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

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#1 New York Times bestseller with more than 11 million copies sold! When 4-year-old Colton Burpo emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven, his family doesn’t know what to believe. Heaven is For Real details what Colton saw and his family’s journey towards accepting their young son had visited the afterlife.

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

Colton told his parents he left his body during an emergency surgery–and proved that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital during his operation. He talked of visiting heaven and described events that happened before he was born and how he spoke with family members he’d never met. Colton also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, even though he had not yet learned to read.

With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton recounts his visit to heaven, describing:

  • Meeting long-departed family members
  • Jesus, the angels, how “really, really big” God is, and how much God loves us
  • How Jesus called Todd, Colton’s father, to be a pastor
  • The Battle of Armageddon

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.

Praise for Heaven is for Real:

“A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe.” —Ron Hall, coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me

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A Google user
November 23, 2011
Lets get this straight. The father is a priest. He tells his son every single day about religious stuff so of course he is going to have a religious dream. I would only believe this if the child knew nothing about religion. Not to mention, NDEs are a psychological image in the cortex. THEY ARE NOT SPIRITUAL! The man who wrote this is an idiot for not researching NDEs, lets all just think that this boy was teleported to floating bearded man land through a mind state!
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A Google user
April 25, 2012
This deserves zero stars. There is more logical explanations such as, the kid was imaginating all of it, and even had prior knowledge of most of what he heard; kids are pretty smart, they pick up knowledge easy. The fact the kid was induced with drugs really gives hint to the imaginations. All I have say is give me the evidence. Had he been a muslim he would have seen 72 virgins.
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Shawn Argo
December 19, 2014
I believe in a Heaven so awesome and majestic that no living person on earth can begin to fathom it let alone some toddler. I'm sorry but God is not bringing people up to heaven and back down so that we all know that heaven is real. Only one living person has been brought up there. Read Revelations. There's the best description you're going to get until you die. There are too many people who supposedly make trips regularly or whatever up to Heaven and that's just a scam or they need to be put in a soft room
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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.

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