God’s Eventful Plan, By Roger Behra

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God’s Eventful Plan

 

By

 

Roger Behra

 

It all started when the Angel appeared to a young girl named Mary and told her she was chosen by God to be the mother of His Divine Son. Mary was full of worries and questions, but eventually she decided to honor God’s plan. As a result history’s greatest adventure began as did the first Christmas.

 

Mary did not know that her decision would include the Seven Sorrows that would eventually invade her young and middle years. The birth of Jesus started that list for Mary and Joseph that would last over a period of many years.

 

Of all the Seven Sorrows that Mary endured, the worst ones were related to the death of Jesus. The first one started when Jesus was betrayed by Apostle Judas. That caused the capture of Jesus and when He was condemned to death; when He was unmercifully beaten, crowned with thorns, and forced to march under a very heavy cross to Calvary; when Mary met Jesus on His way suffering so much; when Mary witnessed the death of Jesus on the cross; when they gave the deceased Son of hers to her; when she laid Him to rest in the sepulcher. This was a most sorrowful time for Mary (and Joseph as well).

 

But God’s plan was not complete with the death of His Divine Son. His plan did not end with all the sorrowful events. There were events of joys and happiness to come. And the credit goes to God for His plan and for Mary honoring it. The three joyful and happy events are:

 

1. The death of Jesus on the cross INSURED our eternal salvation. The gates to Heaven were permanently opened for all of us.

 

2. Jesus rose from the dead after three days. He was young in appearance, handsome and radiant. Not even the Apostles recognized Him. He had to prove himself to them especially to Apostle Thomas who astonishingly uttered the words “my Lord and my God.” Needless to say the eleven Apostles were full of joy and happiness.

 

3. Mary also received great joy and happiness as a result of her decision to honor God’s plan the started with the birth of His Divine Son, Jesus. When Mary died and her eternal destiny began, she was taken to heaven body and soul. Our Eternal Father rewarded her immediately and crowned her with a crown of twelve starts and made her Queen of Heaven. She quickly became our most beautiful, loving, and helpful Heavenly Mother through which all of God’s graces pass. FOREVER!

 

When we celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus, we must also keep in mind that His birth of Jesus, we most also keep in mind that His birth opened the gate to heaven when He was later crucified and died; that He died and rose again; that Mary was greatly rewarded and became our most beautiful Heavenly Mother. So much joy and happiness are part of Christmas aside from trees, tinsel, and colored lights. Oh, yes! Don’t forget snowmen!

 

R. B.

1-4-14 



The Godless Among Us, By Roger Behra

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The Godless Among Us

 

By

 

Roger Behra

 

There was a time-prior to 1965-when the Godly greatly outnumbered the Godless. Sadly to say that is not the way it is in the American culture any more. It is very much the very opposite. The Godless among us is in the majority now as 2013 gets well under way. That is an awful change of events, and very often we are reminded of just how Godless the Godless can get. We are also being reminded that the price being paid is astronomically high.

 

The word GODLY, means showing respect for God and obeying His Commandments by leading a moral and good life. The word GODLESS means wicked, not showing respect or belief in God or His Commandments, and therefore, leading a bad life.

 

Thankfully, there are Godly people, and among them some extraordinary Godly people scattered throughout the American culture: priests and ministers, brothers, nuns, and teachers to name a few groups. And the Godless benefit as well from the dedication and goodness of these people.

 

The reverse is also true.  The Godly people are harmed by the behavior of the Godless. Since the year 2007 there have been many horrendous and deadly attacks on innocent Godly people in America's open society. The deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history took place in 2007 when 32 people were killed on a college in Virginia. In the U.S. Army an army psychiatrist killed 13 soldiers at an army base in Texas. In Colorado a man entered a movie theater at night and killed many and wounded over thirty people. An ex-policeman went on a shooting rampage and killed five people before committing suicide. A 20-year old man barged into an elementary school one morning and killed 20 first-graders and 6 adults and then himself. These are some of the Godless behavior of recent modern times.

 

Waite! There is more. On April 15, 2013, at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Mass. someone planted two bombs near the finish line that went off and killed four people and badly injured 170 others. That was demonic behavior first class. Innocent people lost their lives, some lost their limbs, and many were maimed for the rest of their lives.

 

Men are much more Godless than women. But women get some Godless awards for very bad Godless behavior: abortion and prostitution. The Godly people have to live with tremendous Godlessness on a daily basis that seems to increase more and more as the months pass. The Boston Marathon massacre already mentioned above is a good example. The Connecticut elementary school and Aurora theater massacres are also good examples of unexpected Godless behavior. Unless God intervenes, the American culture is going to be swimming in Godless behavior for a long time to come. And the horrendous type of behavior is going to be mindboggling, indeed!

 

R. B.



The Three Easter Messages, By Roger Behra

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The Three Easter Messages

 

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Roger Behra

 

Every year as Easter approaches during Holy Week the emphasis is focused on the messages of Easter. There are three of them, and many people fail to realize that. They focus on one and fail to realize that the three messages are interrelated. So, we must realize that there are three messages and that they are equally very important: They are Jesus’ crucifixion, our guaranteed salvation, and the fact that Jesus rose from the dead.

 

We start our realization with this: Why did God plan to sacrifice His only begotten Son? For 2000 years Christians have spread the message: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him (Jesus) should not perish but have eternal life." This was the first message of Easter.

 

We continue our realization with this: As soon as Jesus drew His last breath our salvation was guaranteed. There was no salvation until Jesus was crucified and died on the cross. This was the second message of Easter.

 

We end our realization with this: Jesus for told His resurrection when scribes and Pharisees demanded He produce a sign to prove what He was teaching. Jesus alluded many time during His ministry on earth that he would be crucified but that He would rise again on the third day. That happened exactly as He prophesied. He appeared and proved Himself to the Apostles. He appeared to other people as well. He was radiant, young looking (about 30 years old), and very handsome. The Apostles did not recognize Him. Jesus had to show them the wounds of His crucifixion as proof. This was the third message of Easter.

 

We must forever be thankful for God's plan that was finalized on that very first Easter Sunday, and that Jesus willingly helped it to be completed. We must also be forever thankful for every Easter Sunday that reminds us and gives us the proof, hope, and satisfaction that our salvation is there and guaranteed as long as we believe and earn it through good earthly behavior. A guaranteed salvation and the knowledge that Jesus rose again from the dead is very, very comforting. So is the reminder we receive every Easter Sunday.

 

R. B.

4-14-13



The Surprise Selection, By Roger Behra

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The Surprise Selection

 

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Roger Behra

 

The 1.2 Billion Catholics around the world are now settling down from the surprise selection of their new pope: Pope Francis I. Millions of Catholics went gaga because he in an Argentine and not someone from a country in Europe, and they do now expect a different kind of papacy. Catholics hope and expect his leadership will spawn a Catholic resurgence. Yes, it's going to be more progressive but not in a manner many Catholics are hoping: There will be no change in the Church's stance on ABORTION and SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.  Those issues will not change one iota. That means not even a small change will take place. That's the way it should be.

 

Catholics need to know that certain stances the Church takes cannot ever be changed or diluted because the stances are dogma. Abortion and same-sex marriage are dogma. They are never going to be acceptable. They are always going to be considered intrinsically evil, sinful, and just plain wrong.

 

Life begins at conception and God has given the fetus a soul and has a plan for that life. If there is no sound medical reason, that life cannot be indiscriminately snuffed out through abortion, which is really-murder.

 

Marriage is a sacrament, holy, instituted by God, and meant to be between one man and one woman. So, the Church cannot change that either, and same-sex marriage can never be considered a marriage. It is out of the question.  Pope Francis will not, therefore, be making any changes to make abortion or same-sex marriage acceptable.

 

What Pope Francis is going to do is pay particular attention to the poor and the disenfranchised. That is a necessary and welcomed change. He has not yet mentioned how he is going to address that. The poor and disenfranchised who benefit from that dedication will greatly outnumber all the disgruntled Catholics who leave the Catholic Church because abortion and same-sex marriage will never be accept­able to him.

 

Millions of Catholics are wishing Pope Francis a successful, peaceful, and productive papacy as he reaches his goals. May his papacy be renowned in the history of the papacy.

 

R. B.

3-24-13



On The Evil Train, By Roger Behra

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On The Evil Train

 

By

 

Roger Behra

 

If you have ever wondered what it is like to be engrossed in evil and where that evil train takes you, well, you are about to take a ride on one with a passenger and the king of evil (Satan) at the controls. Fasten your seat belt. It's a long and bumpy ride with a very sad ending.

 

The passenger's name is Ammar Harris. He jumped on the evil train at a very young age, and by age 26 he has a long and varied record of evil behavior that has ended in murder Satan and his evil entity helpers love it when they can con­trol a young person. The control lasts a long time, and it is so much easier to bring the control to a very horrendous conclusion as it does with Ammar Harris as in the cases of James Holmes, Adam Lanza, Christopher Dorner, and Jared Loughner to name a few most recent and horrendous ones.

 

As the evil train rolls along the way with the student of honor (Ammar Harris) on board and the engineer (Satan) firmly at the controls, so do the warrants and charges against Ammar pile up.

 

Ammar has been arrested many times because the warrant and charge list is varied and long: robbery; sexual assault; kidnapping; prostitution; stolen goods; stolen pistol; marijuana possession. He is now being charged with the granddaddy of them all: MURDER. Satan has to be very, very happy about that as the evil train comes to a screeching halt.

 

The murder took place on the Las Vegas Strip. Several shots were fired from Harris's SUV by Harris into another car. Killed in the other car was Kenneth W. Cherry as he drove his dark gray Maserati on Las Vegas Boulevard, and that caused a six-vehicle crash that killed two people when the Maserati hit a taxi. The taxi driver and his woman passenger were killed. People in the other cars were badly injured. People walking along the Strip began screaming and running away. It was a sudden and catastrophe laden situation. People were greatly stunned. Harris quick-raced from the scene. A week later he was arrested in a small town in California.

 

At the time of Harris's arrest it can be said that his ride on the evil train carne to an end. It was the end of the line. Satan was sad that he lost control of such a willing and productive pupil. When someone decides to live a life of evil behavior, it also has to be realized that sooner or later the piper has to be paid. Sometimes the judicial system exacts payment. Sometimes suicide takes place. Sometimes life ends abruptly another way. Then there is always eternal life to face with God as the final judge in a place that lasts forever. If you are a constant friend of Satan and live an evil earthly life, you will be his captive in eternal life and spend it where he resides in the eternal dark place, where there is constant weeping and grinding of teeth by the lost souls that are on fire that lasts ----- FOREVER.

 

R. B.

3-14-13 

An Awful Ending

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An Awful Ending

By

Roger Behra
 

On November 24, 2012, an awful ending to a life took place in Puerto Rico when a very famous and Godless living type of person died when he was taken off life support at a local hospital: Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho was pronounced dead at age 50. It was an awful ending to a squandered and immoral life for two most important reasons. Let the explaining and understanding begin.
 

Hector Camacho’s life was a conglomeration of many Godless and immoral events, which started at a very young age when the Godly way of life was pushed far away as he decided to live by his own evil ways. And the more fame he achieved as a famous boxer, the more disturbed he became. It was the work of Satan at his best.
 

During a large part of his 50 years of life he was habitually in trouble. He spent time in jail. He became a drug addict. He bedded a countless number of women. His life’s countless misadventures were so much in the headlines. His boxing career was colorful, outlandish, and successful, but his life away from the boxing rings a great disaster. He was a perfect example of the counterculture philosophy: Many things can be done, but they should not be done because they are immoral, criminal, or just plain bad judgment. Here is a great example.
 

 One day Camacho was driving a Ferrari along a Florida highway. He was arrested for going to slow. He was doing only 35 mph in an erratic manner. The arresting officer noticed that Camacho’s female date was sitting on his lap straddling him. The arresting officer had the correct impression. He guessed correctly. They were doing the will thing: having sex as they drove along. Further evidence proved the officer’s impression was right on the mark.
 

Hector’s life was a two-fold disaster up to the very end: immoral and criminal. On the last night of his life he was sitting in a parked car outside a night-club with a buddy and a BAG OF COKE. A man approached. His buddy was shot dead. Camacho was shot in the face, and the two-fold disaster of a life suddenly came to a disastrous end.
 

Camacho was up to no good right up to the moment of his disastrous end. He misused his life. He left God out of his life at a very young age. He misused the great amount of money he earned. This was the first part of his disastrous life. The second part is the fact that he died very unexpectedly and instantly without any chance of reconciliation with God for all the misuses and immorality he has face at his life review. It was no way to live. It was no way to die. In the end it was God’s punishment, and in the end it was the God he pushed out of his life for so long that was finally and eternally in charge. Only the loving God that he ignored could save hos soul from eternal damnation. Let us hope that the loving God found a way to do just that. At the moment only the loving God and the hateful Satan knows. Without the chance of reconciliation at the sudden moment of his death, it looks very much like the gleeful Satan was the winner.
 

R. B.

12-28-12



The Belief Never Ends

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The Belief Never Ends

By

Roger Behra
 

The Mass Media-radio, television, print media, and talk shows-takes particular delight in keeping the topic and idea the same-sex marriage always in the news and before the general American people. It strongly gives the idea that the homosexual way of life and all its entrapments are normal and acceptable. The Mass Media could not be more wrong. It does no matter how strongly the Mass Media supports and promotes the homosexual way of life, because that kind of life is totally contrary to the way God, who is the author of the way life must be led. That is it in nutshell.
 

Homosexuals practice homosexuality simply because it can be done, and they choose to, therefore, does so. They choose to use the free will God gave them to live a very strange, odd, and grievous way of life. It is gravely immoral. What the Holly Bible tells us absolutely trumps what psychiatry and a psychiatrist interprets.
 

God creates heterosexuality and made it pleasurable because of the procreative factor. He did not create or authorize homosexuality because it does not include procreation. Therefore, homosexuality is an unnatural aberration that is gravely immoral and a matter of choice by an individual.
 

On July 7, 2012, it had to happen. On that day 72-year-old congressman U.S. Rep. Barney Frank and 42-year-old Jim Ready, his longtime homosexual partner tied the gay marriage knot. It was a ceremony officiated by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. The ceremony had all the trappings of a traditional wedding between a man and a woman, and it was attended by more than 300 people. In essence it was a famous travesty. It was a disgusting event that glaringly mocked a traditional marriage. It was an obvious display of American culture on the wrong track.
 

The Mass media glorified the event. The print media showed their picture, and the two wrongheaded guys looked like two guys who do not realize which end is up, who do not realize right from wrong, and who do not realize that their eternal life review latter when they die will be the rude awakening that they deserve. They will be fully aware of how unnatural, immoral, and disgusting their life was over a large part of their lives. It is going to be a very sad and jolting realization, and so will be the consequences.
 

As for the 300 plus people who showed their approval of the unnatural and disgusting immoral behavior of Barney Frank and Jim Ready while contributing to cultural decline in America, let us hope they get off the wrong track and on to the correct track while time still permits-ASAP. They also must use the free will that God gave them.
 

R. B.

12-27-12



The Rabble-Rousing Duo By Roger Behra

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The Rabble-Rousing Duo

By

Roger Behra

Since the middle of March, 2012 throughout the United States it has been a continuous drumbeat in regards to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old black teen in a gated community near Orlando, Florida. It is very sad another young life has ended before it really got started, but that is only part of an involved story. The whole story involves Martin, George Zimmerman, Martin´s parents, and the mass media. Here is the whole story with Martin and Zimmerman the main persons of interest.

George Zimmerman was a legal security person hired to guard a gated community and allowed to carry a gun to protect himself if necessary. During recent months criminal activities in and around the gated area increased considerable, so he was being extra alert the night of March 26, 2012. Along came a black teenager wandering through the community. There was no logical reason for that. Unfortunately, the end result between Zimmerman and the black teenager was tragic: Martin was shot and killed, and the whole episode remained in the media spotlight for days.

Into the situation in short order steps the first of the rabble-rousing duo: the mass media. In no time flat they became obsessed with the shooting, and it carried on for many days non-stop. The emotions of everyone became enflamed without the media knowing and revealing and accurate and complete information about what actually took place in the gated community or any background information about the Martin boy. The media showed their true colors: especially KNX radio in Orange County, California. There was no letup hour after hour day after day.

Soon, it was the second part of the rubble-rousing duo to get started and become loud and clear: Martin´s parents. They made hateful accusations and statements long before the truth and facts about everything became known to everyone, which indicated the parents were less than ideal. They were separated. The mother lives in the gated community with her BOYFRINDS. (Nice going, mom.). Trayvon´s appearance and general behavior left plenty to be desired, and that reflects back to the parents and their care and control of Trayvon itself.

The story facts are these: As Zimmerman was doing his security duty, he was talking to the police. He told them about the black teenager and gave the street location. Then he turned to go to his truck. No racial slur was ever uttered. Suddenly, Zimmerman was jumped from behind, knocked to the ground, his nose was broken, and his head was repeatedly banged on the ground. As Martin jumped Zimmerman he said “someone is going to die tonight.” BANG! Trayvon Martin was the dead one! He signed his own death warrant when he jumped Zimmerman from behind. The trail will include facts about Martin: that he made up his own rules to live by; he wore punk clothing; he had a gold tooth; he was tattooed; he was on suspension-again-from his high school. While making up his own rules for living, he forgot to include that there are consequences: punks can die fast…young….anytime…anywhere. No more pot in you backpack, no more school suspensions, no more punk behavior, and no more abuse of the life God gave you. Goodbye, T. Martin; Hopefully others benefit.

R. B.

4-29-12



Our Other Mother, By Roger Behra

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Our Other Mother

By

Roger Behra

Millions of people throughout the wide world fail to take advantage of one of the greatest opportunities there is during a time of personal need or crises in their life because they are ignorant of the opportunity that is available for everyone. They do not realize that there is a very, very great spiritual aide ready at all times just for the asking: The Blessing Virgin Marry, Our Blessing Mother, who was made the mediatrix of all graces given by Our Heavenly Father because the answer yes was to the angel so she could become the mother of Our Heavenly Father´s divine Son, Jesus, on that first Christmas Day.

Christmas is so very much more than gifts and sumptuous dinners. When the 14-year-old virgin girl said yes to the angel eternal salvation was guaranteed, our eternal life was changed, and so was our prayerful life, forever because when Mary´s earthly life ended and she was assumed into heaven body and soul, Mary became Queen of heaven and our heavenly Blessed Mother. As mediatrix of all God´s graces it means all of His graces are guaranteed through Her.

An atheist medical doctor was a firm non-believer because God or His Blessed Mother or an eternal life could not be established over and over in any laboratory experiment. Then one day he had a near-death experience that lasted for considerable time. During his NDE he was met by deceased relatives, friends, and had a life review and a glimpse of eternal life in God´s presence. He became a believer. His life and thinking took a 180° turn. He realizes that anything is possible with God, that Jesus and His Mother are a reality.

Mary is everything mentioned in paragraph two and much more. She is unbelievably beautiful. She is unbelievably loving. She prays for us. She intercedes for us. She is credited with an untold number of miracles. She helps people pass into their eternal life. If certain prayers are said each day salvation is guaranteed, and She will be there to help you into eternal life during your last earthly minute. The atheist medical doctor considers his NDE and resuscitation one of her miracles. He has absolutely no doubt after his short trip to eternity and back.

R. B.
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