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

Here a minister co-authors a book about what happened to his four year old son when the boy was laying on the operating table. This minister leads a small Nebraska Methodist church located in a town that is 60 miles from the nearest Walmart store. He supports himself and his family by installing garage doors and earning a meager salary from his church congregation.As I read this book, I began to see the same pattern of issues that is present in the book PROOF OF HEAVEN. Here we see a minister whose personal life and relationships with others is convincing proof that what he writes is the absolute truth. His wife, a good Christian woman, who is for all practical purposes as important to his congregation as he is, was a full party to the events reported in this book. Whatever their son Colton told his farther, he simultaneously told his mother. And occasionally, he also made comments about what happened to him in the presence of others whose reputability cannot reasonably be questioned. And this minister's close friends include more than a few other ministers who are also leading Christian churches in western Nebraska and other nearby states. So as I read about these events, I was assured that they actually had happened, but I also observed that they seemed to be somewhat ridiculous. For example, Colton's great grandfather, who resided in heaven, had wings - wings much larger than Colton's wings. But, many of the things that he told his parents were, besides being, at times, ridiculous, also were often amazing. Colton clearly knew things he could not reasonably be expected to know. Things his mother and father had never told him: for example, they had once lost a child to a miscarriage; a little girl. Colton knew this fact and met her in heaven. Another example is that he could recognize his great grandfather by being shown a picture of him when he was in his late twenties; but he could not recognize his great grandfather when he was shown a picture of him as an elderly person.Colton met God and the Holy Spirit. They were two separate beings. He had no trouble getting personal time with God. Colton said Satan was still alive and well and would someday have one last fight with the souls of heaven.Now if I were to spend enough time I could list dozens of things said in this book that do not agree with my own spiritual beliefs. I will cite only a couple of them. I believe in original sin, therefore, children have sin, but Colton was easily able to enter into heaven. In my opinion, no one can enter into heaven who has any sins in his soul. Even Jesus remains outside of heaven, until the end of this age (in my opinion), because He is carrying sins of the cross. And the book I mentioned above, PROOF OF HEAVEN, presents a full-grown man who enters heaven numerous times. Again, I envision him as not able to enter into the real heaven until the end of this age when his soul will be sinless. But are we to question his honesty? Are we to question Colton's honesty, or his minster father's honesty, or his Christian mother's honesty?And there are other accounts like these, although not always so well known to the public. They are recounted in magazine articles and books that often don't make the best sellers list. There are so many of them that it is hard for us to reject them all as bogus. Quite the contrary, we are looking, in my analysis, at a phenomena of a psychic nature that is somehow often connected with our own human spiritual evolution, and our own spiritual faith. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL is heartwarming. I do not take every word literally, but I would say that we can see clearly in the case of this book that psychic things have taken place inside of the realms of a Christian family that are below the level of absolute spiritual revelation but are far above the level of day dreams, or night dreams. Something happened to this young boy; something that was good. He knew things he should not have known. Hopefully, as millions of Christians read books like this one and as the years pass we will have men/women arise among us who will be able to make sense out of this increasingly common thing, which I think of as spiritual/ psychic phenomena.I will also mention that I recently downloaded (free) a book that is pure interpretation of New Testament Bible scriptures. The author points out such obvious facts as that no one can go to heaven before Jesus goes to heaven and that will only happen when the end of this age arrives. We all want to think that we will be in heaven in the next few years while those behind us are still struggling with the challenges of life. Not so according to this book. Thus it contradicts HEAVEN IS FOR REAL. The circular I received gives Sunday Sept 22 and Sunday Sept 29 as the next two days that it can be downloaded free. Otherwise it is expensive. I would balance a book like HEAVEN IS FOR REAL by reading this book, it is called HEAVEN IS IN YOUR FUTURE, author David Arthur DuRocher. It will make you feel good. You will come away convinced that everybody goes to heaven (in the end). That message is not found in HEAVEN IS FOR REAL. According to the beliefs of Colton's father, many will go to hell.I am now reading THE ZEALOT by Reza Aslan. It is a New York Times best seller. The author is a gifted writer and historian. He gives us a Jesus who is a historical figure, not a spiritual figure. Before you read this book, I strongly suggest building your spiritual fortress by reading HEAVEN IS IN YOUR FUTURE, and possibly some other books written by strong believers in the divine nature of Jesus. But, does that mean I don't like THE ZEALOT? No! I think it is going to turn out to be the best book I have ever read about the history of the middle east in the years when the New Testament was written. I will write a review about it when I am finished reading it. God speed.....

Todd Burpo is an excellent writer. His heartfelt explanations of his son's illness were extremely touching and had me close to tears. I could completely understand the family's anguish as they try to save their son Colton as he is close to death. In fact even though his father claims he didn't die during the operation, Colton must have left his body and entered heaven. I believe this because he has quite the story to tell.This story is about an innocent child who has to have an emergency operation and somehow knows about everything that went on while he was in the operating room. He sees his dad in a separate room from his mother and this proves that he had an out-of-body experience. How else would he have known this small detail?Also I was amazed at the clarity of the descriptions of heaven. While Colton claims he was only in heaven for three minutes it seems more like he was there for an hour. It is easy to believe most of the story. The only thing I was skeptical about was the description of everyone having wings. Do I really want wings for all eternity? I've never heard anyone else describe this in a near-death experience and I've read quite a few books on the subject.Besides that one detail, I think this book is important because I've read so few descriptions of heaven from a child's perspective. When Colton talks about heaven it is from a very innocent place in his heart, not something he was taught at Sunday school. In this book you will learn what heaven looks like, what Jesus looks like, what God looks like and what the Holy Spirit looks like. There are also descriptions of heavenly gates, thrones, crowns and apparel. Even when Colton's dad tries to trick Colton by asking him what happens when heaven gets dark, Colton is quick to reveal that heaven never gets dark. How would he know all this unless he really went to heaven?This is one of the most amazing stories I've ever read about heaven. I can highly recommend it to you. If you have a Kindle download it as fast as you can. This is a book you will not want to wait for in the mail. It only takes a few hours to read but it will change your view of heaven forever. Since Colton's dad is a pastor he was easily able to verify the information and included biblical references as well. Completely fascinating!~The Rebecca Review

I think most of us wonder about heaven, what it's like. This one is a nice book about a little boy's experience. Someone Colton's age wouldn't have yet developed an imagination to come up with these things on his own. It's one of those books that you don't want to put down till you get to the end.

Lovely book. Easy to read and the story is amazing.

Onthullende waarheden over de hemel. Lees 't!

This absolutely sensationally truly wonderful book (with a fwd by Sheila Walsh - who has worked with Cliff Richard eg 7" p/s duet single Driftin' released on on DJM records in 1983) should be read in conjunction with similar books on the subject of Christian Religion:-1.Akiane (artbook)2.Divine revelation of Heaven by Mary K.Baxter3.Divine revelation of Hell by Mary K BaxterThe THREE persons of GOD (ie a Trinity) are all three people who are cleared identified in this book ie No.1 GOD (the Father) - (Huge); No.2 "God the Son" (ie Jesus Christ); and No.3 God The Holy Spirit (with a blue face).Chapter 17 "Two Sisters" is an absolute fantastic revelation of Joy to anyone famous in Showbiz such as DAME Olivia Newton John KBE OBE who has lost THREE still born babies after the successful birth of her one daughter Chloe.Maximum age of everybody in Heaven is exactly Thirty-Three (ie 33) ie exactly the same age as Jesus Christ when he was cruxified on a standard issue wooden cross with exactly THREE iron nails - one nail through both his hands PLUS the third nail through both his feet on the direct orders of: The Romans + The Jewish leaders in charge of the Temple who were running the Temple (dedicated to GOD the father) as a sort of "bank raid job" were by then totally fed up / completely pissed off with this public nuisance "blaspheming" (a right "pain up the armpit") prophet Jesus Christ and thus they all wanted him: out of the way and finished forever / professionally ruined / dead and buried / humiliated / destroyed ...The Jewish leaders were (of course) completely wrong as Jesus Christ triumphed to infinity so that's why Two of MY very best mates in British Showbiz are now alive in Heaven ie Tony Meehan(The Shadows) & Capital Radio DJ Kenny Everett PLUS Rik Mayall PLUS many other famous VIP Christians eg Rev'd Martin Luther King; David Bowie; George Michael; Aretha Franklin; Donna Summer; Mary Whitehouse.This fascinating & intellectually absorbing book has now sold in excess of 11 million copies as of the Autumn 2021.!!!

Nobody could have imagine what Colton experienced had this Book not been published. An amazing testimony of the reality of heaven.