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Ivan Erickson is the author of the epic novel "Song of the Storm Winds". After reading the Foreward, please click on the above white tab, "Ivan's book," to read his press release. To order his paperback book via amazon.com, click on the above white "purchasing" tab. This site also contains the first of what is hopefully to be a series of controversial discourses by the author, on which the readers may blog.

Foreward

My beloved friends in Christ, I wish to relate to each of you my purpose, of which hopefully is to continue to write a series of discourses in order to bring the words of God’s Truth and Light to people of all faiths and ethnicities in America, and hopefully, throughout the world in these current tumultuous times. A few of these discourses will be on some of those premises, themes and matters of which I wrote in my religious/fiction novel, “Song of the Storm Winds”.

In 1994 I embarked on a journey designed to achieve my lifelong ambition and to fulfill my inspiration of becoming a writer of spiritual fiction. Little did I know then that this venture would carry me out into a vast, previously unexplored sea, as “Deep called unto deep”; a sea that was teeming with the tossing, tumultuous waves that were being driven constantly and unrelentingly by the “storm winds” of the most challenging forces that I had ever done battle with in my previous sojourn in this world – a voyage that I was not to complete the first primary phase of until October of 2005, which was when I published the first small edition my three-volume, 1700 page religious/fiction novel entitled, “Song of the Storm Winds.” Even at that time, my toil under the sun was not completed, for after further trials and tribulation, my book is now being marketed by not only myself on my personal web site, but also as of May of 2007, on amazon.com/books.

For Their Guiding Light, love and inspiration, I give all glory, honor and praise for my novel and all of my works to the Blessed Father, Son and Holy Spirit of Wisdom, for They are the precious cherished Treasures where my heart is, now, and forever more.

I had first entitled my book, “There are Storm Winds Created to Punish,” from Sirach 39:28, before changing some time later to its current title. I can only conclude that it was God’s Spirit that was being poured forth upon me through His Son, Jesus Christ and the Wisdom of His words of the Holy Bible that led me to write of the “storm winds”, which are the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, firestorms, famines, pestilence, plagues, hail storms, floods, tornados, and the other acts of God’s warnings and punishments with which He is assailing mankind, as the force´ majeure´ of His natural phenomena continue to grow exponentially in frequency and magnitude in these current times of darkness under the sun. This same Wisdom of God’s Spirit also inspired me to write of many of those other terrible things that mankind is being assaulted by throughout the world in these times – those fearful things that we experience daily and that are being spewed forth on us by the media for 24 hours of each and every day without end – those many things by which mankind is suffering so grievously because of the approaching fullness of sin – the same fullness of sin that mankind experienced at the time of the Great Flood and at the time of Sodom and Gomorrah and their surrounding cities. And more importantly, the Spirit of Wisdom also inspired me to write of those many things that people of all faiths and ethnicities of the world must do now, collectively, in order to bring about God’s attenuation of His “storm winds.”

I ask that each of you get involved in these issues with blogs, comments, questions and insights that we all might share, that together we might be further enlightened by the Spirit of God’s Wisdom, that we in turn may act to bring the Truth and the Light of the Lord to a world that is currently dying for lack of knowledge – a people of all faiths and ethnicities that is thirsting in this vast, desert of life for the Living Springs of the Good News of the Gospel. Many of you are already involved in this vast, army of Christ, and I commend you for this. It is those of you already comprising this army of Christ that Jesus is calling to enlarge your territory, your discipleship, that you may dedicate and challenge yourselves to strive even more arduously to enlist others to this noble cause, for those whom do so will one day shine as suns among the sparks in heaven, forever more.

May all the days for each of you and for each of your loved ones continue to be as blessed and beautiful for each of you, as each of you is blessed and beautiful to each day.

Your Friend In Christ.

Ivan Erickson