Calm The Storm Perspective on Angels and Fire

A.J. Ogg

from Calm The Storm

Testimony

In 2019, I was an atheist with alcoholism. My life was in total disarray, and I was headed for an early grave. I had just spent the last few years trying to get sober but to no avail. I was trying to get sober while avoiding the God topic. I thought I was sure there was no God but I began to realize that the people who I knew would have ever gotten sober had done so with the help of a Higher Power of some sort. For a time, I was unwilling to accept that, and failed time after time to get free from alcohol. Eventually, when I had been desperate, in great pain and in horrible health, I began to call upon God to help me get sober and help me out of the chaos that was my life. It was the first time I had sincerely called on God without any agenda or angle. I prayed that if God helped me get sober, I would live life differently, that I would choose His way. Through a bucket of tears, I prayed this prayer for a couple days and suddenly the doors to get the help I needed began to open. I got connected with a treatment center that was serious about their clients getting and staying sober and jumped in with both feet. This was life or death for me. Shortly after establishing a simple and sincere connection with God, he began to lead me into more of the truth about Him, the Most High God. He got me connected with people who were following Jesus and whose lives were being radically changed by the power of the gospel message. I began to follow Jesus myself. I didn’t understand everything at first, but I couldn’t deny that God was beginning to bless my life as I began to follow him more closely.

After a couple years of sobriety and cleaning up the wreckage of my past, I was given what is called the gospel of the Kingdom. The same gospel that Jesus taught his disciples in the 1st century. I had heard about faith in the Messiah for the forgiveness of sins, but I hadn’t heard the whole story; the whole good news (the gospel). God is going to send the Messiah Jesus back to the earth to establish his Kingdom, here on a restored earth. I’m going to get a body that never dies, as will all those who are found faithful. God is going to cleanse the earth and destroy wickedness forever. He’s going to establish a Kingdom of peace that will never end and his headquarters is going to be Jerusalem! As I began to get a fuller picture of the good news and what’s to come, I began to be inspired to write songs about these events and promises that God has made. I began the project known as Calm The Storm. Angels And Fire is the first song I wrote from this batch of inspiration. Angels will be found on an EP titled The Dawn Is Near to be released this Fall (2025). Along the way I met a dear brother named Joshua Unitt who has helped me record and produce Calm The Storm music. His contributions have been priceless. We have teamed up for another single after the EP The Dawn Is Near and hope to do a second EP within the next 2 years. Anyway, the message of hope I found in the return of Jesus has fueled this music and transformed my life and my outlook on life. Though we (all mankind) currently live in a dark and broken world we can take comfort that it won’t always be this way. God is coming to restore all the earth and He is looking for the faithful. This can be me, you, them and us if we only turn to Him. Blessings and Maranatha!

One of my ealiest memories of listening to music was the Beatles (probably Hey Jude) on my Dad's cassette tape headphones; totally old skool.

This single, Angels and Fire, is pretty straight alternative rock with a touch of post-hardcore toward the end/climax. Surely, it's also Christian rock if thats offically a genre.

Still deciding :)