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    Loving Hearts Live Forever
    Loving Hearts Live Forever
    Loving Hearts Live Forever
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    Loving Hearts Live Forever

    By Melody Ravert

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    This is a collection of memories shared by family and friends of their loved ones who have gone to be with the Lord.

    The stories and poems will bring laughter, tears, joy, and healing to all who knew them.

    These moments are just a few reminders of their special qualities that we enjoyed while they were here.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFideli Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 13, 2011
    ISBN9781604143324
    Loving Hearts Live Forever
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    Melody Ravert

    Melody Ravert, Christian fiction author of several books includ¬ing the Shadow Stalker and Nightwolf series is a self-publisher for new writers at MJR Publications.Ms. Ravert began her writing career in December of 2002 with her first book, Shadow of Death (coming soon as an audio book).She is a corporate sponsor and gold member of the 2010 Trustworthy and True: Christian Authors on Tour group, a member of the ‘Maryland Writers’ Association’, and has served three years as one of the judges for the MWA Novel contest, and two years as a judge for the Frontiers in Writing Contest, sponsored by the Panhandle Professional Writers.She writes articles for Examiner.com as Baltimore Fine Arts Examiner and Baltimore Family Fun Examiner.

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      Loving Hearts Live Forever - Melody Ravert

      By Melody J. Ravert

      This collection of stories and poems are in loving memory of family and friends who have gone to live with our Lord. One day in the future, those of us who are Christians will reunite with our Christian loved ones.

      For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words.

      1 Thessalonians 4: 16-18 (NIV)

      Some loved ones have two or more stories. This is because I wanted to share memories from different perspectives or relationships.

      My sister Brenda reminded me of hearing a message at a funeral stating that the engraved date of birth and date of death is separated by a line--that line represents a lifetime of love, sacrifice, accomplishments, and a faith that guided them into eternity. So in this anthology, Loving Hearts Live Forever, the contributing authors would like to share some of these precious moments with you, the reader.

      Introduction

      We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all.

      He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

      Isaiah 53: 6-7 (NIV)

      It started in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve’s sin of disobedience.

      Genesis 3

      Once sin came into the world, we became separated from God. God is holy and just and cannot allow sin to enter into heaven. He loved us and wanted to have a close relationship, but something had to be done to wash and cleanse our sins. As in the Old Testament, this could only be done with a blood sacrifice of a perfect and spotless lamb.

      Leviticus 5:7

      If not, then all people would be expected to die both physically and spiritually.

      For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

      Romans 3:23 (NIV)

      The problem with the burnt offerings and sin offerings was that although they were required by the law, they only covered sins for a time and did not remove them.

      Hebrews 10:1-18

      The Good News is that God had a plan. He sent His Son Jesus to be born on Earth and to die, making Him the only perfect and spotless Lamb. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice who removed our sins once and for all. Glory to God!

      For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

      John 3: 16-18 (NIV)

      For anyone who has seen Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, they have a glimpse of what pain and agony Jesus suffered. Yes, Jesus died for the whole world, but we can make it personal—on the Cross, He was thinking of me.

      Thanks be to God the story doesn’t end there. If it did, none of us would have a chance to be reconciled with God and spend eternity in heaven.

      But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.

      But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.

      I Corinthians 15:12-23 (NIV)

      All believers of Jesus Christ who have died in their earthly form have a new body and are living with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:8 Those of us who have invited Jesus into our hearts and are still living will be changed when He returns.

      In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

      I Corinthians 15:52-54 (KJV)

      Our loved ones in Christ are in heaven with the Lord. My prayer is that everyone who reads this book will know without a doubt that you will see your loved ones again.

      If

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