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Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
Todd Burpo
3.66 AVERAGE
983 reviews for:
Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
Todd Burpo
3.66 AVERAGE
Book Description
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.
Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.
Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.
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A heart warming story about a young boy's experience with death. The story seems honest and the way it was presented made me belief this was a true experience for Colton. The world would be a better place if we all had these type of experiences with Heaven.
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.
Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.
Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.
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A heart warming story about a young boy's experience with death. The story seems honest and the way it was presented made me belief this was a true experience for Colton. The world would be a better place if we all had these type of experiences with Heaven.
What a powerful, and fast read! This was recommended by a friend and I was apprehensive at first, but once I got into it, I couldn't stop. Power of faith and prayer!
All I've heard about this simple book is how amazing it is and how it is a "must read", even from people who normally don't read books like this! So I knew eventually I'd read it, mostly just for the sake of saying I had.
Colton, at age 3 and 3/4, almost died and months after the ordeal had passed and he was healthy again he started saying "odd" things to his parents about God, Jesus, and heaven. Things that no other 4 year old knows or even could know. While his parents first brushed off his comments as weird they started noticing that the remarks he was making and his behaviors about people's relationship, or lack thereof, with God were very real and very factual according to the biblical accounts. So they started asking more questions, trying not to lead him to answers but allowing him to give the answer. He started rocking their world of faith with the things he said he saw and did in heaven during this near-death experience. No 3-4 year old could come up with the explanations and descriptions that Colton did and as much as even the most skeptical person won't want to believe it you kind of have to. You kind of have to just take it all at face value. What you do with that is up to you but you can't dispute a 4 year old and what he saw.
Colton isn't the only one to claim to have visited heaven. Akiane Kramarik (http://www.artakiane.com/) also started talking about heaven and God at 4 year old. One could say that it was natural for Colton to do this as he is being raised by parents with Christian beliefs (his Dad is a Pastor) but you can't really explain Akiane - she was being raised by an atheist single mom so had never even heard of God. So do with it what you will but you have to take these accounts at face value, they happened.
As far as writing goes the book is written very simply and I read it from start to finish in about an hour and a half. Super easy read.
Colton, at age 3 and 3/4, almost died and months after the ordeal had passed and he was healthy again he started saying "odd" things to his parents about God, Jesus, and heaven. Things that no other 4 year old knows or even could know. While his parents first brushed off his comments as weird they started noticing that the remarks he was making and his behaviors about people's relationship, or lack thereof, with God were very real and very factual according to the biblical accounts. So they started asking more questions, trying not to lead him to answers but allowing him to give the answer. He started rocking their world of faith with the things he said he saw and did in heaven during this near-death experience. No 3-4 year old could come up with the explanations and descriptions that Colton did and as much as even the most skeptical person won't want to believe it you kind of have to. You kind of have to just take it all at face value. What you do with that is up to you but you can't dispute a 4 year old and what he saw.
Colton isn't the only one to claim to have visited heaven. Akiane Kramarik (http://www.artakiane.com/) also started talking about heaven and God at 4 year old. One could say that it was natural for Colton to do this as he is being raised by parents with Christian beliefs (his Dad is a Pastor) but you can't really explain Akiane - she was being raised by an atheist single mom so had never even heard of God. So do with it what you will but you have to take these accounts at face value, they happened.
As far as writing goes the book is written very simply and I read it from start to finish in about an hour and a half. Super easy read.
Sort of hated this book. Found it painful to read...definitely don't get all the hype.
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Such an interesting and well documented recollection of a unique journey.
Reading this was overall pleasant and helped me feel a little more grateful for my personal spiritual experiences.
Throughout the short and sweet book I had 2 pervading thoughts.
First, a bahumbug-esque "This is nice and all, but it doesn't seem very special, or stand out enough to merit a whole book, more like a short Ted talk of a family's positive takeaway from a near death experience. Most kids that I know say and know very similar things to Colton and have similar spiritual experiences without any dramatic events occurring, so this doesn't seem very extraordinary or unique."
Then realizing, with a little more patience and gratitude, "Most kids I know have a simple yet sincere and beautiful understanding of Jesus Christ and heaven, and I have seen God's hand blessing myself and others with healing, comfort and knowledge many times. Maybe these are miracles that I take for granted."
So while this book didn't have any particularly new or groundbreaking information for me, it did remind me to be more thankful for the ordinary miracles of life and that's pretty great too.
Throughout the short and sweet book I had 2 pervading thoughts.
First, a bahumbug-esque "This is nice and all, but it doesn't seem very special, or stand out enough to merit a whole book, more like a short Ted talk of a family's positive takeaway from a near death experience. Most kids that I know say and know very similar things to Colton and have similar spiritual experiences without any dramatic events occurring, so this doesn't seem very extraordinary or unique."
Then realizing, with a little more patience and gratitude, "Most kids I know have a simple yet sincere and beautiful understanding of Jesus Christ and heaven, and I have seen God's hand blessing myself and others with healing, comfort and knowledge many times. Maybe these are miracles that I take for granted."
So while this book didn't have any particularly new or groundbreaking information for me, it did remind me to be more thankful for the ordinary miracles of life and that's pretty great too.
Amazing story...a great read for believers and non-believers who have lost someone and are wondering "is this all there is?"
"This is the true story of Colton Burpo, the four-year old son of a small-town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven."
"This is the true story of Colton Burpo, the four-year old son of a small-town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven."
I honestly don't know how this book got into my kindle. Maybe God really does move in mysterious ways. I had just finished a book and was flicking through looking for the next one, when this caught my eye. I didn't know it was a true story, and I flicked through it pretty quickly.
This boy and his family obviously believe everything in this book was real. Maybe it was. I actually though to myself the other day when someone was very kind to me at a moment I was feeling terrible, that angels show up when you need them, so I can't judge too harshly, although I don't think my angels are the same as the ones found in this book. It was interesting to read about their experiences. I found it strange they didn't record any of the names of people Colton met in heaven - that would be a definitive proof. The author makes a big deal about Colton knowing things about heaven and God he couldn't possibly know, and tying them weakly to Bible passages. However, given his Dad is a pastor, this is not as amazing it might be if the family were atheists.
It's a sweet story, and no doubt will bring comfort to many.
This boy and his family obviously believe everything in this book was real. Maybe it was. I actually though to myself the other day when someone was very kind to me at a moment I was feeling terrible, that angels show up when you need them, so I can't judge too harshly, although I don't think my angels are the same as the ones found in this book. It was interesting to read about their experiences. I found it strange they didn't record any of the names of people Colton met in heaven - that would be a definitive proof. The author makes a big deal about Colton knowing things about heaven and God he couldn't possibly know, and tying them weakly to Bible passages. However, given his Dad is a pastor, this is not as amazing it might be if the family were atheists.
It's a sweet story, and no doubt will bring comfort to many.