and Catholics from uniting. Protestants usually refuse to face it. It is th ...

Your child is ready for school. But are you? How well have you prepared your youngster? An enormous challenge faces you and your child as school begins! Many parents are not prepared. You should be. Up until this time, while your child has been at home with you, "training him or her up" in ...

Very shortly after my original marriage in 1917, an angel appeared to my wife in a dream. He descended from the sky, put his arms about both of us, said God was calling me soon to a most important commission. At the time I was embarrassed, suggested she tell it to the preacher at the church on the c ...

THE BIBLE is full of mistakes and contradictions!' "These were the words of a tall, handsome medical officer, some few years ago, in the saloon of a passenger steamer as we were gliding silently through the beautiful waters of the Mediterranean, returning home from a voyage to the East. "I ...

A very large segment of the population of the Western world attends church - on Sunday mornings. Why do they go? What do these churchgoers believe, and why? The plain truth is a little shocking - and illuminating! Nothing is so astonishing as the truth! It is often stranger than fiction. Most peo ...

What does it mean to be called by God? Why and how does God call human beings? If God is calling you, what should you do? No one can come to Me," Jesus said, "unless the Father who sent Me draws him" (John 6:44). This statement from the founder of Christianity knocks in the head the m ...

So many are asking about Paul's instruction to Gentile converts. Did Paul teach against the Sabbath and Holy Days? Here is an answer you have probably NEVER seen in print before! YOU HAVE been born into a confused world which is filled with confused teaching. Many of you have been taught that Paul ...

INTERNATIONAL DESK - STRANGE cities can be lonely places at night- Vienna, Austria, is no exception. Some Austrian friends had invited me to dinner, but I had decided instead to attend the Vienna Opera House. Unfortunately, even on a cold winter's evening the performance of Der Rosenkavalier was n ...

We can know the world tomorrow. We can know what's going to happen because God alone knows. No man knows. No man can tell anything about the future, but God and God alone. That's a proof of God knows what is going to happen. And He has revealed it. And a third of your Bible, approximately, is pr ...

We continue, with this third installment, the serial publication of Herbert W. Armstrong's latest book Mystery of the Ages. I WAS RETURNING to my hotel in New Delhi some years ago from a private conference with the late Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India. Ever since arriving in India I had not ...