Herbert W Armstrong

Positive and negative - words far apart in their meanings and implications. The territory between them, however, is the arena where success or failure is determined, and where the happiness or misery of lives is decided. Success tends to favor those who march under the positive banner. They have tra ...

Gambling has existed in every known society. Around the world today, millions are addicted to the dream of "hitting it big," but end up chasing that elusive dream forever. You think "hitting it big" is a new thrill of the 20th century? The spirit of gambling has existed in man as far back as recorde ...

Now, we go back to Adam, and there were two trees in the Garden of Eden, and they were symbolic trees of course, symbolic, the one the symbol of the Holy Spirit. To take that would be to take God's Holy Spirit and receive God's Holy Spirit. The other one was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and ...

I want to report BIG NEWS!!! It is the BIGGEST news that ever happened in the history of this Work! Later on, after the World Tomorrow has dawned, the world may look back on this event as a big milestone in world history! The world today took no notice whatever. Yet in our radio studio here in Pasad ...

THIS TIME I want to talk to you about sickness and disease - about what to do when you or your children catch cold, have a fever, or become sick. I'm writing out in the desert, where Mrs. Armstrong and I have come for warm sunshine and rest and another long fast. This is my twenty-first day of fas ...

Parents would probably be the first to admit that they're human. Since they're not perfect, how should sons and daughters respond to them? They don't really love me they're always getting on my back!" At times it seems Mom and Dad can be unreasonable. Dad blows his stack or Mom becomes ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION threaten to erase human life from the earth! What part have business and industry played in the modern society that now stands on the brink of human extinction? Surely, when we look at modern business, industry and commerce we find the ...

My friends, did Israel ever cease from being a nation? Now, most people think that the Jewish people are Israel, all there is of Israel. And of course, they've gone back to Palestine now and they have the nation, they call Israel over there, but they were not a nation 50 years ago or 100 years ago ...

Every night the whole world goes to sleep aboard a huge multimegaton bomb - fully capable of exterminating every man, woman and child from the face of this earth. Yet most people-focusing only on their own day-to-day concerns and how to eke out a "good life" in the midst of economic uncertainty - ...

(Editor's note: Here is another example of where two ministers of God and His Church have gone into the world and are producing truly viable fruit through concerned community service: The following letter was sent to Pastoral Administration by the director of the Alcoholism Treatment Center in Eug ...

Not long ago I was standing in the Amsterdam, Netherlands, airport, waiting to check in and get my seat assignment for a flight back to Los Angeles,Calif. Near the ticket counter was a young woman in a wheel chair , who was talking to a flight attendant. The attendant reassured her that she would be ...

How much of what you believe about religion is really true? How do you discover doctrinal truths? And if you do finally find the right doctrine, are you courageous enough to face and accept it? In a back-page ad appearing on a fairly recent number of the Plain Truth, we tested the Bible know ...

Before there is a final prosperity in utopian peace and well-being, grave things are prophesied for Britain and Europe. Britain is going to look back on Monday, January 1, 1973, in all probability, as a most tragically historic date – a date fraught with ominous potentialities! For that date marked ...

God Almighty has vast power which He shares with Jesus Christ. Jesus gave of that power to His disciples, and it is that same power which sustains the Church of God today. WITH A throaty roar, like the deep rumble of several locomotives, the giant 747 Boeing jet thundered down the runway. I ...

Right now we are another month closer to the very brink of NUCLEAR WAR than when I last wrote you. World troubles— PROPHESIED world troubles to occur just before, and leading up to, the END OF THIS WORLD—are being stepped up at a furious pace. The Berlin crisis—hurricanes—weather disasters—political ...