Herbert W Armstrong

David you know was a man who was given to contemplation and to deep thought and he was looking up into the sky one clear night and saw all the stars up there and some nights if the clouds are wafted away, you can see many, many; I have seen the skies when it's just loaded with stars it seems, and ...

RECENTLY, we received a thought - provoking letter from a subscriber in Australia. We were refreshed by the honest approach and felt we should share it with our readers. You may even see yourself here. Dear Sir: It is more than a year now since I started reading The PLAIN TRUTH. I sent for it in the ...

From our minister in the Colorado-Kansas churches comes this surprising message! CONVERSION means a "change." It means to turn from our evil past conduct. It means to totally forsake human tradition, to yield in unconditional surrender to the Creator God. Conversion is impossible to achieve through ...

Here are more principles that will help you solve Bible difficulties - how to determine original word meanings - how to use marginal comments and footnotes -and other basic guidelines to help you better understand God's Word. WORDS mean different things to different people. ...

Do you know why YOU need to fast - and fast often? Why does God enjoin fasting on His people? How should you fast - and what are the pitfalls you should avoid? Your salvation may depend on the answers! TO MANY people in the world, "fast" is merely the opposite of "slow"! They do ...

Your Bible tells you to "yield yourself unto God." But do you know exactly what the Bible means when it says "yield"? Don't be too sure! You've seen the traffic sign that says "Yield," haven't you? It means, basically: "You don't have the right of way. Give the other traffic priority." So wh ...

The Gospel and the Church are concerned with government. God, in creating people, has a program in mind and He made us first physical. So, first it started with the first Adam, the first man was called Adam. But then the spiritual phase of God's whole program begins with Jesus Christ, and Christ i ...

Here is an eye-opening article from one of our ministers in Great Britain. You will find it vitally interesting. RECENTLY a very popular book has been published in which a leading Protestant minister advocated concentrating upon a small picture of Christ while you are praying in order to give you th ...

LONG AGO God put true facts into the minds of a few men whom He chose. These men wrote out those facts in words God put into their minds. It was like God writing by using human minds. God does not lie. He does not make mistakes. Therefore every word written by those men was true. Since then the Bibl ...

The Lord's Supper, like so many essential points of the original true doctrine, has fallen into the mire of erroneous tradition. Jude exhorts us "that ye should contend earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the saints." Modern Confusion, today different church denominations take this ...

Recently the European press especially in France and in Belgium have devoted a great deal of space to the predictions of the 16th century Nostradamus. However, the interpretations of his prophecies seem always to have been made after the event happened and not before. People always seem to be intere ...

What is going to happen next, in really tremendously world-shaking events? Now we're living in the pulsating very complicated and fast-moving twentieth century. Never have events in all of the history of mankind, never have they been as they are today. The events of every day now are so exciting t ...

Do you have to force yourself to study the Bible? Does your mind wander because the material is no longer as new and exciting to you as it was when God first opened your mind to understand? Have you set and failed to keep rigid schedules to make yourself get in your Bible study? Bible study ...

Suppose that Jesus Christ were to walk into your church just like He walked into the temple or the synagogues more than 1900 years ago, looking just like any other common man. Suppose that you heard Him teaching doctrines that were directly contrary to and antagonistic to those believed by your chur ...

Here is the third installment - revealing what really happened under Ezra and Nehemiah, and how the Government of God functioned in the Old Testament Church. THE religious condition of the Jews during the time of Christ had not evolved in just a few years. It took over 200 years for Judaism to firml ...