Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron That book has shot to the top of the charts, resulting in many of you sending me emails to ask, “Have you read it?” So I went ahead and read it. He told his parents his story several months later and his parents then waited 6 or 7 years to record it in a book. His visit came while he was on the operating table after suffering a burst appendix. Heaven Is For Real is written by pastor Todd Burpo and it tells the story of his son Colton who, at age 4, visited heaven. I wonder if I’m the only one who finds it a mite suspicious that now that these books are selling like proverbial hotcakes, more and more people find that God wants them to tell their stories of heaven and hell. It’s currently sitting atop the New York Times list of bestsellers and has over a half million copies in print. And now hot on their heels comes Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back. Then there was 23 Minutes in Hell, another bestseller and another awful book. Don Piper got it started with 90 Minutes in Heaven, a really bad book that sold millions of copies.

Praise for Heaven is for Real: 'A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe.Embarking on a short tour of the afterlife is all the rage, it seems. 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. 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. 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. '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. 'Do you remember the hospital, Colton?' Sonja said. Heaven is For Real details what Colton saw and his family's journey towards accepting their young son had visited the afterlife. #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 by todd burpo