Herbert W Armstrong

Just what is a "born-again" Christian? Don't be too sure you know! Many - perhaps millions - sincerely believe they have been "born again" – yet do not understand what Jesus meant when He used those words. WHY did the Pharisee, Nicodemus, understand when Jesus said to him: &quo ...

There's been a great deal of controversy recently on the question of capital punishment. Is it right or is it wrong for society through government to put guilty murderers or people at are a menace to society and who have committed capital crimes to put them to death, to protect society? Let me see ...

I write you in flight over the Atlantic Ocean, London to Pasadena, California. In Europe I have talked privately with heads of state and officials high in governments. Many threads of government in both Eastern and Western Europe are coming together suddenly. Very shortly, probably in a matter of mo ...

It IS later than we think! And this Church is not yet ready! Christ calls us to HEED, NOW! ATHE TIME of Christ's return to earth in supreme power and glory, God's Word says to us, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath ...

YOU'VE heard of "God's poor." You've heard that "money is the root of all evil," and that God hates the rich man, making it harder for him to get into God's kingdom than for a camel to go through a needle's eye. But here's what you probably have not heard! Here's th ...

And now, once again, we're going through this little understood book in the Bible. Where has Jesus Christ been these last 1900 years? You hear a lot about what he did for 3 1/2 years and about a dead Christ on the cross. You don't hear very much about what he's doing today, what he was doing 1 ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - Five decades ago, in the first, edition of The Plain Truth, I could not have written this "Personal." I did not then have UNDERSTANDING of the only real value of a human life. But The Plain Truth was born a magazine of UNDERSTANDING. Thankfully, as this ...

Have you ever started watching a movie when it was halfway over? If so, you were probably frustrated because of not knowing what events led up to the moment you came in. You didn't know who the characters were, or what the story was about. Being born into today's world is much like coming in at ...

It's true - smoking DOES cause cancer! Smoking IS injurious to health! Read, in this article, backed up by plenty of statistical PROOF, what your Creator says about smoking! It's BIG BUSINESS Tobacco is the nation's fifth largest cash crop, and the third largest crop for export. ...

Get your mind in fourth gear and come to understand answers to some questions almost nobody dares ask. If God has existed forever in the past, and He is going to exist forever in the future - then, how did He ever get to now?" asked a bright young student in my sophomore class in Old Testament ...

What about this whole church question - as it concerns YOU? WHERE IS the original true Church which Jesus Christ founded - the one the living Jesus Christ STILL HEADS today? That is the question that haunted me, back in 1926 and early 1927. I had been reared, like many of our readers, in one of the ...

Seething racial outbursts in Harlem, Rochester, St. Augustine, Jersey City, Kansas City and around the world indicate serious TROUBLE ahead. Where will it lead? And WHY? Screaming headlines tell of racial violence. The world over, explosive racial hatreds have been bursting to the surface. In Roches ...

Does religion have to be a "mystery" in order to understand it? No one truly "understands" the so-called "mystery of the Trinity." Scholarly theologians nevertheless insist their followers must accept the doctrine, though admitting it is a mystery, incapable of understanding! But Jesus said ...

It is time we understood the relationship between gold, inflation and government. And how they affect you! On August 15, 1971, President Nixon dropped a bombshell that rocked the entire world financial system to its foundations. By executive decree, he cut the dollar loose from gold. He invited fore ...

You have to go back to Honest to God to remember any book that has so stirred up the British religion. The culprit? A book entitled The Myth of God Incarnate by John Hick. Few religious works in living memory have captured the attention of the small and usually sedate church-going public. ...