90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

Don Piper · Cecil Murphey

Sep 2006 · Revell

About this ebook

As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace.

Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery.

For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.

Ratings and reviews

As we are all aware of, the doctors says that the brain produce a life of itself in the last minute of existence, when oxygen its getting nil. In that small amount of time, the brain produces eternal life, by enlarging enormously the perceptions and making believe the conscient personality that life is going on and on. For the person it really means an eternal life- a virtual kind of life that will surpass the normal life by thousandfould . So, life eternal its waiting round the corner, and perhaps not everyone could be having that luck- perhaps in some persons death just come easy, and for others life eternal could be waiting in that strange but all the while, useful way. All the chants and religious world the author could had attained in his virtual life, comes from his being a deist, a person who believes there is a non human mind ruling the cosmos and all. So his mind gives him what he wants. Now, to be dead for so many minutes its really amazing, and I cannot account a reason for it. Just plain mistery to me. Just the same, I congratulate him and his saviour because he was lucky, and his friend just have some power I cannot fathom.

I sincerely do not believe a word of this man's story. It is illogical and anti-Christian to state that our Lord would bring a soul into heaven and then return it to this horrible world. One is a false prophet if he claims what this man claims. Therefore, I reject his lies and rebuke his claims in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ.

I enjoyed the overall basis of this story, but the idea of being pronounced dead and returning to life is a little hard to believe. I am a Southern Baptist who believes in God and in miracles, but I do not want to go as far as mocking our God. This book is interesting to read and captures the reader, and also raises questions while being read. It is a well organized story, but very close to being blasphemous.

About the author

Don Piper has been an ordained minister since 1985 and has served in several capacities on church staffs, including six years as a senior pastor. Don has appeared on numerous Christian and secular television and radio programs and has been the subject of countless newspaper and magazine features. He writes a weekly newspaper column as well as preaching and leading conferences and retreats across the United States and abroad. He and his wife Eva are the parents of three grown children and live in Pasadena, Texas.

Cecil Murphey has written or coauthored eighty-nine books. He's won a number of awards for his writing, including the 1996 Gold Medallion award for his collaboration on the autobiography of Franklin Graham, Rebel with a Cause. The coauthor of the bestseller Gifted Hands with Dr. Ben Carson, Murphey resides in Atlanta, Georgia.