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Norway & Greece, New Projects Near-Released!

(Catch the rhyme? HA!!)

Wendi and I are off to Norway for some acoustic blues shows this next week, then blues/worship shows and speaking in Greece. You can find details on glennkaiser.com- but the server there is being upgraded so may be on and offline over the next couple days (sorry!). We look forward to seeing old friends and hopefully making new ones in both of these lovely countries.

I have a few blogs as well as podcasts nearly ready to post, but it will take a couple of weeks on the podcasts (about 7 of them) as I'll be out-of-country and our local resident pod-guru is on vacation until then :)

Several new releases are in the chute:

[Note that grrrrecords.com as well as glennkaiser.com are on the -same- server now being worked on. Please be patient if either are offline over the next few days. Also, please don't email me directly on release dates cuz I won't know before Grrr or Cornerstone Press publicizes them! Have a look on those sites for all release dates of new stuff please.]

Grrr Records is about to release (pre-Christmas) Blues Heaven Volume II. It has been mastered and is in the manufacturing stage.

My (Vol. 1) acoustic guitar/dobro/philosophy of songwriting "instructional dvd" centered around the blues- including some songs, biographical and other special features is being mastered now. This also comes from Grrr Records and Wendi and I were absolutely blown away when we had a pre-release look at it. Nathan Cameron and crew did a brilliant job!

The editors tell me "Kissing the Sky", a total re-do and huge re-vamp of "The Responsibility of the Christian Musician" with photos, a great deal of other writing gathered from my younger days, blogs, interviews and etc., is truly near completion. Cornerstone Press Chicago will release the book- please have a look at cornerstonepress.com for release date info. which they'll post as soon as it's decided.

Finally, Project 12 Discipleship group is fully rocking in Chicago at JPUSA and we're truly blessed at how things are going. The grace of pouring all we can into people for the 3 trimester schedule is gratifying indeed! At some point in the next month or so we will upgrade and update the project12.us website as well, though I've added and shall add posts before that happens.

Thanks SO much for your prayers and kind emails. We are continually helped and encouraged by both!

Love and Hugs,
-Glenn

LIES & LIES

This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 1 John 1.5

Glenn sez-

Well, first I don't sez nothin'! I ask you questions that I ask myself:

Do we realize God has given ALL and EACH of us a message? Have we in fact heard it? Do we announce it to anyone, ever? Do we announce it regularly or only on occasion. Do we expect others to announce it for us, or so we won't have to? And HOW do we announce it- with words only, with deeds only, or with words that correspond with and give credibility to our words?

What IS the message? "God IS Light". That's the core message. In the Greek, a message or promise is to be announced to others by us. That message is that God is Light, not darkness, and that He contains nothing of darkness in Himself!

I think the second-greatest lie the devil tells us is that we are nonredeemable and unloved. He lies to us royally about ourselves and our worth and value in God's view!

The first lie he brings to us again and again is that God is loaded with darkness. That God is the source of all misery and evil, in short, that God cannot be trusted at all, that light is not Who He is nor what He brings us.

If we choose to believe lies about the nature of our heavenly Father, all isn't lost- but we shall be, certainly until we choose to love, trust and obey Him!

LIGHT & LIGHT...

Been thinking about how in First John, he talks about us walking in the -light-, the light of God. He's talking about honesty, integrity, transparency and the love and humility that promotes all these. It's about a heart for real koinonia (genuine, in-the-Spirit fellowship between believers in the family of God as opposed to surface cheese).

So... then I'm thinking about a great devo a friend gave this a.m. where Matthew is quoting Jesus Who tells us His yoke is easy and His burden is -light-. Meaning of course, that it's not heavy.

But the English word "light" used in both contexts has rather different core meanings- though the results are the same. Pretty cool.

Then I thought: the truth is that most of us LOVE light burdens more than we enjoy walking in the light. Humbling reality, that.

God help us to love both, truly both!! To cast our cares on You and take up YOUR cross, yoke and burden which in the end not only gives and brings and shares light but makes our load light even though at times it doesn't -feel- like a light.

You Lord, do all things well...