Herbert W Armstrong

As part of the Bicentennial celebration Mr. Buchwald has given us permission to use one of the pieces he wrote when he was covering television for the Colonial Broadcasting Network in 1775. Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the people who are in charge of television today were passi ...

I am writing while our plane is being refueled at Teheran, Iran (which is Persia). We are en route from Colombo, Ceylon, to Israel. Now our engines are starting up. I will have to fold my typewriter back up into its place until we are airborne. In Ceylon, while we were on their very super-powerful r ...

Elijah the prophet had been instructed by God to stay hidden in a city near the coast of the Great Sea during many months of the drought that had come to the ten tribes of Israel. (I Kings 17:8-16.) God Gives Life. The young son of the woman in whose home Elijah stayed had died. He had taken the boy ...

ONCE AGAIN The PLAIN TRUTH takes a great leap forward! At last we have a printing plant of our own of major size, with giant rotary magazine presses capable of printing a magazine as large as The PLAIN TRUTH has grown. You are holding in your hands now, a copy of the first issue we have ever been pr ...

Here's an article written by Herbert W. Armstrong for the first issue of The PLAIN TRUTH, seven years BEFORE the magazine existed. It was never published. It appears now, 38 years later, for the first time. Recently, among old files, Mrs. Armstrong ran across the manuscript of an article written f ...

We live in a superficial world where a person's worth is judged mainly on the basis of looks. Our icons are youth, beauty and the toothpaste-ad smile. Although not many of us would be deliberately cruel or callous, the daily judgments we automatically make can have a devastating effect ...

The readers of this magazine should become LEADERS! Do you have the capacity to inspire - to influence - to lead others for good? Here are vital KEYS to building a powerful and effective personality - and to making your life more abundant! SOME fifteen years ago, my boss ordered me and a partner to ...

You weren't born too late for the "good old days"! You've probably heard your parents, grandparents or other adults talk wistfully about the past as a time when life was simpler, cheaper and better. Maybe you think that living in the care free, rollicking fun days of the 1950s was the ...

Do you find that it's pretty hard for you sometimes to have the patience you need with your husband, your wife, your children, your neighbors, your brothers and sisters, or even your brothers and sisters in God's Church? I think all of us have the problem of wondering about having enough patienc ...

(Continued from WN, Nov. 12) Grandmother rose from her chair. "I'm going to my sewing room to pray. Have an apple in the kitchen if you're hungry, Jimmy, dear. I'll be back before long." "Thank you, but I'm going to my bedroom to pray, 100." "Susie's taking a nap o ...

The Isrealite scouts sent out by Moses had traveled by foot over much of Canaan. They had looped around to arrive at Hebron, a city not too far from Kadesh. The rose-red city of Kadesh was the scouts' starting point, where the twelve tribes were encamped and awaiting reports from the twelve-man ex ...

Sugar 'n spice 'n everything nice - that's not a very scientific description of femininity. What are successful, poised girls really made of? Whether in a basketball uniform or a beautiful flowing gown, hard at work or talking to friends - some girls seem to have a vibrant, friendly personalit ...

Moses had just come down Mount Sinai. He wondered why those who saw him became frightened. He wasn't aware that strange, dazzling shafts of light were beaming out from his skin! Aaron was among those present to meet Moses, and even he fell back with others when he saw the rays of light shooting fo ...

When Waldenses Began: From the New International Encyclopedia, article Waldenses: The name given to the followers of Peter Waldo and his successors in modern times. In modern times, there are two things you need to discern especially about the Waldenses. First, how old are they? Do they go all the w ...

MOSES RETURNS MOSES had just come down Mount Sinai. He wondered why those who saw him became frightened. He wasn't aware that strange, dazzling shafts of light were beaming out from his skin! Aaron was among those present to meet Moses, and even he fell back with others when he saw the rays of lig ...