Herbert W Armstrong

OK, you have a handout that I mentioned the other day, a couple of them just for your files. I think they illustrate some of the writing, the sketchy writing we have available to us in the early time of the Church. Comments by Plenty, the lawyer dispatched by the Roman Emperor to Asia to deal with C ...

OK, last time we had pretty much come through the time of Polycarp, there isn't a lot of material available about his successor Polycrates, but we did discuss him and that takes us as much as we know about the major Ministers who we consider to be part of the true Church as opposed to a system tha ...

SEVENTY-FIVE new students accepted for the Pasadena campus. Baptizing tours completed - HUNDREDS BAPTIZED. Mr. Armstrong and other leading ministers who have been abroad for the summer prepare to return. All these events HIGHLIGHT a very FRUITFUL SUMMER! THESE PAST FEW WEEKS have been jam-packed! Mr ...

Jews and Christians alike anticipate the construction of a temple in Jerusalem. But is a temple necessary to fulfill prophecy? It was April, A.D. 69. The 29-year-old General Titus had command of the Roman army for the Judean campaign. The Jewish war against Rome started in early A.D. 66. Gradually t ...

Is the construction of a temple in Jerusalem necessary to fulfill prophecy? The future holds some startling possibilities. Will there have to be a temple in Jerusalem before prophesied end-time events can take place? Must sacrifices be offered on the Temple Mount? Or will a physical building and sac ...

Today's money management is vital to tomorrow's financial success. Like it or not, the world operates on money. Without money we would not have a place to live, food to eat or clothes to wear. Yet making ends meet, meeting the challenges of income and outgo- balancing the family checkbook- can b ...

The government requires you to pay taxes. But what about your obligation to God? Few subjects animate our conversation more than taxes. We've learned to live with them, but not without a great deal of grumbling, complaining and opinion about how high taxes are and how the government is spending th ...

National character and temperament reflect much of how we feel about each other. Let's take a positive look at cultural differences and see how to respect them. My wife and I along with our 10-year-old daughter were waiting for the number 4 bus on King David Street in Jerusalem. It was the first w ...

The problem of battered women and children must be understood, dealt with and solved. There are some subjects so gruesome that humans don't want to hear about them. Yet in our world of increasing violence, these problems must be faced. The rising tide of domestic violence, which includes wife beat ...

Mid-life crisis - real or imagined? Many men are facing the middle years with fear and apprehension. Here's help to understand the autumn of your life. There comes that moment of truth in everyone's life. You realize one day that your life is stretching out behind you - not in front of you. That ...

It's now been about 7 or 8 years ago, it's hard to believe, I gave a sermon which many of you heard on tape, probably about the differences between men and women. I've been asked many times to give that sermon over again and a Minister is kind of reluctant to do that, we put our sermons in the ...

Female emancipation is now a reality. Women are competing with men on every level. Are we racing toward a unisex world? Are there standards for young girls and teenagers to live by? How do you become the right kind of girl? What does God Say? "YOU'VE come a long way, baby, to get where you got to ...

What can you do if your home has become a battleground? When parents fight, some kids hide in their bedrooms, trying to pretend they are asleep and don't hear the shouting. Others try to stay away from their troubled homes as much as possible . According to child psychologist Antoinette Saunders, ...

Going to the Feast is, in one respect, like most other endeavors: The better you plan, the better you will enjoy it when it actually comes! But how do you prepare properly? Let's take it one step at a time. Check the Feast site out. In order to know what to do or see when you arrive, some homework ...

Do you know what they are? It starts early in life. This quality called leadership. Do you remember as a youngster on the playground, someone would say, "Let's play a game"? Then another would say, "Yeah, let's do. Tommy and Johnny will be captains and choose sides." What was ...