Herbert W Armstrong

Smiling faces out there. What can make you unhappy? You know psychiatrists believe that many things can affect our mood, to be happy, to be unhappy, to be distressed or to be calm. Psychiatrists in Ohio State, a doctor there said, "Take a look outside", you may take a look out that window there, he ...

"The Eternal gave, and the Eternal has taken away; blessed be the name of the Eternal!" WHY does God allow some things which seem utterly contrary to anything we can understand? "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Eternal." He often does no ...

The Mysterious "Breach". Where did Jeremiah go, with Baruch his secretary and one of more of the royal daughters of History stops short at this point. Enlightened students of Bible history have long known that the Ten Tribes - called by the name "House of ISRAEL" - have been lost, and exist today am ...

IT IS revealed that Jesus was "Emmanuel" - that is, "God with us" - GOD in human flesh. He was both God and man - divine as well as human. Can God die? Was Jesus really dead, or did only His body die? Was Jesus the divine One alive during the three days and three nights a body wa ...

Why have thousands of comfortable matrons recently turned into rabid "women's libbers"? What makes wives who seemingly have everything go on the warpath against male chauvinism? Should you take sides in the battle of the sexes - and if you're a wife, just how liberated should you be? ...

According to Josiah's wish, his grandson, then eight years old, was to succeed him. But he was removed from any opportunity to reign after ten days' time. Neither did Josiah's eldest son, Eliakim, succeed his father because the people of Judah believed he would regard the king of Egypt as thei ...

EVERYONE WANTS to have a happy life - close friends, a strong marriage, good health, a meaningful career, personal satisfaction. Did you realize that at the Feast of Tabernacles this year, the way to achieve these things will be explained for you for eight days, in the sermons and sermonettes at ser ...

In this eleventh installment, Mr. Armstrong continues his early married life, business experiences in Chicago, and the beginning of God's intervention, sweeping away his business. Shortly after our second daughter, Dorothy, was born, I persuaded my younger brother, Russell, then twenty, to come ba ...

I have made an interesting discovery about young people. Most of you have heard the words of Christ, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35), and I have discovered once you get the idea, you are often better givers than grown-ups. Since most of you have limited spending m ...

I have just had a visitor in my office, on MOST URGENT business! It was Mr. Albert J. Portune, manager of the business office of the most important activity on earth — the great WORK OF GOD! I'm going to have to rush this letter to you by AIRMAIL because of the very serious URGENCY. The receipt of ...

The Halloween season will soon be upon us. Stores will sell orange and black greeting cards; costumes and masks. Children will dress up as witches, ghosts, and vampires. Parents will carve pumpkins into grotesque configurations. Teens will join in the holiday spirit by engaging in pranks ranging fro ...

The November 1973 Arab oil embargo signaled a dramatic end to the days of cheap and plentiful energy that Western society had enjoyed for so long. In spite of its initial shock and trauma, the real significance of the energy crisis has gone unnoticed. Contrary to popular belief, it is not exclusivel ...

Here is more surprising news from the campus at Pasadena. THE SMALL group of young disciples gathered about Jesus Christ on a mount in Galilee - were suddenly sobered by the import of the words He spoke to them: "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of ...

Begin now to focus your mind on the most joyous eight days of this year - to be anticipated and enjoyed by the LARGEST number of people to be gathered at any convention, assembly or festival on earth. More than 120,000 happy brethren will share this time of rejoicing. The time has come that I must r ...

1956 - A momentous year! Several wide-coverage daily radio stations added. The WORLD TOMORROW booms around the world. Mrs. Armstrong's diary records our tour of Middle East. INSTALLMENT 67 (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first installment of the Autobiography since the June, 1964, number. In order t ...