A lyric for a song I'll likely record at some point. And as always, thanks for stopping by. -Glenn BIGGER BARNS -glenn kaiser It's so often true, for me or you Convenient excuses, idolic abuses More more and more Inner/outer war Accumulate Disassociate Pile it high, store it up Gluttonize with arrogant strut Turn the heart into stone Here today, tomorrow gone Oh how wide the road to hell Oh how deep the lies we tell First to ourselves, then to others So-called wealth from a c

How easy and what a lie it is to believe we are not loved, not desired by God. How quick we are to believe like flawed, sinful, prejudiced humans that our heavenly Father, that Jesus doesn't love us and will not accept us- because it's happened so often that people haven't truly loved us- and we know we've had the same attitudes toward others. In the following I'm focused not on the wider context but the core points which sadly, too many of us are tempted to just gloss over.

Sometimes we neglect hard and rough truths about our relationship with God. Hmmm- self-justification that places us in dire straights even though we are "the people of God". Jeremiah chapter two is all by itself one of many- many places in God's commentary (Bible) about idol worship, and sadly, once again Israel, my country (U.S.) and I personally in various ways have had to (or should have!) face up to the near-countless times we have fallen into assuming innocence when God

Many mornings early rising soft steps into dark woods the quiet stillness loud scents oh tonic to my soul! Easy breathing dawn-break creature sounds betray the silence light-rays winking leaf tops and the peace of God in me These gifts at times memories schedules, family, others first older, weary body reminisces and dreams of woodlands once again Yet comes a day, a time of unending all in relationship with the Maker of these wonders forever with Him kingdom eternal morning

The Book of Proverbs surely instructs us to "get knowledge", "get wisdom" and also to "get understanding". We see New Testament phrases such as "we have the mind of Christ" and "you have no need for man to teach you" while at the same time Proverbs tells us "lean NOT to your own understanding". Ok, so it's the Spirit of God Who fully knows (Deity-Trinity!), in one sense -is- the actual, absolute mind of God -no limits in Him. Does God reveal things to His prophets and even to

I've had a recent back-and-forth with a friend who like me, doesn't mind -some- sloppiness if the overall feel of an artists's songs strike him as passionate and powerful. Here's my response to his comments re. using Gibson SG's and this general area of tone and appreciation. He began the convo in response to my video clip about perfectionism. I wrote: "Tone, I think, is in the person, the mind, the setting up of a guitar, amp, pedal/s and the mic'ing techniques- but in the e

Glenn Kaiser Solo Autumn Tour 2026 NASHVILLE, TN FRI OCT 2: Appx. Noon John J. Thompson interviews Glenn and Wendi Kaiser @ The Museum of Christian and Gospel Music 402 Commerce St. Nashville, TN 37219 FRI OCT 2: 7pm GK Solo Blues and Roots Show, The Wayside opening! @ The Well 4002 Granny White Pike, Nashville, TN 37204 SAT OCT 3: time tba- roundtable/discussion @ Wild Bison Fest, Lipscomb University One University Pk. Dr. Nashville, TN 37204 Contact: 615.966.5932 MOREHEAD,

A prayer: Pour Your love and grace Lord- through me! I fail plenty... I mean a -lot-. It would take a large book to list all my mess ups! And yet the title of this post is what I often fall back into as I reach out and up to Jesus. If HE isn't the source of love and grace... well, my love and grace is quite limited but His is UNlimited! Of course first one must in faith and the risk of trust believe God loves and not only offers but supplies grace to we who seek Him in Christ

"Let not the rebellious exalt themselves." -Ps. 66.7 Two key points: the context here is rebelling against God, the true and only God. In that sense ALL sinners whether professing followers of Jesus or not- rebel. My second point is that self-exaltation is 99.9 percent a common element of idolatry against the true God, ourselves wanting honor, glory and praise rather than giving it to God. Note the historical account in Acts 12.20-24 Worship in essence, is giving glory, honor

So it looks like this though there may be some changes. I'm very close to having all the details and will post as soon as I have them for all the following! They include blues/roots concerts, cigar box/found object guitar workshops, speaking and also worship sets -depending on the particular venue and folks. Most of the Nashville details are posted at Glenn Kaiser Solo in Facebook and my gkaisersoze Instagram pages. Note there are 2 tentative spots below... I'll update the mo

It's interesting- I've studied world history nearly my entire life and the term "myth" stopped being a myth to me around the 4th or 5th grade elementary school as I began studying them. Which "them"? LONG list, and of course longer as the years passed. My family had just about nothing to do with church and were not attendees right through my early, then teen years. The phrase "Christian myth" or "creation story" surfaced in my reading but I didn't pay any attention nor did I

So that's the lineup for another great night in Beloit working with dear friends at Josiah's Place/Overflowing Cup Coffeehouse. They've long had an incredible ministry I'm thankful to be part of on the night! Hope to see some of you, -Glenn Sat, Sep 12 @ 6:00PM Overflowing Cup, 1175 Madison Rd., Beloit, WI 53512 Glenn Kaiser will perform. Todd Moyer and Caspar McCloud will do sets as well. Josiah's Place / The Overflowing Cup in Beloit, WI (1175 Madison Rd.) on Saturday, Sept

In recovery there is an extremely important issue raised. A step speaks to "taking fearless moral inventory" as a regular habit. I would bet such is more rare among professing Christians than some might think. Begin with considering yourself and how often you do so and you'll benefit. How often is there is a gap between our saving faith in Jesus and our walking it out in faithfulness? Faithful thinking, speaking, living from the heart and not mere lip-service isn't as automat

It's like me demanding and requiring everyone I meet to love blues music and the most freakin' hot peppers and on top of it really STOP liking other music styles and outlawing more mellow or bland foods and seasonings... OR.ELSE. Well, I come at this from years of recognizing that not only pre-or-unbelievers -but professing followers of Jesus have so often been fans or gotten co-opted by various powers seeking to use the church to gain ever more power, money and control. Gues

There are two specific issues I wish to discuss in this post- the first is that human opinions are sometimes sourced from actual fact, sometimes not. The second is that if we decide (note that term) the only truly important things in the biblical record are those attributed to Jesus Himself, it is our own reasoning that may well be suspect. How does it make sense if we judge Paul's or James' or Jude's words to not come from God but are mere flawed human views of things while

Back-to-school post? Actually, yes- regardless of our age or place in life. One of a massive amount of Bible truths is that Jesus died to forgive our sins. Some of my earliest school memories include the scent and often use of erasers, the small block kind as well as those topping pencils. In fact part of the reason for using pencils was that our teachers were preparing us to face and accept our inevitable mistakes -failures if you will- and to enable us in FIXING rather than