Herbert W Armstrong

Words cannot express the gratitude, and the sense of encouragement and inspiration I have experienced at the response of God's people to my letter of March 30th. God surely does have a people for His name, whose hearts are in His Work — who are willing when necessary to make real personal sacrific ...

THINK OF IT! We have reached and passed the 50th anniversary of this great worldwide Work of the living GOD in these very end-time days of this present world. I presume you already have received your 50th anniversary number of The PLAIN TRUTH. It seems like only yesterday since my wife Loma and I ca ...

I've wanted to write an article about depression for several days now, but I've been too depressed to write it. I think I have discovered a new disease - depresscrastination. My wife calls it "laziness." She has such a way with words. Everyone is affected by depression to one degree or ...

About 1140 B.C., when God still ruled Israel through judges, there was a Levite named Elkanah who had two wives. One, Hannah, was favored of her husband, but had no children. The other was Peninnah. Each year the family journeyed to Shiloh to worship the Eternal. This is where Joshua, about ...

THANK YOU — THANK YOU — for responding to my last letter. In the last thirty days we have made a GOOD START on the way back up in God's Work — but only a good start. Now we must KEEP things ROLLING!I am sorry that the NEW magazine for Co-Workers — Tomorrow's WORLD — is not yet ready for mailing ...

OK, we're up to the 6th chapter of the book of Acts; "And in those days, when the number of the disciples" now the word disciple is the word that means "learning or discipline", you know the modern educator talk about different areas of education in college as being a certain d ...

ABRAHAM GIVES UP HIS SON, AFTER the destruction of the cities on the plain of Jordan, Abraham moved southward to a land called Gerar. Just as God promised, a son was born to Abraham and Sarah. An angel had already told them to name the baby Isaac. Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac was born. ...

To The Honorable Mayor of Your Beautiful City: A radio-controlled nuclear bomb has been carefully concealed near the heart of your metropolis. If you distribute 20 million dollars in small bills to the minority members of your community within the next three days, you will be notified of the bomb' ...

The answer could mean money in your pocket! What's seven times nine? Be honest now. Did you know the answer straight off? Or did you have to stop and try to figure it out? How about 32 times 11, or 6,354 times 81? If you wanted the answer to problems such as these, would your automatic reaction be ...

Almost nobody reads it and fewer yet understand it. There are some things in the Bible that are so hard to understand. Now most Bibles sold today are the old King James translation that was made back in the year 1611 in the time of King James of England; clear back in the seventeenth century — 1611. ...

GREETINGS! in Jesus' name: We have just returned to Eugene. After an absence of three months and two days, I am again back at my desk. And I find the situation such that the very first thing I must do is write a very special and URGENT emergency letter to all our Co-Workers. I find the work in a f ...

It was on the tenth day of the first month (Nisan in the spring - not January in the winter) that Israel crossed the Jordan river and made camp in Canaan at a spot called Gilgal. The west border of the camp wasn't much more than a mile from Jericho, a thick-walled city swarming with enemy soldiers ...

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 ...