Herbert W Armstrong

We recently received this letter from one of our readers in England: Could I make a suggestion prompted by my own personal experience? When I came into the unique knowledge of the Worldwide Church of God, I wondered how different in other respects this organization might be. We are suspicious of the ...

The signs of disintegration are everywhere. Something dreadfully WRONG is happening to our peoples. We're rapidly losing character - losing our ability to blush, our sense of shame. Perhaps most sickening of all, we're learning not to care. Our society is sick. We are no longer a "great" society ...

Here's an article written for the first issue of The Plain Truth, seven years before the magazine was finally born in the depths of the Great Depression. Now, in 1982, we think our vast audience of new readers would find this article highly informative. Longtime readers of The Plain Truth will rem ...

This is an emergency letter. I am having to RUSH it AIR-MAIL!! Here we are, in the very midst of the most furious Christmas shopping spree of all time. Many of our Co-Workers are spending lavishly, buying presents — (as they suppose) — for CHRIST'S BIRTHDAY! But are they giving their birthday pres ...

Almost none knows the TRUTH about how today's system of higher education developed- its RECENT DRIFT and why the system is even now becoming obsolete. Students all over the world make final decisions about COLLEGE every year THAT WILL VITALLY AFFECT THEIR ENTIRE LIVES! The WRONG decision may mean ...

GREETINGS! Here we are again, racing the test of the Christmas shopping season. Just as our revitalized Television program is beginning to take hold on the public — just as we enter the stiffest crisis of this financial tight squeeze, we come to the season when people FORGET their gifts for Christ a ...

"Beware of 1985!" warns Boardroom Reports magazine. Why? More and more the world economy demands careful attention. High interest rates, crushing Third World debt, high unemployment levels, slumping core industries such as automotive and steel, a U.S. debt topping $1,000 billion, the chron ...

Along with the Festival season come many opportunities to meet new friends and to renew old acquaintances. In this article you will not only learn how to strengthen these friendships, but how to build and develop all your relationships with others. "You always hurt the one you love." So goes th ...

Conferences are being held to assess the role of the U.N. in its first 40 years. ON OCTOBER 24, political leaders from around the world will assemble at the United Nations headquarters in New York to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the official beginning of the world body. The celebration is par ...

CONQUEST OF BETHEL AND AI, God's promise ro Joshua to help in a second attempt to conquer the Canaanite city of Ai swiftly brought Israel's leader out of his State of discouragement. Joshua immediately chose thirty thousand soldiers for the strategy he had in mind. Well-Planned Strategy. "I ...

PROMISED LAND OCCUPIED, THE end came for Jabin, king of Hazor, only minutes after he ordered the gates closed. The thousands upon thousands of Israelites swarmed up to the walls with their triple-hook ropes, hurled the heavy hooks over the walls and surged up and into the city in such numbers and fo ...

Is smoking hazardous to health? What are the ODDS of getting lung cancer or heart disease, if you smoke? Why do MILLIONS smoke despite dire warnings? It is time you knew the answers - they could save your LIFE! I WAS ONE of the fellows who walked a mile for cigarettes for 40 years. Results - no voca ...

Well, greetings friends! This is Herbert W. Armstrong with the Good News of the World Tomorrow. Yes. There is good news ahead and yet there is bad news ahead and that's the paradox. There's no good news today. There isn't going to be any good news in the immediate future. And yet, just turn on ...

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 ...

Can you believe it? — another year has flashed by; another year of world troubles, overthrow of more governments, increasing violence and crime — whisking us rapidly into and through the END time of this present evil world. We now have little time left to finish God's Work. In my last letter (Nove ...