Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Todd Burpo

Mar 2014 · Sold by Thomas Nelson

About this ebook

#1 New York Times best-seller with more than 11 million copies sold and Amazon’s #17 best-selling book of all time. Heaven Is for Real was the best-selling non-fiction book of 2011 as reported by Nielsen’s Bookscan, and it was made in to a major motion picture by Sony in 2014.

“Do you remember the hospital, Colton?” Sonja said. “Yes, mommy, I remember,” he said. “That’s where the angels sang to me.”

When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren’t expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed—a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy’s trip to heaven and back.

Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery–and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.

With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He describes Jesus, the angels, how “really, really big” God is, and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using Colton’s uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, “Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses.”

Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.

Continue the Burpos story in Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story. Heaven Is for Real also is available in Spanish, El cielo es real.

Bonus material in this special movie edition includes:

• Photos from the movie set
• Updates from father, Todd, and son, Colton, on recent events including the making-of-the-movie experience
• “From the Set” Q&A’s with the movie’s filmmakers and actors

Ratings and reviews

Do not buy into the lie this book pushes. The Bible is clear on it's account of people who have gone to heaven. They are struck with such awe that they cannot put it into words. Furthermore Jesus is always present in Heaven. Books like these always push a heaven full of greed and idolatry, and a lack of Jesus. Heaven is real... "Heaven is for Real," is not.

With the exception of translated Enoch and Elijah and resurrected Moses, no one goes to heaven at death. It's clear that death is a sleep until the resurrection at the advent. Even when Lazarus' sister spoke she admitted that she knew his resurrection would be at the end of time. This gives rise to spiritualism. The dead sleep. No memory, no praising, nothing.

This is a great book! Many who read it are hungering for more of the supernatural ..they read it because they want to experience more of God.. You can experience the supernatural and experience Jesus Face to Face! There's a movement of face to face appearances that is spreading across the earth and you too can partake!! I have and ever since my life has never been the same!!! Call the global office for more information, your life will never be the same!! 1877-THE-GLORY!!

About the author

Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan and a volunteer fireman. He and his wife, Sonja, have four children: Colton is an active teenager; he has an older sister, Cassie; a younger brother, Colby; and a very special sister he met in heaven. Sonja Burpo is a busy mom and pastor's wife. A certified elementary teacher, Sonja is passionate about children's ministry and helping women work through the difficulty of miscarriage.

Lynn Vincent is the New York Times best-selling writer ofHeaven Is for Real and Same Kind of Different As Me. The author or coauthor of ten books, Lynn has sold 12 million copies since 2006. She worked for eleven years as a writer and editor at the national news biweekly WORLD magazine and is a U.S. Navy veteran.