Herbert W Armstrong

It seems we have entered a time when nothing short of the cataclysmic, the catastrophic, the gory, and the sensationally violent will make, for successful box office in the motion picture industry. Almost everything one sees anymore is some type of spectacle exploring every conceivable human emotion ...

Psalm 20; another one of the Psalms of David; "The Eternal hear you in the day of trouble;" now of course the word "hear" implies more than just have the sound go into the ear, because here it means hear in a way that it will be answered, so the same word implies both hearing and ...

YOU are living in a limited world. Everything around us has limits - beginnings and endings. We are aware of babies being born. We are aware of other people dying. We observe animals, plants and insects beginning life. We see their lives come to an end. We are used to seeing things get older. Clothi ...

"For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" (John 1:17). Was Moses ever acquainted with grace and truth? Did Jesus ignore the law? Did these two prophets - one the founder of Israel and mediator of the Old Covenant, the other the Son of God and the Mediator o ...

Was the Protestant revolt a purely religious movement? Was it a sincere attempt to "reform" the Church which Jesus built? Here are astounding FACTS in this third of the series of articles based on Mr. Meredith's eye-opening book! The first two installments in this series revealed the sta ...

Well good afternoon to you all. This week we had some rather special visitors here on the Ambassador Campus, two long time members of the Church had been visiting here in California for several days, but they've been unable to see the Campus until just Wednesday afternoon. They like so many, many ...

Now the United States faces a NEW CRISIS in North Korea. This beside the sudden stepped-up offensive by North Vietnamese. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? It means PROPHECY is being fulfilled — prophecy revealing we are in the VERY LAST DAYS! The newspapers, and newscasts tell you WHAT has happened. But they do n ...

INTERNATIONAL DESK: THE CHANCES are most Plain Truth readers consider themselves to be average people. And the chances are they are completely wrong! It takes the average American worker 12 1/2 hours of labor to earn the money to feed his average family of four for a week, the statisticians tell us. ...

And I'm here to ask you the question, this afternoon or this morning rather, and that is "why did God kill the firstborn?" This has a great deal to do with what we've been keeping here the last several days and maybe we need to go back a bit before that period of time, but doesn't that seem a ...

Around the earth, nearly TWELVE THOUSAND observed the Passover, and over EIGHTEEN THOUSAND feasted on the "night to be much observed." And FOUR new Elders have been ordained! A DEEP spirit of OVERCOMING pervaded the Church of God during this Passover season. Once again, it seemed that some of t ...

One of the world's largest, driest and least-populated regions is caught up in the eye of an international political storm. How the issue is resolved will have great bearing on the future of not only all southern Africa but the economic well-being of the entire Western world. One would think that ...

Year One of the reborn era of God's Work starts in a few days—with the beginning of the year 1981. This great Work is now ready to TAKE OFF at an accelerated pace—with NEW LIFE! That NEW LIFE is being imparted to this Church by the living Jesus Christ who heads it! Look at this era of the Church o ...

GREETINGS, in Jesus' name! This is both a reminder and a report. Here we are already well into another calendar year. The annual Ministers' Conference has been in session here at World Headquarters for almost a week, and in another two or three days God's ministers will he returning to their p ...

Some of our members need to learn to what Church they belong! DO YOU know what Church you belong to? When your friends ask you, "What is your church? What denomination do you belong to?" - what is your answer? Do you tell them you are an "Armstrongite?" - or a member of the " ...

In a recent conference with the other ministers here at Headquarters Church, Mr. Armstrong made a final decision about the use of tape recorders in Church services and College classrooms. You need to know WHY such a decision was made! DURING the ministerial conferences in January, the subject of tap ...