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 Commentary From the Margins - Garner Ted Armstrong
I confessed privately to Garner Ted a year ago that I questioned whether he was ever drawn by God the Father.
GTA was the starter who was to do the work of the spiritual Nehemiah in conjunction with his father who had been given the work of Ezra, that of rebuilding the temple of God.
GTA was to have rebuilt the walls of spiritual Jerusalem, but he took himself out of the game because of a Laodicean attitude.
homerkizer.org /GTA.html   (751 words)

  
 GTA Obituary
Garner Ted Armstrong, a silver-haired television evangelist known for his easy charm and dark message, died on Monday in Tyler, Tex. He was 73.
Armstrong was the son of the evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong, who called himself the "only apostle of our time" and used radio to build a ministry that eventually reached millions with its message of the imminent end of the world to be followed by the second coming of Christ.
Garner Ted Armstrong was born on Feb. 9, 1930, in Portland, Ore. His father saw his birth as a miracle, because his wife had recovered from an anemic condition shortly before he was born.
treybig.org /GTA-NewYorkTimes.htm   (771 words)

  
 Garner Ted Armstrong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
YLER, Texas—Garner Ted Armstrong, 73, son of WCG founder Herbert W. Armstrong, died in a Tyler hospital at 1:20 p.m., Sept. 15, of complications from pneumonia.
Armstrong was president of the Intercontinental Church of God of Tyler, Texas, and the Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association of Flint, Texas.
Armstrong is survived by his wife, Shirley; three sons, Mark, David and Matthew; and five grandchildren.
www.wcg.org /wn/03october/garner_ted_armstrong.htm   (159 words)

  
 Garner Ted Armstrong and the Masseuse
GTA started attending the spa around May. The victim states GTA was in about six or seven times and that she had no idea who he was.
GTA's lawyers wanted to see the whole tape and he was told that if he wanted to see the whole tape, a suit will be filed and Ted would get it in discovery.
They are told by Benny Sharp that Garner Ted has been put on a short leash by Benny Sharp and Ron Dart and that Garner cannot do anything without their consent.
www.exitsupportnetwork.com /artcls/gta_mas.htm   (2645 words)

  
 For Those Needing Information on Garner Ted Armstrong
GTA was suspended from the Worldwide Church of God in 1971 for "sexual sins"; however his father told the members that his son had "emotional problems." He was later reinstated before the first of 1972 and again suspended in May 1972.
GTA's last known affair was with a young woman less than half his age from Louisiana area.
Garner Ted continued to believe until the very end that he was "God's messenger" with the "truth of the Gospel." His sermons and booklets contained an air of carnality mixed with human reasoning.
www.exitsupportnetwork.com /artcls/gta.htm   (1110 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | News | How Low Can You Go?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The man is Garner Ted Armstrong, a televangelist and founder of Church of God International, a Christian sect headquartered on the lush shores of Lake Palestine in Flint, Texas.
Garner Ted Armstrong was 4 years old when in 1934 his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, secured time on a radio station in Eugene, Oregon, and founded the Radio Church of God.
Though a repentant Garner Ted later returned to the fold, by 1974 the word was out among Worldwide ministers: Garner Ted was alleged to have squandered church money, openly disputed his father's teachings, and engaged in sexual misconduct with women church members during a period of several years.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/1996-05-09/feature_full.html   (5752 words)

  
 GARNER TED ARMSTRONG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herbert W. Armstrong did not publicly state the charges, but it was stated by others that Garner Ted Armstrong was involved with many of the co-eds at the Ambassador College and had been involved with numerous other women in the previous twenty years.
Garner Ted Armstrong continues his father's teaching regarding the Godhead, redefining it in his own image as a "family" rather than a Trinity as is taught in the Bible.
Ted was accused of "philandering", and suspended from the ministry twice.
www.ondoctrine.com /10armstg.htm   (2996 words)

  
 Garner Ted Armstrong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The voice, style and presentation of Garner Ted Armstrong attracted millions of listeners and viewers and at one time he was rumored to have been approached by a major cereal company to act as their paid media sales spokesman.
The failure of the prophecy, combined with the removal of the younger Armstrong from the airwaves resulted in a dramatic drop in donations to the church and Garner Ted Armstrong's television appearances were revived despite the allegations against him.
Later, as Garner Ted Armstrong faded from the scene, Stanley Rader, attorney and the church accountant who had been the right-hand man to Herbert W. Armstrong since 1958, appeared to be stepping into the number two position of administration that had previously appeared to be the sole domain of Garner Ted Armstrong.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garner_Ted_Armstrong   (1301 words)

  
 Garner Ted Armstrong, 73; TV Evangelist Formed Own Church After Break With Father
Often plagued by scandal, Armstrong was asked to step down in 1995 as head of the Church of God International, which he had formed in 1978, after a Texas woman accused him of having sexually assaulted her during two massage sessions.
Both Armstrongs were tainted by charges from six ministers who resigned from the church, accusing father and son of moral transgressions, financial irregularities and doctrinal rigidity.
Garner Ted Armstrong had served as vice president of the Worldwide Church of God and of Ambassador College from 1958 to 1978, and was its principal public spokesman and televangelist.
www.rickross.com /reference/wwchurch/wwchurch7.html   (845 words)

  
 Worldwide Church of God
Armstrong prophesied that Great Britain and the United States would be struck suddenly by tragedies, including droughts and famine that would claim a third of their populations.
Armstrong shunned the view of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit asa force of three persons in one, favoring an anti-trinitarian "family" of Gods into which humans may be born.
Armstrong served as the founder and chairman of AICF, and Garner Ted the president, but executive vice presidents Rader and colleague Robert Kuhn were said by many to have truly controlled the workings of the foundation
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/wcg.html   (5401 words)

  
 Armstrongism
In 1917, Armstrong was married to Loma Dillon.
Garner Ted was removed from his ministry at that time but after he repented he was restored.
Armstrong added the Identity of Modern Israel theory which he obtained from J. Allen and the Jewish Feast Days, church eras, and the "true name" of God's church which he picked up from G.G. Rupert (Address at a local elders' conference at Big Sandy, Texas by Tkach, Jr., June 1994).
mysite.verizon.net /bhmiller/armstrongism.htm   (1990 words)

  
 Blog of Death: Garner Ted Armstrong
Garner Ted Armstrong, a television evangelist who founded two independent ministries, died on Sept. 16 from complications of pneumonia.
Armstrong then founded the Church of God International and the Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association in 1978.
Garner Ted is proof that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000327.html   (4540 words)

  
 TIME.com: Garner Ted Returns -- Jul 10, 1972 -- Page 1
"Garner Ted Armstrong, where are you?" The familiar pitchman's voice wasted no time answering itself: "I'm alive and well and on the air on this radio station!" So he was, on stations across the country, once again softselling the messages of the Worldwide Church of God.
The W.C.G. membership was informed of Garner Ted's return at the end of May in a pair of letters from father and son.
Garner Ted, sounding properly contrite, acknowledged that he had been spending the past several months in an A-frame in the Colorado mountains with his wife.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,910354,00.html   (525 words)

  
 Field Guide: Memoir of the Tribulation Period of the Worldwide Church of God
Garner Ted Armstrong was granted a leave of absence, hoping that full repentance and overcoming of his personal, emotional problems would allow reinstatement without a long delay, and for the protection of the Work, no public announcement was made.
Ted openly and readily admitted to me that he had conducted an affair with this girl, but he exclaimed that the girl had repeatedly pursued him by showing off her shapely legs, flaunting her exciting body suggestively, and giving him the overt "come on" until in desperation and weakness he gave in.
Ted expressed that he hoped his father (Herbert Armstrong) didn't have to be advised of this because this knowledge would "break his heart." (Little did I know then that his father had been aware of his son's adulterous affairs since the early 1950s, but his father had chosen to ignore that side of Ted's character.
www.isitso.org /guide/memoir2.html   (14889 words)

  
 Intercontinental Church of God, Garner Ted Armstrong, Mark
It is my understanding that GTA and his supporters felt that there were a lot of problems at WCG in the 1970s and that GTA was on the correct side of the argument.
GTA then left and founded the Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association and the Intercontinental Church of God.
Although Garner Ted Armstrong separated from the Church of God, International in the winter of 1997/98, the STP remained a ‘work-in-progress’ and so followed him to the Intercontinental Church of God.
www.cogwriter.com /icg.htm   (1646 words)

  
 "How are the mighty fallen
It was in 1972 that an associate in the Work of God confided to me that Ted Armstrong had been having affairs with an estimated 200 or more girls during his ministry as an evangelist in the Church, while he preached on the radio and television.
In contrast to Herbert Armstrong's handling of his son's flagrant and continuous adultery, it might be germane to mention that when another minister was caught having committed a single act of adultery in 1968, he was fired from his job, put out of the ministry, and disfellowshipped from the Church.
Dorothy told Ted and others that Herbert had begun fondling and heavy petting her in 1933 when she was thirteen years old, but he did not begin going "all the way" with her until three years later, when she was 16.
www.triumphpro.com /how_are_mighty_fallen2.htm   (7979 words)

  
 Worldwide Church of God: Garner Ted Armstrong's Biblical Rant
Garner Ted you open your little e-piss-le with an indictment against the very act that made you, your detestable father, and all your cohorts very wealthy men!
Garner Ted, you have publicly even gone as far as to label actress Elizabeth Taylor a WHORE for having married seven times.
Garner Ted, you have lambasted the American fl as lazy, adulterous, thieving, whoring and complacent.
members.tripod.com /~ejm/gtas_biblicalrant_comments.htm   (3301 words)

  
 Sex Allegations Force Armstrong’s Resignation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Suerae Robertson, a licensed vocational nurse, said that Armstrong had begun to employ her in spring 1995 for massage therapy and claims that the television preacher made repeated lewd requests, grabbed and bit her, and attempted to force her into satisfying his immoral requests.
Garner Ted, 64, is the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, the late founder of the Worldwide Church of God.
In 1978, the younger Armstrong was excommunicated from the Pasadena-based sect by his father and established his own ministry, the Church of God International, now based in Tyler.
www.pfo.org /sexallg.htm   (190 words)

  
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Heavily influenced by Garner Ted’s charismatic personality and teaching, Bell planted a Church of God International congregation in his hometown.
Under the leadership of Joseph Tkach, who succeeded Herbert Armstrong as leader of the Worldwide Church of God upon his death in 1986, the sect experienced a massive doctrinal shift in the mid-90s toward biblical orthodoxy.
It wasn’t until the spring of 1998, after a series of sexual misconduct allegations were lodged against Garner Ted Armstrong, that Bell’s foray into Armstrongism came to an end.
www.bpnews.net /storydownload.asp?ID=18605   (1198 words)

  
 CHRISTIAN MEDIA RESEARCH -- Herbert W. Armstrong
hen Armstrong died, the new regime headed by Joseph Tkach Sr began to move the church towards orthodox Trinitarian theology with a re-assessment of the deity of Christ, a denial of the British-Israelite doctrine (the forerunner of today's Identity movement), and a repudiation of the WCOG's Sabbath and Feast day observance.
Completed just before Armstrong died, MOA was to be the doctrinal centerpiece of what had become a new denomination.
Within 3 years of Armstrong's death, MOA was "declared obsolete" by the new leadership, and removed from circulation.
www.christianmediaresearch.com /armstrong.html   (1635 words)

  
 A Brief Biography of Herbert W. Armstrong
Armstrong was aged 85 at the time, while Ramona was about 40 and was divorced with a living husband.
In 1931 Herbert W. Armstrong was ordained by the Oregon Conference of The Church of God, but in 1933 the Church of God group into which Armstrong had been baptized and ordained split into two factions.
Garner Ted Armstrong was finally removed as second-in-command of the church and replaced by attorney Stanley Rader, who had enjoyed a long relationship with Herbert W. Armstrong.
www.ukapologetics.net /1bioherb.html   (2369 words)

  
 Herbert W. Armstrong and THE WORLD TOMORROW RADIO BROADCAST TO THE UK 1964-1967
Between 1964 and 1967 a radio broadcast called "The World Tomorrow" introduced by Art Gilmore and featuring daily, half-hour polemical commentaries by Herbert W. Armstrong and his son Garner Ted Armstrong, were beamed into the UK from a variety of ships and disused WW2 forts from "pirate" radio stations broadcasting from offshore.
This "pirate" radio station carried the half-hour broadcasts of "The World Tomorrow" featuring either Herbert W. Armstrong or his son Garner Ted Armstrong at 7 PM each night: to most of the Southeast and Midlands of England as well as the seaboard of continental Western Europe.
He is followed by Garner Ted Armstrong with a brief example of his own presentation style and content in this half-hour hectoring quasi-news and prophecy broadcast.
www.hwa-research.com /index.html   (1141 words)

  
 Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)
Armstrong on this important development in end time prophecy.
Armstrong speak on a number of subjects in 1-7 minutes sound bites.
www.garnertedarmstrong.ws.cob-web.org:8888   (339 words)

  
 Commentary From the Margins - Disqualified By Himself
Thus, he writes that his vagueness was intentional concerning the receipt for the down payment monies he received from me. So indeed, he has grown and overcome his tendency to be deceitful in the same way that he objected to Garner Ted’s overcoming his sexual misadventures.
And therein lies the greater problem: Garner Ted’s sexual escapades, which no one could condone, were less vile than is a deceitful attitude.
Concerning Garner Ted Armstrong, Norman and Marleen Edwards continue their 1997 answer [Edwards’ emphasis]: "We are not judging whether we are more or less righteous that Garner Ted Armstrong.…We are sinners too.
homerkizer.org /02-13-05C.html   (1568 words)

  
 1974 Dale Haynes Letter to Garner Ted Armstrong
The commission of the early New Testament Church was to "Go you therefore and teach (make disciples of) all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Matthew 28 is a command to the Church, not a prophecy.
Herbert Armstrong at the conference plainly say that "Matthew 28 is not our commission." Christ further elaborated "and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem" Lk.
Paul said, "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
www.quango.net /ekklesia/1974haynes.htm   (1859 words)

  
 Herbert W. Armstrong | Garner Ted Armstrong | Worldwide Church of God
A collection of Facts, Opinions and Comments from survivors of Herbert W. Armstrong, Garner Ted Armstrong, The Worldwide Church of God and it's Daughters.
The Painful Truth is pleased to announce a new blog about the Armstrong experience.
Flying Free is a thoroughly researched book, which can help people to freely move on from the legacy of the Armstrong errors.
hwarmstrong.com   (401 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Armstrong died in a Tyler hospital, said his son Mark.
Armstrong founded the Church of God International in 1978 after his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Pasadena, Calif.-based Worldwide Church of God, excommunicated him after a dispute.
He founded the Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association in Tyler in 1978, along with the Church of God International.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=garnertedarmstrong   (606 words)

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