Herbert W Armstrong

Seven years isn't such a long time, but when you're spending that time in San Quentin, each minute seems to have its own sunrise and sunset. George Jackson (not his real name) has spent the last seven years of his life in that California prison, and he'll spend the remainder of it ther ...

My friends, in today's world, I wonder if you understand the difference between the True Church of God, and I mean the Church that Jesus Christ said that He would build. You know, Jesus Christ said, "I will build My Church." Where is that Church? Which of all these churches that you see, of all th ...

The push to eliminate all sexual distinctions in society IS now challenging God and the Bible. SUPPOSE YOU were to open your Bible tomorrow and read: "Our Householder; Which art in heaven; Hallowed be Thy name; Thy rulership come ... " What would you think? Yet this is how what is commonly ...

The plain truth is a little shocking - and illuminating! Nothing is so astonishing as the truth! It is often stranger than fiction. Most people who attend church regularly, or even occasionally, would be really surprised if they should probe into their own minds far enough to ask WHY they go, and ju ...

History comes alive with the startling story of how Simon Magus - branded a FALSE PROPHET by the book of Acts - established HIS OWN UNIVERSAL Church! SIMON MAGUS was a Babylonian priest. He was a part of the Babylonian community that had been living in the land of Northern Israel ever since the Nort ...

STRAUSS "GOES FOR BROKE": It's now official. Franz-Josef Strauss will go up against Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next year's West German General Election, a campaign which London's Daily Telegraph predicts will be a "titanic duel." The selection of Strauss as their chancellor candidate by the ...

Question 1: "A neighbor of mine thinks Christ, between the ages of twelve and thirty, was in a foreign nation. Where does the Bible say He lived during those years?" Question 2: "I have been listening to your program on the air and reading The PLAIN TRUTH for the past few years, Your ...

The naked TRUTH is being laid bare! This shocking but fully documented series now concludes with an analysis of the real MEANING of the Reformation - and a hint of its true impact on modern religious thought, and on YOU! PART XI. There is a basic but little understood REASON for the pitiful state of ...

In a recent newspaper interview Ted Armstrong suggested that the only document which might be worth anything that he has in his possession is the letter in which he was offered $50,000 a year "to keep my mouth shut." He has on previous occasions likened the Work's offer of $50,000 a year to "hush ...

Some brethren assume they should not TALK about the Bible when visiting one another, unless a minister is present. Let's understand when and how we should talk about the Bible - and to whom! HUNDREDS of you brethren still have no local church. Yet you can and do visit one another. Because God forb ...

Some brethren assume they should not TALK about the Bible when visiting one another, unless a minister is present. Let's understand when and how we should talk about the Bible - and to whom! HUNDREDS of you brethren still have no local church. Yet you can and do visit one another. Because God forb ...

...And Why And How Growth Then Stopped: Rumors have gone out that when I have said so many times God's Work grew 30 percent per year the first 35 years my statements were untrue. The rumor started to spread that I grossly misrepresented – that the Work grew very slowly that first 35 years, but tha ...

Question: Every year newspapers and magazines comment that Christmas is not Christian in origin. Is this true? Answer: The common assumption is that Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. But consider, for a moment, what Catholic, Protestant and secular historians say: States the Catholic ...

Believe it or not, it took the Christian church at Rome over 300 years to begin celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25, originally a pagan holiday. Only in A.D. 354, under the auspices of Liberius, bishop of Rome, did the city on the Tiber start to observe Christmas. Why did the church ...

It's about time that we let Him answer this question for Himself. Men have been bandying it around and some of them say that He saw that His Father's laws were not good, and so Jesus knowing, apparently, more than His Father, nailed up His Father's Law to the cross. Let's see what Jesus said ...