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

That is, Jesus' Own claim to be the only way to God the Father as well as Paul, Peter, John and most of the other Good News and New Testament writers affirming it -along with the Old (or First) Testament prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, the Messiah must be reckoned with if one truly seeks eternal LIFE and relationship with God. God is not American or any other nationality, He is not a member of any -particular- local church or denomination, He doesn't belong to any political pa

"The nature of love is to give and bless, to forgive and to share". I've been searching to find validation that this quote is indeed from John Wesley -but regardless, what a profound and in my thinking incredibly solid phrase -simple yet packed with truth! Why do I say this? Whether Christ-follower, agnostic or atheist I tell you if this is the nature of love it fully reveals the nature of the Source of genuine love -that is, God Himself. GOD is continually giving, blessing,

Look, I'm not writing out of un-confessed sin here, no conviction of such in my life in this moment, rather seeking to call us all out to a truth so liberating, so deeply transformational that... well, read on. I've often stated faith in Jesus isn't about faith in me, in myself- but IN HIM! "Faith in God's faithfulness" is my common phrase. Why? For one thing, no human being can match it nor is worthy of such trust. You don't need the Spirit's discernment, great wisdom or eve

From time to time as I study God's Word I remember to look for HIS attributes, His virtues embeded in the text -and it's not always a matter of literal exegesis and yet brings me to worship Him in a deeper sense of Spirit and truth, to give Him glory for all He is and of course, thus, does for us :) Here's one I wrote out and placed on my office wall: (Paul in Phil. 4.8, my bold for emphasis) "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is rig

Some who read the title of this post will immediately think of themselves -and many if not most with good reason. Some will think "I've enough problems and concerns in my life, why would I want to read about this topic?!" Others will be drawn to consider it and there are several reasons for it, perhaps family, friends or other loved ones and so they are curious to see what's written here. Some will be thinking they know WHY people suffer or even the motives, reasons and very

I've hit on this before in posts but here it is: unless you are literally God you don't KNOW all the issues in your neighbor's life, how they got the way they are -or seem to be in your view. Even my pentecostal or charismatic friends with genuine spiritual gifts regarding words of wisdom, knowledge and discernment don't have the ability or capacity to fully know why a person thinks and does as they do. The background, the abuse/s, even the issues in an individual's sin natur

How many people spend a lifetime seeking to be content? I include professing Christians in this question... Genuine much less non-stop contentment is fleeting, that is, it comes and goes with our health, sport we play or teams we follow and root for, boss/es and co-workers at our place of employment, class instructors, our emotions and more. It's a moving target, no? And yet Paul writes Timothy (1 Tim. 6.6) "godliness with contentment is great gain". So he ties godliness WITH