Herbert W Armstrong

A sermonette should be 10 to 15 minutes on a small topic, or one facet of larger topic, or difficult scripture, or example — healing, blessing, encouraging. Or ask pastor for subject suggestions. Purposes: To give you practice. - Settle congregation at beginning of service. - Cover minor point, exam ...

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 ...

Trying to Convert Relatives: IN ALL my experience since conversion one oft-repeated incident has brought sorrow and regret. Many times a certain individual has been used to bring us light, or truth, or help, or certain advancement or stimulus to the Work of God, only to lose out spiritually and be d ...

Most people have an opinion about what sin is. But what does God say it is? The Bible says much about sin you may not have noticed. AH FLOO ovah Chicago, an' bruthern, ah sawr sin!" - wailed the itinerant tent-meeting evangelist. Everywhere this fiery "preachuh" went, he saw "s ...

THE LORD'S SUPPER, like so many essential points of the original true doctrine, has fallen into the mire of erroneous tradition. Jude exhorts us "that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." Today different church denominations take this sacred ordinanc ...

Why is it, let me ask once again my friends, that you have not heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ? But rather a false gospel, a gospel that masquerades as the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but which in fact is merely a gospel about His person and which represents Jesus Christ as a sort of smart-aleck young ...

Editor's Note: At 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning, July 28, Mr. Stanley Rader's pretaped interview with Torn Snyder was aired on the NBC television network show, "Tomorrow." Since this show has national coverage, its impact would seem to be important at this time of widespread publicity and stress in ...

DIFFICULTIES IN DOCTRINE: We have already seen many rules and principles for solving Bible difficulties in this thesis. If these rules are followed when studying doctrine, little difficulty should be encountered. But a few additional guidelines can be given that will prove helpful. ...

HERE OUGHT TO BE CAUSE FOR SHOUTING ALOUD FOR JOY!! I have just been reading, in Ezra, the account of the laying of the foundation for the new Temple of the Eternal at Jerusalem. This was 70 years after the original great Temple of Solomon had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar's army in the captivi ...

If you are not living by faith, you are not a CHRISTIAN, Yet many who call themselves Christian don't even know what it means to live by faith. "NOW the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him" (Hebrews 10:38). But what is faith? Many people, when ...

The Passover - CHRIST'S SACRIFICE BEGINS GOD'S MASTER PLAN YOU HAVE probably heard the teaching that Jesus did everything for you - that all you must do is ACCEPT His shed blood for your sins, and then you are "automatically saved"! Is the mere acceptance of Christ's death all there ...

Here is an eye-opening article from one of our ministers in Great Britain. You will find it vitally interesting. RECENTLY a very popular book has been published in which a leading Protestant minister advocates concentrating upon a small picture of Christ while you are praying in order to give you th ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - RIGHT NOW the world has its mind focused on the Olympic Games. Suppose we take an overview of Olympic history, down to its present nationalism, as seen from higher up - from the vantage point of the Almighty Creator - and understand what God thinks of this spectac ...

Bible prophecy reveals events of our time and world-shaking events soon to change your life. A major world-shaking event is foretold in the symbolic language of a mysterious world-dominating wild beast. The Bible is God's book of history, prophecy and revealed knowledge of God's purpose and mast ...

Jesus Christ is about to return to usher in, on earth, His 1,000-year reign of peace, happiness and prosperity. What does the Bible say about that glorious time? Why is it so many professing Christians today seem to think that the reward of the saints will be to lie around on clouds and strum harps ...