David Bergsland writes fiction—seriously? I know that’s probably hard to believe for anyone who has followed my career since the seventies and eighties. It was all non-fiction, graphic design, font design until I quit to write full-time in 2009. As the twenty twenties have arrived, my major effort has become writing fiction about power-filled contemporary Biblical living. My focus is on realistic living in fictionalized settings. I wanted to put the Let there be light poster up here because to me it represents how deeply embedded Jesus is in the Creation. I am sharing how to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit in normal daily living. The Lord has taken me on a wonderful ride. It was fifty years on January 15, 2024.
Sad to say, even most Christians do not have any idea how far the Lord will go to bless you or how to access that blessing. He’s loving, funny, kind, generous, always trustworthy, and I could go on for paragraphs. It’s a wonderful life, walking with the Lord by His Spirit within us. Paul called it the great mystery, that which was barely hinted in the Old Testament, The Messiah in us, the hope of glory.
It grieves me to see how denominational leadership blocks this, in many cases. It’s commonly called the heresy of Experiential Christianity. But the Truth is that this is what Jesus prayed for in His priestly prayer of John seventeen—that we would be one with Him the same way He is one with the Father. I can’t imagine how good it will be after the Marriage Supper. If you haven’t experienced it yet, ask Jesus to show you the truth of all of this. The Holy Spirit is in us to teach us how to do this. We all have our own walk of faith, but the Holy Spirit is in us to guide us into it.
There’s also the idea that Jesus has quit offering the gifts of the Holy Spirit as seen in Acts. He has radically changed since the early days of the Acts of the Apostles. See if you can believe this statement. “After Luke got the Acts of the Apostles written, Jesus made a radical change by not offering the spirit-filled life of power any more. He only did that with the super-saints back then.” That’s what this idea states—that Jesus is no longer working like He did in the first two centuries. That’s more sad than the experiential Christianity “heresy”. I normally call this one the cessationist heresy. But, of course, I can’t say that here—hogwash!
David Bergsland writes fiction
The Spirit of Fire Saga
This has been replaced by the Meeting Jesus Saga: The 15-book Meeting Jesus Saga is a Christian Contemporary speculative fiction effort. The genre is Low Fantasy. My focus is on realistic living in fictionalized settings. These are feel-good, edifying, tales of worship to a Lord who is absolutely amazing. They are basically how I live my life—or would if the Lord gave me an opportunity like this. Jesus has some things to do as the Age of the Gentiles draws to its conclusion. I am sharing how to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit in normal daily living. The Lord has taken me on a wonderful ride for fifty years on January 15, 2024. Sad to say, even most Christians do not have any idea how far the Lord will go to bless you or how to access that blessing.
Yeshua Messiah is loving, funny, kind, generous, always trustworthy, and I could go on for paragraphs. It’s a wonderful life, walking with the Lord by His Spirit within us. Paul called it the great mystery, that which was barely hinted in the Old Testament, The Messiah in us, the hope of glory. It grieves me to see how denominational leadership purposely blocks this.
Several denominations call it the heresy of Experiential Christianity. But the Truth is that this is what Jesus prayed for in His priestly prayer of John seventeen—that we would be one with Him the same way He is one with the Father. If you haven’t experienced it yet, ask Jesus to show you the truth of all of this. The Holy Spirit is in us to teach us how to do this. We all have our own walk of faith, but the Holy Spirit is in us to guide us into it.
The Ferellonian King series, Newly Revised
Book 1, Religious Evil: An otherworldly, gritty heroic fantasy dealing with truth & spiritual warfare
The life of Joen Bjarn’son had brought him to the point of unquenchable rage. He had withdrawn almost entirely within himself. Then he does something very stupid. He lashes out at the man responsible.
But Heglin Roark, Primate of the Ansélan Church for the Kingdom of Ferrelär strikes back with a vengeance. His plans to deal with Joen’s kind are basically genocidal.
The Primate believes in the power of the church and its liturgy. The Known talk with the Lord directly, and he cannot control them. There are some personal things going on also, but the result is he’s increasingly using the Known as scapegoats. Joen’s campaign against him results in him moving his private war out into the open
Joen’s devastated by his guilt, insignificance, and isolation. He doesn’t Know the Lord. Yet Lord Ansél has plans for him beyond his wildest imagination. Far off in the king’s palace, Princess Raqhel lies in her suite of luxury terrified by her brother’s physical advances. What was to become of her? What should she do?
Tales of Mighty Men
Though these are an excellent tale, they suffer from being outside actual history. Released during the early Trump years, they are now merely an entertaining alternative history.
Invasion, Evulsion, & Ejection
From Book 1: From New Mexico, the land of enchantment, and its history of mighty men, a modern tale of conflict develops.
Deborah “Stones” Jackson at the ripe, old age of 31 had thought she was done with the covert life. The gut shot during the op in Eastern Afghanistan, compounded by the care of the Jalalabad hospital, had nearly killed her. Ralph, her boss at Black Sail in Maryland, had finally gotten her to Germany for emergency care. Then he sent her back to New Mexico to recover. She wasn’t sure she’d be going back.
But a calling rarely lets up, and Stones was meant for combat. The new foe was devious, coming up from Chihuahua, with support in surprising places. She’d never been faced with traitorous Americans, amazing wealth, and the sheer nastiness of an oppressed people demanding freedom.
Cut off from the East with no resources, Deborah discovers that God has a plan for her which she never could have dreamed—far beyond her wildest imaginations. She’d have to deal with her mother, who was a legendary assassin?!