Herbert W Armstrong

The incredibly powerful computer we use to help us do the work of God's Church today has a serious handicap. It is too slow. To be fair, not all parts of our computer are too slow. You probably know that a computer is actually several different machines linked together. The part that does the comp ...

THIS past year much attention has been drawn to the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The end of that war also ushered in a new era-the age of atomic and thermonuclear weapons. Saved Lives in Victory, But... At the beginning of the Manhattan Project that produced the "Little ...

Question: "My son and daughter are of high school age. What instruction should I give them regarding dating and the modern custom of 'going steady'? I know they need the benefits of social contact with those of the opposite sex for their personality development. But I don't want to give t ...

You are probably breathing polluted air this very minute! If you aren't, you ought to be very thankful. You are in a blessed, and rapidly shrinking minority. And when you took your first drink of water this morning, chances are, it, too, was far from fresh. To be sure, it had probably been "p ...

THE WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN: Suddenly, one crisis after another is erupting all over the Caribbean basin. It all spells big trouble for the United States, which once had little to fear from the "manana cultures" to the south. In a recent Pastor General's Report we examined the revolution in Nicar ...

You will soon be receiving the semi-annual letter, written today for the entire 400,000 subscribers to The Plain Truth. Both that letter, and this one, will be air-mailed to Pasadena, reprinted and mailed from there. You will be receiving that letter separately a little later. In it I am telling all ...

I wrote you co-workers a year ago today. Again it is "ARMISTICE DAY." A tragedy is happening, and I have to write you again. You must help me prevent it. It seems foolish to celebrate the armistice of World War I. Today we are in the midst of the second armistice. AND THERE IS A REAL REASO ...

The Doom of Pre-Flood Society; Lamech succeeded Cain, whom he killed, as the strongest leader of the pre-Flood society. He lived a very long time. Not only did his life parallel Cain's for about three centuries but he was also contemporary with Noah for some 300 years. Lamech was a man of violence ...

Severe Financial Crisis. We were running behind in paying radio bills for station time. We were threatened with being forced off the air — having this whole work stop. Co-workers had failed to rise to meet this financial emergency. We had reached the point of desperation. If co-workers could not, or ...

Does music have a purpose? How can you recognize GOOD music? Here's the truth about "psychedelic," protest-rock, pop-rock and similar types of modern music. "I'm a goin' outta myyyyyyyy HEAD!" wails a voice from the radio to the beat of a nerve wracking pandemonium that seems designe ...

One vital element - if implemented - would revolutionize students' scholastic performance. High schools graduate functional illiterates? Young people scarcely able to read a daily newspaper or write an understandable letter? What is happening in our schools? One recent exam graphically illustrated ...

WHEN SAMUEL saw Saul for the first time, God informed Samuel that this was the powerful young Benjamite who would become the leader of Israel. Saul didn't know who Samuel was, though God had caused him to walk up to Samuel and inquire where the chief of Israel could be found. (I Samuel 9:10-18.) ...

In a day such as ours with footprints of human beings on the moon. Is the Bible really important or is it something like a talisman? A kind of a spiritual exercise in tranquility and inner peace that people file away somewhere in the home, maybe in a dresser drawer or maybe on the top of the piano, ...

Have YOU ever said something you regretted later? Is YOUR TONGUE always getting YOU into trouble? You need to realize what the tongue is really like, and how YOU CAN CONTROL IT! THE lady next door had recently moved into a better neighborhood and decided to invite all of her old friends and ne ...

I'm writing you from 38,000 feet, over a desolate portion of Australia, en route from Sydney to Singapore. With two other officials in this great Work, we are on a very important round-the- world trip. I have said for some time that the big world news from now on will be centered on and around Jer ...