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

by Todd Burpo

Lynn Vincent (Secondary Author)

Deluxe keepsake edition of the #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

 

• ISBN10: 0849948363
• ISBN13: 9780849948367
• Publish Date: 5 October 2011 (first published 5 October 2010)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 192
• Language: English

Reviews

[ladygrey]

Very short, quick read about a little boys trip to heaven; what he saw and who he spoke to and what it was like. It's definitely interesting and I can see in some ways how it would be inspiring.

The writing was really, really basic but it's a father trying to tell his son's story because he thinks it's worth telling and not a professional writer so I can forgive that.

I think the reason I didn't *love* this book is that I went into it believing the kid and the story so all the "oh my gosh that's so amazing!" moments for me were, "yeah, that's how I'd think it was in heaven." Which, I don't know, maybe took some of the fun out of it.

Which doesn't diminish the family's story at all, just my enthusiastic participation in it. I'm too matter of fact about the whole thing.

[violetpeanut]

Whether or not you actually believe the events of the book, it is well written and an entertaining read. For many people this will be a confirmation of already held beliefs. For others it will be read as a work of fiction. For me, it is a study in the power that one's faith can have in their own life as well as the lives of others - be it good or bad.

[thebookdisciple]

Very interesting and really put some tangible visions in my head.