JAMES 1:27

WHY

IN THIS MOST CHRISTIAN COUNTRY

WHY WE CARE SO LITTLE ABOUT OUR MISFORTUNATES

WHEN THE HEBREW BIBLE

IS REDUNDANT

ABOUT HOW THEY ARE TREATED

AND IN THE NEW

JESUS MAKES CLEAR

HOW HE JUDGES US

BY HOW WE TREAT OTHERS

I SEE ONLY TWO CHOICES

CHANGE THE WAY WE ACT

OR QUIT CALLING OURSELVES

CHRISTIAN

UNTIL WE PUT OUR ACTIONS

WITH OUR WORDS

WE DON’T DESERVE THE NAME

FRANK A VOLLMER

(Romans 10:12) WHO WEARS MY SHOES

WHO WEARS MY SHOES

NOW THAT I AM DEAD

AND HAVE GONE UP IN SMOKE

SHOES MY MOTHER BOUGHT

FOR HER SON

TO BE PROUD OF HIM

WHEN HE WENT TO TEMPLE

WHO WEARS MY SHOES

PLACED NEATLY ON A SHELF

WITH STOCKINGS TUCKED INSIDE

TO BE FILLED AFTER

AFTER WHAT

WHEN MOSES

MET YAHWEH

HE WAS TOLD

REMOVE YOUR SHOES

THIS IS SACRED GROUND

AM I GOING TO SACRED GROUND

WILL THE SMOKE TAKE ME TO HEAVEN

WHERE THERE IS NEITHER

JEW OR GENTILE

ONLY G-D’S CHILDREN

WHOEVER GETS MY SHOES

WEAR THEM PROUDLY

FOR I AM

ONE OF G-D’S

CHOSEN

FRANK A VOLLMER



(ROMANS 3:25) AN OPINION

AN OPINION

ASK TEN DIFFERENT LAYMEN

THE MEANING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

YOU’LL PROBABLY

GET TEN DIFFERENT ANSWERS

ASK TEN CLERGY

OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS

THE SAME QUESTION

YOU’LL PROBABLY GET THE SAME VARIETY

IT’S A WORD

THAT BEEN USED AND ABUSED

SO THAT NOW IT’S MOSTLY A BUZZ WORD

SAID WITHOUT MUCH DEPTH

MY OWN OPINION

FOR WHAT ITS WORTH

IS THIS

WHEN SOMEONE WAS ACCUSED OF A CRIME

HEBREW BIBLICAL TIMES

BY OLD JEWISH LAW

IF HE WAS FOUND INNOCENT

HE IS DECLARED

JUSTIFIED

RIGHTEOUS

RESTORED

TO WHAT HE WAS BEFORE

NO MENTION OF CRIME

AS IF THE INCIDENT HAD NEVER HAPPENED

GOD GOES ONE STEP FURTHER

WHEN WE SIN

REPENT

ASK FORGIVENESS

HE DECLARES US JUSTIFIED

RIGHTEOUS

RESTORED

WE ARE AS INNOCENT

AS THE MAN WHO DID NO CRIME

THERE IS NO SIN THAT GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE

IF THE SINNER IS REPENTANT

WE WOULD DO WELL

TO FOLLOW GOD’S EXAMPLE

FRANK A VOLLMER

ROMANS (8:35-39)

Romans 8:35-39

JESUS IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE SAID
TAKE UP YOUR CROSS
AND FOLLOW ME

IT ALWAYS SEEMED
LIKE AN ANACHRONISM TO ME

JEWISH METHOD OF KILLING
WAS STONING
THE CROSS TO THE JEW
WAS A ROMAN METHOD OF EXECUTION

I THOUGHT MAYBE SOME SCRIBE
ADDED IT
TO HELP JESUS MAKE HIS POINT

AND WHAT WOULD THAT POINT BE
TO JESUS
OR THE MAYBE SCRIBE

DEATH BY ROMANS
NOT FOR SACRILEGE
ABOUT WHICH
THE ROMANS COULD CARE LESS

BUT INSURRECTION
WHICH WAS A ROMAN CONCERN

SO JESUS WAS SAYING
IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DIE FOR ME
YOU CAN HAVE NO PART OF ME

I DON’T MEAN PHYSICAL DEATH ENTIRELY
ARE YOU WILLING TO BE MY DISCIPLE
24/7

OR ONE DAY A WEEK FOR MAYBE AN HOUR

24/7
FOLLOWING JESUS

FAILURE YES
BUT STRIVING TO MEET THE MARK

KNOWING THAT
I REMEMBER PAUL SAYING




Who will separate us
from the love of Christ?
Will tribulation,
or distress,
or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril,
or sword?

Just as it is written,

“ FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”

 But in all these things
we overwhelmingly conquer
 through Him
who loved us.

For I am convinced
that neither death,
nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities,
nor things present
, nor things to come,
 nor powers, 39
nor height, nor depth,
nor any other created thing,
will be able to separate us
from the love of God,
 which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

FRANK A VOLLMER

MYTHS

MYTHS

I’VE BEEN READING A LOT

OF THE CREATION/DELUGE STORIES

COMMON TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN AREA

GEOLOGISTS ARE SAYING

THAT WITHIN HISTORY’S MEMORY

THE MEDITERRANEAN

BLACK

CASPIAN SEAS

WERE FORMED

OR DEFORMED

THE FOLK MEMORY

OF THESE EVENTS WAS SO STRONG

THEY CREATED A GENRE OF DELUGE STORIES

OF WHICH GENESIS IS ONE

IN PRIMITIVE THINKING

THE FLOOD WAS THE GODS ANGER

AT MAN’S SIN

OR BY THE NOISE HE MADE

DISTURBING THEM

EITHER WAY GOD RUED HIS CREATION

LIKE DISGRUNTLED TRADESMEN

THEY WANTED TO DESTROY WHAT THEY HAD MADE

AND START ANEW

AFTER THE FLOOD

WHAT THEY ENDED UP WITH

PEOPLE LIKE NOAH AND HIS SONS

NO BETTER THAN THE ONES WHO WENT BEFORE

US

A SINFUL PEOPLE

THE GODS DECIDED

FURTHER INTERFERENCE

WOULD NOT PRODUCE BETTER RESULTS

UNLIKE THE JEWISH BIBLE

THERE WAS NO SENSE OF SIN

AND REDEMPTION

BUT ANNOYED GODS

HAVING A HISSY FIT

WHILE THE ROOTS OF GENESIS

MAY BE BORROWED

THE UNIQUENESS OF GENESIS

SHOWS A GOD

WHO MADE MAN

BECAUSE HE WANTED TOO

KNOWING FULL WELL

HIS CREATION WOULD GO ASTRAY

HE MADE US ANYWAY

FRANK A VOLLMER

.(Jeremiah 31:33) INTROSPECTION .....

INTROSPECTION

MY SAINTED GRANDMOM

A STAUNCH PROTESTANT

USED TO FEED HER CATHOLIC GRANDCHILDREN

MEAT ON FRIDAY

FELT SHE WAS DOING A GOOD THING

THAT GOD WAS PLEASED

MULTIPLY THAT MICROCOSM BY

ALL THE SENTIENT PEOPLE LIVING

AND WE WONDER

WHY ARE WE SHOCKED AT MASSACRE

WHEN THOSE INSTITUTIONS

WHICH WE HAVE TO TEACH AND PROTECT US

FAIL

NOT ONCE BUT A PATTERN

HOW CAN WE BE SHOCKED

A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

NEWLY RELEASED

HAPPENED UPON A FUNERAL PROCESSION

WITH WAILING

HE WAS SHOCKED

SIX MILLION WENT UP IN SMOKE

WITH NO WAILING

THOSE WHO PERPETUATED THE ACTION

FELT THEY DID A GOOD THING

I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER

OR CURE

EXCEPT TO SAY

IT STARTS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL

TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE

GOD PUT IN HIM AT CONCEPTION

OR ELSE OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE

IS NO MORE SUBSTANTIAL

THAN SMOKE UP A CHIMNEY

FRANK A VOLLMER

WRITINGS ON A WALL

IN A KINGDOM FAR AWAY           

WHERE MEN GO TO PONDER AND PRAY

THERE’S A SIGN ON THE WALL

THAT SAYS

PAIN IN A HUMAN IS AN INSULT TO GOD

PAIN IN A HUMAN THWARTS GOD’S PLAN

IT’S A WALL BEFORE WHICH

SEEKERS SIT PONDERING

WHAT ARE ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ME

DOES IT HAVE IMPLICATIONS BEYOND ME

CAN I IGNORE IT OR SHOULD I

WE’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SELF INFLICTED PAIN

LIKE WORK

EXERCISE

PLAY

GIVING BIRTH

BUT PAIN INFLICTED BY OTHERS

WITH NO CONCERN

FOR THEIR VICTIMS

OR WORSE

ENJOYING IT

GOD WANTED WHAT WAS BEST FOR HIS CREATION

INFLICTED PAIN

GOES COUNTER TO HIS DREAM

FOR HIS CREATION

SO A COMMON CONSENT

OF THOSE STUDYING THE WALL WAS

HOW DOES MY CONDUCT AFFECT OTHERS

IF MY CONDUCT AFFECTS GOD’S PLAN

WHAT DROSS WILL I GAIN

TO HURT GOD’S PLAN

FRANK A VOLLMER