Herbert W Armstrong

The very first issue of the Plain Truth Magazine which came out with the February issue of 1934; and at that time it was - well it had the most humble beginning of any magazine that I know. Now the Plain Truth today has grown to one of the great mass circulation magazines of the whole world; but at ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - Don't sell yourself short! The possibilities that lie ahead for you are transcendently greater than you have ever come to know! When I was an adolescent of sixteen, as I have said and written many times, AMBITION was aroused in me. It was on my first summer vaca ...

For years Herbert W. Armstrong asked himself: Should the story of my life be published? Would this be right? For years he felt it would not. He said "God has called me to preach his gospel not to talk about myself." He even refused, for several years, to let anyone take his picture. Finally a listen ...

The one BIG QUESTION in all our lives, right now, IS that of human SURVIVAL! The most urgent problem right now is the question of whether, and how, we may survive! But survival alone is NOT ENOUGH! We must have survival in PEACE, in happiness, in joy, in prosperity and plenty, and in abundant well-b ...

Continuing from the April number, "Conversion: Sudden Experience or Lifelong Process?" Nearly everyone is mixed up on this matter of personal salvation. It's made plain in this article. At age 16 I became filled with AMBITION. I was on my first summer job away from home. My employer put ...

How well do you perceive the purpose and intent of God's law? It was Saturday, the Sabbath. Jesus and His disciples had entered the synagogue in order to worship. Jesus noticed a crippled man sitting among the worshipers. One of the man's hands, terribly deformed, hung useless at his side. The m ...

Personal from Herbert W Armstrong - IF YOU and I were discussing the matter of what subject I should write about in this month's Personal, you might say, seriously, "Mr. Armstrong, in view of the deadly seriousness and the urgency of this time, I think you should write on the most urgent prob ...

Who has the right to choose whether the unborn live or die? Think of it! In just 50 years this world has changed from abortion being unacceptable (with minor exceptions) to abortion being an accepted form of birth control. Most today fail to realize how radical a change this is. Forty years ago Nazi ...

I am writing from Bucharest, Rumania. I am spending two or three weeks at the Otopeni Clinic, famous over all of Europe, recharging tired batteries. I have kidded about being 37 going on 36. It is acknowledged by all, so far as I know, that I appear to be at least some 20 years younger than I actual ...

INTERNATIONAL DESK - They didn't know each other, but in late October 1933, two editors sat not far from here putting their publications together. The editor of the Jefferson Review never claimed his newspaper to be one of the world's major newspapers. Its job in the Great Depression was, once a ...

THE buck stops here," stated a small sign on the desk of the late Harry S. Truman, former President of the United States. Mr. Truman had a sense of responsibility. He knew there was no point in shifting responsibility to others. He was the President. He had to make the final decisions. He h ...

This magazine, in more than 50 years of publishing, is politically unaffiliated. Why? The Plain Truth is not politically affiliated. It is not "left wing." It is not "right wing." It is not - as some few have assumed-a "tool of Western imperialism." It is time you under ...

QUESTION: "In your article 'When a Man From Space Visited Earth,' you stated that the best kept secret was that Jesus Christ did not know His Father would turn His back on Him when He was crucified. How could this be, since Jesus inspired King David to write in Psalms 22:1 that He would ...

Success is back in vogue. Books on how to succeed have returned to best-seller lists. But are people really discovering true success? CAST your eyes on some new titles now in your local bookstore. Getting Yours, Winning with Deception and Bluff, How to Get Ahead by "Psyching Out" Your Boss ...

Mr. Armstrong explained that in order to really understand the purpose for Ambassador College, one needs to go right back to the beginning. He reviewed how Lucifer rebelled against God and then later wasted no time in the Garden of Eden. Adam cut himself off from God and all of Adam's progeny has ...