Herbert W Armstrong

ON THE WORLD SCENE: While being engaged in a PLAIN TRUTH assignment overseas, I've asked my long-time associate, Don Schroeder, to submit the following "change of pace" topic in my stead this week. THE FRACTURED FAMILY: Over thirty years ago, George Orwell wrote the book, 1984, describing the horr ...

Ever since the dawn of civilization, man has longed to live in a world where all his physical, mental and spiritual desires could be fulfilled! Your Creator has planned such a Utopia - and more important, He will soon establish that Utopia. Tomorrow's World is just around the corner - universal ...

Frequently people come to us freely acknowledging they are not saved. They believe there is a God. They fully understand their lost condition. But they say quite frankly they feel helpless, unconcerned, unable to do anything about it. The tragedy of it! And one reason is because YOU who claim to be ...

A leading Protestant theologian recently said, "It is doubtful whether many educated Protestants today believe in 'heaven' and 'hell' as literal physical places..." Yet to many millions hell is frighteningly real! Is there a real hell, a real fire, a real torment - what does the Bible say? ...

Why should Christians call God "Father"? Why should we pray, "Our Father which art in heaven..."? Is the term a title, an anthropomorphism, a description, a theological euphemism, a comforting thought? Is God called Father because He's the collective Father of all mankind by virtue of creation? Is ...

JESUS CHRIST said: "... If you will enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matt. 19:17). So there would be no question about which law He was referring to, Jesus proceeded to enumerate five of the Ten Commandments (verses 18, 19). Among Jesus' final words in the New Testament (recorded ...

A letter from a Plain Truth reader brings up this basic question: How clearly must God speak on a subject before we obey Him? Most churchgoers refer to God as "the Lord." Did you ever wonder why? Even people who are not religious talk about the "Lord," if only when some major cri ...

"To him that taketh the path of least resistance and floateth downstream like a dead fish, giving in to every whim and desire, will I grant to sit with me on my throne." That's not a quote from the Bible! It's not a quote from anything, but it's what some "Christians" seem ...

Why should Christians call God "Father"? Why should we pray, "Our Father which art in heaven..."? Is the term a title, an anthropomorphism, a description, a theological euphemism, a comforting thought? Is God called Father because He's the collective Father of all mankind by virtue of creation? Is ...

President Jimmy Carter said, prior to his inauguration, that the strength of a nation lies in its family unit; I agree with him. God is very much concerned with the family concept. He instructed Adam and Eve to begin the first human family. This is patterned after the heavenly family that God ...

If you had to admit to friends that you knew absolutely nothing about politics, nothing about the economy, nothing about health or diet, nothing about world affairs or anything else that people are apt to discuss, it would probably prove somewhat embarrassing to you. But it isn't a bit embarrassin ...

Hundreds enthusiastically responded to Mr. Armstrong's article on "Hell" in last month's PLAIN TRUTH. Here is another article on this vital subject. Does the BIBLE reveal that God is an "angry Judge"? - that God tortures helpless sinners ages without end? Shocking as it may s ...

In the preceding program, why were you born? We covered the why of it then. You were put on this earth for a purpose to become a born Son of God, one of the persons of the kingdom of God, to share Christ glory for all eternity. To be changed and to be made like unto Him glorious body for He is a div ...

Does it really make any difference whether you pray for others? After all, can't they pray for themselves? Just what is the role of intercessory prayer We know very little about Epaphras as a person. He is mentioned only briefly in the Bible. But what a lesson for us! When the apostle Paul wrote t ...

There are definite "keys" that can make your business - your family - your LIFE - more successful. Few know what they are! Why do many ASSUME that life should be drab, mediocre? Why, especially, do so many religious people assume God wants it that way? Where do people get these ideas? From ...