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This guide points you toward your eternal home—heaven! Author Wayne Triplett explores how the hope of going to heaven inspires and sustains us.

Heaven Is Waiting is about heaven, but it is much more. It is about our longing for heaven, our innate instinct for it. It is about eternity in our hearts and how the hope of heaven inspires and sustains us. We groan inside as we resist death and cry for something more beyond the grave. What we call life is a journey to death; what we call death is the gateway to life.

Using biblical principles, Triplett paints a refreshing picture of heaven and provides proof that heaven is a real place. He challenges many preconceived ideas of what heaven will be like while answering the questions that you may not have had the courage to ask. He has collaborated with noted clergymen who share their insights
about the heaven that can become your final forwarding address. This book will either affirm your belief in heaven or challenge your plan for getting there.

Heaven is a permanent residence, a city without a cemetery, a place where we unpack our bags—memories—and stay forever. Are you excited and ready for a great adventure? Are you anticipating what awaits you beyond death’s door?
Prepare for the time of your life—heaven is waiting.

Sujets

Religion

Christianisme

Philosophie et théologie

Religión

Jesús de Nazaret

Jesus

New Jerusalem

Salvation

Spirituality

Resurrection

Christianity

Heaven

Eternity

Salut (religion)

Résurrection (homonymie)

Hell

Jésus-Christ

Bible

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Publié par	iUniverse
Date de parution	05 avril 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781469787794
Langue	English
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HEAVEN IS WAITING
There’s No Place Like Home
WAYNE TRIPLETT
Author of
This Little Light Of Mine
The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

HEAVEN IS WAITING
There’s No Place Like Home
Copyright © 2012 Wayne Triplett.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are taken from
the New King James Version (NKJV) of the Holy Bible.
Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Front/back cover photos by Wayne Triplett
Front flap photo by PCA International, Inc.
Author photo by Wayne Triplett

ISBN: 978-1-4697-8778-7 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4697-8780-0 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-4697-8779-4 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 10/25/2022
CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I HEAVEN IN OUR HEARTS
Chapter 1 You Can Know for Sure
Chapter 2 The Eternal Perspective
Chapter 3 Life after Death
Chapter 4 Resurrection
PART II THE NATURE OF HEAVEN
Chapter 5 The Three Heavens
Chapter 6 The New Jerusalem
Chapter 7 Our Complete Body Makeover
Chapter 8 What We Will Do In Heaven
Chapter 9 What Heaven Will Be Like
PART III THE REST OF THE STORY
Chapter 10 Questions and Answers
Chapter 11 The New Heavens and the New Earth
Chapter 12 Heaven … Here and Now
Chapter 13 The Reality of Hell
Chapter 14 RSVP: Heaven
PART IV REFLECTIONS ON HEAVEN
Heaven is a Wonderful Place by Rev. Craig Church, Evangelist
Heaven! What Can We Really Know? by Rev. James M. (Jim) Gore (Honorary D.D.)
Heaven and What It Means to Me by Rev. Van Proffit (Honorary D.D.)
Heaven Is the Eternal Kingdom of God by Dr. Charles A. Whipple
Heaven by Dr. Jerry C. White

Final Thoughts
Afterword
About the Author
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Bibliography

This book is dedicated to my beloved son
Kevin Wayne Triplett (1986-2006)

Greatly respected and deeply loved on earth,
Yet expected and loved even more in Heaven.
Thank you for teaching me how to live and die,
And showing me the way to Heaven.

And to my dear friend
Ron Hutchins (the Inspirations)

The thing that helped me the most in my struggle against cancer was my relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. I read my Bible often, read some healing Scriptures, always said my prayers, and prayed for healing and strength to get through it. I always had a comfort in knowing that beyond all the doctors and everybody on this earth, there was a greater power that was helping me and taking care of me.
–Kevin W. Triplett

Kevin died on November 27, 2006, and sometime during that struggle, somehow during that battle… Heaven became much sweeter to him. He knew that his faith would soon become sight. And it has! Kevin would not be down the street somewhere, but in God’s house… at Home. Heaven matters! And there’s no place like Home!
–Rev. Shannon Critcher
FOREWORD
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Pastor Jim Gore opened the foreword to Wayne’s second book, The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow , with the words, “This book matters!” I would like to begin the foreword for this book with…Heaven matters!
Heaven is a very real, very eternal place. The Bible says much about the place that will be the forever home of every Christian. It is unfortunate that most people base their understanding and mental picture of Heaven on sentimentality, Hollywood movies, television shows, and even songs. Our view has become warped and instead of Jesus being the glory of Heaven, we have replaced the Savior with “loved ones” and “a mansion in the sky.” It is my prayer that this book will be a help to each of us and drive us back to the Scriptures to see what God’s Word has to say about the final destination of the saved and redeemed. The only One truly qualified to describe Heaven is God, and He does so in the Bible. The truth is always found within the pages of Scripture.
In April 2000, Wayne’s son, Kevin, was diagnosed with bone cancer below his right knee. An almost seven-year battle began. Many days, Wayne and Kevin reveled in the victories, and many more were spent in the trenches of defeat. It was a long, hard fight. Hours were spent in prayer, research, pain, and hope. Wayne and Kevin sought the will of God…a God who not only looked from Heaven upon their sufferings, but a God who would walk with them through each and every trial. Kevin died on November 27, 2006 and sometime during that struggle, somehow during that battle… Heaven became much sweeter to the two of them. They knew that Kevin’s faith would soon become sight. And it has! Heaven matters!
Wayne often sings about Heaven, and you can always hear the ache in his voice. He longs for Home, knowing that Kevin is now there enjoying the majesty of a mighty God. I guess that’s what the apostle Paul experienced when he wrote that he would “prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8 NIV). He wrote that “we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling” (2 Corinthians 5:2 NIV). We can and should anticipate being in the presence of God because Heaven matters, and there is no place like Home!
I remember saying at Kevin’s funeral, in reference to Psalm 23:6, “and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever,” that because Kevin surrendered to Jesus in 1999, he was at home with God. Kevin would not be down the street somewhere, but in God’s house… at Home. And there’s no place like Home.
Each of us must decide what we will do with the Gospel of Jesus, and what we do decides our eternal home. You know, there are only two eternal homes… Heaven and Hell. Both are forever… one is eternal life and the other is eternal death. It is my prayer that God will use this book to whet your appetite for the Christian’s homeland and that His Spirit might make Heaven sweeter and Hell hotter in your mind and heart. If you are not a Christian, I beg you to repent of your sins and submit to the Lordship of Christ in your life. If you are a Christian, please be diligent in sharing the Gospel with those lost friends and family that God has brought into your life. Heaven matters!
You need to know the truth about Heaven and about the only way to get there… Jesus Christ. I hope you enjoy the book, and I hope you will go to God’s Word to see what He has to say about the Christian’s eternal Home.

16 …we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (KJV)
Rev. Shannon Critcher
Senior Pastor – Millers Creek Baptist Church
Millers Creek, North Carolina
January 2012
PREFACE
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The wind began to switch, the house to pitch, and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch. Just then the Witch, to satisfy an itch went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch. The house began to pitch. It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch, who began to twitch and was reduced to just a stitch of what was once the Wicked Witch.

And thus begins the opening lyrics of Munchkinland! The Wizard of Oz, adapted from L. Frank Baum’s timeless classic, is movie magic at its zenith and has enthralled young and old alike for every generation since 1939. This film masterpiece has stood the test of time and for millions like me, the magic will never fade. It is truly the world’s modern day fairy tale to which everyone can relate. Its devotion has only increased with time. Remarkably, the magical world of Oz was named after the alphabetical letters O - Z on the bottom drawer of Baum’s filing cabinet. No one can forget the films remarkable scenes: the field laden with poppy flowers, the flying monkeys carrying Dorothy away, the guards ho-he-hoing at the castle, and of course Munchkinland and its vast array of colorful citizens.
For me, OZ wasn’t a movie so much as it was a family tradition. It was so embedded in my childhood that I no longer thought of it as a movie, especially since it made an annual pilgrimage to television. We would always circle the date on the calendar, and it always seemed to be broadcast around Easter Sunday. When the tornado sequence ended with the house crashing down, you could hear a pin drop in our living room. It would be years later with the arrival of color television that I realized the film changed from black and white to color in Munchkinland simply by opening the front door.
The Wizard of Oz is the story of little Dorothy Gale of Kansas and