Herbert W Armstrong

Often underemphasized in the lives of many, hope is a tremendous spiritual gift at work in all who will be in God's coming Kingdom. The Bible speaks of three great fruits of God's Holy Spirit: faith, hope and love (I Corinthians 13:13). Most Christians readily and easily understand that love, ca ...

As a member of the Church of God, do you have any obligation to an ORGANIZATION? Is church attendance, tithing, Holy-Day observance and attendance at God's Feasts REQUIRED of you? "I'VE NEVER been much for goin' to Church! " one hears exclaimed from time to time. "I don't belong to any ...

I will build My church," proclaimed Jesus Christ to His disciples (Matthew 16:18). Many have believed Christ's promise and seen the profound need to find that true Church. Yet, strangely, almost no one has sought to understand the other important questions about the Church - such as why Chris ...

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Jesus Christ says it is more blessed to give than to receive. Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong expounds the give way of life as opposed to this world's way of get. Everyone agrees that generosity is a virtue - one extolled through out history. But what about when your third tithe year comes aro ...

Here are the AMAZING facts about how the world's churches attempt to justify "Sunday observance" - how they have forsaken God's Sabbath! It is written by the Evangelist in charge of God's churches in Britain. ONE of the most difficult things for one to do is to admit it when shown to be wrong! ...

ISRAEL'S NEW LAND. WE ARE READY NOW TO SEARCH out the actual location of the lost tribes of the outcast house of Israel. We know they exist today as a nation, and a company of nations, powerful, looked upon as Gentiles. And when we find them, we shall find the throne of David! Many passages of pro ...

A staggering turn in world events may occur suddenly at any day from now on. God has been holding back these world-shaking events. But now they may strike suddenly while the world least expects it. The very first issue of The PLAIN TRUTH magazine appeared February 1934 — just 50 years ago lacking ab ...

The "Million Dollar" Clay Business: EVEN IN 1928, the lean years were to continue quite a while longer. But if these were the lean years financially, they were the fat years spiritually - years of coming into the true riches. Yet, I still had many lessons to learn. Jesus had said, regarding economic ...

Well, greetings all my little children. I address you as my little children because all of you who have and are led by the Holy Spirit are directly or indirectly my children in the Lord Jesus Christ. I might say that this is the fiftieth Feast of Tabernacles for me, number fifty. And let me see, I t ...

The Word of God tells us that all who will follow the Christian way of life will have to face three deadly enemies. These enemies tend to discourage us from overcoming sin and developing the character of Christ. They put wedges into our minds that will grow, gradually separating us from the gu ...

You and I are committed, as Co-Workers together with the living Christ, to the greatest and most important activity on earth today! This Work of God was originally started by ONE man — Jesus Christ. But on the day of Pentecost, A.D. 31, the same Holy Spirit that had carried on God's Work through h ...

A new flyer has been recently designed by the Subscriber Development staff and Graphics department, which we call the "Add Flyer. " It is sent to all new subscribers to The PLAIN TRUTH and offers them the following literature: Does God Exist?, Why Were You Born?, and The Seven Laws of Success. Re ...

Now, to see just what He did preach, the example that He did set, what the early Church under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and the leadership of the Apostles did believe and what they did preach and the customs they did follow, we are once again going through the first four books of the New Te ...

God's sacred calendar is the true calendar for all mankind. Its principles go back to the very first chapter of the Bible, where the sun and the moon were appointed to be for signs, seasons, days and years (Gen. 1:14). This is the calendar God gave to Israel when He led them out of the pagan pract ...