



a Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition
A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
#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
Customer Reviews
Awesome!
This was absolutely one of the best books that I have read in a long time. It gives you a better look at life, family, and God. I read, cried, and laughed my way through this incredible story. A must read!
Skip it, it isn't 'for real'
I was excited to read this. It became clear to me early in the book however, that the child was regurgitating Sunday school images, and the father just filled in the blanks. Exploitation? Maybe. As a Christian what is most unsettling are the droves of people reading this book and believing these images as truths, despite the contradiction it has with biblical text. The writing is spotty at best, and it is in the end the equivalent of those feel good propaganda email forwards your aunt sends you on a regular basis. Very disappointing.
Preposterous
Everything about this story strains credulity.